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  It's another episode of the Christian we've podcast.
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  But are you subscribed? If not make sure to like, share
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  and enjoy this episode. Hello and welcome to another
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  episode of the Christian re podcast.
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  Today's guest is a good friend of mine.
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  It's Calamity hatcheries back for the fourth time, I believe.
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  Now, welcome back my friend, I'm very well man.
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  Thank you for so much for having me back.
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  I really appreciate it. Said I got my it.
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  How are you doing? Yeah, yeah, I'm good.
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  I'm good man's pleasure. To have you back.
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  You know, I've been keeping up in keeping track of what you've
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  been doing, you know, because you can appreciate this as well.
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  Like it's when you go into like hyper drive with content
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  creating and you're really serious about it, you just don't
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  have the time to like, you know, really consume anyone elses part
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  from maybe your favorites and stuff, it really takes up all
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  your time. But, you know, I glance every
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  now and again, what you're doing.
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  I'm looking, I'm paying attention and stuff because I
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  think that's really important. Like, as you grow, excuse me,
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  I'll call him talk. As you grow, you know, you need
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  to have the people around you, you know.
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  It's like that expression. What is it?
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  If you want to go fast, go alone.
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  If you want to go far, go together or whatever it is.
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  Yeah, yeah. No I get you.
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  I've been thinking about that more and more you know it's
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  Times Gone on. That's where you get so many.
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  Houses, which would like content creator houses.
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  Ah, well, I don't know. There'd ever thing.
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  But I wouldn't, I wouldn't be against the idea.
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  I think I'm a bit too old for it now though.
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  I think we've kind of missed the boat on that, haven't we?
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  Yeah, I don't know. I don't know.
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  Maybe I mean, you see times in the people, you have, okay?
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  I don't feel my age though. I don't know about you, but I
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  don't feel the same. Yeah, because I'm 20, I said, I
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  turned 28 in. May What was your birthday?
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  How old are you now? April 28.
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  April 2000. Shit.
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  Oh you're older than me. Oh fuck I think I know I never
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  knew that. I think I've spoken about this
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  before but yeah, well actually that leads me on to fun
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  questions. So you're born on April 1st, you
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  are literally a joke. Haha.
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  We do my entire existence is Jacqueline.
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  How did that happen, man? You told me there was a story
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  behind it. Let's go and not so much of a of
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  a story, but there was a thing where my mum called Told my
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  granddad and said I'm going into labor right now.
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  You're not just from. No.
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  You're not. And you just are very just like
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  you're pulling my leg. No.
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  And then, it took my dad to take the phone because my dad doesn't
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  mess around with. Some wasn't no, Alan genuinely.
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  She's having a baby and oh, get your ass in the car.
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  Start going bad. What was okay?
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  This is sound like a weird question, but since we're on the
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  topic of births, what was your birthday like like yeah that's
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  such a weird thing to say like your birthday as in the day you
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  were born, you know? I mean like no one ever says
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  that that. Yeah.
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  Anyway. Like because I've had mine
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  described to me and I'll explain what mine was like, but like
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  tell me about what yours was like.
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  What was your parents explained? Like how was it?
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  That's the only real thing that, I know.
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  I know that I was Quite small. But that's all.
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  I really know to be honest. I never really asked too much
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  about it because I'm just like I get that it's the start of my
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  existence into this world but really So what you know it's the
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  training day, is it, what do you learn on that day that?
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  Oh, no, the rest of your life, you're not wrong.
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  Never really thought about it. I'm so glad that we have no
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  recollection of that or anything like the, imagine how terrifying
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  that would be can't. I can't deal with the thought of
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  what that must have been. Like, I do wonder sometimes when
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  babies are like really young, like, you know, between the ages
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  of light zero up to like two when they start kind of of
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  recognizing things and people and smells and stuff.
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  I do kind of Wonder like Do they think but not in the terms of
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  like, you know, constructive thought like we have.
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  But like, we know that it's possible to think sort of above
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  our own comprehension and level of understanding, you know what
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  I mean? Like, for instance, you know, we
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  know that, like, you know, animals dream, for example.
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  Yeah. Do you reckon that's the case.
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  Do you reckon they, at, they can understand things or, I don't
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  know. I don't even know what I'm
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  asking right now. I think I think like But in
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  relative terms, right? So not in the terms in which me
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  and you understand things, if we see a tree where like that's a
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  tree, And then you have to think that the word tree to either
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  that baby all that animal is not a word.
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  There is their own thought, process for what that is, even
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  though it's the exact same object, you know, an animal is
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  not going to be that to treat. They have their own term for
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  that sometimes when I think about this, like I'll have days
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  where I spaced out and I start thinking about like what if
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  there were more colors you know that drug talk basically but I'm
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  not I'm not I'm not like you know it's just You thought, and
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  I genuinely start getting a bit, like, freaked out when I start
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  thinking about it, and I can't explain why.
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  But it's this idea of like beyond our own level of
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  understanding and comprehension of just everything that we
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  perceive and then I start having all these questions.
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  Like for example, the way that I see the world is that the same
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  way that everyone sees it and I'm not talking about, you know,
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  how I feel, but like more like literal perception like if I see
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  the color gray. Out of me.
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  Would you see it exactly the same way, or if yeah, I smell
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  something. Do you smell it the same way?
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  Like, you know what I mean? It's see, I would say there's
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  evidence that you don't smell things the same way on the basis
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  that the opinions of people have on different smells for
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  instance, some people can't stand the smell of petrol.
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  I personally love it, but that must smell different to me than
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  it does to the person who hates it because there's a different
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  reaction that I agree with you. I've That to lights but
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  especially when it's like a particular hatred for a smell or
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  like it's so funny when you read somebody's like I don't know.
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  They're eating some food that you detest.
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  Like for example, I hate celery, I can't amazing, amazing, it's
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  awful, awful. But then those people that my
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  granddad would like, almost eat it off the stick and I'm like,
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  what's wrong with you the humanity or no?
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  Nice. This horrible that says that
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  Mom. I as well.
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  Isn't he like you either love it or you hate it?
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  Mom, I saw. A weird one.
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  I can't side, bro. My I'm okay, I'm partial.
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  I'm a Marmite guy. Marmite on toast.
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  I don't think you can go wrong with its.
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  I don't know. I'm kind of like in different
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  like okay. It's like a mood.
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  Do you know what I mean? If I'm like?
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  Yes, right. Okay.
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  I need to put this down there. You have everybody.
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  I feel has toast mood swings. Yeah.
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  And you go through phases of what you want on your toes.
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  So the moment I'm back on a peanut bar, height will die out
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  and I'll go back to Marmite. Oh yeah, yeah.
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  Laughter. And then I'll be like, oh, I
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  fancy Jam for a little while and they're not.
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  You switch taste means. Me and my mom used to do this
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  thing because we were like We were pretty poor and not nobody
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  people know. That people always assume like
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  arethe rich boy went through night school and he speaks very
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  well. We were poor.
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  We, you know, the boiler broke down every year and you know it.
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  Yeah. Like I had to do the whole boil,
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  the kettle and put it in the ball and all that shit and like,
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  you know, literally it was so fun.
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  I remember bringing friends home and they sort of looked around
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  like not in a rude way, but they were like damn Christian like
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  This is where you live like because all of them lived in
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  houses and, like, our school. Now, I look, back was in a
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  pretty affluent area. Most most kids that went to our
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  school were pretty well off, you know, their families?
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  Yeah, I mean, it was a fluent yet in a not-so-great area.
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  I did. Oh, you know, I think it depends
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  because ruislip was was really nice.
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  I loved right up, I loved living that they were dodgy pots of
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  rice lip, but mostly, it was a very nice area.
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  Ria. And I don't know what is itself.
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  Wasn't a nice area. I don't think we're what that
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  word noise surrounding areas. They all kind of contributed.
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  It was confusing. I felt like the more you push
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  towards north of school. The rough road got.
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  Yes. But then if you went left there
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  at the roundabout, and you started going up towards
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  northward Northwood. That's who you are in the money.
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  That's what that was. I proper Posh.
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  Oh, I must have when you get past Like the so when you get to
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  that roundabout, I love how we talk about it.
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  So you get into stopping off at else.
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  Ice cream. There's around about it.
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  You've got no food school on your right hand side with the
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  library. Yeah go left and pass the Iron
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  Bridge. Then it's all like golf clubs
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  and directly not so not, so no record deal but directly over
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  that. Again, that I will feed down
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  there a few times and it look, Ralph Ralph Ralph.
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  So I must have missed that completely.
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  It's what it's literally when you get to that I am bridge over
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  the road. The train one.
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  I like proper Posh. I think I went down there a few
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  times. Actually, I do.
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  I do vaguely recall like part. I remember this was weird.
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  There was, there was a park in Northwood and then there was
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  like a like a writ, the world's crutch shittiest skate ramp
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  ever. And like, literally, I remember
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  that. It was terrible.
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  It was like, you couldn't skate on it, but I remember this was
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  how weird, this was there was a shop there, which was like a
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  tire shop. I don't know car auto Thing, and
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  it literally said, like, we're straight and tires.
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  And I used to stand there and look at that, and be like, why
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  is it called that? It's not it's not in the same
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  area it Smiles. Like it takes a good from
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  Northwood it so good. 30 minute drive, like it's not any.
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  Yeah. I mean, maybe they started their
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  and relocated but they'll change the name like right way.
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  Keeping that name. I did that doesn't?
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  Yeah, it would look. I mean, we're straight look no
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  offense to anyone that lives in West rating.
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  It's probably not very many listening but it's a shithole.
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  It's getting slightly better, very slowly, but I lived there
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  for a bit. I fucking hate it.
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  And here's the thing I got worse.
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  Yeah, well they got rid of the police station.
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  Ross, did they didn't know that. Yep.
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  When I was living there. I hated.
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  And the reason I hated it was that I moved like we moved as I
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  was doing my gcses. It was a bit mad time.
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  Yeah. And I I love dry slip it like
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  it's in my heart like that that to me is the last place that I
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  actually felt like at home. Once we move to West Drayton, we
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  had like a nice apartment but it was in a crappy area and you
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  know It was very hit and miss Jin.
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  And I mean, yeah, it was nice. And I just always hated it and
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  it, for me, it was like a countdown until I could move
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  out. Really?
