David Crossley on How He Lost His Dream Job + CRAZY India Stories | EP45

Let's refer to that. I was being me. I was being open minded. The problem is, when you're working

for a blue chip company like McLaren, you can't be open minded. You've got to be by the book.

Unfortunately, speaking my opinion, it cost me my job, which is quite a common thing now in

this day and age. You can't say. Hello and welcome to another episode of Talking Shop. Today, again,

we have David Crossley, DC European. Please make sure to like, comment, subscribe and let us know

who you want on Talking Shop Next. Thank you ever so much for coming down and seeing us again,

spending time with us. Thank you for inviting me. Yeah, yeah. So bring us up to speed because

a lot has happened since you sat here last time. What, two years ago, a year and a half ago?

Go on, bring us up to speed with what's going on or what's been going on. Where do you start?

Where do we start? I mean, failed company, taxi driver, social media, motor sports,

sacked. Yeah, we can just go on for hours. Where do we even start? I hope the editor's ready for

this because he's got about four and a half hours of pure editing. Please say I now.

Mate, up and down. Listen, life throws you challenges and you've just got to overcome them

I try and see the positive in everything. You know, it's never good, is it failing? But, you know,

there's difference between failing and bouncing back, you know, learning a lesson. Yeah, I think

probably the first like thing from my memory was maybe like the unpacking DC European up.

I think that was probably the first thing after the podcast.

So it's kind of funny because I look back at the podcast before coming here and I was like,

I was talking about my failures, just not acknowledging them. Yeah, I was watching,

I knew what was going wrong, but failed to change it, failed to switch up. I was always hoping it

would go better and better. And I realized I wasn't, well, I realized too late to be fair,

that I wasn't going to get better anytime soon. One of the lads had an accident and it set us back

thousands. Then I employed a driver. I was a bit stupid being realistically honest,

100% truth. I was stupid because we got money coming in from other sources. And

my, you know, I've never had money. So I'm walking around and I'm like, I'm going on holiday next

week. Who cares about the truck? I'm going to Lanzarote. And stupid, mate. Put somebody else in

the truck. I employed the wrong person. This is what really did it for me. So when we started,

when we had DC European, we went on the Italian work. The Italian work was half me and half of

another company who was running it. The other company were failing massively, which I understand

now why they was. But at the time I was like, why are these guys failing? Like, you know what I mean,

this is all right, we can run to Italy. So we ended up taking over the whole Italian job.

This was us, England, Switzerland every week. Perfect. Going by new trailers. We've got a steady

finance coming in. The money was regular. It was 14 day payment times. I was like,

this is going well. And then I employed the driver who was running that firm. I was like,

look, because I felt bad for him. He was like, 58 year old. He's like, I've got nothing really

now. I've gone back and I said, look, come and work for me. I said, you know the job in and out.

You're the best man for this job. I will pay you a weekly wage, a good wage. I will pay you a

weekly wage. You can run the business as it's your own. I can chill on holiday thinking, wow,

that's going to work. It was a written disaster. But not thinking. Just didn't open my eyes to the

to the business mentality. He came in and ruined the job massively, like kicking off every two

minutes. Brought down, listen, everyone breaks down. But common law in Europe is getting back to

England. Don't matter. If you can budget, I mean, it has to be rolled legal, obviously. But if you

can get it done, get it done, get it back. Let's save some money. And so he rings me up on a Friday

and he says, the gearbox has gone on this truck. I says, okay, I said, that's a bit odd line.

He's not mentioned anything all week. He said, the gearbox is gone on this truck.

So I went up, took it into the mechanic and the mechanic said, look, it's grinding on

because it's a manual daff. Now, that's that's another mistake. But

you know, can we get a new box? And he said, look, he said, we are right for a couple of

weeks. He said, stupid am I in two weeks, I'll get the box out. We'll put a new clutch in it.

We'll sort it out. We'll start looking at some box options because because it's a manual,

there's no manuals anymore. Because it's it had a retarder on the back of the box,

which made it 16 grand new. And I was like, oh, yeah, I'm in Lanzarote. Who's got 16 grand?

And yeah. So anyway, long story cut shot. He's coming on Monday.

Oh, the box hadn't been done. I said, yeah, he's getting done on a couple of weeks. It won't make

it. It won't make it. I said, well, the mechanic has told me, you know, it's like going to a doctor

and saying, you know, he's not right, you know, and I was like, the mechanics drove it. I drove it

I drove it to the garage on back. I've driven it sound. There's no problem. You know, yes,

it crunches a bit going into six, just miss six. You know, the good thing is with the manual,

you can work round gears, you know, he just wasn't happy. And this job isn't for and I was like,

Oh, what are you mourning for? I'm giving you a job. You came to me and said you were struggling

financially. You told me your house was up for repossession. You went bankrupt with the trucks.

I've only thrown you on lifeline. If you don't want the job, then fine, I'll find somebody else.

But you kind of agreed to do next week. Anyway, drove it down there, spent two days in a hotel

down there because he did the somewhat wrong with the reload. He couldn't stay in the truck now

on the vino drinking every night. And I thought, Oh, this ain't going to end well. And then all

of a sudden the box had smashed the pieces. So left the truck down there flew him home. I said,

you get yourself home. I'll send a record out for it. Oh man. Jesus Christ. I mean,

we were talking astronomical numbers. And I was realizing then at this point,

I've misjudged calculating these jobs. The jobs were paying. But I wasn't putting

the what if shit happens. Yes. Marginal. Marginal. That's a big margin. So,

brand companies, I mean, I've got to shout out some companies because there's a lot of companies.

I mean, crouch recovery offered to go down. Even trucker Tim, trucker Tim was like,

I'll send the low loader down. And I was, and my brain was just too, I just left it. I said,

leave it. Leave it down there. I was hoping somebody would nick it.

Someone nick the mudcamps. No, not that one. The game. But no, in the end, we ended up getting

it back and sent the boxing for reconditioning. And the guy took the box part and he said,

I've been doing boxes now. He said, for about 30 years, he said, I've never seen one like this.

He said, this has been done intentionally. He said, somebody has been smashing this box.

Somebody's been driving it badly for it to be like this. And I kind of just realized this guy

had it in for me. Now, funny enough, he set up another business and is back on European one.

So I think, did he take my money to set himself back up again, and then, and then

screw me maybe. He seemed me maybe as a, as a, why he lost his business. I never wanted him to

leave. They, they said to me that he was not operating well. You know, his equipment was old

and tacky. His roofs had holes in them, you know, and loads were getting damages. We went out and

bought brand new trailers for this customer. I'm like that. You know, if you invest in me,

I'll be messing you. And over the time, customs got harder, Brexit screwed us all. Customs got

harder. Nobody wants to pay for customs. Who's paying for the, the customs? Well, the customer

don't want to pay it because it's not their problem. The, the, the exporter don't want to pay

it because it's not their problem. The freight forward, they don't want to pay it because it's

not his problem. And I'm sat there and I'm like, two days waiting for a document. And I'm like,

where's this money? Like, who's going to cover the costs? And I just drew it into a whole,

my own mistake. My own, I can hold my hands up and say inexperience and stupidity.

Put it into the ground. So where are we at with it now? Because someone's got your truck.

Go on. So where are we? We're back. So I'm very, very fortunate. I've,

my social media has grown massively. Better income in online. People laugh at the likes of trucker

tech. People say, oh, he's an idiot. He's not an idiot. He's a source mark because he's, he's,

people are out there working nine to five, grafting in a truck, sleeping in a truck or

weighing businesses are running crazy for, for what he probably makes in a day. He's, you know,

he's, he's marketed it perfectly, which we're very fortunate. We are a different side to

truck attend, but people are enjoying it. We've got, I think we're on 66,000 followers on YouTube,

which is for YouTube is massive. I've got a little, like a little discord chat. I don't

even know what discord is like a little family WhatsApp chat. And I've got like 2000 members

in there just paying like, it's a small for every month and we just sit in there all day.

But that has kind of revamped DC European. So I went traveling, obviously I'm guessing we're

going to get into it. Well, I went traveling for, for, for months and putting vlogs on,

it was great. It was great, but it wasn't what the trucks were doing. I'd go in a truck and I'd

watch my views and I'd be like, we have 300,000 on that video. Traveling's getting 70,000.

People have an interest in me with trucks. And kind of I've tried time, time between the ideas.

I've done a bit of driving for other people and my views just was constantly up on the truck

inside. And I thought, do you know what, let's, let's, I can do this. I've got a better mentality

now, a better understanding. I went and passed my transport manager's course, which massively

opened my eyes to behind the scenes. And yeah, let's do it. And I was fed up with the idiot side

of me online. You know, I cannot be that idiot by doing YouTube with DC. So it kind of all worked

in together. So we, I bought the truck back. The truck was in the garage. I said, right,

I'll buy it back now. So I bought the truck back. And over the last month, it's just been getting

service prepped, ready to go again. But I'm running a four biter in the UK, which is stupid.

But I've got good reasons behind it. Okay. So in my brain, it's cost me around about eight grand

to put this truck back on the road. All rippers, everything eight grand.

To go and buy a second hand truck, you're looking at 10 grand anyway, which okay, I had that spur.

Let's go buy a second hand truck. I've never driven that truck. I could drive down the road

and in two weeks, the gearbox blow up again. The engine might have felt with my truck. I kind of

know it. It's had a new clutch. It's had a new gearbox. I know it's had a water pump. I know,

I know mechanically, it's durable. Why am I going to go and invest 10 grand into something that

could break down again? When I can invest a into something that I know will work well.

Okay, it's going to limit me with loads and way and things like that in the UK,

but let's get the money in first now. Let's stop thinking ahead. People are saying,

are you going back on European? No, not yet. I'm not rushing to find the way. I'm going to let

the look find me. I'm going to run around the UK. I've got a couple of good contacts now who've

said, look, stick with us. We'll look after you. In six months time, I will then swap it and invest

into a 6P2. Yeah. And hopefully when you do swap it, you'll be swapping it and it'll be a working

truck that you're swapping. Yes. So yeah. Yeah. I think it's, I think that's smart. Yeah. That's

smart. So when you, you packed up DC European, this, I think the second thing that happened over

that it doesn't have to be in chronological order, for God's sake. Timeline was the United

Motorsports, wasn't it? Yes. Because you did that anyway, didn't you? It was weird because it was like,

in a way, United Motorsports got me from DC. It was like, you know, people are like, oh,

they bought me out. Literally, that's what kind of what happened, but without money.

So I was working for United. We were subcontracting foreign motorsport companies because that was

kind of a bit of a niche I had where I could go and do tires, fuels, but kind of made sense. And

United Motorsports needed a curtain side of pulling. So they were, there was like, right,

can you come in and do it? In your own truck? And I was like, yes, this is going to be great.

Do you know what I mean? My own truck, motorsport. And it went really well. And then like you said,

when DC started to fail, United Motorsport reached out and there was like, look,

do you fancy working here? And I was like, oh, what doing because the season had ended. So there

was like coming and you can be like an assistant, assistant transport manager. You can help load

trucks and things like that. And I went in and it would just run really bad. I have to be honest,

it was run as most motorsport companies do. They're not bothered about A to B, getting the

truck there. That car needs to be one second faster, but they don't want the truck. They're

not bothered. Like trucking and motorsport is two massively different things. That will make

a millions. The trucking is just an burden to them. So they kind of like, as they were growing,

United Motorsports grew massively with success. And the transport side kind of never progressed.

I mean, they were running Euro 3 MANs. And to drive to Italy, when we were going to Monza,

they were going via Monaco and I was like, you know, they might, but they weren't, they didn't

occur because the trucks only left the yard 16 times a year. So for them to go and invest

70 grand in a new Scania, they can buy a second quicker on a lap, which makes sense for them.

You know, I'm sure anyone can work that out. So I came in and I was like, look, you know,

this is, this is, we can do this better. And there was like, well, what's your experience?

And I'm like, look, why don't we do this? Why do we do this? And I threw loads of options at them.

And there was like, look, come on, bud, let's, let's take you on full time. We'll give you a

year contract. Good salary. I can't lie. The salary were brilliant. And for what I was doing,

it was like, this is, this is amazing. And I genuinely, for the first time in my life,

can honestly say I fell in love with a job that I lost.

Yeah. And I could tell as well, because your every day you were uploading the picture of the

laptop, you're on a new course, you were, yeah, you could tell there was a passion for it.

They invested a lot in me. Yeah, they did. And once again, just immature mistakes,

failed to see that. Yeah. You know, if I look, I would give everything up now to go back.

100%. Even now. Yeah. YouTube ticked off a lot.

Sorry, but you can't tell about that in my brain. No, no.

I thought when that light changed, I thought it did it.

Shining on. It's like Brown must have been having a soul, David.

What would you do?

No, but yeah, one social media customer in the post.

The opportunities you had whilst you were there, obviously we were talking about them,

meeting that Brown, Fernando Alonzo. Yeah, I mean, imagine, you know,

I was saying in the car, like, I never forget pulled up at this three-star hotel in Spain,

right? We got me, that Brown, Alonzo sat at the table, Alonzo. And I'm like,

people would do anything to be in this position. And I'm a guy, I'm a counsellor state lab,

who's just blinded his way through life. And I'm sat there going, this is pretty cool,

isn't it? Do you know what I mean? And, but with that job, I never looked at the time.

I went in early and left late. I never, ever promised you on my children's life, I never

looked at the time. I never once sat there going, I can't wait to finish the job. I stayed. I was

cleaning floors. I was like, so the mechanics had all go home. I'd sort the transport yard out,

and then I'd spot the floor and the mechanics had left a bit of dirt. So I'd be like, right,

I'd get the brush out. And I literally, my hands and knees clean and oil stains on.

That's a sign, isn't it? Just because I came in the next morning and felt appreciated.

And I did. And like you said, the financial side, I couldn't let one go. I think with having nothing

at one point in life, when you're earning, how do you stop earning? You know, going online and

being a clown, which I was, I was being, well, I weren't being an idiot to be honest with you.

Let's, let's refer to that. I was being me. I was being open minded. The problem is,

when you're working for a blue chip company like McLaren, you can't be open minded. You've got to

be by the book. And unfortunately, speaking my opinion, cost me my job, which is quite a common

thing now in this day and age. You can't, you can't say, you know, what, what, what was it that you,

that you did? So I had a phone call midweek off school, kids gone into school, high school,

me, eldest, just to let you know, Mr. Crossley, we're going to, we're going to be putting Emily

on this. They had a certain word for it. Basically, she could do whatever she wants. We suspect in

her of having ADHD and autism. I said, okay. I said, why? In maths, she cannot concentrate. She

just does whatever she wants. She can't focus. She walks out the class. She's a burden in the class.

