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the video which comes out on Tuesday shows Carl's reaction when I went to see him
and it was that bad he told me to turn the camera off.
Because he knew the car and I didn't know he was going to know the car and he was just like
you sit like and he's like just back out of it and I was like no I've bought it and he was like
yeah yeah but just like you know just don't don't don't go through it.
Hello and welcome to another episode of Talking Shot. Today if you don't know where we are then
come out on the whole. Where have you been? We're with Mr Spaghetti Veyron himself.
I'm Art McCann. Please make sure to like, comment and subscribe and let us know who you want on
Talking Shot next. Well yeah thank you so much for having us here.
Oh absolutely. It's kind of weird if I'm being honest with you.
It's like sat here now. Yeah yeah literally yeah now we're sat from your perspective but
yeah no it's awesome to to be here so thank you so much.
We always start off with a little bit of a warm-up question. It's mainly a warm-up for us
because we're so awkward but yeah what does what does success mean to to Mark McCann?
I suppose it changes all the time for me anyway because I think success as if we talk about YouTube
it was always getting that 100k plaque and that was going to be life was complete at that stage
success was everything but now it's after the million and I feel like yeah it definitely changes
but yeah happiness maybe as well. Yeah yeah and Bugatti's. Well if it would have been
successful if it had a work in Bugatti maybe that's that's 11 so it says I'm aiming for.
All to come all to come. What would 18 year old Mark McCann say if you said to him that one day
you'd be looking at buying a P1 from Harrods and a Bugatti Veyron in two halves?
I suppose if I was driving it he would have assumed it was stolen.
Yeah I don't know life's gone yeah a lot of that which we can talk about it's down to YouTube
it really is sort of life's changed so much and I don't think with YouTube I'd have been in that
circle I've always had nice cars but not to that level I wasn't you know it was above and beyond
anything I'd ever but now there's there's another reason for it as well like yes I want it but also
you know we can make content out of it it can be a part of you know a bigger picture. Yeah yeah
yeah get your get your money back. I don't know about that. It is just crazy isn't it speaking
to be fair speaking of money we were talking today about because you years ago bought some
Carreras didn't you and then brought over from the US and then which you did I think you did well
on them. I did really well and that's what I've got to keep thinking to myself. Yes you can do well.
I did well yeah but in theory yeah I did nowhere near as good as right now that'd be worth
1.2 million pounds worth each than I sold them. Crazy and what did you sell them for?
I bought them for about 350 I sold them for about 600 so it was an absolutely amazing
can never complain it was such a great decision but now they're like nearly 2 mil. Yeah it's human
nature. Yeah exactly I think hindsight and sort of like a crystal ball you need for like
what time's the lottery on Saturdays at six o'clock you need it for five five to six
only once you know so yeah we haven't got that crystal ball but yeah in theory a great day but
then it could have been a better day. Yeah yeah do you think you've got a good eye for like spotting
which cars because for me it's like so alien to like look at a car I think do you know what that
could be worth could rooble what it is? Yeah I think because of being a bit of a dreamer
and always watch the value of cars even when I couldn't afford them I'd like look and think oh
yeah how much is that so I've always known the trend they've been on yeah and being a bit close
into that world I suppose the answer is yes I feel like if if I had to invest a load of money
into some cars now I could definitely choose cars which are highly likely to increase in value yeah
but it's obviously you know insurance running costs storage all that stuff if you do it properly
then you know it's probably not as profitable as it looks the way but we don't do it like that you
know I get them here and they they get um sawned and they sit there and then when we come to sell
them then a lot of times we've done we've been really lucky we've done oh I've had some bad times
as well yeah we'll get on that don't worry not going away with it yeah I suppose on that note do
you have to constantly watch the values of these things you know sort of the dips and the um yeah
I suppose but um I think as a rule they're either going one way or the other the only the only sort
of thing which we found is say like a Peugeot 205 GTI you know the year of that is you know that was
on a trajectory and making money making money now it's it's settled out because the people who
in that age group now probably want a holiday home in Breen you know they don't want a 205 GTI
anymore though you know that that dream has has been and gone and passed and they've
ever had it and so like there is definitely a on the smaller not so not so specialy stuff
it does start to drop again so yeah that's the only thing but as a rule we've got a little
bit of a formula and you know as you've you know so many people have documented if the
numbers are small enough and they're rare enough then as a rule at the minute it's a good place to
put your money yeah before we move on to the the Bugatties and P1s and stuff um one of the
great episodes for me that you released was the story about your 9-11 because we're all mad Porsche
fans as well um can you just briefly tell us because I know a lot of your viewers and listeners
will know about it but briefly tell us the story about your dream 9-11 when you were young so
I had a I had a chart where I'd worked really hard and then it was this car was £68,000
and I had a chart which I'd colour it in this was before a really good computer so I'd colour the
colour the boxes up to get up to to 68,000 like almost like a jar yeah and I got to the top and
I was 23 and I went into I've done loads of wheeling and dealing buying and selling
car boots sales all sorts of stuff and then I went and bought like I'd been
I've been going to this Porsche garage for years and I bet the bloke must have dipped his head every
time I walked in thinking oh not this idiot again and I said to him one day I'm going to come in
and I'll buy a car and I bought 24 I was 23 and I went and bought a car pulled it out of there um
went on a bit of a drive ended up going past um a prison on the way back and I must have timed it
to somebody who was visiting one of their mates in prison and then they followed me
pulled up at home again hindsight got out my dad was on the drive left the keys in the ignition
left it running obviously that's a stupid decision right now we all know that went in saw my mum
and then I saw the car going flat out down outside the window down the road and I thought
that's a bit cheeky dad and then my dad come shouting and then we took chase
took chase after this guy who got the car and we caught him up basically so we caught him up
I was I was in a car and my brother and my dad had already hit my new Porsche