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  Yeah, I get that. There's this rough.
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  I don't know. I hate rough areas but then all
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  of our bit is if you go, you know, like you've got hazed.
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  I just get spaghetti announced, literally.
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  Yeah. If you put this in order of
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  shitless so it's like yeah and like Oxbridge again another
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  place that's called really bad like yeah, it used to To be,
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  okay? And then, yeah, now it's really
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  like awful and it's like, literally Uxbridge terrible,
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  then usually, which is more or less where straighten, and then
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  we're straight in which is terrible.
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  Then Hayes and Hounslow if you've ever been that right?
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  Oh my God, I never got to Heathrow for anything but the
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  airport people saying it now. Yeah.
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  It's literally the way I always describe like places like
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  Oxbridge and Hayes is like towns that you drive through to get to
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  the airport. Exactly.
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  It's just remembered. No need to stop.
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  Sorry, remember the days of fascinating part.
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  I do. I'm Sprint.
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  I do it looks very cheeky Chinese at lunch.
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  Everyone. Hanging out outside, Tesco.
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  Like the little Emos who were, I grew, I grew up.
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  So there was a big stage between I think the ages of like 11 to
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  like 13, 14 where I was there all the time, but then I started
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  making London friends and then I was like screw Fasteners which
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  London so it's Different. I was in Games Workshop in
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  Oxbridge playing Warhammer as fan.
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  We literally, it was me and my friend Louis and I think this is
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  the first time that we've realized girls properly exist.
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  Yes. It's these girls came into Games
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  Workshop and started talking to us.
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  You my girls and my like old come to you should come too fast
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  manage. And literally from that day, it
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  started being a thing that we were going to fasten each every
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  weekend because that's where the women are.
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  Young teenage hatch. It was so true because I used to
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  go skateboarding boarding. Therefore, I started when I was
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  11, I think I stopped. And I was about 17 or something.
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  I literally, I skated like, basically, every single day,
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  like, we're Islip, Oxbridge Harrow.
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  I used to go to Basics, T6 and London quite often, like, like
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  all the time. I used to even get up and
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  weekends early to go. Like, I don't know what the
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  fuck. God, I miss Bay basically six is
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  good, it's good, but yeah, and then somewhere around 14 this
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  kind of age started dating girls and then suddenly it's like oh
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  do you want to come London? Where there's women or you wanna
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  go skateboarding? I think I'll go where there's
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  women. Yeah.
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  And then you turn up with the skateboard to try and get
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  yourself a bit of credibility trying to make yourself look a
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  bit cooler. So oh yeah, I can do a trick.
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  And to be honest, I just couldn't be asked to carry the
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  skateboard around like I did few times.
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  Carry it with me because I figured like it was just nice to
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  skate around in London, but then I kind of realized quickly that
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  I wouldn't be doing any skateboarding and all of my time
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  would be spent dancing and drinking having a good time,
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  whatever partying. And as Isis could be asked to
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  carry around. So I just I was kind of sad but
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  things things cut it, just eventually this it's like today
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  else. Yes, like these days like, you
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  know, I don't, I kind of got all of that party stuff out of my
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  system and like, I still want to party and have a good time.
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  I still very young, but the same time.
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  I don't know. I'm very introverted these days,
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  you know, unless I know you, if I know you, it's like, you know,
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  fucking soul of the party. If I don't, like, if you meet me
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  in real life, I'm very Different from school days.
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  I'm like introverted, I rarely start conversations.
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  I wait for the other person that I just keep to myself like Lone
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  Ranger and I'm quite the same, to be honest like that.
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  Yeah, I don't know. Like I it took me a very long
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  time to figure out that that I'm, that sort of person and
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  it's really ironic because my mom is that sort of person.
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  And we used to have like mini arguments, not really arguments,
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  but she always used to say, oh, you know, one day when you grow
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  up, you'll be like me where you'll be sitting Reading books
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  or like, you know, doing stuff on your own alone and you will
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  enjoy. And I'm just like, no, that will
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  never be me. And now, I've literally become
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  that person. Like, if anything else, like a
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  lot of the time I'm like, I could go out or I could stay
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  home and be happy at home, you know?
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  I mean, I think that you hit the nail on the head there.
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  I mean, we're approaching say, dude, we are approaching say,
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  no, I like home in. Rock Club.
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  Yeah, face, that video, ever as I am sitting at home watching
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  Netflix with, it's all about the company can do.
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  It is about the company 100. That's the thing.
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  Like, I only have, I have very few friends.
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  I've got, like, a few people who I can trust my life, and then,
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  basically, I can count on my fingers, like most people, most
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  of that, like I said, 90% of the time I'm alone, I don't really
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  speak to anyone, you know, that's that's the way it is.
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  And Because I used to be really sad like this.
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  Okay, this is a bit sad but that's just the truth.
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  I've never spoken. Let's keep that one when I was
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  at school. Like not so much in my okay.
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  So like between the ages of like I would say, 11 to like 15 or
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  16, I was very happy, you know, I was constantly, I had friend
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  groups in London friend. Groups Hayden.
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  Like I was, I was pretty happy but I started to notice
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  problems. So, like I started to try to get
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  into, like, remember like Ben and Chris from school.
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  Like I tried to kind of hang out with them and their group.
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  But like I quickly realized like I was the guy that no one ever
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  called and I was the guy that was never included.
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  And don't get me wrong. I wasn't like the easiest
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  person. I had my own shit to deal with
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  but like yeah, I realized very quickly that I was being left
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  out on purpose, like I could feel it and I confronted them
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  all about it quite a few times because I'm quite foot while I
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  was forward like that these days, I don't give a shit but
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  back then I cared and I was constantly trying to fit in and
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  I didn't realize back then that I was this type of person.
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  Like I just an independent person I suppose.
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  Yeah. Yeah, I was like petrified of
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  being alone, petrified of, you know.
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  And then when I got to sort of six form age 16, I would say,
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  between the ages of about 16 up to 21, to be honest, I just felt
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  super alone like, you know, very depressed.
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  I can pretty safely say that it was depression at this point.
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  Yeah. And you know, I was bullied
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  pretty mercilessly in sixth form for like a year and then Stopped
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  and then sort of the band stuff started happening.
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  So I had something to take my focus and I did consider those
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  guys friends. But like, other than that, I all
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  I did was Eva skate or, you know, see my friends in the band
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  and but I didn't really talk to anyone else.
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  And then obviously started dating someone for three years
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  and a relationship really helped, but like when it ended.
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  So this was the beginning of 2014.
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  So is the year that I was going to University but I was kind of
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  back to square. One it on your own.
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  Don't be like, oh, dude, it was I got to say it was probably You
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  still think about it? I'd say it was the lowest moment
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  of my life because I felt yeah I felt extremely lonely.
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  I was depressed because of The Break-Up and I was also a
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  miserable because I was forcing myself to go to this Supermarket
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  job that I hated. Luckily, at that point it was
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  part-time and I was doing this college course but I was like my
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  head was not in it. I had to force myself to go
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  there and and and care and like my head and my heart was
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  somewhere else. But like I was on autopilot and
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  I just Genuinely had nowhere to go, nothing to do.
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  And I remember it, you know, it for quite a few Summers there.
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  So okay, so I'll explain. So the to the year or half
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  before I got into that relationship in those Summers
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  and all that time. I was depressed.
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  I had no one to hang around with, right?
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  It was the same in that beginning of that year.
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  When we broke up and it was summer again, and this was the
• 20:11
  last summer before going to University, right?
• 20:14
  I had no idea. See how that would change my
• 20:16
  life for the better but it you know, basically it got to a
• 20:21
  point where I was so miserable and sick and tired of being
• 20:26
  miserable. The I just I literally remember
• 20:29
  dust. I remember the day.
• 20:30
  I was like, fuck it. I'm just gonna go to London to
• 20:34
  some random show, I don't care. I'm just sick and tired of
• 20:38
  sitting on my own being alone, feeling like this.
• 20:41
  I'm just gonna go, I don't even care that.
• 20:43
  I'll be alone and feel alone. Better than being at home and
• 20:47
  feeling alone, at least the people around.
• 20:50
  So I just went out to Camden and because I loved handin, it was
• 20:54
  always good. But yeah, went to some random
• 20:57
  show and I met a friend of mine. Shouts, princess Maha.
• 21:01
  The one of the coolest fucking human beings have ever met in my
• 21:04
  life. So, our list off a couple of
• 21:07
  things, she is the lead singer of a punk, rock band, the cup
• 21:11
  all female, very cool and she has her own record label.
• 21:15
  I think I mentioned her on the podcast before but whatever she
• 21:19
  has a PhD in Psychology, she's doctor.
• 21:22
  She's literally Jesus coolest fucking person ever.
• 21:25
  And but more importantly, she was the type of person I needed
• 21:29
  to meet back then because I needed someone finding my life
• 21:33
  to make me kind of remember that.
• 21:35
  I was a young guy and I should be out having fun and making the
• 21:38
  most of life, not sitting feeling alone and feeling
• 21:41
  miserable and you know, she took a liking to me.
• 21:45
  We fancied each other. So there was a bit of a thing
• 21:49
  but it was more about the friendship was always about the
• 21:50
  Friendship. Yeah.
• 21:52
  And she got me out of my comfort zone and we ended up going to
• 21:55
  America together for like two weeks and that was fucking
• 22:01
  awesome. Like I remember there was a
• 22:04
  particular moment. There was a couple of moments
• 22:06
  that were amazing being in the desert being in Las Vegas.
• 22:08
  But the one that stands out for me the most was being on Santa
• 22:12
  Monica beach and being like in the water.
• 22:15
  Water. And by I was on the beach just
• 22:17
  kind of with my staff and I was just swimming in the, in the, in
• 22:22
  the sea and I just for the first time in like years, I felt like
• 22:26
  genuinely free and like happy. And I knew that when I would go
• 22:30
  back, I'd be quitting that job that I hated going to
• 22:33
  University, everything would change.
• 22:35
  And I just had to put up with like what like another month of
• 22:38
  crap, you know? But I could do it because I
• 22:40
  could see the end goal, you know.
• 22:43
  Yeah. 100%. And Yeah, man.
• 22:46
  Like, I mean, I won't like, after that point there have been
• 22:50
  points were being like, lonely and stuff here and there.