I said, okay. I said, that's fine. You know, people have, people have these illnesses. I said,

but why just in, in maths? I said, she loves English. She loves history. She loves science.

She's not a problem in any of them lessons. You can't have selective disabilities. You

either got ADHD or you haven't, you've even got autism or you haven't. I said, I said, we can't

just go around misdiagnosing kids. I said, why don't we just try and invest into her? No, no,

blah, blah, blah, blah. We can't do that. We, you know, we've got to academically assess her,

blah, blah, blah, blah. So me and her mum are separate and her mum is, is a fantastic mum.

She doesn't work. She claims benefits. And parents who, I'm trying to not word it like I did,

but basically I went online and said, there are many people this day and age that are labelling

children for financial gain. That's all I said basically. I used other words because I was angry.

You know, I went into the school the next day and I said, you know, you've labelled my kid

with all these illnesses. I said, you're on about taking her to the doctor. I said, but she's only

in one lesson. I said, why don't we just put more time and effort into her? So she came around to

mine and this is no word of a lie. I bought one of them supermarket, you know, when they, when

you go to a supermarket and they've got the price on them stickers and I labelled my entire house.

I swore to God, everything from water, pop, chocolate, apples, you name it, it had a sticker

on it, right? All at a cost. And I went and bought some monopoly money off eBay. And I came home

and I said, right, we're going to play a game now. Dad's house is a shop. Okay. You can earn money

and everything will cost you. So water was a pound. A can of coke were four pounds. You know,

we did it smart and apple were a pound. Chocolate by five pound. Her TV in a room. I was proper

harsh. A TV in a room for an hour was a five. She had to earn her money. So not only was it

increasing her life skills, knowing that a, you have to learn something. B, she was working with

money. Um, like, I was like, well, I've only got 20 quid. What's your change? And she was like

being a banker and a maths came on. Lord. Yeah. We sat down, we did all the home with her top and

we sat down and I, you know what? I became a good dad. I invested my time into me kid when I should

have done. Where'd you get that idea from? I don't know. That's a really great idea. I just thought

it was brilliant. And you know, the good thing is it was a game that she enjoyed playing as well.

Because you know, we was playing the banker, you know, we was playing the well, I'm much

shocked. It was a better mixture. Just, just on that though, then circle back to the school.

That's their inability is to, is to find, oh, oh, I've got a spark. You know, it's,

and that's what should be taught in schools to be honest with you, because we're not taught.

When we leave school, we have no value of money at all. It's what does that cost? Well,

you mean what do you mean 300 quid a month for, for electric? No one learns life skills.

I mean, she's learning algebra. Yeah. You know, let's, let's teach them about

fucking credit scores. Yeah. Because I tell you one thing, algebra ain't gonna fucking help you,

but having a zero rate credit score is, and anyway, I've gone online one night,

got mental, just basically said, I'm sick of this, the way we have to label everyone. I said,

what happens in 10 years time if she wants to be a nurse? I said, she can't because we've,

all of a sudden diagnosed with instead, you know, and I didn't mean that these conditions

don't exist. No. But what I'm saying is, let's, let's invest in the kids. Let's make sure before

we start handing money out, okay, your mom can have an extra 200 quid a month in benefits,

but you've fucked for life. Yeah. And people are so thick and narrow minded about it. Yeah.

And I've gone online and I've just, I've just said it all. I've said, I'm sick of these schools

because the schools get extra benefit, extra support and less. So the teachers out on the

because all the kids are, oh, it's not, it's not the teachers that can't be asked with this kid

because this kid's got, oh, no, no, she hasn't, you know, people do. You know, the worst thing is,

as well, my brother were disabled and my son, Auckland, you know, he's got ADHD, genuine.

He cannot concentrate. Can't even write his own name. You know what I mean? He genuinely is suffering

and somebody had watched this online program of me going on a bit of a mad one and it was just

genuinely a hit. It was just genuinely like DC European, like everything I do in life,

somebody has gone and emailed McLaren the day after and it weren't United Autosports,

it were McLaren email. This is where the problem was United Autosports could have probably dealt

with it in house. So this person knew what they were doing. They've gone and emailed Zach Brown

marketing. They've listed a list of emails and they've basically said, this guy is mocking

disabilities. So I've come into work the next day, smiling, loving my job, sat down at the

computer, checking everyone's, all right, do you want a brew? Do you want, you know,

sat down at my desk and HR come down and I could just tell on a face something was wrong

because HR loves me. I am the, I'm just a company guy. I'm there working all these hours making

the company better. And she said, can I have your laptop? And I knew, I knew something had happened

because I knew I had so much important data on the computer. They needed it off me.

I said, yes, we're going to have a teams meeting in next 10 minutes. Can you,

can you be available? So I know I've gone in and she said, look, I don't want to do this,

but I've got to. And I said, what? She said, I'm going to have to sack you for mocking disabilities.

So in a way, I could have probably gone, well, I've, nothing was McLaren on the post. Maybe I

could have argued it, but the thing is in life is if somebody wants you out of a business,

they'll find a way. I was there a year and four months. I would have had no employment rights

whatsoever. It's two years. And to be fair, I don't want to be part of something that I love

so much if they don't want me. And I think they did. I think McLaren just threw a panic mode of,

because this, this put this email, they showed me the message. There was this person was like,

we're going to go to mainstream media if you don't say, and it was just completely bullshit.

That crazy. All because, because I worded it wrong, you know, maybe I could have worded it

better. I was angry at the time. But like, you know, for me, who's going to pay me kids'

mortgage in 10 years time? Because we, what, what are we giving these kids a pass to walk out of life?

What are we teaching them? You can't go to work. And at quarter past eight, go, I fuck this, I'm

off home. Don't work like that. You've got to earn. And this is where when the shop came in,

it was good because at one point Emily would be like, well, I want to watch me tell her something.

You got three quid. You can't. That's it. And I would genuinely sit there at six o'clock at

nine. It's like, I'm bored of something. Invest your money better. Don't go and eat seven mile

bars. And she kind of realized that I'm gone. Yeah. Life is about coming up. You know, no

one's handing it out to you. You've got to go and get it yourself. And it was so good, man. And we

still do it till this day. So we still have the money system. That's good. That's good. That's

good. She gets sneaky on it. I can't lie. I'm a bit of a bad dad with the little one because I

love her too much. She robbed the bank card. She's terrible. She knows how to get out of you.

She's spun a little different. It's weird because, oh God, I don't even have permission to tell this,

but I felt like I failed with my first kid. I think we touched up on this. Like I was never

there. I put work first. Now, because of my position in life, I don't have to go and chase

money all the time. Don't get me wrong. I'm not minted, but I can use other sources now with

money. I don't have to go and drive to Italy for seven weeks or stay asleep in a truck all the time.

And I've grown this little family life at home and I've got my kid and I put my kid to bed and

I've got a wife. I'm married and I've got a beautiful wife that cleans the house. And I'm

like, this is good. Why have I been sleeping in a truck for so long? I'm there driving, sleeping,

sweating, not showering. And I've got a beautiful wife. And I can understand why there's so many

divorce truckers now. And with getting DC back on the road, I'm sat there and I'm going,

do I really want to go back on the road for that long? But being realistic with the social media

is my main source of income and it won't always be. And DC is just part of that journey.

You love it, obviously. It's clearly evident when we talk or when you see on your social

media, it is nothing but a nightmare for very short little positives or little highs for you.

You go into the Mont Blanc. You love it. I do. I love that.

It's like now I am planning on doing UK trucking because I need to find the money.

Although we've got other sources of income, I don't want to do that anymore. I don't want

A to pay for B, B to pay for CC. I want A to pay for A, B to pay for B and CC. That's how it works.

So I'm concentrating on making it a profitable company more than just a joke,

you know what I mean? Just a social media guy. Anyway, so we're on the UK work, but I sit there

and I think, how am I going to drive? Driving here, down the M6, I was like, I hear this more.

I took the toll road just to avoid going around Birmingham. I was like, I'm going to pay the

seven quid. But I was like, yeah, no, I'm not looking forward to UK trucking.

The roads are boring. Obviously, three or four days a week, all I ever do is A1,

M1 or M11 and A14 down to London, just and it gets so boring.

So the plan is with DC now is UK work, definitely till January, start getting some money in and

then open me options up, but not going to find the work. I want the work to find me. If somebody

won, I mean, people take me for an idiot. People think because I make jokes online or

because I'm a Northern character, I'm bubbling and I say how it is. People think this guy's an

idiot, but people underestimate me massively. I put a vlog on recently where I'm speaking

fluent French and someone's like, no way. You're not a Northern idiot. And I'm like, no,

I passed me Transport Manager's qualification. Not many people can do that. When I put my mind

to it, but the thing is with me, I don't take life serious. I don't live for everyone else. I live

for me. And if I want to call somebody an idiot because they're an idiot, then I will do. But

fortunately, no, I've won agrees with that. You were born in the wrong time.

But do you know what? I think some people in life need to be told what they are.

Because I think a lot of people are too quick to let you mislead. If you've been a tit,

just like me, when I'm doing wrong, I like it when people say, listen, you shouldn't do that.

A nice one. Because I know not to do it again. But if we mislead people all the time,

everyone's just going to turn out to be a dick. Do you know what? You should have worked for

Elon Musk. He'd have loved you. Sweats is my favorite part. But you know, as well, I remember

when you were there, because you were in the gym all the time and the spa weren't you with your

mate after you'd finished. So it was obviously you were riding a high. Yeah, a United. Yeah.

Yeah. Honestly, it genuinely makes me want to cry. Yeah, but we won't. No, no, no. Listen,

I like talking about it because the boys, the team, everyone was like, he's like a family.

Yeah, it's a family company. Genuinely. Like they give me a credit. I'll never forget. Obviously.

So what happened is I went in as assistant transport manager. I was fixing stuff and whatnot.

And the transport manager was a 60 year old bloke who was just in an office. The trucks went out

16 times a year. Because people think it's an unlimited pot of money. Listen, they're very

wealthy people, but they don't care about the truck. They will pawn them. They'll

limit the amount of money into the truck so they can go and make that cargo one second faster.

So they just had like Scania coming in doing all the repairs. And I'm like, lads, we like that.

They were charging 250 quid for a jump start. And I'm like, why don't we just buy a jump start

pack? Okay, but what they saw is, well, a jump, let's say a grand, I'm like, why do we spend

the grand? I'm like, yeah, but you pay 250 quid every six months. Do you know what you should have

done? You should have rang us with a sort of the gel test out there as well. Well, there we go.

We should have done. I'm sorry, it's a wonderful thing. Yeah. Yeah. Or we should have switched.

If you're watching this. Yes. Yes. Put us in. Put us in touch. Yeah. But yeah, no, we just,

I brought the logistical side into it. Yeah. And, you know, their drivers,

their drivers, their drivers hated me because I was in and I'm like, lads, we can get to spending

three days and I'm like, oh, wait, motorsport truckers, motorsport. And I have to admit, I've

gone from here. My trucking standards are very poor now. I have to be honest with you. I'm a

man of leisure. Like anything past 50 is like, when I'm looking at the clock, I'm on 13 hours

shift. I'm like, what's going on here? Yeah. I'm going to sleep in a cab.

But nice. Yeah. It's a sad time. And yeah, the best time I lost weight. Yeah. I was happy.

Yeah. I just enjoyed life. Good for you, mate. Good for you. Almost an upwards and it's somewhere

where you maybe couldn't be yourself. So doing what you do now, you can do what you want. The way

I think about it is if social media works out, which is at the moment, it will be, I think

it will make me not regret my mistake. At the moment, it's still not feasible. Like he's like,

you should have probably said that. But the growth is the more I come away from the TikTok side,

which we were talking about, I'm trying to come away from being the performing monkey online

to who I am personally. But you know, I think this goes to me as a kid, like, you know, if

being a performing monkey online makes money, let's do it. Let's go online and pretend we're

idiots. I mean, at one point I was sat online, man, I was waxing my beard off and I thought,

what am I doing? I am a 30, like I'm a 30 year old bloke sat online being a tit,

but attracting the wrong type of media because it made money and nobody understands. I weren't

doing it to be a dick. I was doing it for my kids. You know, I only do anything to make money. If it

don't make money, don't make sense. And I've said that since that's my quote in life. And you know,

I was coming offline doing it. I was going on TikTok doing 800 quid a night. And they're all

calling me idiots online. I'm thinking, who's the fucking idiot? But in the long term, I applied

for a TV show and I got really far in this TV show, like dead to the end. And I think once they did

the background checks of some of the things I've said, like, you know, the disability round, you

know, it's been miss intrigued. Yeah, we're not going to put this down. So he's an idiot. No,

no one wants to work women. What a shame. Is that the one we were talking about? We were sort of

expecting you to go on one. Was that the one? Yeah. Yeah. So I did the I did a trucking program.

Yes. Yeah. Brilliant. Yeah. Brilliant, man. The three week of filming. And then then they didn't

release it in the UK. So it's been released in like Poland, Germany, Holland, everywhere, but

but the UK. And I can't watch it because everything's on a download platform and you have to use a

forum bank card. Yeah, VPN. Yeah. No, it won't work. Really still. Oh, you can't pay with

no, you have to be like a forum bank card to pay for the subscription. Right. So yeah, it's just a

bit of a moment. There's a there's a full TV. I mean, I've watched it in Polish clips on TikTok,

but I don't speak Polish. And they put a voice over my voice. Oh, brilliant. Great. What was that

like? So you can hear English, but you can hear some random guys. There's nothing like me.

But then I went and did this other program and like I said, I think

because of because of how I acted, it cost me a no social media creating like

with social media, it's all about networking. I mean, I, you know, there's some big names out

there and who you know, I went to an event the other week and all these big creators are coming

up to me and I'm thinking, I'd love to work with all of you, but they won't go near me because

of the past. Yeah. So, but, you know, you learn people forget all that, though. Give it some

time. Yeah. I need someone to kick off. And you are constantly like recreating an image of

yourself with what you're doing now. Now your car pill can turn an idiot abroad now. Have you seen

my India friend? Yes. Oh my God. I was absolutely creasing of the cow under there. He just like,

I mean, look at all this. And then there's just a cow under there. It's not normal. When the

cow on the motorway, he's normal. I mean, oh man, please don't. I lost me. Taxi drivers backing

up on a motorway. He's reverse. We've missed the junction to go to Burger King. So he's just in

reverse. Like pitch black at night. This car barely had like, you know what worries me the most?

It was gas converting and the gas tank in the boat. Oh my God. Right. And this guy was like,

no problem. I said, go down. He said, no, no, he's fast. I don't know. I'll give you the extra

three quid. And he's like, no, no, it's okay. Reverse me. I've got trucks coming. I'm thinking,

but trust me, I've like, mate, like, it's a different life out there. Yeah. Yeah.