rammed it through a hedge and crashed it and then I came down the road just after it and then
as you do try to run him over
I was fairly angry at the time I won't be seeing the Porsche anymore I'll be seeing the rent
exactly that's exactly what it's like and then yeah so we caught him um he went to prison
probably didn't as we all know but yeah so yeah it was an exciting it was a great day and like
a horrific day by the end of the day so yeah I can't even imagine waking up that you know the
morning thinking I'll come to 9 11 today I want a day and then going to bed that night
no you know sort of thinking back at everything that happened but there was three smashed cars
because my brother um had smashed into the Porsche and then I'd also eat I was in my um mom's golf
no sorry I was in mid my brother I was in my dad's um automatic estate and I tried to run him over
then I jumped out and of course the car kept going oh yeah and went into a wall or something yeah so
it was three down look do you know when they say like you'll either learn a lesson from somebody
else who has painfully learned that lesson or you're going to be that one that learns a lesson
everyone else learns from you yeah yeah definitely do not leave your keys in mission but we've all
I'm pretty sure we've all done it yeah I guilty I don't know yeah I was drying the seats out of
their car and I thought do you know what I've left put the heated seats on the car I washed it
and I'd put it on in the car I was like this is super risky I should probably not but I'm
risking but on those frosty mornings as well I don't do that by the way ever again yeah he lives
frosty mornings as well don't you know you just think I'll go and get up like a bucket well a
cup full of water to put on the windscreen then you like think gamble yeah stupid I know I know
gamble
recently I thought a bit like that I think actually probably shouldn't do that so
you have a post-fit on my drive now which are a pain in itself having to keep putting them off
now but yeah you're right you just can't risk it these days you just can't leave your car running
for 30 seconds running side because someone spotted it and it'll be gone well it's like
Amazon parcels even that it's that bad isn't it you know they follow as soon as somebody's
left on the doorstep that somebody steals it it's like it's a mad world
I don't know it's mad actually thinking about it because the amount of passes they probably
leave outside someone's doorstep you just follow one of them round or take don't get any ideas
that's a genius idea just don't get just don't get seen no more work tomorrow yeah yeah
the only thing is Amazon is so successful now pretty much everyone's got a ring door bell
but I don't think they care about being on video anymore that's the scary thing now no
people literally used to wear balaclavas and they don't even bother with them
no prove it you know even if a face is on camera still not enough evidence to
yeah well we've got a great video coming out next Tuesday and it was a repatriation
we're basically a shadowed global telemetrics who are a tracker company and we went and helped
retrieve cars after the tracker gone off and there's a twist at the end of that and then you'll
just realise that you can get away with a lot and there's no repercussions no yeah or nobody asking
the question or even bothering to find out I think like with this one it's like he's done his court
and then the courts just were like not enough evidence and you just like when you when you
watch that you'll be like what the hell is going on and we're all weird oh god can't do this can't
do that but I think we can do pretty much anything at the minute and you know anything in the room
we've got to talk about it the Bugatti yes it's um what a what a project it's all to come I can
imagine but yeah it's yeah it's it's it could it's one of those where like I desperately
obviously I've always wanted one the same as we all have you know who wouldn't who wouldn't and
the the amount of money they they are I'd have to sell you know pretty much everything which I
didn't want to do and this my friend Ollie offered this car and when we went to see it obviously
it wasn't what we thought it was going to be in any way shape or form but yeah I don't know I don't
know I still obviously right this second as we sit now I have no idea whether it was the worst
mistake of my life or the best mistake of my life and I literally right now have no idea
you know how bad or good it's going to get but we've been doing the next video today well
this morning we were working on it and I feel I honestly feel like I don't know whether I'm
sort of trying to convince myself but I feel like the odds are in my favor and I feel like
we're going to be all right but that might be yeah now it's on camera now everyone below
Dicky got it wrong that's going to say cut back too yeah look I've said how many times
as Carl said to you you should have just bought mine I presume that's come off a few times yeah
it was the thing is again the video which comes out on Tuesday shows Carl's reaction when I went
to see him and it was that bad he told me to turn the camera off oh like because he was like
because he knew the car and I didn't know he was going to know the car no way and he was just like
you sit like and he's like just back out of it and I was like no I've bought it and he was like
yeah yeah but just like you know just don't don't don't go through that I was like no because it
it was really awkward on because I didn't really want to sometimes I feel a bit guilty like buying
stuff when you know I hadn't sort of talked to him about it but I didn't want to because it was
obviously it was for you it was a YouTube video and I wanted to get his reaction but then I'm glad
well that's the wrong way right so I probably should have asked him before and because obviously I
would have probably walked away but you'll see on the video he was literally like you have made
the biggest mistake and he's a very trusted person like like he's probably the person I should take
the most advice off yeah so he seems to think it's a bad idea but I feel like the difference
in price to where it should be if it was right it's so big that but then again the bills are
going to be big yeah of course it hopefully the big the bills aren't as big as the difference
yes so for context then see bought a Veyron in two halves with some bits um so it's not it's not
not quite as simple as two complete halves that we're going to stitch back together
um and was it crashed is it crash damage or no no there's nothing um in theory there's like
and the good thing about those cars they're very very well documented so if you have got a crash
Veyron somebody's take a photo of it and it's on the internet so this one is a clean car it's very
low miles because it hasn't worked for nearly four years yeah and you bought it for I bought it for
900,000 ridiculous alarming what would you be looking for a non one in in in what yeah the
cheapest you'd find one now is 1.5 million and probably this one when it's done because the
mileage and stuff would if this was perfect it would be between 1.6 and 2 million surely you're
winning but the trouble the trouble we've learned at the minute is the gearbox is the one like