• 22:53
  Like, for example, I've been single now for about three
• 22:59
  years, I think, and in the beginning of that, it was very
• 23:02
  hard, but once I kind of learned, okay, you're not the
• 23:08
  type of person that's supposed to be part of groups.
• 23:10
  Like people don't include you, you're not that sort of person,
• 23:13
  but if you are confident in yourself and comfortable in your
• 23:19
  own space, ironically, people are more interested in you and
• 23:24
  will be more inclined to invite you out.
• 23:25
  It's reverse psychology but and people told me this for years
• 23:30
  and I never listened to them because I was just like, oh,
• 23:32
  that's nonsense, that's rubbish. How can that be true?
• 23:35
  But it is when you're doing your own thing and you're confident
• 23:38
  and you're happy people gravitate towards that and they
• 23:40
  want to be, they want to know what, why is this guy so happy?
• 23:43
  What's he got to be happy about? Want some of that.
• 23:45
  It's like a drug. Yeah.
• 23:47
  Yeah exactly. But it's a pro process.
• 23:50
  It took a long time to get to this point.
• 23:53
  I think it's something that comes to content creation as
• 23:55
  well in the sense of like the demands on our time and like
• 24:01
  you're putting out more content. And I am these days to be
• 24:03
  completely honest with you, I have a you've already made it.
• 24:06
  I'm still busting my eyes. I've got my let's quickly talk
• 24:11
  about that. You've literally the last time I
• 24:13
  checked you past 12:00 Subscribers.
• 24:16
  So we'd already mentioned in the last episode that we did
• 24:19
  together. That you hit the 1000.
• 24:21
  My I'd wager, if it's not 12:00, it's pushing 1500.
• 24:24
  You'll be. You'll definitely get to 1500 by
• 24:27
  summer. That's yeah, without that's,
• 24:29
  that's on track. Yeah, and that's kind of what I
• 24:32
  mean because with mine, it's been slow.
• 24:36
  And I think if I had to theorize, it's because your
• 24:41
  Niche and you've pushed that Niche to that.
• 24:45
  Fullest extent. And probably the biggest thing
• 24:47
  for you has been the livestreams.
• 24:50
  You are different in the sense that most people would do, all
• 24:52
  their live streams on Twitch, you do it on YouTube, which I
• 24:55
  think is a fantastic idea idea. And you've become on many
• 24:59
  occasions, the most successful sort of live stream for the
• 25:04
  okay. Hang on, hang on, Super Mario.
• 25:07
  No, not Super Mario. Have it's going to come from.
• 25:12
  Rule Mel a Smash Bros, Super Smash Bros face.
• 25:17
  Yeah, it is, yeah, many times you've been number one streamer
• 25:21
  in the UK. Sometimes you even in the
• 25:25
  distant in, for the topic, in general, like, just the top.
• 25:28
  Yeah. Like there's a lot of times that
• 25:30
  I'm looking at the other streams that are going on at the same
• 25:32
  time as me and in terms of English-speaking streams,
• 25:36
  because the Japanese Market is a whole different thing and a
• 25:39
  tray. It be in terms of
• 25:41
  English-speaking. Screams, you know, I've got the
• 25:43
  most concurrent viewers at the time and things like that, and
• 25:47
  it's just crazy. How this is really blowing up
• 25:49
  from that, the Smash Bros streams are not easy.
• 25:55
  By any means, smashes a stressful game.
• 25:59
  There's a lot of things that I have to kind of keep an eye on
• 26:02
  while I'm streaming at the same time.
• 26:04
  In terms of like making sure everyone's getting games and
• 26:06
  stuff like that. Okay, let's do dealing with
• 26:09
  Nintendo and they're terrible. Windows 98 servers.
• 26:13
  It's so what's not easy? They recently Nintendo of
• 26:17
  upgraded. Their server equipment for the
• 26:20
  reusing window, that's not what you mean.
• 26:23
  How could they still be using Windows 98?
• 26:26
  We don't know. But that's why the online was so
• 26:28
  bad. She's like Smash Bros crashes
• 26:31
  online all the time. Wow, that's not because they
• 26:35
  just, they don't pay any money into the online server side of
• 26:39
  things, I guess they saw a Nintendo as well.
• 26:41
  You know what? We was, it's probably when all
• 26:43
  that controversy happened and suddenly that everyone were
• 26:45
  talking about Super Smash Bros that raised the stock because
• 26:49
  you know, it's the famous saying, goes controversy creates
• 26:52
  cash. So it was the other thing is, as
• 26:54
  well, it wasn't just for Smash Bros like any Nintendo online
• 26:59
  game is using these servers. Oh, what?
• 27:04
  Yeah, it's mad. I split une, Mario car.
• 27:08
  Anything. You can think of, on the switch
• 27:10
  was using these terrible terrible.
• 27:11
  Our servers and now we've moved on from that.
• 27:13
  Well, we're starting to move on from that and they're putting
• 27:16
  their stuff it and you know, I gotta say, You're Gone Gone.
• 27:20
  Smash his hot smash. His heart is a hard game to
• 27:23
  stream. I can make some mean that.
• 27:25
  Yeah, please do, please. The there's a lot of toxicity in
• 27:30
  that Community as well, but I think I'm quite lucky in the
• 27:33
  sense that my little pocket community that I've got is so
• 27:38
  solid. The you know, that's a cue from.
• 27:43
  That's not saying that we're completely the nicest, people
• 27:46
  ever fluffy all the time, some you know saltiness comes with
• 27:49
  games at the end of the day I'll have my salty moments, other
• 27:53
  people have their salty moments but generally this community is
• 27:56
  really been so lovely and they've really come together in
• 27:59
  that regard and it's really nice to see to have this on a lot
• 28:02
  pocket of YouTube. Something that you do that.
• 28:05
  I've actually started doing recently that I think is the
• 28:08
  main reason why you're Successful right now is the fact
• 28:12
  that you approach it from the perspective of like you don't
• 28:16
  create content to get tons of views, you create content for a
• 28:20
  community, your thought your focus is I want to build this
• 28:23
  community as much as possible. And the thing is, when when you
• 28:27
  make that change in mindset, something happens like I've done
• 28:31
  it with mine. I don't know if you've noticed
• 28:32
  I've been doing like a lot of live streams lately where?
• 28:34
  Yeah, I've seen that right? And literally all I do is a
• 28:37
  talk, right? Okay.
• 28:39
  And And apparently people like it, you know, sometimes I play
• 28:42
  music and stuff in there as well, but like mostly it's just
• 28:45
  talking and you see the same faces coming in and every now
• 28:49
  and again someone will pop in someone will discover you.
• 28:51
  Like I had someone subscribe last night and they really dug
• 28:56
  the content and yeah, but that's the thing.
• 28:57
  Sorry. So I should I should explain.
• 29:00
  They were in the livestream, they were having a good time and
• 29:04
  I saw while I was streaming that they subscribed and this is a
• 29:07
  key, this is the key. It's like you've got a Live.
• 29:10
  When you're doing your live stream, is essentially the whole
• 29:12
  thing is an adverb. It's like subscribe to me,
• 29:15
  support me, right? And you've got to really win
• 29:17
  them over. And like you said it's really
• 29:19
  hard streaming, like people think it's easier.
• 29:20
  You just sit and play a game, but no like, especially if
• 29:23
  you're playing the game as well, like you got focus on the game,
• 29:26
  you've got focus on your audience, you've got to have the
• 29:29
  energy and be really plugged in. I mean, there's so many things
• 29:32
  you got to think about, I mean, the way I see it is that it's
• 29:36
  not so much streaming as you are reacting to your Immunity.
• 29:42
  And you may have noticed that some of my content recently.
• 29:44
  As you were saying about it being kind of cater towards my
• 29:46
  community. Somewhat, we've got the Q&A
• 29:49
  obviously the happens every month and that's a really good
• 29:51
  way for people to ask the questions that they want to ask
• 29:54
  and you know once a month I put that out there, people get
• 29:56
  things answered and the one that I've recently started doing was
• 30:00
  the Calamity quickie series, which I know the name.
• 30:04
  The name just gets a chuckle out of everybody but it was actually
• 30:07
  inspired by another YouTuber called Omni Who is one of my
• 30:11
  favorite YouTubers and he is something of a drama commentary
• 30:15
  Channel. You know, he talks about what's
• 30:17
  going on and even Twitter and all that kind of thing.
• 30:20
  And this is this entire Series has been paying homage to that
• 30:23
  because it's something that does really interest me YouTube
• 30:26
  drama. There's something that there's
• 30:27
  never really been a spot for my channel but in doing it in the
• 30:31
  way of the Calamity quickie, I'm opening it up to the community
• 30:35
  to say. What do you want me to talk
• 30:37
  about? What stories are you seeing
• 30:39
  right now that you want? Me, there have a little talk
• 30:41
  about and give my opinions. And because of that, it's
• 30:45
  become, as you said, very like community-focused, hmm?
• 30:49
  And even then, as you were saying as well, like you get a
• 30:51
  new person pop it and he's like, oh, I was also watching
• 30:56
  something about this headline from another YouTuber and then
• 30:58
  all I quite like this. Show me the check it out.
• 31:00
  So it's it's quite a good way of growing the community as well
• 31:05
  as, you know, like bolts bolstering it at the same time,
• 31:08
  I guess strengthening it. I think one big thing as well,
• 31:12
  something that I realized was I was very adamant.
• 31:14
  I'm not going to create more than one channel, everything has
• 31:17
  to go on the main Channel. And then people start saying
• 31:19
  like that, like I asked my friends.
• 31:22
  Hey do I upload too much? I knew the answer and they were
• 31:25
  like, yeah. And they were, like, you should
• 31:27
  create, you know, a second channel.
• 31:29
  So I did. But I didn't have a proper plan
• 31:31
  for it. And then eventually, you know, I
• 31:35
  created the third Channel though, podcast Clips Channel,
• 31:37
  because I was just uploading way too much on the main Channel and
• 31:40
  I Ironically actually gave me more time for the main Channel
• 31:44
  and more kind of gave it more breathing room.
• 31:47
  So at the, you'll notice now there are some days where I
• 31:49
  don't even upload on the main Channel like a day or two.
• 31:52
  Yeah, and I do it on purpose and what I'm thinking is that I'm
• 31:57
  actually going to probably have more channels as time progresses
• 32:02
  because I'm a multi content creator.