Trucks have no lights on. Just just just just plowing through it. I'm thinking,

it was sad to see this, but there were a guy just deceased on the road. They put a branch over him

there. Like, hang on. Let's blow them all away. Crank scene investigation. Nah, just a leaf and

sound. I'm not going to proclaim to know much about India, but the money,

the perception of India is you, you think this huge country, they should be able to sort this

sort of stuff out. Do you know what, mate? I think a lot of people said you went to the wrong place.

I went to New Delhi. Yeah. The people, the Indian people are the most friendly. I've never met

so many. Like we was GoPro in, right? So you think a random stage of coming up to you with a

GoPro and you think, I think these guys are like, do you want my food? And they were mint. The people

the, the, the, the experience in total, but just the, the, the carnage was not, my OCD went through

the roof, man. Like if I heard one more horn, I went like, I said to the guy at one point, I'm in

the taxi, right? And I'm sat in this taxi. So I'm trapped behind the drive. Yeah. And it, me, me,

me, this is 70 mile an hour in the morning. I'm like, I said to him, I said, why aren't you beeping?

And he went, I need to tell everyone. I mean, I went, but, but the problem is if 50,000 people

are beeping that said, how do we know who's fucking who? I'm in this cabinet. I'm like,

I looked at me pile and I said, I need to go because I just couldn't deal. Yeah. And I think I'm

slight. I must have something wrong with me because genuinely I felt so, I want, you know,

people say that, oh, I get anxiety to do so. I've never had that. So I can't talk about that,

but genuinely I felt not comfortable in India, not because of the people or the food. That was

just the, the carnage of unorganized chaos was just mental there.

I got that. That's the transport manager.

I am expected to see a video of you with a, with a high vison.

Two little lollipops. You couldn't do it. The police was in the middle of their own, man. And

that people just dodging cows. And this is the motto. I think, you know, Scooby-Doo,

have you ever watched Scooby-Doo where he goes like, they're running and they got,

got lettuce, building house, lettuce, building house, lettuce. That is India. Yeah. Cow,

guy on the side of the road, fucking. Taxi reversing. Taxi reversing. It was just all the

same. No matter what that meant. I just was like, this is, this is mad. This is mad. But like,

it was mad because in a way I said, people said to me, you was a bit harsh because they're poor.

And I'm like, listen, it costs nothing to wean a toilet. Yeah. And these people

were just getting out of the road. I'm like, just genuinely stop and count 62 and just

shit in the middle of the road. I'm like, this isn't normal. I never was like, you're being harsh.

And I'm like, I'm not. I'm mad. Do you know what I mean? Like, but I think, yeah, it was a British

colony as well. I learned a lot about India. I'd like to go back, but I think I'd do the

mountains. I think New Delhi was very challenging. I think if anyone's considering going to India,

definitely don't go to New Delhi first. Like, I think if you'd been in India for a while and

then went to New Delhi, you could probably think this is all right. But a car journey that took,

I mean, you think the M25 is bad. This is like seven, like there's four lanes on a motorway.

Genuinely, there were about nine lanes like, and they crash into each other. So like,

like genuinely, you're in traffic and kind of, yeah, no problem. And I'm like, in England,

I'm like, whoa, wait a minute. Get me on a stretch in India, man. Just all lumping into each other.

Another world. Because you went to Thailand before that. Yeah. And there are again.

That had me in stitches. I meant to Thailand three times in the GM because I just love it.

It's not only the videos. It's the Instagram videos and stuff. It's just a show. Honestly.

When you went in that room, because there was the old boy or meh. So I, oh my God, tell us this.

Live at the time, two in the morning, I'm learning about not drink this night.

I'm sat there chilling. I couldn't be bothered. And I could hear some woman going, help, help,

help. I'm thinking someone's getting, yeah. I'm like, I can't let, as a human, I can't let this

happen. I didn't know what I was walking into, right? So anyway, no top on. You can imagine,

I'm not the prettiest guy, right? No top on box. I've come bouncing. I'm like, open the fucking door.

Well, but no, but there's like, my granddad was sat there like an old man. And I'm like,

yeah. And then there was this lady, but obviously the lady was a quite common thing out there.

So like, whoa, when I walked into it, like both of them are both naked. And I'm like, whoa,

like, I've never seen an old man's dick. But there's one right in front of me. Like, what's

going on here? And I was like, what's going on? And basically he said that he's a common thing

out there. If you pick up the street lady bouncing that, what they do when you're in the shower,

they tend to run me around the room. He's caught her, tried to kick her out. Obviously,

she's like 23 in a prime. You know what I mean? She's like Mike Tyson. So she's just gone bonkers,

mate. So I'm there screaming. Obviously, I'm alive. And I'm like, I don't know what to do here.

And I thought, I didn't want to end the life because there's so many cases where, especially

in Thailand, I think law claims, I didn't want this woman to have done anything to us. I'm like,

I'm staying online. And I thought, I need to make this funny. So she's there screaming.

I'm like, whoa, I said, I know karate. And she didn't react. Like she was trying to hit this

old man. And this old man really, he did me in anyway, because he's like, the woman's like,

she wants 5,000 bar, which is 100 quid. And I was like, mate, this woman is smashing your room up.

You're in Thailand. The law's out here. You could be looking at hefty jail sentence for summer.

Like I just paid the 100 quid. And he's like, I'm not paying her. And I'm like,

mate, in the end, I ended up having to pay this lady boy for her to leave. And then this old

man giving me back out. He didn't want to open the safe in front of it because then obviously,

she might have had some more money, which I get that. And I was like, oh, mate, but this woman

was fucking battering him. And I mean, like, full on punch him in the head. I'm like, oh,

but it was funny because at one point I said, obviously me being me, I can't take anything

serious. She's like, he not pay me. But she said, I fuck him and he not pay me. I'm like, oh,

I said, you fucked him and he's got to pay you. I said, how does that work? This old boy was like,

because I had the old boy and he was a, he was a Welsh man. You know what the while I was like,

oh, yeah, happy. And he was like, yeah, she fucked me. And I'm like, I won't count. And then the

worst thing is, and you didn't say, okay, the one went, yes, look, she got the two condoms. I was

like, oh, this is gone too far. But she walked out and said, do I get anything for this guy?

Like, I paid you. Do I get a little discount? She walked out. I thought, God,

the magic. Yeah, yeah, it looks mega. Yeah, you're going to go back. Yeah. That's my destination.

Where's the next? Can you reveal where the next obviously got Africa? Okay. Yeah, go on. So I'm

going truckers who were wondering about my knowledge. I am driving from Zimbabwe to Namibia

through Botswana, which is, I don't know if anyone's in the top years. Oh, yes. It's like the

triangle of death. And I'm taking a truck across there. So there's a, I went to Malaysia doing

some truck at one of my mates, Jack Brinley, he exports trucks. And we went to see his customers

in Malaysia. And like these old one, I mean, out there, they're running 143s. They've got like,

oh yeah, old truck, but they're running in the prime. And I'm like, as a trucker lover,

I'm like, look, that's 143. Yeah, there's old Volvos. And I loved it. I did. And that's the place

that were, they strip them to send them and they rebuild them and give them a second life. So Jack

does all this. So what Jack does is he buys like an XTHL truck. Yeah. But an XTHL truck is probably

worth about 10 grand a year. It's probably worth a lot more over in like Africa or Malaysia,

but you have to have all these licenses, contacts. It's a lot harder than it looks.

It might seem easy to buy a truck and send it, but I've been with him and it's not.

But he exports trucks. And he said, look, we're in Thailand. Let's nip over to Malaysia,

see some of my customers. And I was like, yeah, that's that NFL in love. It was great, great

vlog, great experience. We did really well, put it on YouTube, did great on views.

And Jack was like, well, I export a lot to Africa. Do you fancy doing it? So he's arranged in

March next year, because he takes like eight to 10 weeks for the trucks to get from the UK there.

So they are getting the truck tonight, February, then they've got to rebuild them.

And we're going over picking. So we're going to film the dismantling of a DHL truck in the UK.

Oh wow. Putting it in like a container in Jack's yard. And then from there, we're going to be

shipping that to Africa. And then we're going to fly out, meet it in Africa and drive the DHL

truck from Africa to maybe, but like five days drive under military convoy. It's going to be

epic. You're on to something here. Yeah, I think nobody's done that. No, I mean, nobody's done

that. Like everyone, like these trucking vlogs, I mean, I know people enjoy watching them, but

there's other people doing, yes, nobody's driven across Africa in the truck.

That's fantastic. So I mean, I just hope I make it back in line.

So because over there, they like, don't mess around. Like they are very, you know,

they just take, I mean, have you ever seen Captain Phillips? Yes. Yeah. Cause like that,

they just, they just, is it really? Yeah. That's what the guy said. He's like, he's very,

he said, but don't worry, you're okay with me.

Come on. Sound.

Yeah, making great vlog when I'm like, die.

We chopped the last guy's hand off, but you'll be fine.

Yeah, no problem. Whatever gets the views, you know.

Yeah, it gets the views. I want it out this month, 20, 21 million views this month.

Wow. Good for you.

And do you know what I think to myself? You've just clicked that free button.

Yeah. I'd be a millionaire now.

Yeah.

Put it on so I have to go back to work.

Yeah.

Yeah. It is crazy.

Everyone just subscribe.

Just click that free button.

But it opens up opportunities. Like I used to be dead child to vlog.

Like when I was vlogging, so let's just say this is, this is the wall.

Like I'd be like, yeah, guys, you know, David and I'd hide behind.

But now I'm with the, the bigger it gets, the more confident you become.

Sure.

So like now when people are like, he's an idiot. I'm like, I don't care.

He's paying my bills like that. So I did, I'll be openly honest.

I did a shift for Luke pick up the other week, Grover's truck to Scotland.

Did I have a login?

So he paid me a 200 quid driving just a standard day rate thing

to drive a truck to Scotland and back sweet.

I put the video online, 1300 quid it did.

Wow.

And I'm like, one shift technically in theory did 1500 quid for that one shift.

Yeah.

So why shouldn't I have a login?

Yeah.

Do you know what I mean?

What people enjoy listening, I read a lot of my comments.

I probably interact with my fans probably a lot more than I showed.

Like I just do parties and invite them.

But I read a lot of my comments and most of them are like, you don't hide it.

Like if it's a shit there, I'll tell you.

I would never encourage anyone to get into trucking if you've got a family.

You know, I'm realistic with it.

I think a lot of people like watching that side of me.

Yeah.

Which is, no one's doing what you're doing or there's very few people.

But it's also brave, mate, as well.

Because you can look after yourself, you're a big lad as well.

But what you're doing as well is sometimes it's dangerous, isn't it?

Especially if you're doing it abroad.

100%.

Do you ever worry about that?

Because I worry for you sometimes when I watch you stuff.

Do you know what? I see the good in everyone.

I know.

Like I went to Belize, South Mexico.

My wife's dad is in the army out there.

Got a big army camp and he's like, you can come here.

Do some vlogging.

Like nobody's ever been on there before.

So I was like, yeah, cool, let's do it.

And I went to an island called San Pedro.

And so my, because my wife's dad's in the army,

he kind of knows what we can and can't do out there.

And he's like, you can't go to San Pedro.

I was like, why?

He said, because it's dangerous.

Like if the military go, they say no one would have allowed,

they take two personnel for the one person going.

So there's three of them are all times under secure.

Wow.

I got on a plane and went on my own.

I was like, yeah, let's do it.

I got on the wrong plane.

Yes, I saw this.

Do you know what I've never had to say?

Do you know when you see on home alone,

they get on the wrong plane?

That can never happen.

It happened.

I ended up on the right.

I checked in my flight and the plane went in the wrong direction.

I think the plane is an overstatement.

If you imagine a Cessna,

built out of aluminium and just tin wood.

Yeah, I mean, there were no like in slight demo.

There was a flying hot point.

It was like getting in your Porsche.

I was sat with the pilot.

You got your arms round him.

It was funny because I didn't believe some,

my wife's daddy said somebody got shot on the plane

like a couple of weeks before.

Yeah, you could just take guns on the plane.

Like there was no checks.

It was just like pulling up in a carpack and there was a plane.

Yeah, if I ended up in the wrong airport,

but I ended up in this San Pedro.

For once I actually felt scared because I ended up in this,

this really bad.

Like they built houses out of wood shacks.

Like they had nothing.

I walked into some guys house.

So I'm there like vlogging.

Some guys are like, what are you doing?

I'm not on my YouTube and I'm trying to make it.

I'm trying to make these vlogs.

Can I have a look in your house?

And I've walked in and I've never walked in someone before.

I'm going, I need to get out of here.

Oh really?

Like this is, I'm not in a good position here.

Like I looked at the room and I thought,

this looks like Jeffrey Dammer's apartment.

Like this is, this is scary.

And the guy was nice, mate.

It was like nice.

And I thought, they always are.

Yeah, exactly.

You know what I mean?

No one's going to go, I am a serial killer.

Do you still want to come back?

And yeah, I was a bit nervous that time,

but that's probably the only time.

Yeah, you thought, oh, I'm pushing it.

Because you went on, did you go on the beach as well?

Yes.

And that's where they, the drug run or something.

So it's a beach where drugs wash up.

So what happens is, for the cartels now,

from going from Mexico to America,

because they get caught when they dock.

They've stopped docking now.

They just, what they do is they put form

around these big parcels, a tracker on it, throw them out of the sea.

And they're quite smart to prefer to follow the tide

when someone's waiting at the side to pick it up.

And yeah, so two tourists got shot

because they went down to this beach

where all this cocaine washes up.

And I'm like, oh, my God, brother.

Hi, guys.

But they were all right with her,

but you can definitely tell it with a seedy put.

Like, if it makes money, it makes sense.

There we are, getting decapitated.

But wait, I was all right.

Yeah.

Yeah, it looked like an amazing trip.

Then the weather turned, I think.

Because, oh, didn't you had?

You're a weather.

I've never seen weather like it.

You're on the boat and it's like a storm.

It was like a storm.

Because I thought I'd make a good boat for myself.

When I said storm, it was like, because it was tropical rain.

So the reason, I don't know if I should talk about this,

but we're going to do it anyway.

Her dad's out there to train the military in the jungle.

So what they do is they do like a six-week jungle survival

to train the British military.

So what they own is like a massive bit of land.

And they just send the lads out on a path

and they've got to like trek and find the ways and do whatnot.

And so you can imagine the wild animals alone are dangerous.

Like just a wild animal.

I mean, there were snakes in the garden.

This is why I couldn't ever go to Australia.

I'd be worried to have a shit.