basically I can't test a gearbox so we're fixing it and we're going to put it back in and we're
not sure like you have to set them all up and on this rig well we haven't got that rig yeah right
so I'm not sure you can do it as a DIY job like we are so it's like an assembly rig
basically they put it on this um there's there's a place which made the gearboxes only 20 well
24 miles from here who have got this rig who work only for Bugatti and if I put my it's
basically a pretend car like it's a hydraulic system and it changes gears it runs it up it
takes about an eight hour process to them to warm the gearbox up a line all the gears line all the
bits and obviously I can't use that no so we're sort of like hoping that it's okay and then we're
putting the car it's not okay to take it back out the car yeah to take it out the car it's
got to return back to how it is now with two halves and it's a massive it's not seven at
top is it and obviously at the time I didn't know it was quite as bad as this but I'm sort of
opening my little head that you know when some people see this video on Tuesday maybe they're
reach out and say I'll tell you what you can borrow our rig but they probably won't and then
I'm gonna I don't honestly I don't I don't know what we're gonna do I really don't know what we're
gonna do at the minute but it seems to be getting in every time I talk about it to somebody gets
worse so I'm trying not to talk to anybody it's great entertainment by the way the sheer fact
to that fair play to you for having there can I say bollocks for buying a P1 from Carl at Harrods
and then going you know what actually there's there's some more in this let's go for a very run
like yeah I've gone from probably the best P1 possible to the worst the worst example
like there's there's definitely no worse worst car because obviously yeah it could be crash damage
but like as a as a condition of a car there's nothing good about that car but it's all superficial
you know a retrim you know some wheels some tires a clean it's just going to be a different world
by the time I honestly think that what my goal is to go from the worst to the best I want that car
to be absolutely better than the day it came out the show and when it's finished that's what it will
be probably in about 15 years and about 15 years quickly I was going to ask have you got some form
of expectation of when you're gonna like it done for but I suppose it's tomorrow well well the sun's
still around would be nice okay so if we can get it you know before we go to autumn I feel
realistically the trouble is we could get this gearbox back in probably probably still about
five weeks away we might put it back in and it work and it'll just be imagine that but then also
as well another problem is if it doesn't it's hard to explain but the DCT clutch apparently
it goes from one clutch to the other gear and if they're not perfectly in line like the one
half goes soft as the other one goes hard and if there isn't that perfect alignment it can put
massive pressure on the gearbox so I could also really really break the gearbox yeah it might be
great for a few a few ones think yeah it's all back together and then we go uh oh yes we've got a
problem and then we are 300 grand deep for a gearbox if we can even get one yeah yeah wow that's
sorry what that's crazy 300 grand for yeah when that is 300 grand that's a lot of cars that's
that's a Ferrari but how how can it be that much money this is I know things are expensive and
they say the word bagatti tax but the the guy was telling us that um he needed some more bolts for
an under tray and I don't know how many bolts on an under tray but I can't imagine there's a lot
of bolts on an under tray and they were 6 000 pound from bagatti for some bolts that's just
like what are they magic bolts solid gold yeah they've just got vw on them but yeah like like
that's the sort of thing where like personally I would not if there's bolts missing there's no way
I'm buying a bagatti bolt yeah not a chance you know and this might be a good exercise of actually
going actually I suppose Matt Armstrong's done a form of this with the uh cheer on hasn't he but
maybe on the veyron you can deploy a few things here and go actually you know that could be the
same as a an a3 under tray bolt that's the thing and I think as long as we get that bolt and we don't
put an m6 bolt with like a zinc plated with like the wrong size head but if we get a a2 stainless
steel or whatever titanium bolt and we make the bolt better than the bolt which is in there yeah
then I'm all up for that without that I can get some stickers or get a match with a logo on it gets
sued yeah a selen on the internet but but like yeah like sensible there's no way I'm spending 500
pound for one bolt no ridiculous and it's got to be right but I'm not I'm not I'm not doing that
no chance it's the impossibility as well because the bugatti is a what the veyron is what 20 years
old now when it came out yes I think yours is a little bit younger than that isn't it it's twars
is 20 years old okay 20 years old is there a chance that actually you know you could maybe
find some specialists as anybody approached you to say actually do you know what we've been working
on these and what we have done is improve the veyron yes we're we're going to use uh the people
who are building the car as a company called furlongers fantastic company um and basically they
are re-engineering parts because if you imagine the bugatti brand they've got a way of doing stuff
and it's you know the parts are 20 years old and you know the technology the materials the processes
well now these guys without the red tape and without having to test stuff you know they know that
you know this aluminium works better or this coating this new whatever it is car
cartanium or whatever is better than you know so they can they have re-engineered parts
to be a superior part than it was 20 years ago yeah so which is a win which is a win yeah and
and obviously their hourly rate is you know and they're helping as well that's the bad thing with
with this process you know we've got all these people saying I want to help I want to do this and
yes that's going to make a difference financially but also people are coming to the table who are the
best the best in the country at what they do and they're saying I want to be a part of this process
yeah which is cool the great thing is because it's clearly evident as well there was lots of
bugatties that you went to see and I imagine that was a lot of effort but all of them some of them
were a bit questionable spec like you had the occasional stunner but then some of them were like
what are you doing like I know they need to be out there but it was a bit some of them were a bit
crazy I suppose you can put your own stamp on this and can't you and the thing is you can spend
all that money on it you might as well you might as well start again but that's the thing it is a
blank canvas and I think that's that's a positive for me because I don't want it to look old-fashioned
I want the colors and the way it's going to look to be almost shirony yeah because there's some of
the shirons now the colors and the the interiors and stuff and next level so I want to sort of