• 32:04
  It makes it tricky and I think you might have not maybe not a
• 32:07
  problem with this in the future. But like, But it's very specific
• 32:12
  to like a particular Niche. You audience expects a certain
• 32:15
  things if you start doing drastically different content I
• 32:18
  mean it depends like if they really dig it then you know we
• 32:22
  can run with it keep it but like chances are if it's so
• 32:25
  drastically different from the main stuff, it's not fit in with
• 32:28
  the brand. So you might even have to just
• 32:29
  do a separate Channel like you know what I mean?
• 32:31
  And it's ID think we're getting to that.
• 32:33
  I do think there's going to come to the point where there's the
• 32:36
  non Sonic Calamity hatches Channel.
• 32:40
  Yeah, because, you know, there's some things I want to talk
• 32:43
  about. Did the so much nerdy stuff that
• 32:45
  I'm into is, you are no, you know, I'll Star Wars is on
• 32:48
  Marvel DC. All of this kind of Avatar, you
• 32:51
  know, there's a lot of places I want to go to.
• 32:53
  And while there are crossovers within the genre of Sonic Star
• 32:57
  Wars and things like that, you know, they're already that
• 32:59
  already exists in my community at the moment.
• 33:02
  I think that we may get to a point where I need to
• 33:05
  differentiate it because, you know, when you think of like And
• 33:10
  slots for the week of repair that way.
• 33:12
  So my ideal situation would be video Monday, Wednesday, Friday,
• 33:17
  hmm. And then streams, when I can fit
• 33:19
  the strings in again, there will always be a stream on a
• 33:21
  Wednesday because that's the best way to be on YouTube as we
• 33:24
  both know. So I didn't know that I think,
• 33:28
  did you not know that when what is say, is the busiest night on
• 33:31
  the platform to got research? It's the night when most people
• 33:36
  are sad home looking at their phones or looking at YouTube on
• 33:39
  a computer. So he's the day to push your
• 33:41
  biggest upload. And also, if you can do a stream
• 33:44
  that day, your stream, ready? I think yeah, no worries, no
• 33:49
  worries. But what I mean by that is if
• 33:52
  I've got said we'll call that three content slots for the
• 33:54
  week. Well, one of those at the moment
• 33:58
  is being taken up by one division, which is spending
• 34:00
  about 20 to 30 views is not a lot, because people and
• 34:04
  subscribe to my channel to watch about the new Disney place show.
• 34:08
  Yeah. But you know, it takes up one of
• 34:10
  those slots, so I think there will be a point where I will end
• 34:14
  up doing a second channel that is pure lean on Sonic.
• 34:18
  So it drives that Sonic fanbase forward and they get what they
• 34:20
  want and they're happy as well as bringing a new audience into
• 34:24
  a more nerdy themed kind of thing.
• 34:26
  I think your approach. Well, both of our approaches has
• 34:29
  been very good like to kind of let time and the audience,
• 34:32
  dictate it, like the podcast Clips Channel.
• 34:34
  You know, I never wanted to make another Channel like I thought
• 34:37
  to was, was a push already. But you know, the third channel
• 34:42
  was born out of necessity because it was just so many
• 34:45
  Clips. I was uploading to the Main
• 34:46
  Channel and it was just Overkill.
• 34:47
  And I was like, there's got to be a way of like dealing with
• 34:51
  this and now it's bloody got exactly.
• 34:53
  I mean, you got Joe Rogan, you got Joe Rogan Clips, you've got
• 34:56
  H3 podcast and H3 highlights. Like it's a you got job makes
• 35:00
  happy hour and then Jack mates short of once I forget the name
• 35:03
  of now. But you know I think that's a
• 35:06
  really good way to do it with podcasts because it's a much
• 35:10
  shorter video for people to digest.
• 35:11
  What we'll say we'll say like 6 to 12 minutes as an ation.
• 35:16
  That's a much better entry point for someone to see some of them
• 35:19
  commit to an hour, maybe two hours of above entire podcast,
• 35:23
  but they see that. And they think, you know what,
• 35:25
  I'm really liking this, I'm going to go check out the actual
• 35:27
  podcast itself. What I think you would be good
• 35:30
  to thing is uploading, actual trailer, type Clips to Facebook,
• 35:37
  for your podcasts. Like it's actual Facebook videos
• 35:40
  because for some reason, Facebook videos just seem to
• 35:44
  pick up. I don't Get it.
• 35:46
  Like, I've released trailers for upcoming videos if it was like,
• 35:49
  a particularly big video, I was doing on Facebook and you know,
• 35:53
  that's not my subscriber base on YouTube.
• 35:55
  That's just my friends and stuff, but he picks up so much
• 35:58
  traction to give you using the right code words and stuff
• 36:01
  keywords or and stuff like that. It's a short game slightly less
• 36:04
  than a minute. Yeah minute. 30 seconds.
• 36:09
  Okay I'll try that. He's under.
• 36:10
  I'm gonna try this because I've been experimenting with YouTube
• 36:14
  shorts and I'm reels recently, right?
• 36:17
  Okay. It's all born out of the fact
• 36:19
  that I've returned to tick-tocks as our fuck it.
• 36:21
  Like I'm just a fool for not being on the platform so I'll do
• 36:23
  it good way to grow your audience.
• 36:26
  Really is and it really is Sonic translates to two hundred
• 36:32
  percent. If you make sure because it's a
• 36:36
  minute, you're restricted to a minute, I guarantee you'll push
• 36:39
  your audit. Like, I've seen that I've gained
• 36:42
  subscribers, not loads, but I've seen that I've gained
• 36:44
  subscribers. I mostly put music on there, you
• 36:48
  know, some music platform. So it makes sense to do that and
• 36:52
  I even put podcast Clips on there and they do well
• 36:54
  occasionally, okay, but this idea what you're saying about
• 36:58
  pink shorts that I've noticed the same thing, like there's
• 37:00
  videos that I've released that there's this one that I
• 37:03
  released, which was like a really short 20, 30 second skit
• 37:07
  on YouTube. Like, what it'll be like, when
• 37:10
  we come out of quarantine or whatever it released.
• 37:13
  It like a year ago. Yeah.
• 37:15
  And I Sort of released a bunch of stuff on Facebook, just to,
• 37:18
  just for shits and giggles. And then ran, like you said,
• 37:22
  randomly the, I guess, Facebook algorithm, if there is one
• 37:25
  picked it up and like, every now and again, they randomly just
• 37:28
  pushed my videos like, and let's so that, that one's close to
• 37:31
  1,000 views. It doesn't even have that many
• 37:35
  views on YouTube on Facebook, it does.
• 37:37
  And then there's other times when I've done, like a twitch
• 37:39
  stream, like a member with the first time it happened.
• 37:42
  I discovered that this was the thing was I did like a Five
• 37:46
  piece Siri or like I did a like a three-hour stream of light on
• 37:51
  Twitter about I don't know. Things that can write these kids
• 37:54
  will remember and I started it. I split into like five pieces so
• 37:58
  it's like half an hour each or something, right.
• 38:00
  Yeah. And I put them all on Facebook
• 38:02
  and you know obviously they just sat there for ages and then one
• 38:05
  day like the fourth part blew up and still to this day, still to
• 38:11
  this day. The fourth part in the third
• 38:13
  part banged, but then the Rest of them, just had like, a couple
• 38:17
  of years later, honey. Okay, so it makes no sense to me
• 38:21
  because that, that fourth clip got like 50 50 was it like 1500
• 38:27
  views or something. And so your practice content
• 38:31
  creators, were always trying to guess the algorithm and there's
• 38:34
  no science free even though and the algorithm is literally
• 38:37
  science. One of the things is to it.
• 38:40
  One thing is for certain short content, right now is something
• 38:43
  that all content creators need to be doing.
• 38:46
  Hundred percent. Like, for instance, I would
• 38:49
  recommend you, do it just set up a shorts Channel.
• 38:52
  And literally, even if you don't want to make new content and you
• 38:55
  just want to take like, trailers or short stuff and just stick it
• 38:58
  on there. I trust me, it'll bang lot on my
• 39:01
  second Channel I've gone from, since doing shorts.
• 39:05
  For that, couple of weeks, I've gone from 69 nice 229
• 39:12
  subscribers. On the second show.
• 39:13
  Nice, on the third Channel. No less because it's podcast but
• 39:17
  it went from like 11 subscribers up to like 30 subscribers.
• 39:22
  Okay, let's do this. There's something for this
• 39:24
  YouTube shorts algorithm but yeah, same thing on Instagram
• 39:29
  reels. Shout-out to Charles Jaco.
• 39:32
  He told me to do it ages ago and I was like now what's the point?
• 39:35
  And then I just thought, fuck it.
• 39:36
  I'll put it on there and yeah they ban you know and he's it's
• 39:40
  really random like it's there's no pattern to it like yeah.
• 39:46
  For instance, on reels my most successful video as got a 1500
• 39:50
  views and it's me doing like accents or something, okay?
• 39:55
  But then the rest of them do average around 100.
• 40:00
  Jananam is the yeah then there's a few music clips that have like
• 40:03
  close to 1000. It makes no sense because I'm
• 40:06
  like well so what I do is I just keep creating whenever I have an
• 40:09
  idea or do music or anything. I just put it everywhere like
• 40:13
  death YouTube, I'll guess I'll start.
• 40:16
  Doing on Facebook now as well. And it will just bang for no
• 40:20
  reason. I guess I said this to someone
• 40:23
  recently, but I think shorts is probably just what most people
• 40:28
  certainly, the younger generation are interested in,
• 40:31
  you know, EF this Tick-Tock generation type thing of, you
• 40:34
  know, this short form content really does work.
• 40:37
  But I still think obviously the content that we produce still
• 40:40
  has its place. I still think that is the main
• 40:43
  drive on YouTube. I think the All form content is
• 40:48
  one of the best ways to Market that to people that aren't
• 40:51
  following you there are already invested in, you know, like a 10
• 40:55
  minute video. And yeah, as you will see in
• 40:58
  with as you said, with the Instagram reels and something
• 41:00
  that you can get some incredible results with it.
• 41:03
  Absolutely. Yeah.
• 41:04
  No I think if anything it's best to do both.
• 41:08
  So, like spend a lot of time doing your long form content,
• 41:13
  put all the effort in, make sure it's premium, blah, blah, blah.