I see videos online because a snake coming out the top.

I never have a poop.

I just had a hover over it.

I just never, ever get down there.

And yeah, it was just, he said, a mad world.

Yeah.

I can't believe how much you have done since you were last out.

I know.

Honestly, it feels like just another life time, isn't it?

Family holidays.

Yeah.

It was been Switzerland as well in the caravan.

That looked wild.

And then I loved the video, by the way,

when you just went round your old town in France.

Love that.

It was great.

Because a lot of people were intrigued to how I speak French.

And I thought, do you know what?

It might be boring for some people to watch,

but some people might be genuinely interested.

And I went round my old path on the Switzerland tour.

So that was good.

Switzerland's incredible.

Yeah.

Just you have to remodule your house

if you want to buy a bottle of water.

Yeah.

There was one particular clip I remember watching.

Was there an incident on one of the passes

with somebody's keys?

Yes.

What's this?

So we're coming up the Mont Blanc.

Yeah.

And I took the Bat Road out.

So there's like the main road,

a single lane all the way up the mountain.

And I took the Bat Road to a more scenic view.

I've come out onto this main road

and I've got the car in the lane.

So the car's let me out.

So we're doing like a filter lane.

Yes.

Nobody seems to understand how a filter lane works.

Generally still.

So I've come in with the tour.

I've got the biggest car around here.

I've got an eldest 868.

Massive, mate.

It's like seven meters long.

So I've got the car in.

And all of a sudden, mate,

I've not even checked my mirror.

There's a car there.

And this guy's gone to Rami.

And I've got the kids in the car.

Yeah.

Ah.

That's a deal.

My head's gone.

That's a line.

So I've swerved onto the actual lane.

Now you have to remember on the top of the Blanc here,

there's a mountain there.

We're not on the 62.

We're on a mountain.

Yes, there's a barrier.

But I'm in the car with my kids.

I'm like, what?

And we were in a queue of traffic.

Like, genuine, the traffic was so far ahead,

you couldn't see the, just stop, start, stop, start.

And I was like, what an idiot.

What an idiot.

But I never get angry when driving.

I'm dead good.

But this guy got to me.

And I don't know why.

And I thought, you swerved this car at my kids.

Yeah, that's probably what's done it then.

I'm going to teach you a lesson.

So I got out of the car,

fucking gone through the passenger side.

And I thought, I'm not an angry person.

No.

Fuck.

I'm going to teach you a lesson.

So I said, you are a fucking idiot.

Now, I don't care what language you were speaking,

anyone can understand that.

Idiot.

I know a ton of boys.

So he's like, at me.

So I just took his keys out of his ignition.

I'm like, ha, ha, ha.

But obviously, we're on the edge of a cliff here.

I'm like, I'm going to shit him off here.

So I've got the keys.

And I thought, what's this?

I've gone to throw.

And he's like, you can hear him in the car.

I go, no, no, no, no, no.

And then I just threw him back.

And I went, see, you've got no further out yet.

And I just walked back to the car.

And I went, ha, no, no.

But then what was funny, I didn't film this bit.

We've drove up to the top of the Mont Blanc.

Now, Mont Blanc is the customs point from Italy to France.

You go through a tunnel.

He's gone and told the police.

So at the payage booth, we sat there.

And they wouldn't open the barrier.

And I saw, like, loads of police there.

And he pulled in.

I said, he's having a word.

I missed it.

He's sat next to me.

We've got the kids in the back.

So anyway, these three police here have come over.

And they're like, can we come and talk to you in the office?

I said, yeah.

They said, what's happened?

I said, this guy's a fucking idiot.

I said, I'm not going to lie to you.

I said, he's caught me up in traffic,

swerved up my kids in the car.

I said, what did me the most?

I think what really got to me was,

Eva was asleep in a car seat.

She's only three.

And because I had to swerve, he moved the red round.

And she's woke up crying.

Panicking, yeah.

You know, she's three-year-old.

She's scared now.

Like, dad swerved the car.

And that really got to me.

So these guys are like, are you going to say sorry to him?

I said, he's a fucking idiot.

I said, why?

I said, I understand if there wasn't a queue of traffic

and he wanted to get past the caravan.

I'm a truck driver.

I get that.

Cars want to get past the big truck.

I get that.

I said, we was in traffic.

I said, he did that for no reason at all.

And in the end, it was just a case of shaking his hand

and getting off.

But I just laughed.

I thought, why didn't he go to the polling center?

I don't know.

Mesh.

But yeah, it was a moment of madness on the way back.

Consider if he did have it on film of him swerving.

I think it would have been a different story.

Well, I did.

The cars got a dashcam.

You couldn't see him, but you can definitely clearly see me

going out.

But they didn't ask to see it.

I didn't want to put it online because at the end of the day,

getting out of the car and kicking up.

Well, I didn't really kick off, but it's not a good example.

Funny the time.

He taught him a lesson.

He fully cacked himself.

He genuinely thought it.

But then in my brain, I thought, imagine if I wanted to throw him.

I wouldn't have been able to get past him.

I wouldn't have to go to a lot of room with him.

Sorry, mate.

I'm going out of my van, then.

So that was, yeah.

I'll be honest.

What's my first thought of, yeah, that would be a bit difficult.

It's just a bad decision.

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Jordan's a very patient, patient woman, isn't she?

She's a brilliant wife.

Was I married last time I came here?

No, just got married.

Oh, just after?

Yes, that was it.

Well, it can't have been.

No, no, no.

Sorry, that's what I'm saying.

You were married just after that.

Yeah, yeah.

So yeah, good wife.

I can't lie to you.

I don't know what she sees in me.

Like, genuinely, you know, I'm stupid.

I've done many things to make her want to leave.

I've got silent every three months.

But, you know, she's a great mother.

She's the rock of the family.

Does she find you funny?

No.

She is.

So when you're putting videos, you burst into a room in time,

does she ever ask you and go, prove it?

Like, does she?

Yeah, she shows me.

If you didn't film it, sometimes, if you came home and said 99%

of what you get up to, to anyone, they'd be like, no, no,

nobody ever believes anything I say.

Like, I have to show people proof of everything.

Because nobody, like, the story is incredible.

But nobody believes in it.

It's just a weekly occurrence for you.

It just happens to me.

Crazy.

Just happens to me.

But yeah, she just thinks I'm off me head.

I mean, I was trying to flirt with a girl in town the other day.

Don't know why.

I've just gone into a club there.

And I just think, do you know what it is?

I think I love winding it up.

I think I love seeing a movie signed.

And like, I am a very bubbly character.

I can talk to anyone.

Like, genuinely anyone.

And so I've just been, I mean, look at the state of me.

I'm not a fucking broad pit.

But when we go out in town, I'm always the one who attracts.

I don't know why.

You might be watching this going bullshit.

But I always end up with a girl just sat chilling with me.

And I'm like, fucking laddies.

So we went out with Jordan.

I went out on a big fucking, I don't know if you've thought,

know what Aaron Hunt is called.

He's a TikTok social media, like Angry Jinx and all that.

We've gone on and out with him.

I think this is why nobody wants to work with me.

And he said, we're having a few beers, David.

I was like, right, okay, I'm not a big drinker.

But when I drink, I can fucking drink.

So I have ended up getting right on it.

So I'm not ending these lads' beers.

And I could soon see why they have made it and I haven't.

Because like they were dead.

Well, I'm just necking pints.

I'm like, we're having a night out, lads.

We're having a night out.

And we've gone into this bar.

That's the northern area.

Yeah, it's fucking weird out.

And there's this group of girls on the table and Jordan sat there.

And she said, why don't you keep looking?

I go, I said, geez, gorgeous.

Jordan went, do you touch anything?

I guarantee I can get her number.

Jordan was like, shut up.

Yeah, yeah, I wouldn't watch this.

This is my wife, very much.

Who does this?

So they're like, just dancing away.

I got some old woman dancing around.

Anyway, I've walked up to this table.

And I said to this guy, I said, you've got beautiful lines.

You know, and I walked off and kind of intrigued her.

And anyway, next thing you know, come back then,

I've just put my phone down on the table to Jordan.

I've got a number saved as Blondie.

It was all fun and games till the day after

when I'd realized that three in the morning,

I've texted her and Jordan's going to mend.

Hi, man, what are you doing tonight?

Oh, no.

Jordan was like, you have to go that step too far, don't you?

I said, she might want to go and dance with us.

Yeah, she's out.

I don't know what she's doing with me.

She keeps preparing.

I must have something going for me.

What sort of made you start the Uber story?

Because about a year ago, you started doing the Uber.

So I applied for my Uber license.

Well, I applied for me not Uber.

I applied for my taxi license ages ago,

but it takes so long to get your tax license.

So this was even before social media.

I was just thinking of doing it because I tell you

when I applied for it, when I originally had the drivers

in the truck at DC and I was bored at home

and I thought, I can make more money going taxiing.

So I applied, it takes forever.

So in the meantime, DC's been short.

I've got my license.

I've not used it for a year, this taxi license.

And I thought, what a great idea to make a taxi vlog

of how much money can you make in 24 hours like.

And so I'd be coming.

But I fell in love with it because it was like this.

You talk to strangers every two minutes.

You went mad stories and like pissed up northern people

are just the best people in the world.

And I'm like, I'm there just chatting to people.

I had an old woman in the car and we were singing and dancing.

And I got sacked from there.

Yeah. So what happened there then?

Put the log up on the internet.

Same process again, social media haters.

And I got this lovely old woman.

She's dancing, singing.

And she was like, this has been like just a perfect ending

to a night.

She's like, I've had good conversation, blah, blah, blah.

And I've got my aunt thankfully out.

It was in the vlog.

So nobody would have sent it anyway.

She didn't report me.

But what happened is on the vlog,

I've got my aunt's on the steering wheel

and this woman's gone, thank you for that.

Yeah. So she's in the passenger seat.

She's gone, thank you for that.

I've gone, thank you.

She's got out the car, uploaded the vlog.

Within three days, Uber banned account.

Inappropriate sexual contact with the customer.

So as a blog, being accused of something like that.

Oh yeah.

He's, he's, he's, he's serious.

I know a friend of mine who's recently been accused of something.

And he's a horrible feeling.

And I'm sad they're going, what do you mean?

Like what?

And he says that when Uber email, he's like,

we're going to contact the police, blah, blah, blah.

And I'm thinking, what have I done?

Like, I know me.

I know, I know I'm a very respectful guy.

I know, I act, I'm a good reader of, of how to act round people.

And I'm like, I know I haven't done anything wrong.

And it left me in limbo for like two days.

And I was genuinely like, shit, what, what if I don't,

panicking, you know, what, you know, what's going to happen.

And in the end, they sent me the clip

and it was me shaking the woman's hand

that somebody online had seen it and just reported me.

So that's it.

What, no one at Uber?

You can't have physical contact with the passenger.

So because I shook her hand, it was called inappropriate contact.

So somebody, a third party has reported it.

They've investigated it at Uber,

but he took them two days to investigate it.

And then the unbanned my accountant was like,

yeah, yeah, you can work for us again.

But I just thought, why would somebody want to?

And when we were talking about this in the car,

just anything I do, yeah, just, I don't know why.

I don't know why.

You know, I mean, on the way here,

one of my friends has rang me

and he's in 20 grand of debt with his house problems,

wife problems, kids problems.

And I said, the first thing I said to him is,

get ready, get out of that rental house

that's costing you two grand a month.

I've got a brand new 40 grand caravan there.

I'll put it on a land for you.

You can live there rent free.

I am a people's person.

I do nights out with, what other content creator

invites 400 random strangers to an hour?

I love everyone.

I wouldn't want to see anyone fail.

But for someone, it might be just one person.

Someone, no matter what I do, reports me, emails, companies.

Luke's had it.

I've done a day shift for Luke and he's had emails.

He's been aggressive in the truck

or he's cut me off, blah, blah, blah.

But Luke just laughs

because Luke's got cameras all around the truck.

And he knows me and he just thinks,

why are these people there?

And he says to me, he says, I feel bad for you.

He said, because you're such a genuine guy

who has the worst look in the world.

He's like, you're just always on the back foot.

Do you think it's a jealousy thing?

Yeah, I think someone's just some sad person

has got nothing better to do with time.

And you know what?

For me, they've got too much time on their hands

to watch my stuff and report me.

Exactly.

Just go and improve your life.

Yeah.

So I mean, go make your life better.

I think something's missing from these people's lives

to go, I'm not going to do it today.

I'm going to go and watch someone's video

and I'm going to report him.

People think I'm living a high life.

They don't see the hours I put in.

Like genuinely, I get up in the morning,

I do a vlogging there, dad, social media, TikTok, Discord.

People who are employed have to keep one person happy, the boss.

I have to keep 70,000 people happy a day.

Yeah.

How do you do that?

You put it like that.

That's what you've got to do.

You've got to keep every individual person.

Because that money, it's a business.

They are my customers.

People who are in my Discord pay five pound a month

to be involved, to be part of the backs behind the scenes.

I've got to talk to them every day.

At the moment, we've got 2,000 people just alone in that group.

Then you've got your social media.

If you don't put content out, they're going to go.

You've got no money.

You're self-employed.

Everything's self-funded.

There's nobody paying my wage.

There's nobody going,

go and drive that truck for 12 hours at my cost and they'll pay you.

This is all self-funded.

And I think people don't realize the amount of work that goes in.

I would do anything, like you said, with the United Auto Sports.

At this moment in time, with the amount of work I put in,

with what I get back out of it,

I would do anything to go back to the United Auto Sports.

And I think it's just jealousy.

People have a misperception of what they see online.

People see one side of it and just think,

this guy's got a nice car.

They don't realize the amount of time that goes in.

And it's jealousy.

And I think somebody just has a be in the bonnet.

Yeah.

Makes a lot of sense why all these content creators are,

they are all sort of individuals.

Nobody's actually working for somebody.

No.

None of them.

Can't.

They can't.

I mean, I did all these nights.

We had a great night the other night.

I had a nightclub.

Just sold a ticket, seven quid on the door,

because you had to be ticket-best in case 10,000 people turned up.

400 random people turned up.

I'm wondering, I just, I do everything I can.

Let me discuss this week.

I just give 100 quid away this week.

I try and do as much as I can for everyone.

I'm not a multimillionaire.

I can't just keep dashing money out.

But I try, listen, if I succeed because of you,

I want you lot to come on that journey with me.

But just is what it is.

Because, I mean, surely though, doing the overwork,

you were putting some compromising positions as well,

which again, people wouldn't have seen.

I saw one story one morning.

I mean, I don't know the details, but I would assume,

someone either attacked you or...

Someone attacked me.

Yeah.

So, we were on the way home.

And unfortunately, because I come from a not-privileged area,

I can tell when somebody's on drugs.