replicate that like you say because we saw the one which was like a brown and a cream and it was
just like hideous yeah like really really hideous but you know and then some of them were fantastic
but yeah now we have got that blank blank canvas yeah can you imagine buying like I said like the
brown one for the 1.5 1.6 million and then having to retrim it and yeah like the paint it'll wrap it
change the wheels I mean you then doesn't make sense then does it no and they are like there is
literally no two the same you know there's one you know they are so so like oddly colored and
weird but like some of the special editions as well there were some some special editions we
saw and they would literally just a different color and it had a plaque saying one of five or
something like that and it was like you know another million pound and I was like what's the
difference here and he's like oh it's the color and I was like was it faster no is it a different
spoiler kit no is there anything different nope just a plaque and a signature yeah and I'm like
mate is obviously a top dog who's signature that is but I don't even know who he is and it's another
million pound yeah and good luck trying to sell that extra million pounds as well because of a
black in it yes that's a tough sell yeah really tough sell but I think people do you know do
like that exclusivity one of five yeah yeah but I'd rather make my car one of one yeah exactly but
like I mean now I'm in too deep I can't back out I'm not sure what like if you imagine if I can't
repair it what it's going to be spares what term what what is this purchase for because obviously
it's like the panel it's like a penultimate car it's absolutely peak car is it it's not an investment
is it so um yeah definitely yeah I think it's they they've I'm yeah they are going up in value
which is only helping the process because I think one of the reasons it wasn't repaired
back four years ago is there wasn't the room to repair it to what the car was worth right
but now the car's worth probably five six seven hundred pounds seven hundred thousand more than
it was four years ago all of a sudden it's worth repairing yeah and I think that maybe is the reason
it hasn't been repaired because you know there is now the room to make it work yeah and actually to
but could you ever imagine if it was picture it and all finished in your jump in it for the first
time oh it's going to be hard to say oh I'm going to sell this right now we've got renders of what
I want it to look like and stuff and they'll just like it's one of those where I just keep
looking thinking oh my god just just it's the word bagatti you know it's this is what we what we
said as well you know Ferrari's amazing you can have a la Ferrari worth four million quid but you
can have a three five five great car worth fifty thousand pound you can have a Lamborghini Gallardo
worth fifty thousand pound or a two million pound sian with a bagatti the entry level
the bottom of the range bog standard car is like one and a half million quid that's what makes I think
the brand and also as well their whole ethos of they really don't care they're not helping they're
not selling your parts this is the amount of money we're charging tough yeah I think even
makes the whole brand even more exclusive exclusive yeah it is the car you know when
you ask somebody oh what's your dream car or what car would do what's your favorite car it is always
has been oh bagatti yeah yeah it was definitely yeah it was cool when that car when actually
I was 10 when that car was released that was what everyone talked about that was the dream car that
was the car that everybody wanted and now there we are 20 years later and when I drove it it was like
honestly it was like nothing else it couldn't be any further away from the cars I've got no which
is I find I do find that I was going to be one of my things saty was like you've driven everything
you've had the privilege of owning and and driving some incredible cars and then your reaction when
you jump in a 20 what is a 20 year old hypercar and you're just like this is this is another
worldly it was it was like you say I'm so lucky and like you know spoil so the choices I've got
and that was it literally was like nothing else I've ever ever experienced and Carl I was a bit
worried that I've already experienced that now and when I spoke to Carl about it we talked about
it on the podcast and said to him you know because you'd already had that experience does that sort
of like was that ruined because you know he'd driven those cars before he owned one and he said
it was nothing like when you know when he had his own and he said that he had the car for four years
and it never got old wow that tells you everything you need to know about the car yeah so like to
you know for me I'd be happy if it goes backwards and forwards at the minute
or is one car one car would be yeah yeah sorry yeah but no you're right I've no doubt that that car
will be everything you want it to be and you know it will just be unbelievable but yeah we've got a
great team everyone's ready and so if anybody can do it our channel can do it you know which
which isn't me it's all the people the kind people who watch our supporters who all want
to get involved if it was if it was Mark from Redditch by himself about a YouTube channel
I think it would be a very very different story yeah but I feel like the power of the YouTube
channel might make this possible yeah and you've shown that with your social media as well just
how powerful the following is and just how powerful social media is to get something or get in touch
somebody who knows something it's incredible so we've literally had here last week the guy who
actually built my gearbox in no way and I've had the guy who actually designed the gearbox
incredible you know the people yeah you know not not like you know the man who built my gearbox
20 years ago yeah yeah and obviously it makes sense that it is but obviously the latest videos you
most watched uh video isn't it yeah it's like crazy yeah like it's it's really weird you know you
I remember when like an unbelievable video was 70 000 views like you know it was unbelievable
and now you sort of I wake up in the morning like look at my phone and just geez like and I say like
wake up Janker have a guess how many it's on then she'll guess and she's always like way under and
I say and she's like what is happening that's it it's the Bugatti numbers yeah yeah yeah Bugatti
tax what was the point where on that note then what was the point that you decided to do YouTube
was it something you're thinking about for a while or did something make you do it yeah um I was doing
uh I was I was doing a TV program for BBC they I got asked to teach um Joel Domet
do you know the mass singer um host and he's also been um on I'm a celebrity get me out out of
theater so he he I had to teach him how to drive a buggy an off-road buggy um and we were against
some other people on the show um and I met a guy called Ryan Taylor who was I didn't know him at
the time but he was a massive YouTuber and he had like two about two million subscribers um yeah
very very big around here and I met him on there and then we sort of like met up afterwards