• 41:15
  And then With the short stuff. You don't even have to put a lot
• 41:18
  of effort into it as long as you have a phone.
• 41:20
  That's it. That's all you need.
• 41:22
  I've got phoner some of the Hedgehog costume.
• 41:24
  I think I did you so much. I guess, I guarantee, it'll bang
• 41:27
  100%. I'm asked to give it a go.
• 41:29
  I have been thinking about The Tick-Tock thing I go to,
• 41:31
  there'll be loads of people already doing as well.
• 41:33
  You'll be blown away. The bill that would be a good
• 41:35
  way to expand your audience and also meet other people as well.
• 41:40
  Yeah, yeah. So that's valid just keep an eye
• 41:43
  out. The Calamity had to take talk
• 41:44
  will probably appear. So Do it.
• 41:47
  Do it shorts channel? Do I don't know.
• 41:50
  Calamity Hatcher shorts or something, and just set up for
• 41:53
  experimentation purposes. I guarantee ya Aunty.
• 41:56
  Okay, but yeah, let's talk about monetization because you
• 42:01
  recently got that as well, as we know, like when you're sort of
• 42:05
  trying to get to the Thousand subscribers, Mark, that doesn't
• 42:07
  mean that the journey is over. Like, you're still having to get
• 42:10
  that watch time. So when that happened,
• 42:13
  obviously, your Bandit, you kept Pushing the live streams and it
• 42:17
  worked for you. So, what's the did?
• 42:21
  Like I'm not going to ask you how much you get, but like, how
• 42:23
  does it work? Do you do get anything from it?
• 42:26
  Is it worth your time? Or is it just laugh about this
• 42:28
  point? But hey, at least you did it.
• 42:31
  It's laughable at this point badly so did it, I've gotta be
• 42:34
  honest with you. A thousand views seems to get me
• 42:39
  about a dollar the my and also you have to 60 pounds before uh
• 42:48
  freshman year as a threshold there always.
• 42:51
  And I'm quite well, I'm very fortunate in the sense that a
• 42:57
  lot of people have sent in super, super low, I'll get my
• 43:00
  wire and it in super chats. Yeah, I was going to ask about
• 43:03
  Ashley, for instance, I have one guy that I'm going to shout out
• 43:06
  on Channel right now. Could I see Kai who donated $100
• 43:10
  in all Snapchats? I still haven't hit the
• 43:14
  threshold because does Google take half of that.
• 43:20
  White, hold on. Is it with the supercharger they
• 43:21
  take off? Yeah, it's like obviously child.
• 43:25
  Wow, yeah, so that's still better than twitch.
• 43:28
  You take 90 P, you know, I mean, but it's still like you.
• 43:33
  You don't eat me. Kind of makes me sad in a way
• 43:36
  that someone was like someone came onto Schumer's.
• 43:37
  I've got $100 that I want to donate to you, but I'm going to
• 43:40
  do it in bits and they kept doing it.
• 43:41
  And B was, I See Kai and it was like that's that's so lovely,
• 43:46
  but why someone wanted to do that?
• 43:48
  And then you think, unfortunately, that corporation
• 43:51
  that I've already got too much money and they actually too much
• 43:54
  information. Patient has taken half of that.
• 43:57
  S thing to content creators right now to do is to focus on
• 44:00
  sponsors and pushing things like patreon.
• 44:03
  Yes, that's the way forward patrons one.
• 44:06
  I've been looking at for a long time, you need to set one up,
• 44:08
  you hundred percent need to set one up for a couple.
• 44:10
  I need to figure out what the content would be and I think
• 44:13
  it's probably going to be more long form movie commentaries and
• 44:17
  that kind of thing and TV show commentaries.
• 44:19
  If I do it, what it can also be a ride energy, it can be guided
• 44:22
  by your audience like one thing that you've got.
• 44:25
  That's, that's really good. As you've got an audience that
• 44:26
  reacts, because whenever I ask my audience, everyone ignores me
• 44:31
  when, When You Reach Out, people respond, right?
• 44:34
  So that's perfect. That's already half the battle.
• 44:37
  So with their, you can ask them, okay?
• 44:39
  What do you want to see if I set up a patreon, what do you want
• 44:41
  to see, what kind of exclusive content?
• 44:43
  That's a real key word to use as well.
• 44:45
  Exclusive, exclusive patreon, because that way you can sort of
• 44:49
  diversify, you know. So like people still get free
• 44:52
  content from you but if they want that sort of Higher tier,
• 44:55
  you know, that exclusive stuff or maybe about more personalized
• 44:58
  stuff, like a shout out or I don't know like one-on-one
• 45:01
  something like that, then they got paid to do that.
• 45:04
  And that's the difference, really?
• 45:06
  Yeah. 100%. And there's also the issue of
• 45:08
  join feature, which is basically the same.
• 45:12
  Oh yeah. And people have actually asked
• 45:16
  about that whether I was going to do a membership thing on the
• 45:18
  channel. Can you put it out to them?
• 45:21
  Yeah, I can do it when she wants your monetize.
• 45:22
  Your able to do that? Is it the same with the Merchant
• 45:25
  things where you have to be monetized.
• 45:26
  Yeah, yeah. So that literally the second you
• 45:28
  get that monetized status that will comes into effect on your
• 45:33
  account and you can Muck around with it.
• 45:35
  Wow. But, you know, I put out to
• 45:37
  them, what kind of stuff do you want to see?
• 45:38
  And it's it's still difficult because people want different
• 45:43
  things, you know, and stumper. What's a?
• 45:46
  My one thing, another person, my one another, it's a tricky.
• 45:50
  One to figure out and I still think with my channel I'm You'll
• 45:55
  find in my feet to this day. I'm still not 100% there, like I
• 45:59
  can go wrong, I love covering Sonic the Hedgehog.
• 46:01
  I love playing Smash Bros, but you know, a my Sonic News
• 46:06
  Channel, a my Sonic video essay Channel and my Sonic, let's play
• 46:11
  Channel. There's so many different forms
• 46:13
  and I keep going into all these different things, like some of
• 46:16
  my News videos, do very well, my streams Sonic games are getting
• 46:20
  more and more popular. Some of my video essays.
• 46:25
  Really do well, like I've got one that's almost 20,000 views
• 46:28
  and other ones who was 15,000 views.
• 46:31
  But with those, obviously that takes a lot more time to put
• 46:34
  together a full video, I say than it does smell like, right
• 46:36
  guys. This is the news that we've had.
• 46:38
  Today, let's go, which could also bring in its beauty.
• 46:41
  Its it's quite difficult, trying to find enough footing, and I
• 46:44
  think when you're looking at a payment model behind it, it's
• 46:48
  even more difficult to find that footing.
• 46:50
  You've really got to know what you want to do and I want to
• 46:55
  keep I love creating content. I really do.
• 46:58
  It's is one of those things I never thought I would ever get
• 47:02
  around to doing, but always wanted to do.
• 47:03
  And now I do it, it's one of my favorite things.
• 47:06
  I often find struggle in motivation to actually record,
• 47:10
  but when it comes to the editing process, I Lose Myself hours and
• 47:15
  hours on it. And I'm not even saying my
• 47:16
  editing is particularly good because it's, it's, it's still,
• 47:20
  I'm still learning every day with my editing, but that whole
• 47:23
  process is just Just amazing to me and I feel like if it's a
• 47:28
  payment method content system. Hmm, it's got to be something
• 47:33
  that goes above and beyond what I've done so far.
• 47:36
  I agree. It's got to beat the qualities,
• 47:38
  got to be next level. People are paying for this, you
• 47:41
  know, there is that, of course, your quality needs to be decent
• 47:44
  anyway, but there is also a sort of thing of like, well, you
• 47:46
  didn't pay for it. So, you know, this is the, this
• 47:50
  is the quality of the channel, generally, if you liked it, like
• 47:54
  And subscribe. And what's the big difference?
• 47:55
  But I just feel like I've really got to step things up on a
• 47:59
  monetization thing. There's a lot of editing
• 48:01
  techniques that I want to explore more, and I'm using
• 48:06
  various different YouTubers and Platforms in order to grow those
• 48:11
  skills. But I think it's just not
• 48:14
  something I want to rush into. Mmm, that is the only thing.
• 48:17
  I don't want to rush into it. Do it half-assed and take
• 48:22
  people's money for that. I want it to be something that I
• 48:24
  can. Pletely commit to, and make
• 48:27
  some, some of the best content that I've ever created.
• 48:30
  To be completely honest with you, I don't want to rip people
• 48:33
  off, you know, having us for. Yeah.
• 48:36
  II agree with you. I mean the same similar bow of
• 48:39
  see, I'm not at your level yet, but I do kind of like nah, dude,
• 48:43
  it's a long journey. It's a long journey, dude.
• 48:46
  All it takes is one video with the right keywords.
• 48:51
  All it takes the algorithm picks up Suddenly bang like you have
• 48:57
  to look at my mind was a mine took two years, nearly three
• 49:02
  years to get to 500 subscribers. Hmm.
• 49:06
  And then covid happens. Okay, and I was very smart about
• 49:11
  how I did things. I was on Instagram searching
• 49:16
  hashtag, Sonic, the Hedgehog, or sonic, okay, going through Ooh
• 49:20
  finding everyone that was liking these popular Sonic posts
• 49:24
  following them and then they followed me back I would send
• 49:28
  them a message and I was saying look I'm a Sonic content
• 49:30
  creator, we're in lockdown, I've got a small Channel.
• 49:34
  I need to find out what kind of content that people want to see
• 49:37
  from the Sonic Community. Would you mind having a look at
• 49:39
  this? Let me know what you think.
• 49:41
  Let me know if you enjoyed it, if there's anything else I can
• 49:43
  do. I picked up 200 Subs in like two
• 49:45
  days. Wow, it was insane.
• 49:49
  And it's It really just reaching out to people like that.
• 49:53
  And I'll be honest, you know, it was copy and paste system for
• 49:58
  these messages. Well, the best systems are
• 50:00
  exactly, but then I would before I was messaging, someone I would
• 50:04
  look through their profile because a lot of my stomach are
• 50:07
  pages and stuff like that. And a black dude, by the way,
• 50:10
  love this particular piece like that, you've done that each like
• 50:13
  genuinely I really enjoy this, still the same copy and pasted
• 50:17
  message with your video link and all that.