And I just, because I'm so greedy with money,

I just couldn't stop accepting jobs.

Like, I couldn't turn down a job.

So anyway, it goes like two in the morning.

And I was tired.

I was ready for home.

I was like, and this job came to me.

I was like, right, I'll take it.

Last job, one last job.

And I was in the taxi, and this woman was rattling.

And I went, rattling is like when you're coming down off somewhere.

And she was, so she's like,

can you drive me to this cash machine?

So I drove into the cash machine,

and the cash machine weren't working.

And she's like, I'm sick of it.

But her phone kept ringing.

And she's like, I'll be there in a minute.

I'll be there in a minute.

And with a knowledge of how the system works,

she's trying to find a hookup.

I'm taking her to a cash machine,

so she can buy drugs.

I knew this.

So anyway, took us like three different cash machines.

Then it all wasn't working.

And she was like, getting really angry with me.

Like, I just want to go to a car.

And I'm like, well, you tell me which one you want to go to.

And I was like, I'm just trying to help you.

I mean, in part of me, I thought,

do I give her the money myself at this point

because she was getting very stressed out and angry.

Anyway, thankfully we found a place,

took her to this guy's property.

And yeah, she went and bought some stuff and got in the car.

And I said, no, this is my personal car.

My kid's getting here in the morning.

You know, I get your needs, not in my car.

I said, I'm going to end the ride now,

and you can get out and walk.

And she just left.

She pulled out this needle and just took it straight.

And I held it to make sure, you got a fucking drive.

And I'm like, whoa.

And I promise you, I have never,

I've been to all over the world.

I've never been scared on the way I was in police that time.

But genuinely, I felt it's cold.

I promise you, I've never had a cold

from head to bottom.

And I went, fuck, what am I going to do here?

If she pushes that in, or it was just somewhat sharp.

And I sat there and I just went, I'm sorry.

Whatever I said, I just kept apologizing.

I'm sorry, please, you know, whatever you want me to do.

I'll do it.

You want me to drive you through every red light I'll drive.

And I just didn't know what to do.

I was a fully grown man.

I was petrified.

And yeah, and in the end, she ended up getting out.

And I switched the phone off and I swore to myself,

I said, I'll never like that again.

I said, no, I'll just panic.

I ended up at Ring the Police.

I rang the police.

I was like, look, the thing for me is I was all right.

I mean, I checked my neck and I had nothing on my neck.

And I was kind of happy.

But I thought to myself, she's rattling that bad.

And someone's walking home from a night shift.

Oh yeah.

And she attacks them.

How can I live if I've seen what she's capable of?

And anyway, do you know what made me laugh?

The police never did out.

So they came on the night, took a statement off me.

They said, oh, we'll be back in touch with you within the hour

or we're going to go on a rest.

And then we'll get back in touch.

We had to press chat.

Never had anything.

So I don't know what she did.

Probably get under there in the night.

No.

Probably.

Yeah.

But in the same time, probably stupid for saying this,

I feel sorry for the addict.

It's not her fault.

I mean, she was talking in the car at first,

once she kind of settled down and quiet down.

She was like, I've got a daughter.

And because I have got the footage,

I've got a video of her with it in my neck.

And I never won.

Because people are like, oh, that made great content.

I thought, yeah, but her kids have to watch that.

So that's not a moment at the end of the day.

I'm guessing she's not always been this.

We, you know, they call, we've got nitties.

They call them not a nitty.

She's a woman who's addicted to drugs.

And I'm guessing she's not always been this person.

She's had once a life that's gone wrong.

And I thought, I'm not loading that content.

I make great content.

Oh yeah.

But great things.

But at the end of the day,

if that were my mum, I wouldn't want to see it, you know.

Everyone's got the demons.

Yeah, they have.

I've done loads of things wrong.

What if my story is to come out one day?

David.

I was on that.

I was watching a series on TV the other day

called Crash Scene Investigators.

Oh, yes.

Channel One The Evil.

Have you seen The One with the Evil?

No.

So there's this guy.

Well, Slad.

Goes past the copper.

A and P.R.

He's got no insurance.

Nine hundred break evil.

Takes off in it.

So you're gone.

Yeah.

But it's gone down to a lane closure.

He's gone in the road.

He's hit somebody.

Right.

He's hit a person on the floor.

This person.

He's got off.

Yeah.

So the copper's chasing him.

And you can see the copper aborts the thing

because this guy's obviously injured on the floor.

And they had no details on this evil, by the way.

They just knew it was a white mix of a evil.

They couldn't get the reg.

No cameras in the area.

All of a sudden they had a phone call

that this evil had been nicked 15 minutes later.

And anyway, the whole reason behind this story is

the guy got arrested.

Obviously they went and tricked a ring doorbell.

He left in the car 25 minutes ago.

Come back on foot with no car.

And then all of a sudden he's been nicked.

They sussed him out within seconds.

But in the interview, he's like they were trying to ask him

about his car and his manner of driving.

Is this a common thing?

He's like, no, no, I'm a dedicated driver.

And he was actually on a podcast for a performance car thing.

And he's like, oh, my car was standard and all this.

He wasn't modified.

Like his car's been all like, jammed shit.

I can't remember what the program was like.

Performance autos.

And he's like, it's 900 brake horsepower.

And then, but it's funny because the podcast

must have got shitloads of advertisement.

But they deleted everything.

Oh.

Every bit of that evil was not on that page again.

He didn't come on.

No, no, no.

I just thought, can't wait for you all to delete mine.

When do you go to Africa?

March.

Yeah, so not confirm yet because it has to be with the shipment

in my take a week.

It might be if I get hijacked by some alien pilot or something.

We might not even know him much.

It's scheduled for March.

Is there anywhere on the bucket list you want to go?

Thailand.

Thailand again.

Yeah.

It's so much of it, I guess, I see.

Is it just, it's just got some of it for everyone.

Yeah.

Like people said to me, oh, because Thailand's well known

for prostitution.

It's known for lads going over there.

I mean, you see some seedy stuff.

I've seen like 60-year-old men with very questionable young women.

But because Jordan's like, I'm not going to Thailand.

She's like, it's just for, I know it's not.

Like it is magical.

Like some of the places like down south, the Fifi Islands,

you know, James Bond, it is magical.

But at the same time, it is probably one of the craziest places

I've ever been.

Really?

It's a party.

Yeah.

Like I've come back before and I'm like, nobody believed me

in this and that.

Yeah, no, no.

Honestly.

You're doing the fiesta to fiesta, aren't you?

Yeah, my next big thing.

That's it.

My next opening.

I'm a bit weird, aren't I?

Yeah.

Like I don't know any other content creator

that invites everyone.

Yeah.

You're just that person where you can get on with anyone.

I'm like a random guy, I have a shower in my house.

This is not a shower on yours.

No word of a lie.

Me and John-Am was in Blackpool in the caravan.

And a lot of rang me on social media.

Obviously, my number's all over the internet.

People ring DC European, they got all of me.

It's like, David, have you got any parking in Rockstown?

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

I didn't know this guy from Adam Swartzgod.

I knew about him through friends, but I didn't know him.

Never met him.

And it was like, I'm parking in Rockstown

and there's nothing round here.

I'm really stuck.

Do you know anywhere?

I said, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I said, part where I know the park mine,

road by road, blah, blah, blah.

I said, don't come from mine.

I said, you got a Tesco one where Chinese there, blah, blah, blah, blah.

I said, do you need a shower?

And he must have thought, is the shower there?

I said, no, no, you can go mine.

And he's like, but I thought he went there.

I said, I'm not there.

I said, I know, because I have like a little bit of a key system.

I'm with him locked on wall in my garden.

And I said, look, let yourself in and go and get a shower.

And he must have thought, are you being serious?

I'm like, yeah, yeah, just go and get a shower.

I mean, why?

John-Am's looking and he's like, do you know him?

And I'm like, no.

I said, well, why is he going to ask for a shower?

And I'm like, because I think we're me,

because I've been in the middle of nowhere.

And sometimes after a bad day in a truck,

all you want is a shower.

You've been in that position.

And I was like, yeah, just go.

I said to John-Am, what's he going to knit?

We ain't got any money in the house.

We've got no jewelry.

I mean, you can't really walk off with a 15-inch telly.

Do you know what I mean?

There's nothing to knit.

You can have a showery one.

Yeah, well, anyway, you know,

you might have smelt your birds on nowhere,

but do you know what I mean?

He cracked your mind.

I probably said, I wasn't thinking.

God, honestly.

Anyway, bending off, sore.

Jesus Christ.

Another open invite.

Same as me, Night Outs.

So how's it work?

Is it, have you just basically sold tickets?

Or have you ever...

So the Night Out, or?

No, for, well, for the trip, really.

So I wanted to do, it all started from the cannonball.

Everyone knows the cannonball.

My mate went on it, and I've always wanted to go on it.

Super cars, luxury, fast beans, mint.

So anyway, someone got in contact with me

a couple of weeks back and said,

do you want to do the cannonball run with us?

I said, yeah, yeah, yeah.

He said, oh, it's seven and a half grand dipper.

And then you've got to pay for you.

I said, whoa.

I said, go back a minute.

He said, what did you say?

He went, seven and a half grand deposit.

I said, yeah, you can fuck right off, mate.

I said, seven and a half grand.

I said, I said, look, mate.

I said, I'm from a council.

I said, I ain't pot-noodle boys.

Who's got seven and a half grand?

So I just bought on a deposit.

And anyway, I was like, I can't afford it.

I'd love to do it, can't afford it.

So I thought, I'm going to do my own.

So I have basically gone and planned a full European route,

stopping.

We're going to go a bit off route into Italy,

over the mountains, down towards Spain.

And I thought, Benedict, I'm closing parties.

The fiesta, famously known fancy dress.

And I thought, well, I'm going to do a fiesta in a fiesta.

So that was where it came from.

And then basically I've just done a public invite.

I've put, I've created a Facebook page with all this on,

all the information.

You don't have to give me any money.

I'm not in it for money.

I'm in it for just a laugh.

So I've put all the details on, the bookings,

the hotels, everything.

And just go on it, book it yourself,

and just come on a mad combo with us.

Think it's about 15 cars, so far.

That's fantastic.

I have just bought, as a mid-life crowd,

I've just bought a fiesta, I still think.

What are you doing on 6th November?

I wrote it.

It's going to make me angry, that's right.

So we've come up with little games to play.

And Mike has been, I'm quite grateful I've got,

because of the position.

I mean, no, people want to work with me a little bit.

So I've got a couple of sponsorships now

who are helping me out and paying for things,

which is good because people are like,

oh, you must be making a killing,

but they don't understand how much videos cost.

You know what I mean?

Like, like, it's dear, very dear.

You know, and it's kind of helps that it's self-funded.

Like, I don't charge much.

I charge just enough to get me by,

and then, because I feel cheeky.

Yeah.

I think I'm just, I don't want to rip anyone off.

I mean, I want to get what you're paid for.

You'd be a terrible millionaire.

I would.

You'd be a terrible millionaire.

But I'm a good person.

So that's why people like you, though,

because you're not trying to scam people

about five grand for the trip.

It's going to cost, you know.

Oh, man.

So remember the names on the trailers?

Funny story.

Do you remember, I said, DC European,

I got a couple of trailers,

and I thought, to help pay for the trailers,

I will get names on the back of the trailer.

So instead of charging like 100 quid,

I said 20 quid,

somebody could put a name on the trailer,

and it helped at the time

with the deposit on the trailers.

I won't lie.

Do you know what I mean?

It was a great thing,

and it gave people something to me.

Yeah.

Part of the names on the trailer,

pictures across Europe,

a summit along the journey.

Mate, have I had some abuse?

Because I started DC European back up,

and was like,

where's my name on my trailer?

I'm like, mate, I've had to sell the trailer.

Mate, I was, because I did pay the finance

like six months,

and these trailers weren't making any money.

And then I rented them out to a company,

and this guy was like,

look, mate, do you want me to buy the trailers off you?

And I said, the finance is worth more

than what they are worth.

I said, so how am I ever going to sell them you?

And to be fair, it was dead cool.

It was like, look, just sign them off in my name.

I'll pay the finance on them.

Oh, bless you.

So I was like, yes, I'll.

So yeah.

So on time logistics,

if you watch this, thank you.

Oh, that's a real one.

Because they genuinely got me out of the hall.

Because every month I was panicking

of paying debts off.

And this is why I haven't gone and bought another truck,

because I don't want to be stuck with that.

What if that truck's mine now?

If I park it outside,

all I'm paying for is insurance and tax.

It's not costing me anything now.

I'm not settled.

So I mean, some trucks now are like two,

two, three grand a month.

Who's paying that?

That's scary.

So to earn that.

To earn that.

Yeah.

Yeah, to make profit on top.

Like I've done my cuts.

This is why I'm kind of glad I did

my transport manager's qualification,

because I miscalculated so many.

Like you learn so much on a transport manager's course

that I was like, I have not factored in half of this.

Yeah.

Like I've not factored in half of this.

You know, depreciation and all that.

I'm like, what was I doing?

I was just rushed.

How on earth a big, huge monster

trucking company's doing it then?

I think volume.

Okay.

Every truck makes a tenner.

Yeah.

And they've got 500 trucks,

so they're making 500.

Yeah, saying no more.

Yeah.

To that I mean,

one truck has to make no more.

It's harder for the owner operator

than it is these big companies.

Yeah.

And because they've got so many trucks,

I think they get offered so much work.

Yeah.

I see.

Yeah.

They can't really turn anything down

because they've got...

Just got that many trucks.

What's that truck doing otherwise?

It's just sitting around doing nothing.

Just send it.

Yeah.

You know.

But for me, I struggle.

I'm going to struggle to get work.

And people have this persona of,

he's an idiot online,

why are we going to take him?

Don't realize I'm genuine.

Like when I do a job,

I do it with passion.

I mean, when I drive Luke's trucks,

I'll go and get them washed.

I'll drive him to the best of my ability.

I'll treat that truck like,

if it's a Trumpish truck,

like this truck I'm in here now,

I genuinely, that suitcase that's on the bed,

is full of cleaning stuff.

Yeah.

And I clean the truck because I wouldn't,

you know, for me, I'm just very,

I like being...

Someone's office, you know, isn't it?

It's like your truck, when you had it,

you know,

I've ever driven it really,

should have thought,

I thought this is someone's possession.

Yeah, I did do that.

No.

Yeah.

Not everyone's like that, unfortunately, mate.

No.

That's it.

No.

To relive amongst, isn't it?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So the fiesta's all ready to rock and roll.

Fiesta is so high,

I'm going to pimp it out.

I'm like,

it makes me laugh because I'm saying,

I'm going to make it look as shit as possible.