and I remember I remember we went out somewhere and everyone was like oh my god Ryan Taylor and
then people were like coming for more directions and I honestly at that time for me YouTube was
how to how to change a battery in a BMW key or like you know that that was that was what
YouTube was for I had no idea at that time that there was a YouTube personality who had a channel
who I honestly did not know that existed and when I saw Ryan that night I thought is this
a setup because it was so over the top of these people these like young kids were going like
crazy when they saw him and like it was a real thing and you know yeah so then he he encouraged
me to make a channel and he definitely helped like massively you know he had a knowledge
his editors and their thing so they all helped and that was definitely a massive sort of like boost
you know which was pretty much very unrealistic boost really um like it didn't put us into a
stratosphere and it wasn't you know we definitely started at the bottom still but we definitely
had a foot up yeah yeah I remember very early Ryan videos the other an A45 didn't he and he's
like the shopping shopping center BMX escape you know trying to get rid of the security and just
like really bare bones of yeah well obviously when I'd met him then I went back and watched some of
his stuff and yeah yeah it was pretty like his his content which has proved to be in the same with
valley law and a few you know the nightscapes and stuff sometimes it's um yeah what's it called
it's unsustainable yeah you know the police problems oh yeah band all that sort of stuff and
luckily our content is extremely sustainable um so you know that's probably you know that viral
stuff but you know Ryan definitely gave us a helping hand but also now you know we haven't
done many collabs we haven't jumped on the back of people we've had this really nice natural slow
progression um and that's you know that I think that's why we're doing well as well because it's
not been a rush it's not been a viral video it's just been a steady constant stream of people
jumping on board yeah you've honed like your skills and knowledge of growing it sort of
progressively to now you've found like the sweet spot yeah and that's that's not me you know that's
my team like our team which is about sort of five people really um and they're just clever you know
much cleverer than I am you know and they they understand what you know they understand when
we do a video we already know how it's going to do you know we know if it's going to be a banger
occasionally we get caught out and surprised good and bad but as a rule we know what makes a good
video and we know the ingredients why people watch our videos and now we've got not a formula but we
know you know what we're trying to achieve you know to have that knowledge now is is a massive
advantage understand your audience yes yeah yes and there's one there's one guy in particular um
you know we've got a great team but like one of the guys Matt he just he just gets it like you
know he'll just go right it's a great video but it's missing this and then like he'll turn a good
video into a fantastic video in an hour yeah and all the ingredients are there but it's just been
rotated wrong or not in its best scenario like like I say a lot of times we don't even film
anything extra he just sort of like tells a story a different way a bit of vioe a bit of vioe there
and all of a sudden we've got like a two million view video yeah I think the what certainly makes it
when you're watching it is all the the graphics and the the stats and the the way it's all presented
is it literally is like a documentary style um youtube video yeah we always say we we try and
make it like a seven-year-old can watch our videos that's sort of like I can watch it yeah
yeah so that's what we try and do and if it's too complicated to understand then we go to graphics but
one of our parts of our video is I want people to go away learning something because when we're
when we're filming these videos I get to learn stuff you know we start off as a subject which I
know very little about and then this whole sort of like roller coaster starts then we do the first
video then we have the some of the some of the great videos we do the video and then we have
sort of some disgruntled employee email the week after saying they did this and do you know they
did this and this and then you read some them oh my god I'm like I can't say that yeah like some of
the stuff I know about certain companies where it'd be great to tell the story but I'd end up in
court yeah and I'm sure a lot of it's true but the damage it could do to these companies
and you know just there's nothing better than the disgruntled sacked employees
knowledge is power I suppose but it's where you apply it yeah we box clever we really do box
but all of our videos you know when we've done videos before where some a member of staff has
said something which is great content and helps our story and we use that footage but we blur
and change the voice because I don't want to get somebody into trouble you know we're we're take
words out so that there was one woman in particular and we took words out and change stuff so that
it was impossible to know who she was because she would have simply got the sack right what she said
was honest and right but she shouldn't have said it and she shouldn't have said it to us
and we put it in the video but we made sure that there's no repercussions on her because because
you know I just it would have caused absolute chaos yeah yeah so we're respectful respectful
on what we do so if it doesn't add to the story then you know showing no if it doesn't add to the
story then that it's we're definitely not dropping somebody in it yeah yeah there's no point no
what um what are the repercussions or what are the worries that go through your mind when you are
doing these documentaries Aaron said with you know the most wanted driver or uh the car thieves
yeah it's it is really sketchy sometimes and a lot of the time it's through the editing when
we're watching the editing we're thinking this is really good it's powerful it's what it needs to be
is it too far and then sometimes when we put a video out we have a phone call with each other
and say right we've had this or this has happened or this has happened then we're like and you know
times there's times when we've taken videos down about you know and you know it's quite obvious why
we've taken videos down and people understand why they've been taken down but yeah it is I think
we're getting better but we're also meeting like criminals who this sounds so bad and it's but they're
just humans as well they are like we met some guys recently and I felt really really sad for
them I felt guilty for my life and without a doubt they were wrong guns without a doubt they
are wrong guns but the opportunities they had had was nothing like mine I didn't get a silver spoon
but I got a bed heating Christmas presents birthday presents taught right from wrong
and taught to graft and I had somebody parents great parents who sort of guided me through life
these they've got nothing nobody to fall back on nobody to borrow 20 quid off nobody you know
no role model ready to follow even nowhere to sleep you know and when you know nowhere proper