• 50:20
  But You personalize it to each person cater.
• 50:22
  It takes a bit longer probably takes about two hours longer
• 50:24
  than it normally would because you this, it did.
• 50:27
  When I was doing this with, this was like eight hours a day doing
• 50:30
  this year was insane. Wow.
• 50:32
  But it, but adding that Personal Touch to it, really, you know,
• 50:35
  brings people in, I've I've actually started doing a similar
• 50:38
  thing with Instagram, like, when people follow me and I know it's
• 50:42
  because I know they're going to stick around.
• 50:44
  They're not just trying to grow their follower can and they've
• 50:47
  like actively liked my stuff, and they've engaged with me.
• 50:50
  I like them back. I start kind of talking to them
• 50:52
  and I've even started inviting certain people.
• 50:55
  Like, there's, there's regulars. I have shouts.
• 50:58
  Oh, Min, seok a, you know, you guys are awesome.
• 51:01
  I've started doing things like pushing them towards the
• 51:03
  Discord, pushing them, towards things that I do trying to
• 51:06
  trying to build that Community there.
• 51:08
  But like you said, you really got to kind of interact with
• 51:10
  people as much as you can and live streams are obviously a
• 51:14
  very good way of doing that. But yeah, it's a process.
• 51:18
  I guess it takes a long time but that's the thing.
• 51:20
  A lot of people underestimate about.
• 51:21
  So, sorry, being content creator that you've got to do a lot of
• 51:25
  different things. You got to do, like editing
• 51:27
  Graphics. That's something I've waited for
• 51:29
  ages. Of actually just started to
• 51:31
  properly, do fun nails now, where I didn't bother before,
• 51:33
  but now I actually put some effort into a, I mean, I'm not a
• 51:37
  great designer, I never will be but I don't know.
• 51:41
  I mean, I've been here. I've got some friends that are
• 51:44
  incredible, graphic designers, and Shout crew cartoons and a
• 51:48
  few other people. They make some really nice
• 51:51
  stuff. And then I've been finding my
• 51:54
  footing with thumbnails for a while now because they tricky,
• 52:00
  excuse me, they're tricky. They're not easy to to get
• 52:04
  right. Considering a thumbnail is the
• 52:07
  window to your channel? Is it was someone put it that
• 52:10
  way? And I quite like the expression.
• 52:13
  It's something you've gotta get, right?
• 52:15
  But what are the parameters for, right?
• 52:18
  With the thumbnail and Everything is just trial and
• 52:21
  error trial and error, you know, just grabbing people's
• 52:24
  attention, really, isn't it? I mean, like I decided to be
• 52:27
  playful with one. I did the other day and I'm not
• 52:30
  sure if it's the thumbnail or the fact that I posted it in a
• 52:34
  specific Reddit that did a job. But basically I posted a video
• 52:39
  about like a holiday experience and Bulgaria, right?
• 52:44
  And it was to do a ping pong so that the picture is like a guy
• 52:49
  playing ping-pong. His head is the Bulgarian flag
• 52:52
  and they're like, there's the text at the bottom, right?
• 52:54
  And then there's a picture of me like, doing some stupid things.
• 52:56
  Like yeah. Nice.
• 52:59
  You got get. Go get that in and and I'm going
• 53:01
  back on what I said because I've said this in the past.
• 53:03
  So this makes me a hypocrite. But I'm holding my hands up and
• 53:05
  saying, hey, sorry. I know, I'm just trying
• 53:08
  everything because I used to be that guy that Bella no moving to
• 53:10
  show the, no not going to do that and now I just go fuck it.
• 53:14
  I try everything. If it doesn't work, I'll stop if
• 53:17
  it works. I'll keep doing it and that's
• 53:19
  how I do it these days. And, you know it that that video
• 53:23
  is done really well compared to what I normally do and I think
• 53:27
  it comes down to being a bit strategic with social media as
• 53:29
  well. It's subreddits, they're hitting
• 53:32
  this. A lot of the time when you try
• 53:33
  to post in subreddits, you just get banned because people are
• 53:36
  good. Well, you promoting yourself, we
• 53:39
  don't like that and it's like cases.
• 53:41
  You know, you need, you need a Community member to go and post
• 53:46
  your videos. I have someone that does that
• 53:48
  for me. No, no, they were Into Summit
• 53:51
  Credit. They had know what I'm talking
• 53:55
  about is more to do with like, you know, sometimes you join a
• 53:58
  subreddit and like they don't like any kind of OC stuff.
• 54:01
  It has to be specifically. Oh yeah, you know, like so
• 54:05
  forth. Here's a good example, right?
• 54:07
  I posted one time in the Pokemon subreddit a couple of clips of
• 54:11
  me playing like, you know, first gen, right?
• 54:14
  It's been fun. Funny clips and like such a
• 54:18
  toxic Community just Just loads people hating on me, and I was
• 54:22
  like, fine, screw you guys, and I just delete that one person
• 54:25
  even said, like something like, it was something on the lines of
• 54:29
  like, why are you even here or? Why would we watch this?
• 54:32
  And it's like, because it's about Pokemon.
• 54:34
  And this is a poke, a subreddit like why do you guys have to be?
• 54:38
  So that's why I don't really care anymore.
• 54:41
  Like a lot of the time. Like I just try stuff out here
• 54:43
  and there but a lot of the time I just focus on the SEO stuff,
• 54:47
  you know the keywords the yeah. Ash tags the thumbnails.
• 54:50
  That stuff because I don't know. Like, I feel like a lot of the
• 54:53
  time there's this and I've spoken about this before, but
• 54:58
  when you're starting out, no one cares about you, like, no one
• 55:02
  cares. Like, you know, some people, if
• 55:06
  you tell them, I've got like a thousand subscribers, they
• 55:08
  belong. That's pretty cool.
• 55:09
  You know, most of the time when I tell people, I got like, 500,
• 55:12
  they're like, oh okay. Which means?
• 55:14
  Oh, there's no point carrying because he's just some
• 55:17
  small-time guy, right? And That always kind of bugs me
• 55:21
  because it's like, you know, it's not quantity.
• 55:23
  Its quality that's important. Yeah.
• 55:25
  And if I've already got 500 subscribers I mean that should
• 55:30
  tell you that I'm doing something, right?
• 55:33
  Yeah, 100%. It's just not kind of got to the
• 55:36
  point and like it's a gamble you know.
• 55:38
  It's like you said it takes a long time and you know not
• 55:42
  everyone makes it like I found a guy the other day.
• 55:44
  She had to do lie. All day.
• 55:46
  I'm trying to get him on my podcast.
• 55:47
  Actually face duck. Okay, he's ducking me.
• 55:50
  Yo, bro, pick up the phone. He spoke to me, but he's taking
• 55:55
  a break from from from all this, so fair, but I don't blame him
• 55:58
  for that dude. He's got less subscribers than
• 56:01
  me. He's got like 300 or something,
• 56:03
  but he's been doing YouTube for like six years, right?
• 56:06
  Okay. Excellent.
• 56:07
  He makes fantastic content and I discovered him through like a
• 56:12
  big YouTuber that I was watching.
• 56:14
  So I got recommended his video and as I do this, what is this?
• 56:16
  Guy is awesome and I can tell That he's just deflated by
• 56:21
  YouTube and he's just kind of like sick of and it's like, he's
• 56:25
  just accepted that it's never going to go anywhere.
• 56:27
  And I don't ever want to get to that point.
• 56:30
  Like, I'm trying to kind of look at it.
• 56:33
  Like, like my eyes are Beyond YouTube as well.
• 56:36
  I'm looking at just content in general like, yeah, creating a
• 56:39
  brand, right? But I, my view, my goal now is
• 56:44
  not to become rich and famous that.
• 56:46
  I want that like everyone else, but My biggest goal is to earn a
• 56:51
  living from this. If I get to do this as my job
• 56:54
  and I can live on it, I'll be happy, you know.
• 56:57
  Yeah, I'm with you on that. I mean he, I love my job as it
• 57:00
  is so I think the idea would be to well this this sounds really
• 57:06
  bad but I guess to earn a living wage from YouTube and have my
• 57:10
  full time job so that I could I mean because then you're earning
• 57:15
  your like you're earning good money, then but wouldn't you
• 57:17
  want to quit when you want to quit?
• 57:19
  You're like quit your main job and just you YouTube full time.
• 57:22
  I love it so much. I love what I do for a living.
• 57:26
  So, what do you do? I'm a computer engineer.
• 57:30
  So I build PCS for the VFX in gaming industry.
• 57:35
  That's also. And so I, you know, I get to go
• 57:40
  on site to these different companies and work on things
• 57:43
  from time to time. And you know, I'm often building
• 57:46
  masses of machines. They're going to companies that
• 57:48
  I know are working on projects that I love and I'm going to
• 57:52
  watch in the future. So there's a real job.
• 57:54
  As function for me in that sense, the other thing, I've
• 57:57
  also found it and it's something that I really found during
• 58:00
  lockdown. If you've got nothing to do, it
• 58:04
  can be quite hard to motivate yourself.
• 58:07
  Like I would get up in the morning and be like, right?
• 58:10
  I'm going to make this video, this video this video today, and
• 58:13
  I'd only get around to doing maybe one because it was just, I
• 58:19
  find it difficult. If I haven't already got that,
• 58:21
  like routine in place, I find that my Motivation, really slips
• 58:26
  to like nothingness. I'm so I like having that
• 58:29
  routine of work and then being like, right?
• 58:31
  So today you need to go home and you need to record this video
• 58:34
  and then you've got half an hour to go and eat something, and
• 58:36
  then you got get on stream. And then tomorrow evening,
• 58:39
  you've already at this, to get out on Wednesday and things like
• 58:41
  that. Like, I kind of like that, that
• 58:43
  routine that rush. I'm the opposite, man.
• 58:46
  I hate routine routine. My DVD, movies, me.
• 58:50
  And I've tried believe me. Like I'm very organized as a
• 58:52
  person, like, I If I was just doing my regular marketing stuff
• 58:57
  I would organize myself and my time, but I got YouTube.
• 59:00
  Like if I start doing that like I'm going to make this YouTube
• 59:03
  video and then this and it's going to be these days.
• 59:05
  Like I get so demotivated it's one of the reasons why.