And then I just described the first car I ever owned.

Subwoofer,

back box cut out,

DPF day,

it's having the full lot,

it's having neon's,

it's having...

Oh mate, he's going insane.

So I wanted to put a smoke machine in it,

but then I thought,

I'll be a bit down.

Because I wanted to pull up somewhere,

you know, like all the smoke,

come out of the windows down.

Yeah, but I thought,

yeah, then I'm just going to...

I saw the handbrake turn on the video.

Yeah.

Can you be serious?

Really, mate, youth last night, mate.

On handbrake turn.

But the size there, mate,

gravity was not on my side.

Harder to pull this off.

The car went one way,

my axe went the other,

I was like, oh!

Bowl movements.

Yeah.

Being a 20 stone block in a car

doing handbrake turns is not...

No.

But it was about the video,

because I thought,

if I do a big entrance, like,

because you've got to catch people.

Yeah.

You guys know this,

you've got to clip it to...

Yeah.

To interest people to watch.

And I thought,

I'm going to start off with an handbrake turn.

Not knowing what I am for years.

I mean, you had me at the handbrake turn.

I'm in.

But yeah, people just...

Yeah, I just want people to come along.

Yeah.

That's a really honest thing

you're doing, really,

because that's the route.

If you want to come, do it.

It's like the night out,

people are like,

I don't want to come on my own.

I'm like, why?

I'm just a normal guy.

Yeah.

Like, people are like,

you know, you're not your...

I'm not famous.

I'm a truck driver from Lochdale.

You know, I grew up in a council estate life

and I'm just doing well for myself.

Yeah.

That's all I am.

I'm not famous.

I'm just doing all right.

Yeah.

And I'm like, yeah, just come and party.

And people are like,

why are you inviting all these strangers?

Brilliant.

That was the intro.

Why are you inviting all these random strangers?

But you know what?

I did an hour, a couple of months back,

and I had this club.

But I paid for everything.

And the venue said to me,

you've got to make it ticket-based

because you're an online social media guy.

If 10,000 people turn up,

health and safety are going to go through the roof.

And anyway, I didn't want people to turn up

and get turned away.

Do you know what I mean?

Oh, you can't come in this fall.

So we did this open invite.

And what a brilliant night, man.

Like, but so many people didn't turn up,

which we're quite despondent in.

But at the same time,

I don't care about those who didn't.

I care about those who turned up.

But there was like these...

This woman had just turned up on her own

and she's like, I'm the chancellor.

No, get here.

Give me a hug.

And it's like, you're actually all right, aren't you?

And I'm like, yeah, it's not an act.

I am just fully lovable and knobbied.

But I do, I do like push it out a little bit.

But great night.

I've got another one in January for my birthday.

Hide another night, come on.

Another party.

That's another story.

Another story.

No, no, it's great.

And I think people, even if you're not on that night out,

you're watching it as if you were there anyway.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like part of the family, no.

And it's like, it's people who subscribe.

I'm like, you're part of a community.

Like I'm not, like, yes, don't get me wrong.

Main obvious thing that people sell is in it for the financial gain.

Obviously, like I've said, people used to say about like TikTok,

oh, what are you going to do when it fails?

I said, go back to work.

Because that's what everyone said,

oh, what are you going to do when you fall off?

I said, go back to work.

What else would you need?

You're fucking Egypt.

No, they'll just sit in the room for the rest of your life.

But, you know, and I've always said when it means,

because people are like now, a lot of people are like,

why don't you go back on TikTok?

I'm like, because it doesn't pay me enough.

No.

I've got bills to pay houses.

You know, house to pay a wife to feed.

You know, if it don't make money, it don't make sense.

If it makes money, it makes sense.

And that's, that's, that's my sole objective.

Yeah.

I think the, the trips abroad, the vlogging mix

with what you're doing with the fiesta and a fiesta,

that is, I think that's the sweet spot.

Yeah.

Expensive.

Yes.

That's the.

Yeah.

Well, at the same time, it does kind of pay for itself.

No.

Now I'm getting the views in.

He's starting to, starting to come back around.

Because, because obviously,

when I, when I first started,

I was taking money out of the savings.

I was like, yeah, let's, I'm fucking Thailand.

I flew business class to Thailand at three and a half,

three and a half grand.

And I'm like, whoo.

Of course you did.

And yeah, obviously.

Yeah.

And I thought, this is mint.

I soon ended up back in economy.

But I realized that was a one-off.

Yeah.

Time.

Like, but I felt mint.

I was the worst resting business, by the way.

I'm like, flip flops.

No.

I was just chilling, bumming feet up on the table.

It looked to me like peasants.

Soon you'll go the other way though.

I would say to Ben about, there's a meme of Rolexes for lifetime.

An economy seat is only for eight hours.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I have, I've just bought me something.

I know, I've seen it.

Yeah, it's very nice.

Very nice, too.

Very nice.

Well, I never wear, I wear my fake one.

Yeah.

I'm very honest.

I'm going to be very honest.

I do exactly the same.

I don't trust the world.

No, I don't.

I don't.

I can't wear it for someone.

I do too much.

I wear mine everywhere.

I can't, I can't wear it for someone.

They come up to the camera.

I'm like, give me that machine.

I'm like, yeah, yeah.

So yeah.

I'm it, Nick.

Yeah, whatever.

You can't wear that one.

Well, but this is the thing with social media.

I was like, what an idiot that guy is.

You know, he's walking around with a twat.

I'm honest.

Who the fuck comes on a podcast to say it's a 200-grip?

What, you idiot?

Yeah.

I mean, I don't need to be somebody I'm not.

No, no.

I've always wanted a Rolex.

And I always wanted the one I've got.

And I bought it.

That was my present.

It's in a safe at my mom's house.

I have never had it on my wrist.

No.

It's in the box.

It's, it's.

I know.

And I wear my fake one.

Really?

Never.

Even to weddings and that.

I wear my fake one.

Because nobody can tell the difference.

No.

That is true.

To the...

They'll get very good.

If you're like that, you're like, oh, yeah.

Okay.

Fair enough.

Maybe.

But, you know, you've got to know to know.

And at what's the point these days?

We live, unfortunately, in a world where

if you're wearing it all the time,

you are thinking back in mind, what if?

Man, the average vehicle in my, my estate

is a Charon with a guy with a balaclava on.

Like the Charming.

I've just had walls in my neck.

I've had to go down.

So, well, God, I don't understand this.

But I live on like a, a longer state

with a colder sack at the end.

And there's a field on the back.

And recently there's this group of lads

that I've moved in down at the bottom.

And they whizzing past on motorbikes.

They've been, they're driving like lunatics.

And I don't like that.

And this really bugs me.

And I'm like, my wife's like, don't.

They're like, I've got to.

So it was out.

Ever came out to go school.

They were there.

And this, so what they had is this motorbike

being chased by a car.

And the car which I knocked the motorbike off,

they were just messing around dicks.

And I thought, if I don't do anything,

and my kid gets up, I'll never forgive myself.

I mean, I could melt up the courage one there.

I said, watch this.

Sorry.

I said, get in the car.

So John, I get in the car.

Watch this.

I pulled in.

Now they live, so like there's a,

there's a row house, but there's a field in front of the house.

You can't actually get to the front door.

I said, I need to make an impression here.

Oh, watch this.

Tuck the sole rag.

Fall before mud, straight across the grass.

Pull that.

I said, right.

I said, who's having it?

So these lads go out.

I said, what's up?

I said, what the fuck are you doing?

I said, you're driving like fucking idiots.

I said, listen.

I said, next time you come, I said,

I'm going to bonnet one of yours.

And I thought, this is going to go on a tour.

It deep down in time.

I thought, this ain't going to happen.

That's what's in london.

What are you doing?

I thought, but I thought, if I make a big impression,

I might think, is that a fucking?

Not the other way around.

So I said, lads, I get what you're trying to do.

I said, but do me a favor.

In front of the house, drop it down.

Stop being dicks.

I said, I've got two kids here.

I said, I have a bit of respect, will you?

Got in the car and drove off.

I got in the car.

Fuck it.

Knock you out.

I got in the car again.

Anyway, I sat there at night and I genuinely,

so my house is like Big Brother,

coming up like mad.

And I thought, shit.

They're just going to come and fucking

pop breakthrough the window.

Oh, fuck.

And to be fair, they don't.

They come up.

All right, Dave, you all right?

I said, yeah, yeah.

And I was like, he thinks I'm out of thought.

I only never kicked something.

I'm like, we'll go and get Mac Dev.

You've been outside, so you're like.

You're in trouble now.

Get him.

Oh, fair play to you, though.

Yeah, but my stay is not.

I don't know.

Now, I'm the same thing now.

I've got a little four month old.

And if I see something happen now, I'm like, yeah.

That affects me a bit more than what it used to.

Yeah, it changes you.

I've moved house because of it.

Have you?

Yeah.

Because when I rode where it was a new-ish build.

And I kind of won't get too much into it,

but you've got not just the speed of the cars,

but the, again, lads on bikes,

going down the side of the house and stuff,

thinking, hang on a minute.

This is not it.

I need to protect what I've got here.

And you're right.

You have to do what you have to do.

Yeah, I know.

I was there proud of that.

I kind of like felt out of thought when I came on.

I felt these ones ain't going to mess with me.

Little do you know they're moving tomorrow.

They're all planning.

Right, let's be bold and I'll move.

Yeah, they're all right to be fair.

Good.

Yeah, fair play to you.

Sometimes it literally all it takes.

Yeah.

Conversation.

Yeah.

I think to be, yeah.

But just have a word.

It could have gone one or two weeks.

Oh, a hundred percent.

Yeah.

A hundred percent, like my wife said to me,

you are fucking, what did you do that for?

Because obviously when I go traveling,

John is on her own at home.

With her line of work, she's scared as it is.

And you know, a group of lads turning up at the front door,

she won't have a clue what to do.

And I said, but no, because they've got respect now.

And I promise you, I think genuinely,

if I had a problem, they'd come and help me.

Like, because I didn't go in and start kicking off.

And I said, lad, you're fucking idiots.

I've got a kid, man.

She's got no rodents.

You know, I get you on the road in your car,

but you're driving like dicks, lads.

She's chilling out, you know.

And in the end, anyway, I went down a couple of weeks later

and I dropped some of Crater Foster's off and...

Yeah.

That's it.

Yeah.

Best of manners now.

They probably respect you for it, actually.

I've had lekkies since.

They've wired it all up.

I'm brilliant.

You're always a daughter in my life.

Laughpost doesn't work.

Laughpost, that sounds dead.

Oh, no, yeah.

Oh, for...

Oh, my God.

Birthday to you.

Yeah, honestly.

Oh, brilliant.

You might have stories you've got.

It's just ridiculous.

Nobody believes him.

I know.

I'll tell you, if you didn't watch me,

if somebody's watching this for the first time,

and they hear who's him,

you've got to go on, like, it's a journey.

My journey is like a roller coaster.

Start the first podcast and watch this one after that.

You might think it's a different guy

because I've got new teeth and new hair.

Who is this guy?

Do you know what?

I looked and...

I hope I look a little bit skinnier on this one

because, last time, I looked like a unit.

We are on a weight loss journey, though.

If you're watching the next podcast,

I'm on a heart attack.

I'm like, this really is David.

My after all, though.

Oh, my God.

Well, it was because of you.

I got me heard them.

Yeah.

It literally was because of you.

Yeah.

That was a dodgy story.

Oh, go on, then.

Go on, then.

I've got to tell you this.

So, obviously, you recommended that.

I've seen the results.

You was open about it.

Yeah.

Mint.

So, I booked it.

Buked it through Estee Grande.

Flew out to Istanbul.

Picked up from the hotel in a taxi.

Took to this fucking lovely hotel.

And I've got to be honest.

And he started going down the other day after.

So, next thing you know, I got picked up the day after

and I got taken to...

I cannot...

Nothing describe it as a shack.

And I'm like...

I didn't go to a shack, by the way.

No, no, no.

He's had you on here.

What's this?

So, this guy was like,

oh, are you paying cash or what?

And he's like,

if you pay cash, you're getting charged 20% more.

What the fucking why?

You know, you know.

He definitely wanted me to just pay cash.

So, all right.

We'll pay cash them.

So, I've got...

Thankfully, I have multiple banks where I can pull money out.

So, I said, right, I've got this amount of cash on me now.

I'll pay the rest.

We'll have to go and get some money out.

So, I would spend a good hour in a car

with two random strangers driving around

pulling money out of a cash machine

that I've never met before.

And I thought, this could go really wrong.

And I still haven't sent a doctor yet.

I still...

Like, this is genuinely...

I've not even sent a white cloak at this point.

I've just got two lads in a dinga

driving me around these cash machines.

Your message in me going,

Louis, you did not tell me yet.

I had a message.

I said, are you sure we're at the right place?

Because I was like, what's going on?

Anyway, they taught me to a different hospital.

So, it wasn't called Estee.

I walked in and I'm like,

this isn't right.

Am I at the wrong place?

I don't know.

But it turns out I was over panicking

because basically all the medical centers in Turkey

have to be owned by the government.

So, you're walking into the government hospital

and then they have a private ward on there.

So, when I got upstairs in the end, it was all right.

But I did no research into her surgery.

I thought they drew her out of the back...

blood out of the back of your head

and injected it in the top.

That's not how it went.

It was horrible.

It was nine hours of auto...

Nine hours?

Nine hours.

Mine was two and a half hours.

Four thousand grafts I had.

I had three and a half thousand.

I was there for two and a half hours.

Yeah, four and a half hours.

Was it one person?

Two.

Oh, yeah, two as well.

There was one person on my head

and there was one sat next to me.

Oh, no.

There was two people on my head doing this.

Oh, this...

Yeah.

Yeah, mate, it was...

So, they take a hair follicles out of the back

and the side you had up to eight years old.

They don't come past your ears.

It was horrible.

And they then put them in somewhere.

I'd have my teeth pulled out again and put back in.

Oh, you wouldn't do that again?

No, no.

No.

I'm glad...

Like, no.

Did you stop drinking coffee, tea, stop having coffee?

No, no, I bled like magic.

Yeah, me too.

Like, I looked down at the floor because I...

So, I bled.

I fell asleep.

Yeah.

Like, I was...

The injection...

So, it wasn't painful in the process.

The injections...

Yeah.

My God.

They hurt.

They hurt, mate.

I'm telling you now, yeah.

I was like, ah, mate.

Like, he's injecting me, yeah, anyway.

But may I do a numb for about six months?

I mean, going football, I'm just ending up bowling.

Someone's throwing a bowling ball at me.

Ah, I'm fucking out.

You're headbutting everyone in Oldham.