to sleep no nothing nowhere they could call home they were even I'd say the one guy's probably
his partner in crime who may possibly have been his best friend he also doubted him
so he literally had nobody and without a doubt what they were doing was wrong but it's not justification
but it you can see how they've been led down that path no other option no other option dog eat dog
you know and yeah so it is really really difficult and we've got to be careful
and I don't want like any trouble coming to my front door absolutely but you know
yeah we just have to box clever yeah that's it that's why you mentioned the team at least
somebody out of that team will go just maybe not that yeah we'll put an air tag on it yeah yeah
especially like jay my wife she's very very clever she's and she'll she'll look at stuff sometimes
and just say you know we've we've literally been with people and they say don't blur me
don't blur me don't change my don't change my voice I'm like no we're changing your voice
we're blurring you like I don't get and they're like I don't care but we still do because
like I don't want to be the reason something happens to them yeah sure sure you know like
if they get themselves into prison that's their problem as long as I haven't aided that fact
you know again we we have all the comments you know you're speaking to these people you're
given the mere time you know yeah the obvious ones you know why don't you dub me into the police
well that's that's not my job no no you know we we we make these videos which a lot of the time
without a doubt help people from not being the victim of crime and the bigger story the bigger
picture of that rather than like locking up some kid who hasn't got nothing and will never have
nothing you know what's who's going to be out in six months anyway if they even put him away
because of the courts anyway so at least with the way do it you know we've had like lots and lots
of message of people saying thanks to you this happened but I managed to do this and yeah you
know so that definitely makes a difference to people yeah like putting a lockbox because I've
toyed with that idea of sometimes just putting my keys in a what would you recall key safe yeah
outside yeah no well we that when it's funny we did the first video and I've seen these
key boxes I've been you know I've had you know I've been around key boxes and I had no idea
and then they showed me how they got into this key box and we came back here we fitted one on the
on the wall and I went like smash like that with a screwdriver and it just popped straight
and you were saying that wasn't scripted and then it was that was and I I hit it hard but with my
hands yeah hammer it's a metal box for crying out loud and the keys fell on the floor and I was
like oh my god and then we had and yes it was a sponsorship we had a company called CFA key safe
who reached out to us and said listen this what you're doing is great because there's a problem
and the world needs to know and they came and showed us their product and like the difference
was just unbelievable and you know and hopefully then again lots of people said like you know
you know I've done this and I didn't realize how bad things were but we've all done it we've
all bought stuff off Amazon or whatever it is and you know somewhere and you know you think well
that's a bargain but there's sometimes there really is a reason why it's a bargain and one
like one of that that situation was a real lesson to me that you know and hopefully
you know I'm not saying go and buy this company sponsors but just make sure you've got a good
one yeah yeah or a Faraday box or whatever for you yeah and then again that's all changing isn't it
you know yeah we did a video video recently and the guy was tenuous that he woke up he was asleep
on his set he woke up to two guys in balaclava stood over him oh yeah horrific frightening yeah
and they tried keyless entry they couldn't get keyless entry so he had his car keys in a Faraday
pouch in his house and they came into the house to get the keys which is what they do now well
years ago they could sort of go okay well we're on to the next one we're on to the next one where
now if they want the car they'll do everything to go and get that car so is the right thing to do to
leave your keys next to the front door yeah so they don't come in your house yeah it's that's crazy
to think about and it is mad isn't it it's mad that sort of like the the answer to the UK's
problem of car theft is let them have it which is you've got insurance one of the one of the
blokes said on your podcast but youtube video wasn't it was basically well you've got insurance
get over it and like you know in when that situation happens and if like god help anybody
is in that situation when you are in that situation you'd think next time i'm leaving my keys in the
car never mind you know if you if they're coming into your safe space you know and also as well
we've seen so many times with the victims of crime as well it's not just the car the aftermath
you know this ruins people's lives their houses there you know they can't sleep anymore their
anxiety that makes them ill and a lot of times people have to actually move house oh yeah yeah
you know they can't live in that house anymore oh i would because i would move
i did yeah we moved um i was younger we uh i had an s3 which at the time was quite a new car
you know quite quite sort of new thing really and um luckily it was a key key version not a keyless
version at that time there were pretty much a case of okay well if it's not if it's not responding on
on the key responder then they'll just go and get another one which they did they stole one from
the next road but they pretty much went around the side the whole back of the house uh we're
trying to try to get this signal from the key obviously they locked another car in the drive
didn't take it um but pretty much i think six months after that we we moved once you lose that
confidence yeah yeah it wasn't purely because that was big it was a big reason too because to know
that someone's being sniffing around the house it's just and they didn't even get in so imagine them
now you know yeah like looking at your when you're in your bed which i saw the one clip
where literally the guy was videoing the guy in bed wasn't it it's meant and i'm thinking imagine
that as if it's a joke yeah and you know that you know which i question them heavily about that and
they didn't see it the same as what we see that okay you know for us it's just like next level
unacceptable you know it's like it's not even close to being okay yeah but they didn't have the same
the same outlook on that situation you know and in the video he said that the one time he had to
go out the house because he was laughing so much really yes i remember that yeah which is like you
know but again you know it's not an excuse but you've got to just remember the opportunities
which we're lucky enough to have yeah and we're very blessed you know we've all got if we want to
go out for a meal tonight we probably can afford to go out for a meal tonight you know we can go
to Nando's we've got a nice car we can get home all that sort of stuff we put the heating on don't