• 59:09
  Okay, with the podcast, you'll notice that I just release it
• 59:13
  randomly. I don't have a set day.
• 59:15
  You know, I try to do it as much as I can every week, but like
• 59:19
  it's not a guarantee, and there's two reasons for that.
• 59:22
  The biggest reason is I don't want the Pressure of like, I
• 59:26
  say, I don't release an episode for a while and they're being
• 59:28
  this like expectation of like, oh well, it's always on wonders.
• 59:31
  Why is it not here? I hate that.
• 59:34
  Like, it will be out when it's out because it will have my full
• 59:37
  energy and attention to it. And I can't always guarantee. to
• 59:43
  be honest, the I'll have the energy and time to do something
• 59:47
  like For example, Let There are some days where I just don't
• 59:51
  create anything at all. Now I just take a day off, take
• 59:54
  a couple of days off and I don't even really think about it a
• 59:57
  lot. I'm just kind of like, you know
• 59:58
  what, I just need to rest. I just need to not do this
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  because I just you know, and sometimes it's a mental health
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  thing sometimes. I'm just like a bit kind of down
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  in the dumps and I think like War.
• 1:00:12
  The last thing I want to do is comment.
• 1:00:13
  Like I remember one time fairly recently, I came on a stream and
• 1:00:17
  I felt like crap and I was there Half an hour and then I just
• 1:00:20
  ended it and deleted it and someone reach out to me a friend
• 1:00:22
  of mine, so thanks Sokka and I shouldn't have done it.
• 1:00:27
  The had no place I shouldn't have been on that stream at all
• 1:00:30
  and yeah that's how it should always be.
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  You know, you got to show up with your full energy and you
• 1:00:39
  know if you can't do that like it's okay.
• 1:00:41
  Like just take a break just? Yeah rest it's happened to me
• 1:00:46
  like I've done streams through a site.
• 1:00:48
  Oh, I said I was going to rain today, not really feeling up to
• 1:00:52
  it and it shows it definitely shows in what you do.
• 1:00:55
  You know, you're sitting on stream.
• 1:00:57
  You're not as hyped as you normally.
• 1:00:59
  Are not as motivated. It, I think the audience can
• 1:01:04
  definitely pick up on it. Yeah, 100 percent.
• 1:01:07
  So it's something that they're particularly.
• 1:01:11
  When you hit that monetized barrier, there is this legit
• 1:01:16
  pressure of putting stuff out. And teeming with life at the
• 1:01:21
  same time and how they these two things fight each other and they
• 1:01:25
  can really go at each other. Like I put myself in some
• 1:01:28
  situations where it's like, I need to get this out today.
• 1:01:32
  It's Wednesday. I need to get my video out and
• 1:01:35
  it's like, life is meaning that? That's not the best option for
• 1:01:40
  you right now. You need to chill.
• 1:01:41
  Yeah, but there's a guilt that almost comes with, not then
• 1:01:45
  pushing forward and creating the content and that kind of thing.
• 1:01:48
  Like there is a whole range of mental health issues.
• 1:01:52
  I think that come with being a YouTuber or a content creator of
• 1:01:55
  any kind. I legitimately think there are
• 1:01:58
  like the dopamine Rush from checking YouTube studio.
• 1:02:03
  All dopamine, full. Yeah.
• 1:02:07
  From checking YouTube Studio because it's one of the first
• 1:02:09
  things I do every day. Yeah, so he's checking my phone,
• 1:02:12
  YouTube studio. If those numbers aren't going
• 1:02:14
  the way I want to, that's a - that's a load straight away.
• 1:02:18
  Stay tuned. Well, thank Ron it.
• 1:02:20
  There's a little Spike of Serotonin.
• 1:02:22
  That's always nice. But generally as the life of
• 1:02:26
  smaller content creators, it's not going to be that little
• 1:02:30
  serotonin Rush every time nine times out of ten.
• 1:02:33
  It is like no one's really. What's this one?
• 1:02:35
  This hasn't done as well as I thought.
• 1:02:37
  Like there's a whole range of issues that come with it.
• 1:02:40
  I feel, but don't you think about totally agree?
• 1:02:43
  It's I haven't still haven't really figured out how to deal
• 1:02:47
  with that because I mean I try not to look at the stats as many
• 1:02:52
  as much anymore. This is hard, you know, it's
• 1:02:57
  hard because and it's not even like I'm sitting there kind of
• 1:03:01
  thinking my God I really hope this does worry.
• 1:03:03
  Hope this bangs like I have realistic expectations about how
• 1:03:06
  things will do, like I aim to just kind of pass my average
• 1:03:10
  that's kind of. Yeah.
• 1:03:11
  You know, my house. Yeah.
• 1:03:13
  And to be honest like my it's like I said at the beginning, my
• 1:03:17
  Approach has changed now. Like I don't focus on the
• 1:03:19
  numbers. I don't focus on haters or any
• 1:03:22
  of that. I just kind of focus on like
• 1:03:24
  what the Community is saying, I want the people saying, like
• 1:03:27
  when, when they come in the live streams, you know, and they
• 1:03:30
  having a good time, they enjoying it.
• 1:03:33
  Is there more people joining, you know?
• 1:03:35
  That's, that's what I focus on. And there's been a lot of
• 1:03:39
  positivity, especially in the last couple of months.
• 1:03:41
  And I think it comes down to, like, consistency and also kind
• 1:03:47
  of just Just not caring if something that does badly
• 1:03:51
  because it happens, you know, happens to me all the time.
• 1:03:54
  And the way I look at it is that one day, all of this content is
• 1:03:57
  going to bang, like you said like they'll be that one video.
• 1:04:01
  That would be the Gateway, or whatever, or just get discovered
• 1:04:05
  randomly. And then all of this content
• 1:04:08
  will finally do what it deserves to do.
• 1:04:11
  Because one thing I always focus on doing is trying to create
• 1:04:14
  Evergreen content. So that's one of the reasons why
• 1:04:17
  I don't do like much topical stuff because it quickly
• 1:04:22
  especially in this day and age, it quickly becomes old news and
• 1:04:25
  then it's just dead content on your channel.
• 1:04:27
  That is not really interesting. Like for example, if you're
• 1:04:31
  talking about like you're doing like a speculation video, right?
• 1:04:37
  That old that will ban maybe for like a week or two and then the
• 1:04:40
  thing comes out and then then it then what they just generally
• 1:04:45
  mean. Like the things happened, it's
• 1:04:47
  probably not what you guessed, it would And then what?
• 1:04:50
  What happens, like, no one's ever going to watch that again.
• 1:04:53
  Yeah, I mean, I do a video every year that's called leak Sonic
• 1:04:57
  games for that year and it's like the big leaks.
• 1:05:00
  And one of them has got almost 20,000 views, but that's from
• 1:05:04
  2019. And that will never reach the
• 1:05:08
  20,000 views because it's two years ago.
• 1:05:12
  No, one like, no one cares about that.
• 1:05:14
  Now, we're in 2021, they want to know what Sonic games are going
• 1:05:16
  to get leaked for this year. Exactly.
• 1:05:18
  Is it? Actually all the fucking
• 1:05:19
  Community, a talkin about. And I think you've got the right
• 1:05:22
  approach there. Just just do one distill one
• 1:05:24
  off. You know why, why do regular?
• 1:05:26
  Like, if fascinates me, when I see these people who spend all
• 1:05:30
  their time and a lot I'm not hating, okay?
• 1:05:32
  If you have a channel where you're basically doing news
• 1:05:35
  every day, you're doing all that fair play to you.
• 1:05:39
  I just don't, I wouldn't have the energy to do that because
• 1:05:42
  they're just feel like it's way too demanding and yeah people
• 1:05:47
  are Philip DeFranco. Team saw all those people like,
• 1:05:51
  it takes a lot to get that content out.
• 1:05:53
  Must be Heather, stress to get that out as well.
• 1:05:55
  To be involved in these situations that are going on a
• 1:05:58
  lot of the time. But then once that videos,
• 1:06:01
  you've maybe got a week on that video of it being relevant.
• 1:06:05
  If you are a lone, most lucky you can be a whole week.
• 1:06:09
  Maybe it would just be 24 hours that video being random
• 1:06:12
  sometimes that's not it could be right?
• 1:06:14
  I love couple of hours that video being relevant, right?
• 1:06:16
  Let's move things forward. I want to talk about By Sonic
• 1:06:19
  the Hedgehog 30th Anniversary. I mean, what is there to talk
• 1:06:24
  about? Let's be real.
• 1:06:29
  So, can you give us something? Do they still haven't even
• 1:06:32
  though you know, when is he supposed to drink relation?
• 1:06:36
  What specific day or they June 6th.
• 1:06:39
  I believe is the actual birthday.
• 1:06:43
  So, say guards did that's music to my ears.
• 1:06:49
  Hopefully we're going to get something then bought or an
• 1:06:52
  announcement. Then I assume we're going to get
• 1:06:54
  some sort of live stream for his birthday.
• 1:06:56
  We're going to announce a few bits, but how disappointed would
• 1:06:59
  you be if it was literally just they just uploaded a clip and it
• 1:07:01
  was just daddy. Did he end up making a very
• 1:07:09
  angry? What can I do?
• 1:07:12
  You know. It's a good point, though.
• 1:07:13
  What perk, what could I possibly do for a 30th Anniversary?
• 1:07:16
  Such a big thing like Like I think Sonic Adventure 1 and 2
• 1:07:21
  remakes, it's the most requested game in the franchise, apart
• 1:07:27
  from Sonic Adventure 3, which I just, I don't see it.
• 1:07:31
  But remakes, considering you know how well people like Crash
• 1:07:35
  Bandicoot Spyro have all cashed in on this Nostalgia.
• 1:07:38
  I think it's a no-brainer at this point.
• 1:07:43
  We've got the head of Sonic Team saying that he's wanted to do
• 1:07:46
  this for some time. It just makes sense you know I'm
• 1:07:52
  gonna ask you what but do you have an idea of what you're
• 1:07:55
  going to do? Yeah, for the anniversary and we
• 1:07:59
  thought about it. Yep.
• 1:08:00
  The there is a very special video a very special video
• 1:08:04
  that's going to be coming out. I embezzled plug this here
• 1:08:08
  because you're gonna judge you in the last son.