But no, I'm laying on this chair and it was just so long, mate.

And I remember I woke up and I felt really dizzy.

I think it's the amount of blood I've lost.

It's really, yeah.

I looked down on the floor, mate,

and I promised it looked like a murder scene.

Yeah.

And I seen all this tray with, like, all these white bits and...

Now, obviously, I'm like, oh.

I think I was a bit out of conscience a little bit.

I wouldn't...

Let you know, they've just took half the brain out.

Mate, like, literally, I'm sat there, right?

And he's like, don't move.

And I'm like, how can I not move, mate?

I was like, I've been here for nine.

I was like, a neck pain.

That's a long time.

And, yeah, anyway, in the end, I'm glad I did it.

Yeah.

But would I do it again?

No.

No, would it?

Yeah.

I mean, I didn't go to no sheds.

I didn't pay cash.

I pay card.

We went straight to hospital.

And you have, like, all your...

Did you have all your medicals checked?

Yeah, yeah, they did.

Had all that though.

Proper deep mind.

Because you have, like, an...

Because he was like, oh, have you failed the heart thing?

You...

Oh, really?

Yeah, yeah.

You've got to check you out.

A lot of people are dead...

I mean, I'm not going to recommend this.

I don't know if you can put this in.

If it goes and what.

I'm not going to recommend everyone get surgery in Turkey.

But I...

So, my teeth...

Store your teeth, time.

Okay.

Goes to the dentist in England.

That says I'm getting my return.

Can I have all my teeth done?

He says it's going to be 18 grand.

And it's going to take three years.

Just to get some kind of shape, right?

I had holes.

I had all sorts.

He said 18 grand, three years.

And your appointments are once every six months, yeah.

And I'm like, I'm not doing that.

My teeth were bad enough.

Yeah.

They was bad.

Like, looking back now at the last podcast,

I think, gone, my teeth are.

Like, I went to watch this in 4K H definition.

So, anyway, I've gone to Turkey.

And I've gone to get my teeth done.

And about...

I bottled it the first time.

I went and I was like, I'm not doing it.

Because they told me.

They said, oh, you need...

So, I've gone to Turkey.

They've put this tiny thing in my mouth.

Did, like, a 5D X-ray on my face.

And he's like, oh, you've got a problem.

We can't do your teeth.

He's like, you can have surgery here now

to get these teeth out.

And then you'll have to come back in six months.

And I thought, I'm not doing that.

Like, no, no, no.

That's the right way to leave it.

Anyway, we've enjoyed half on the whole.

And I've come back to England.

Gone to see my dentist in England.

And I've said, oh, been to Turkey to get my teeth done.

He's told me I've got a medical condition with my jaw.

And these teeth, he said, I said, what was going on?

Like, so he said, all right, let me X-ray you.

Promise you, mate.

He made me put, like, a cup in my mouth.

This X-ray in England.

And he's trying to get to the back of my jaw.

He's got this metal plate off.

I'm gagging, like, and I'm like,

in Turkey, I had to buy it on this little thing, yeah?

So there's so much advance with technology, like mad.

So anyway, gone to this NHS dentist, my dentist.

Gone in, I said, right, blah, blah, blah.

So he's X-raying my mouth.

And he's like, no, nothing wrong with you.

So I'm like, all right.

Turkish men must have been scamming me, you know?

Because you do.

You think that's, oh, yeah.

Anyway, I swore to him that I'm laying in bed one morning

about four months after.

And I felt like someone had hit me in the face

with a slight jam on me.

Oh, you don't walk up to me and my face is swollen.

I'm like, okay, no, what's going on here?

So John is like, well, your eyes are nearly shut.

Like, it's really bad.

You've got, you must have an infection or something.

So try to ring the dentist next appointment in three weeks.

So, all right, great.

Go to the emergency dentist.

Emergency dentist can't do anything.

You just can rip it out.

They don't give you an alternative.

Rip it out or temporary fill it.

That's it.

So he'd give me some medications,

calm the abscess down.

Went back to my English dentist.

Three weeks after, I had to wait three weeks

with this numbing mate.

It was horrible.

I tell you what I was doing.

I was drinking clove oil.

Have you ever had clove oil?

That's how bad it was, mate.

I was drinking it.

Bottled.

Great stuff, by the way, for helping my teeth.

Anyway, gone to me UK dentist.

They said, oh, Mr. Crossley, you have a problem with your jaw.

I said, I told you this six months ago.

I said, do you remember when I came out from Turkey?

Yes, yes, yes.

But this is new.

I said, how is it new?

I said, he's told me exactly what happened.

Right, okay.

Not wearing a Mr. Crossley.

We can fix this.

Right, okay.

It will be 1,500 pounds.

We're going to have to put you to sleep.

Take off.

And I said, I said, how much?

1,000 fat.

I said, I could have got a 28 teeth in Turkey for three grand here.

I said, and he told me the problem before you did.

So anyway, I got the extractions done because I had to.

In the UK, I had to wait three months.

And then I just flew back to Turkey.

And I said, right, I'm out of money.

I'm running out of money.

And what I promise you now, mate, I've had nothing.

No pain.

I've had them in now for a year and a half.

And...

They still look amazing.

Just no pain.

I mean, people are like, oh, you've got Turkey, but...

And they're too white.

I'm thinking, well, I'm not going to have fucking yellow ones.

Yeah, yeah.

Can I have brown ones?

Who goes to get teeth and orders yellow?

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

Do you know what?

I've heard stories, actually, where...

I haven't done it in the UK.

It's a mess.

Yeah, seven hair transplant.

Jordan at the Mormon is got a...

She's having a root canal done.

Five appointments so far.

And I think we're just borderline 600 quid in.

She's four months, and they've still not finished it.

I had three in 30 minutes.

No problem.

Yeah, wow.

They're just so much better at it.

So I would sit out now.

My teeth are costing me £20 a month

because in 10 years time, they'll need doing again.

Okay.

£5 a week sound.

Okay, that's fine.

So I put money to one side for that pot.

That's my teeth pot, I call it.

But Jordan's currently having all this work done.

I've worked it out that it'd be cheaper and quicker.

So let's have two things.

Now, if I was to ring the UK dentist,

I can't get in until Monday, Tuesday.

Yeah, a minimum, minimum Monday, Tuesday.

It's going to cost me 500 quid minimum.

Yeah.

Okay, to get these teeth started.

I could literally go on to guys going to now

fly to Turkey.

They guaranteed for the whole 10 years.

So they worked for you.

Yeah, yeah.

So I could fly to Turkey,

get in a private transfer to the dentist,

get my teeth done and fly back by Sunday.

And it would cost me two, 300 quid.

Yeah.

So who's the fool?

Yeah, exactly.

The NHS is fucked.

Oh, I mean, I'm saying for myself.

No fault of its own.

No, no, no, no.

I feel sorry for anyone working in the NHS.

Yeah.

Just doomed.

But it's like with people that like my opinions on immigration,

it's nothing against the migrants.

I've got a problem.

But if a world, if a society can only populate

a million people and we bring two million people in,

I'm telling you now, the economy's faulty.

It doesn't take a rocket.

I couldn't give a fuck of you.

Black, white, Japanese, whatever.

Not about race.

It's about numbers.

Yeah, you're right.

We've got too many.

We haven't got enough houses.

No.

Do you know?

We're shutting hotels, businesses.

There's no infrastructure there for them.

You said that online.

Oh, yeah.

You're labeled straight away.

Oh, yeah, of course you are.

Of course, yeah.

By then, I'd just say I would.

There's some serious, serious issues and problems

at the minute.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to work it out

that we cannot survive.

There isn't enough money in the pot.

So we're even going to get tax more,

which is going to be a bigger problem.

What's going to happen?

I don't know.

They'll slowly privatise the NHS.

The NHS will crumble.

Like pensions.

Pensions will go.

Yeah.

In a funny kind of way, I sound,

it's probably the best thing that can happen.

Is it go private?

Yeah.

Private, because I think nurses will get what they deserve.

Yeah.

I think healthcare will be a lot better.

Yeah.

And I think people, once again, when we go into these

about disabilities and illness,

people stop going to the hospital for a fucking headache.

Yeah.

Do you know what I mean?

People think, fuck it, that's going to cost me 300 quid.

I ain't going to do that.

That's true.

I mean, I'm going to have to fucking nurse this.

Yeah.

So people are soft.

Yeah.

The world is fucking mad.

Yeah.

And that's the thing these days, isn't it?

You're going to see a doctor.

I'll go to Haiti.

Go to Haiti.

Just go to Haiti.

Yes.

At what?

Yeah.

You're a doctor.

Yeah.

I've come to see you.

Just go to Haiti.

I've just come back now from India.

So I missed my flight in India.

I had diarrhea.

I had really bad food poisoning.

I couldn't fly.

I was in a really bad...

I've never had food poisoning.

I was in a really bad way.

I couldn't get up to get my plane.

So I've got insurance.

I've got to claim on my insurance.

So anyway, I've put the doctor's note in,

blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

So my insurance had rang me back and said,

look, we need this doctor's note signed off by a UK doctor.

What we need you to do is go for a checkup at your doctor.

For him to say, you're all right.

And then we'll pay out the thousand pound for the mislites.

Three and a half months, I've got to work.

Oh my God.

It's not worth taking insurance.

It's not worth taking your insurance.

Three and a half months.

It's still a few weeks.

Because it's not a necessity, this appointment,

basically, I go to a pile of notes

that the doctor has to get round to.

And when he's got time, he'll get round to him.

He's going to share this about three months where...

Yeah.

I'm like, that's shocking.

That's fucking disgrace.

Yeah.

What is it?

You're absolutely right.

If I had any going to the US at all.

Yeah.

Going to take my wife to New York.

It was a dream.

Amazing.

But for years.

When you're going?

15th of December.

Oh, I'm going 17th.

Oh yeah.

Might actually see you.

New York.

I haven't had that.

So she's always wanted to go.

And due to my criminal record at one point, with the floor,

do you remember the storm with the floor?

No.

Firearms charge.

Because I don't...

Do you remember?

Yes.

We did such a fight.

Basically, I was on the same...

Oh, have you had to go over?

Yeah, I've had to go to the embassy and do all sorts of...

I've got a 10-year visa now.

So when I went to the embassy,

so McLaren sorted it for me.

It was kind of good that I worked here tonight.

Because they were an American based company.

Yes.

I would have had to work in America at some point

and do loads of different stuff.

So I applied for a working visa through WUC.

And they was like,

you're going to have to go in for an interview.

They did all the paperwork for me.

Like, United Autosports did everything.

And I had to go to this meeting.

And the guy was like,

well, you've got a firearms charge on you.

And I was like, yes.

And he was like,

so when you go into these meetings,

they ask for like a summary.

And you've got to go get like a police summary of the charge.

And he was like,

but it's for a firework.

And I went, yeah, I know.

He said, what did you do?

I said, somebody had a firework.

Somebody had a small bomb in the football ground.

I've picked it up and go, woo.

So I haven't been there yet.

And next thing you know,

I'm on the same level as Sam I've been laden.

I'm like, so it's a bit extreme.

And the guy genuinely laughed.

The guy was like, why have they put you on this?

Like, I was like, I don't know.

So anyway, I got a 10-year visa now for America.

So we met the most of it.

I'm like, yeah.

So she's always asked me,

she's always goes on about New York.

My misses is like the biggest Christmas lover ever.

And so this, this, it was a birthday not long ago.

And I didn't get her anything.

So she woke up in the morning and I give her a card

and I got some roses.

And I thought, she's definitely sat there thinking,

where's my present?

And I left it like an hour.

I thought, I'll just leave it and let it somewhere.

And we go and like, I made breakfast and I'm happy birthday.

And then I said, oh, I forgot one more present.

And I pulled out this, this piece of paper.

I said, yeah.

And on it is where you scratch off.

We're going to New York.

So yeah, going there for five days.

Yeah, that's pretty.

Look forward to it.

Nice one.

What a period to go over as well.

Yeah. Well, this was she wanted.

So no kids, just me and her.

Oh, lovely.

Me and her flying.

So we got flies were mega cheap to refer.

Went flying to Dublin and from Dublin straight to New York.

Like 500 quid.

Oh, yeah.

We've paid almost two grand for us.

Wow.

Because we're flying.

Yeah.

No, no, no, we're not.

No, we're not.

We just do it properly.

No, it's guys kind of lots.

And so it's an hour to Dublin.

Got an hour and a half way in Dublin.

Eight hours to New York.

500 quid.

Yeah.

Can I go round with that?

Yeah.

Little stop off in Dublin maybe?

Yeah, a little hour in Dublin.

Yeah.

Like I said, we've got no kids.

Just going Christmas to time.

Oh, it's like the best place to be at Christmas.

So yeah, I want to go and then let the tree up.

But we just can't work sitting out.

Because we're having a, listen,

we're having nightmares when nursery at the moment

because we keep taking kid out.

But she's in nursery.

I'm like, we pay.

This is what gets to me.

I have to pay for it.

Yeah.

If I wouldn't take my kid on holiday,

you're still getting paid shut up.

I learned all this recently that if you take your kids out

during term times, you pay a fine now per-per-per-per-per-in.

Yeah, per-per-per-in.

Fine, Mike is mum.

Emily's mum who's on benefits.

She rang me up and said,

I'm going to go spend with the girls.

I'm like, mint.

I'll be honest with you.

I said, well, I'll treat you some money.

I'll sell you out.

Anyway, did you get your bitch rang me up?

I was like, by the way, we've got a fine.

I said, what do you mean we've got a fine?

You've got one.

I've got one.

I went, no, no, no.

You've got two fines.

That cost me 60 quid.

But if you do it more than once,

it starts going up and up and up.

Oh, really?

It's great.

But it's especially nursery.

I mean, I say you're paying to put her there in the first place.

Yeah, yeah.

No, I understand.

He's paying for a professional opinion

on your daughter's disability.

Yeah, you know, tell me about it.

I mean, I might as well go to school if you break it.

If you break it, let it go to school.

They'll diagnose you quicker than a fucking dog.

That's true.

Very true.

Oh, my God.

Anything else you're up to?

What are you?

Anything else you want to talk about?

DC Irving.

Yeah, big up.

Yeah, got that back.

What forgot coming up next week?

I made my phone.

It's just mental.

DC Irving, my first work has been booked in next week on my own.

Like nobody else involved.

UK works out.

Look how excited he gets about it.

I love it.

I love that stuff.

Good for you, mate.

Good for you.

Do you know what I'm not looking forward to?

Not being at home.

No, you've enjoyed that.

I've got this little bun.

You shouldn't say this.

I hope my kid don't watch this.

But I've got...

I think because I never grew up with Emily.

I've never had that full daddy moment.