have to worry about you know the 50 pence extra it's going to cost a warm your house up some people
just aren't that lucky and yeah they're absolutely right they do it sometimes don't know right from
wrong yeah from a positive angle you are right and i didn't really think of it like that but you
are showing people you're warning them at the end of the day and showing them actually
there are other things that you can buy or things that you can look out for to make sure that
ultimately either you're not having people enter your home or you're keeping your pride and joy
on your drive and not do an hundred and twenty down the a1
imagine it was yours then yeah so no i can't remember where we were in that but yeah yeah
that's just a crazy story and yeah that documentary style video i mean i can remember
and everyone watches it you just glue to the screen you find yourself just sort of like
completely hooked into the video and there's very few channels these things that i feel personally
does that yeah that's when when we watch obviously we make it we film it we edit it
obviously i've got an amazing team recent ryan or like
chop the hell out of it and sort of put it into a format but i know what we've what we've done
and i'm getting better helping at the end as well but they're you know we'll put this first edit
together which takes a long long time and we've got like this this this website where you know we
all get to view it we can all comment on it so we start to build a video but you know as a team
and when we watch it sometimes i watch it the first time i'm like yeah this is good
and then i have to review it and watch it again and then we change it and watch it again and
sometimes i've watched that video six seven eight times by the time it gets to you know being
publicly uploaded onto youtube and when i'm not bored of it and i'm still thinking
this is all right and and that's a good thing as well sometimes we'll go through it and think
i'll sit there and watch it and it's probably because i've watched it too many times i think
that bit's a little bit tedious now so we're chop chop chop chop chop so that you know nobody
is it the fact where they go um might click off and watch something else we need people to be like
going oh my god what's going to happen i can't not see the end of this yeah i've got i've got to see
i want to know what the what the score is i want to know that and that's what we always
trying to do is that retention which youtube rewards us for you know for making sure like
you know they're a business they don't want you clicking off and going to amazon prime
you know they want they reward and push your video if you make great videos yeah and you
know for us you know they're obviously helping us because we are you know doing you know our team
are doing a great job oh yeah absolutely a credit to you and all the team because it's um it's
i don't think there's anything like it no mega content yeah it's great for me to not have to
copy anybody's fantastic you know we are in our own lane yeah and we don't even have to say or we've
you know add this inspiration yeah of course some of our videos you know we've taken ideas of parts
but a lot of it is like totally bespoke and ideas for ourselves and some some of the things we do
i don't think many other people could do i think we've got this sort of like angle now and the trust
that some of our videos cannot be replicated yeah you know you just can't no you can't do what we're
doing or you could literally go completely you know tip the topic on its head shall we say and not
even do an episode on car and literally just do an episode on the property in the history of the
battle with the council etc which was a wicked episode yeah and then the twist at the end like
yeah nailed it yeah that's again like you know that's when we when we talk about doing this sometimes
it's risk versus reward and what we don't want to do is all our current sort of subscribers go
yeah that was a bit rubbish i won't watch next weeks and obviously youtube will know that and
sort of maybe not push us as much as it can so when we did the the the council one the house one
like there was a lot of things in that video where it worried me because this
that whole situation at the time was horrific for me you know yes i've got this like i'm so
lucky to have this house but that lot made me ill like it made me really ill it was really bad for
my health like how they were coming after me and at the time if i'd have had a youtube channel
back then could you imagine oh my god yeah like you know when we told the story and you know
now i know what i know and the trouble is the the end bit the twist i was like i didn't know that
till years afterwards if i'd have known that at the time oh yeah career very sort of time saved a
little bit yeah do you think it would having that the youtube then and let's say you could have made
videos and do you think it would give you a form of protection or do you think it would go against
you yeah maybe i may be because you know even that counsellor if i'd have told everybody who he was
and that's when we talk about stuff like that you know i can get into trouble like if somebody goes
and sets his car on fire or damages something or hurt him that's coming back on me so we have to be
really careful because obviously he did wrong yeah he definitely definitely did wrong um but
that's that's you know that's my problem not and i don't want to get anybody else involved um but
yeah it's it is a difficult one you've got to use you've got to use you know we're not powerful in
any way but we have got a little army yeah well i suppose quite a big army now you know people will
will sort of like look after us and you know i'm sure the repercussions of you know i can just
imagine if i'd have said who he was yeah yeah i know i know because he was underhand and it's
wrong what he did oh yeah and i'd imagine it's you know if you could prove it it would definitely
be criminally wrong yeah but obviously whether you could prove that i doubt it but you know
you know a lot of a lot of the things which happened was disgusting and um yeah
yeah i'm sure i'm sure when he's watching this video he's probably thinking oh please don't say
fast forwarding doesn't it just show one person you wrong one day could wow like that
talk about karma there um the other thing i can like it so you know you're saying if you had a
youtube back then it's have you seen the whistling diesel yeah yeah he's been here oh yeah of course
he has yeah he drove around you tracked with me yeah yeah um yeah have you seen what's going on with
him and buying the Ferrari or i think it's a couple different cars now in another state or whatever
because of the tax implication but again he's got the youtube because they tried to put an
impeachment on him they to say you know you can't talk about certain things yeah um i'd speak to him
crazy like there's me name dropping um i do speak to him you know on the phone and yeah and we know
each other and we're friends and he was he was actually in london this time last week
and again like he he's got to the stage like you say that he's now trying to get out of america
because and maybe sometimes i think with what they've done to him there obviously he did something