• 1:08:10
  You don't have to say what it is.
• 1:08:12
  I won't give the full outline, but like last year, I will be
• 1:08:16
  doing a montage section. Where people sending their video
• 1:08:20
  happy birthdays. Yeah, I want to do bigger and
• 1:08:23
  better than last year. Last year, we had about 30
• 1:08:26
  entries. I don't want to try and get
• 1:08:28
  about 100 this year. I want to make this massive
• 1:08:33
  compilation, and if I can get it long enough, you'll get to the
• 1:08:36
  point where I don't tack it onto the end of one video.
• 1:08:39
  There will be two separate uploads on Sonic's birthday, one
• 1:08:42
  with that montage and one with the saw the video, it's good.
• 1:08:45
  I am currently working on, all I can say for the main video The I
• 1:08:49
  will be taking to the Streets of London for this.
• 1:08:53
  I knew it, I knew it so. Yeah I'm going to be up in the
• 1:08:59
  capital filming something very special so look forward to that.
• 1:09:06
  There should be quite a good comedic element to.
• 1:09:08
  I bet you're going to, you're going to go to Leicester Square.
• 1:09:12
  I am going to go to Leicester Square funnily enough.
• 1:09:14
  Of course, he's our guide. So that's what everyone goes.
• 1:09:19
  Exactly. I think you know don't you you
• 1:09:22
  know what I'm gonna do? I have a rough idea, I'll say
• 1:09:27
  off camera. What?
• 1:09:28
  I recommend? Yeah.
• 1:09:29
  Yeah. Don't say okay.
• 1:09:30
  Because it's going to be the best surprise when people see
• 1:09:32
  that or or horrifying surprise depending on your your views
• 1:09:37
  that is. So now I'm intrigued now I'm
• 1:09:39
  intrigued. Okay.
• 1:09:41
  Okay let's move on this. Yeah, there's so many things I
• 1:09:48
  could Ask you. Okay, let's just talk real
• 1:09:49
  quick. About 20, 21 your goals and
• 1:09:52
  stuff. Yeah.
• 1:09:53
  Like I actually did something differently this year.
• 1:09:56
  I decided to set myself goals at the beginning.
• 1:09:59
  Yeah. Same.
• 1:09:59
  Just as a kind of, hey, here's what I'm trying to do.
• 1:10:03
  And the, the goal is right now is for the main Channel 1000
• 1:10:07
  subscribers. I have other goals, but these
• 1:10:11
  are just my like YouTube goes, right?
• 1:10:13
  Yeah. Second channel was to get to 100
• 1:10:16
  which I've already done. And for the third channel is to
• 1:10:19
  get to 50. And I figure these are
• 1:10:22
  conservative, these are doable. And then, you know, Farrah, I
• 1:10:27
  think that. But what about yours?
• 1:10:29
  What yours for the year Ice at 2500 Subs.
• 1:10:36
  It may be overly. I don't know, the right, right
• 1:10:42
  term for this ambitious. Ambitious, yes, sorry, can find
• 1:10:45
  it there. It may be overly ambitious, but
• 1:10:50
  I would rather set myself, something that's a bit too
• 1:10:53
  ambitious. Because in my head, I haven't
• 1:10:57
  decided I'm going to make it to that point.
• 1:11:01
  So I won't get the disappointment if I don't be
• 1:11:04
  gives me something to keep pushing towards in that regard.
• 1:11:07
  I think the fact that you have set this goal in a year where
• 1:11:13
  there's a 30th Anniversary for Sonic the Hedgehog and you're
• 1:11:16
  doing two videos to capitalize on it, I think you're giving
• 1:11:19
  yourself a very good shot. I think it's I think it's
• 1:11:22
  possible. I don't actually think it's that
• 1:11:23
  outlandish. However, I do think that you're
• 1:11:28
  going to have to do more than I think diversifying doing some of
• 1:11:30
  the short stuff. That we spoke about these, I
• 1:11:33
  think you branching out making maybe even new channels.
• 1:11:37
  That like there's going to be a big change up on your channel
• 1:11:40
  and your just your closest and I think that's how you'll get
• 1:11:43
  there. Yeah.
• 1:11:45
  Yeah, I agree with that 100%. I suppose, my other goal is I
• 1:11:49
  want to get 100,000 views this year.
• 1:11:51
  I ended up getting like 70,000 or something like that last
• 1:11:57
  year, maybe more than that. So not too far off.
• 1:12:00
  I just want to get that kind of clean.
• 1:12:02
  Even hundred thousand. What's your most viewed video?
• 1:12:05
  The moment, it's still that. Leaked Sonic games. 2019 10.
• 1:12:10
  Well on, nineteen thousand bees. Does it ever pick up use?
• 1:12:13
  Still. Not really no.
• 1:12:16
  Because it's like it's painfully close.
• 1:12:19
  It's like liver. Dude.
• 1:12:20
  You ever just randomly get like someone viewing it like just not
• 1:12:24
  really. I do have videos that do that.
• 1:12:26
  So, yeah, last year. Lost some high-power video of
• 1:12:30
  why Shadow, the Hedgehog is the most important character in the
• 1:12:33
  Sonic franchise. And I see that's a even that's
• 1:12:35
  not even now that's still picking up, that's overdoing
• 1:12:39
  comments all the time. Yeah, so yeah, it's weird.
• 1:12:42
  But that know generally not I do find that different kind of
• 1:12:46
  Trends in things pick things up on older videos which is kind of
• 1:12:51
  strange like this. And by last year, we had Sonic
• 1:12:56
  week than a, why we called it. That's your fucking ridiculous.
• 1:12:59
  Nothing happened, doesn't know news or anything, but then I did
• 1:13:03
  a video on it. And then this year, when there
• 1:13:05
  was a leak that came out, what and again, leak for a game
• 1:13:10
  that's suddenly started to pick up loads of views, because I
• 1:13:14
  don't know how that Association came there somehow.
• 1:13:18
  So I find it very strange. I do find it very strange, but
• 1:13:21
  as we were saying, previously, I think with the leak Sonic games,
• 1:13:23
  2019, It has a long, long activity of 2019 or until a game
• 1:13:30
  is announced and you've been proven wrong.
• 1:13:33
  Do I mean, but it's different concepts, different things, you
• 1:13:37
  know, pulls some views at times you don't expect.
• 1:13:39
  So potentially there is the chance of hitting 100,000
• 1:13:43
  100,000. Sorry.
• 1:13:46
  Yeah, they're a hundred thousand.
• 1:13:47
  I think there is a child's actually.
• 1:13:48
  Think this is not Sedona. See a rather positive this year.
• 1:13:52
  We're going, we're going to we're going to smash it this
• 1:13:54
  year. I'm looking forward to it.
• 1:13:57
  What is the biggest life lesson you've learned so far?
• 1:14:10
  He's given a real good thought there it's good.
• 1:14:14
  I don't know why I approached it like a golf commentator and he's
• 1:14:16
  going up to the hole and I like the gulf.
• 1:14:20
  It's fun. Do you?
• 1:14:22
  I don't the gentleman's sport. You say so, oh God, I'm dying.
• 1:14:31
  I guess it would be like, I just coughing I guess it would be I
• 1:14:40
  thought it know, just focus on what makes you happy.
• 1:14:44
  They don't if you want to get into this game, don't push
• 1:14:49
  yourself to make content that you're half Arsenal.
• 1:14:52
  You're not particularly invested in just is as long as you do.
• 1:14:56
  What makes you happy in that regard, your personality is
• 1:14:58
  going to shine through, and it's going to be what people want to
• 1:15:01
  see. And that's the biggest thing.
• 1:15:02
  I've learned some movement as we draw things to a close for
• 1:15:06
  today, mr. Jack her Chum, The Calamity
• 1:15:09
  Hatcher, do you have any upcoming projects or final
• 1:15:13
  thoughts that you'd like to share with us?
• 1:15:15
  Well, first, I have mentioned this last time I was here, match
• 1:15:20
  is re dropping for my birthday. Be launching fairly soon as we
• 1:15:28
  are now in March. And the campaign is normally for
• 1:15:30
  30 days so that will be dropping.
• 1:15:33
  I will be getting you one sent out from it.
• 1:15:35
  So send me your address, let me know.
• 1:15:39
  The collaboration, the calamities are going to be
• 1:15:41
  cheaper than they were last time.
• 1:15:43
  That's such a great name. By the way, I'm just very glad
• 1:15:48
  I'm glad you like it. Silly ever calamities will be a
• 1:15:52
  bit cheaper than last time and there will be a new piece of
• 1:15:55
  merch. They specifically like because
• 1:15:59
  of my birthday coming up is going to be a very Swift piece
• 1:16:01
  of much. I say that cryptically.
• 1:16:04
  I have not decided what it is yet.
• 1:16:06
  I just have a design but I don't know whether Going to be like a
• 1:16:08
  t-shirt over there. I'd like to put it on a hat or
• 1:16:11
  something like that or a hoodie but yeah I'm basic and be taking
• 1:16:16
  feedback from the community on that.
• 1:16:17
  So give feedback to let me know what kind of match you want but
• 1:16:21
  that will be coming soon. And yeah I mean considering how
• 1:16:26
  time has been flying resale might as well just yet but out
• 1:16:29
  there Sonic's 30th Anniversary I believe it's June 6th.
• 1:16:33
  There will be some big content coming from this channel on that
• 1:16:35
  day. At the moment there is a Stream
• 1:16:38
  planned of Sonic 1 where we're going to finish all of some day,
• 1:16:42
  because it would have been 30 years since that original game.
• 1:16:44
  Oh, Russ, you're going to do two videos plus a live stream, plus
• 1:16:47
  a live stream down intentionally another live stream.
• 1:16:50
  If Sega are doing a live stream on that day to announce the new
• 1:16:53
  in-game, I'll be doing a reaction stream to the back as
• 1:16:55
  well. Be a busy old day.
• 1:16:59
  So, if you like some of the Hedgehog, you know today, hello
• 1:17:01
  to the channel and hit the Subscribe button because it's
• 1:17:03
  going to be kind of crazy. Absolutely.
• 1:17:06
  Yeah, thank you so much for a On the show man's pleasure to have
• 1:17:09
  you back. As always, you know, it's over
• 1:17:12
  have me. My friend.
• 1:17:13
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• 1:17:16
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