Like, no, I've got like this dad.

I'm the best man she is.

Oh, that's amazing.

I know.

I'm trying my hardest for this one, though, to be a bad dad.

Yeah.

All right.

Good for you.

Not end up in Thailand.

Yeah.

You're always trying to do the right thing.

Always.

I've always got good intentions.

Yeah.

It just never works out.

Always ends up bad.

Yeah.

So I walk along till DVSA pulling me in.

Yeah.

So it made me laugh because...

God loves a trier.

Oh, mate.

I've had a nightmare.

So the truck was originally a removal truck.

Yeah.

So it was plated at 31 ton.

So you can't carry any more than 31 ton.

If you do, you...

So anyway, we've had to get it replayed, which we did do.

So you can tax the truck at 41 ton at 31 ton.

So the paybook has always been a bit wrong.

I know.

So many people are...

You've got the...

Like, on open Facebook, like, when DC European failed,

so many people put, like, the gazettes on,

like, all these pages, look, he's failing.

Ha, ha, ha.

And I thought, fucking sad guns.

So I was like, wow.

So was God, oh God.

But do you know what's funny?

So my businesses are all at different addresses.

So, like, but like, my transport manager is at one place.

I've got, like, three different addresses I use.

People go online and start typing my address out.

I'm like, don't wait.

Why would you...

Like, I get you might not like me.

Yeah.

But my wife and kids live in the house.

Yeah.

Like, yeah.

If someone were really a nut job,

and wanted to hurt me for some unknown bizarre reason,

my wife and kids are in the house.

You're not bringing trouble to just me.

You know, you want to hurt me.

Seeing me in a truck park and punch me in the face.

So I mean, don't target my family.

Yeah, anyway, thoughts.

Yeah, so I got my first job booked in.

And then New York at Christmas.

Yeah.

And then January, my birthday bash again.

So another open night out with everyone.

It's nonstop for you now.

Yeah, nonstop.

Anyway, my phone just doesn't stop.

Yeah.

Like, I've been here an hour.

222 notifications.

Oh, my God.

I'm getting absolutely lit up today with phone calls.

I don't know who wants me today.

Normally on a Friday, it's not the busiest date.

But yeah, geez.

I have some work to do after this.

But what was...

Oh, yeah.

Did you see...

Just quickly talking about transport and trucking and stuff.

Did you see the fine that El Lynch Plant Hair and Haulage got?

No.

Did you see that?

Pull that up.

What was that then?

It was...

We're talking...

Was it like 800...

This is what we live in.

That was country.

You know, you're talking about, you know,

going to America and they went,

they give you that for that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yes.

What was the...

Yeah.

What was the...

I think the fine was about...

I think it was for registering the wrong weight or the wrong...

Yeah.

But it was nearly a million.

800.

Yeah.

They just got charged 800,000 pounds for...

I think you're right.

It was like a...

Wrongly...

Yeah, yeah, they basically did.

I think it was pretty much...

I mean, I'm not transport manager savvy, whatever,

but I think it was they didn't register the vehicle

to its correct weight or whatever.

Yeah, yeah.

It's heavy haulage, isn't it?

So...

800,000 pounds.

You've got that.

And yeah, my roger's got to find 66,000 pounds

for illegal immigrants climbing in the back of the trailer.

Look at that one out.

But it's again...

Oh, that's all the video.

In fact, fun enough, somebody found out recently that I do a podcast

because they'd watched your video of an immigrant jumping on your chug

and you're like...

Look at the runway, mate.

Yeah, yeah.

So the guy got on and I sent him, but I had...

So a lot of trucks...

Trailers, I mean, people might have watched this or not,

truckers, but you can even have a curtain side with a fabric top

so people could just cut and get in.

This guy got on.

I knew it was a solid roof.

I'm like, I can't get in through that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So he got on and I'm like, I know I'm going the right way.

So I've tried to go, whoa, obviously he's not going to go,

sorry, mate, I'm on my back of your truck illegally.

And I thought, fuck you, I'm going to set off.

And I did.

And he seemed realised.

He was like, shit, this English truck is not going to England.

And he was backing on the side and I said,

I couldn't help but laugh, mate.

I was like, I just thought, fuck sake.

Where did he eventually go?

A short while.

A couple of days walk in the wrong direction.

I stopped in the next safe and convenient spot.

As you should have.

And I was not at risk.

As a professional driver, that is my duty of care.

I couldn't stop on the motorway.

So £66,000 for illegal immigrants.

Yeah, 66 run.

And this is it.

So look, people are asking me,

why aren't you going back into European?

It's just not worth it.

Just the rates aren't there.

The rates aren't there.

The risk is incredible.

Drivers get treat like shit.

I mean, DC European, somebody's reporting me to Border Force.

Don't know if you know about this,

but I would get stopped at customs every week.

Like if you look through the DC European page,

week after, at one point I was buying jingling up biscuits

and hanging them out of the window

before we got to the customs shed

because I knew how it was going in.

Somebody reported me for smuggling.

Yeah.

So when I went to work for United,

this is how people don't realise they're not going to affect it

as on people's lives.

So Border Force were pulling me.

And then when I say ripping the truck to bits,

bed up, fridge out, then what, mate?

Opening the loads.

So I would deliver in damaged loads all the time

because the Border Force were cutting loads open.

And I was like, mate, do what you...

I have never been the type of guy to go,

I am fucking sick.

I'm not that guy.

Pull in the shed.

What do you need?

Need to open the cup.

Yeah, no problem.

Well, can we go in there with our boots on?

Yeah.

Can we put the dog in?

Yeah, go on.

Do whatever you need to do, mate.

I know I'm legal.

I do my job to my best ability.

Sure.

But yes, somebody basically had reported me for...

Unofficial, I'm not supposed to know this,

but when I worked for United Autosports,

we came off the boat.

Now, in motorsport, they don't get stopped.

Yeah.

Never.

Right.

It is elite trucking.

Yeah.

They know that.

And it's not like you open a motorsport trailer,

you can't see anything.

It's full of flight cases.

It's a mess, a carnage.

Pulled in through the dock at a hole,

into the shed.

Thought that was better.

Next one, into the shed.

Third one, into the shed.

Fourth one, into the shed.

The shed can only hold two trucks in a halt.

Why are all four of us getting pulled?

So I've come out on the truck.

I said, is there a problem, mate?

Yeah, yeah.

And they treat me like an animal.

Oh, really?

And I mean, like, getting your cab down,

going on the phone, sitting that corner.

I felt like I'd done something wrong.

Yeah.

And...

It's because you look like you always have.

And I was like, what the hell was going on, mate?

Anyway, they found nothing.

You know, there was nothing on there.

It's like, can we open this light case?

I'm like, I'm talking to a million,

two million power cars in here.

I'm like, you can't just go and...

I mean, you might think you've got a right

to just start smashing people's belongings up,

but it becomes a point where noise,

noise, like, stop tagging me.

And, yeah, they started searching on the truck.

This guy came up to me.

This couple, can I have a word with you?

Boulder Force guy.

I said, yeah, yeah, yeah, off record.

I said, yeah, come on.

He says, someone's reporting you for smuggling.

He said, they basically sending anonymous reports

to the Boulder Force saying that you're up to no good.

And they have to investigate it,

which I'm like, yeah, you're doing your job.

I get that.

But technically, this is what kind of cost us at DC

because we were losing so much time getting stopped.

Like we was in Boulder Force for six hours.

That's the difference between the truck

getting delivered on time or not.

You don't get delivered, you get fined.

Who's paying the fine?

Boulder Force don't want to pay it.

And it was weak in, weak out.

I mean, I went to Holland the other week in the car

went to Amsterdam for the weekend with a wife.

They sent me again, stripped the whole car to bits.

And I said, Ladi, I said, are you not bored?

I said, do you want to know?

I said, my bank statements are here.

I said, do you want me to go through the bank statements?

I said, are you not bored of this now?

You know, you constantly searching maybe,

you've never found anything like, all my money.

I mean, if I was fucking minted in smuggling,

I wouldn't be still working.

I wouldn't be sat on TikTok every night begging it.

I was like, it just, it doesn't make,

I wouldn't be so public.

Yeah.

Don't be waxing your beard off.

No, but it just, yeah, it's just social media.

And people don't understand that.

That's the price you pay.

Oh, he's living a great life.

It's not, your life is not private.

People know everything about me.

Is that being a warning then to people

who want to live it life, live it large on social media?

Be careful.

Everyone, you know, the term keep your friends close,

but your enemies closer.

He's never, I'd never realized how much it meant.

Like there's so many people that will just switch on you.

There was slight chance to get and, and yeah, you know.

Yeah.

The thing is, people can, I feel like I know you so well.

I've met you twice.

Yeah, we spoke in between or whatever,

but people get to know you so well.

Yeah.

It's scary.

Just, yeah, yeah.

I mean, I've had people run me down.

People are smiling over saying this.

People have really have to meet at the airport.

Can I, can I have a picture of me?

I'm like, I don't, I don't.

You're like, hang on.

I'm like, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just me.

I'm sure if you just walked up to me and said,

can I have a picture?

You would have been like, yeah.

I mean, I, I love it.

I think it's, you know what?

I love the most and I've got to be honest with you.

It's not, so being a truck driver is a very lonely job.

Men's mental health is fucking mental.

Truck driving is a, is a killer.

I've been in some dark places.

I've had an argument at home and you sat there

for the next 12 hours thinking constantly like,

you know, what's going to happen?

You're driving further away from home

as your life's getting worse at home and you're panicking.

And it causes people to do stupid things.

And to see the impact I have on people now

by just being me, and I've had tons,

and I mean tons of messages,

people saying, mate, I've just watched your video

and I'm in a shit place and I feel a lot better.

Thank you.

And I think that is why I'm doing it.

Yeah.

Okay.

I've lost my job at United Autosports,

which I still, I'm hurting with,

but I know one day something will happen.

Yeah.

Good.

Yeah.

You know, at the moment,

no one wants to kind of work with me.

I get, I've been, you know,

but one day something will give from this.

Yeah.

I'm fairly confident.

Yeah.

And you'll, you'll put yourself.

Leave that, I'll go back to smuggling.

There you go.

That's the day for me love.

But you're, what you're doing now though,

is you're, you're making yourself,

I don't want to say independent,

because that's, you know, it's sort of like,

sorry, like I shouldn't even be saying that.

You are independent, but it's patronizing in a way.

But you're, you're making yourself that you,

you know, you don't rely on anyone else.

We don't, I don't need your help.

I don't need your help.

I'm efficient on my own.

And then it's funny how when that happens,

more opportunities will come to you.

And it should, we really be the other,

but that's the way the world works.

So I meant, I promise you now,

there's a YouTuber who's just started, right?

And he's doing this thing like, he's got,

he's got no money.

He's trying to travel the world with no money.

Like he's doing everything they can to make money.

And I just said, look, send me a PayPal.

I'm gonna send you 100 quid.

And he's like, why?

And I'm like, because I was there at one point.

People need help at the start.

You've got these multimillion pound companies offering

these mega million, you know,

these big YouTubers, all that big money.

They've already got it.

I mean, I charged the lad the other day.

I'll be honest with you.

I charged the lad the other day at 600 quid

for an advertisement.

Yeah.

And I said, look, I will do it.

I learned when somebody comes

that approaches me with a sponsorship,

I want to learn about their brand

because I want to sell their brand.

I want to know about it.

So I'm like, ring me.

And I'm talking to this guy.

Why is it started when you're doing what we got?

And I learned about them before I promote them.

My major just rings off the script

and charges him three and a half grand.

Yeah.

And I'm like, why don't you put three and a half grand

into the guy that's trying to make your business?

But it's just all false on the way the world works.

Yeah.

Hopefully in a few more years,

people will be offering me seven and a half grand.

You'll be paying me to go on it.

Make them on it.

Next one, three and a half grand.

Make a note.

Put your voice in.

Right.

Make it two hours late.

Like that.

No.

No, I can see it, mate.

It's going to, it's going to happen.

It's happening.

Putting everything in and it was all going to come out.

You're everywhere now.

Like I said, I've got a neighbor's mate

or like a friend's friend seeing that I do a podcast

because you've uploaded a video

and he's seen that and he's seen your.

That's because you, yeah.

I was in, when I was in Thailand,

it was good because there was a Thai,

there was a, there was a person from Thailand

who watches my trucking videos.

And I thought, that's mad that I know that.

That's crazy.

How mad is that?

There's somebody in Thailand watching DC European.

Yeah.

That's fantastic, isn't it?

Did you tell Jordan that?

Yeah, I did.

What did she say?

She just thinks I'm mad.

She gets bored of my stories.

But I haven't, like my relationship,

I don't speak to Jordan.

Like I'm so busy, social media,

working, like keeping everyone happy

that I've kind of left my wife a little bit.

And he said to say it because

she's the rock of the family.

But I keep telling her, I said, look,

in a couple of years, it'll be with it.

Yeah.

You know, I won't always be like this,

but I've got to, like now,

when I lost my job at United,

I said, I've got to do this now.

Because if I don't, I've failed on both ends.

I've failed that.

I've failed on the one thing I love doing,

which is United All Sports.

And I'll fail on social media.

And I've got to make that work to consider that a lot.

Because that lot, if I didn't care about that job,

I wouldn't care about social media.

But because I lost that one thing that I loved,

I will make it work no matter what it takes.

Yes.

And that's it.

And that's your sort of motivation, really.

And then I'll sponsor a car at United All Sports.

If I make it, that's all I want to do.

Behind Every Great Man is a Greater Woman,

and that sort of thing.

Yeah, I have to say that.

I have to say that.

I mean, we've been through some fucking tough times.

And I mean tough times.

Take her to New York.

Treat her.

There you go.

Yeah.

She still gets to see the men in her inbox

trying to buy her shoes and socks.

And I think they want to marry her.

I mean, some guy messaged her the other day

and was like, why are you with David?

He's a fat mess.

I thought, that's a bit harsh.

Oh, she is.

I know.

I don't understand why she's with me after the time up.

Yeah.

But she is.

I know.

Yeah.

Do you know what makes me laugh?

Everyone says she's waiting for the money.

When I met John Anant, I told you this on the last podcast.

Yes.

I have 39B in the bank.

I remember you saying.

Everyone still says it to this day.

Hello, she's waiting for the money.

She makes more than me.

I'm using her money at the moment.

I'm a toy boy.

That's fucking brilliant.

No, they'll always be haters, but you know.

There we go.

There you go.

Well, episode three coming soon.

Yeah.

Is that how I read it?

Yeah.

Fucking hell, we smashed that today.

I know.

That's the joke when you're employed.

There's not much to talk about.

I'll see you in New York.

Yeah, see you in New York.

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