wrong technically but by the sounds of it so did nearly everybody else and it was just a bit of a
loophole which everybody was doing but they've obviously made an example of him and they've used
his power against him yeah yeah so it can work the other way that's definitely work the other way and
you know like he's they are very very very clever people he is very very intelligent yeah and when
he came here i learned i learned a lot from ryan and i've learned a lot from kody like watching
watching him how he worked here and what he did um was yeah it was amazing amazing i remember
we had a message from him he followed me on instagram and then said um do you want to do a
video and i was like oh my god this whistle and diesel is it absolutely was the right account yeah
oh my god right yeah and every now and again you have that you see somebody follows you and you
like oh my god he knows who i am on a small scale i yeah we get that we think yeah oh that's them
yeah so i can't imagine how that feels you know and it was just like my god and he messes sake
and at the time i was always like let's not get excited until he rings that doorbell yeah until
that happens let's just and then when he actually like was at the gate i was like oh my god a whistling
diesel is that my yeah which got through the gates yeah which was which was probably you know and that
that that that happens now like i recently did a video with mash tag i don't know if you've seen
mash tag yeah like i'm such a fan of mash tag and i watch him all the time and then again
he reached out and said do you want to well through a friend do you want to do a video
and like he this is gonna sound so bad and god i hope he doesn't watch us but he sent me a voice
note and i remember listening to it again and again i'm like to jane listen to this it's mash tag
and like you hear his voice yeah and i'm like oh my god that's that's surreal and obviously that
probably happens to people yeah the other way around but yeah like it was just yeah yeah and
that's the power that's the great you know the space we're in youtube is such a great a great
tool because it makes normal people like us have a platform and an opportunity to have an audience
and an income you know where that wasn't the thing before you had to be you know an actor had to be
a son or a daughter a cousin or a brother and you had to have a way in well now an iphone
and a computer and you're in yeah yeah it's crazy i know he's had some really similar to
to some of your episodes on the whole documentary style of whether it's thefts or whatever he's had
some cracking videos as well yeah but again very very different content you know and i
suppose on that he probably does get a little bit of hate sometimes for you know wrecking a brand
new Ferrari or a ruin an L32 skyline that sort of thing but actually let's face it it's great
content yeah that's what you're watching isn't it you know and i suppose we i suppose our channel
is quite similar to his in certain ways um you just smashed less things up yeah we're probably a
little like i think insert sterato i think that probably they can get away with a bit more in
america but yeah i feel like like kody's like wist and diesels videos like you know we've you know
if you're a fan of him like the the merry go round and the the the helicopter up in the roof and stuff
like that when i spoke to him about that because he came to ours like around that time and when i
watched that video i was like god i wish i was there because they were so scared that they were
going to die because like when you put a helicopter up to the top of your ceiling fan you have no idea
like is it going to explode is it going to chop everybody's head off is it going to not do anything
like they had no idea what what was going to happen and he said they were laughing so much because
they were like so scared and you know and just that must yeah like it's so funny because he's got
it's actually got this quite nice smart unit and he's just that garage door imagine being a garage
door repair man like that contract we'll keep you going all year because like he literally
smashes that garage door up every other week i have to not think is it like a temporary door
they're putting there to make it look like no no no it really is the door they just smash through it
every time yeah and sometimes they smash through it and then like go we should have probably gone
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i suppose we'll sort of touch a little bit on your background really and maybe your history
because it hasn't always been youtube you know there's been a lot of success prior to where we
are now but where did it all start with the racing career um my dad um when i grew up even when i was
like a few weeks old my dad um my dad worked my mom and dad obviously my mom and dad worked
really really hard at our engineering company it was like you know ups and downs problems
bankrupts all that sort of stuff it was a very i remember it was like a very difficult time to try
and you know sort of go on your own and try and make a living but his thing was it was um it was
grass rat racing so but i remember he never had the best bike he was always tinkering it and making
himself spraying it painting it but making the best of what he had so i was always around that
and he had number 64 and i remember going there and watching his kids spending our summer day in
this grass field with you know your BMX and that's that's what we did and then i then started racing
BMX's uh and then eventually when we could afford it we had motocross bikes and then obviously
after smashing myself up literally to pieces i eventually started um like off-road buggy racing
and stock car racing and stuff like that so and it's been it's been just absolutely fantastic
and i've been really lucky to do really well but even like you know i've said in the one video as
well which a lot of people don't know with the buggy racing you had a co-pilot a passenger
and that was jay my wife so i find that yeah what a power couple really and the thing is like you
know never did she say to me slow down no well actually she did she said it once and i'll never
forget there was a the one bit you we had to go through this a gate and we were flat out as fast
as we go it's probably doing about 75 mile an hour in this buggy and if you clipped clipped it
it would be a massive massive problem and that's the only time she ever was a little
bit worried because you know it looked like it was a lot smaller than what it was but as a rule
i remember we we crashed in we were in bastoin in holland and we rolled on the first lap got taken
out and we were upside down and you're hanging upside down and like it's quiet because everyone's
gone and you just sat there thinking and she was like should we get out it's like nope because
once you get out to get back in it's a big job but if they roll you over and buy some miracle all
the wheels are but still on we're off again you know as fast as we can you know we can we were
good enough to maybe catch some up so we sat there and then like a minute went by still sat upside
down starting to feel bad now because all the blood's rushing to your head and she always says now
like the best part of racing was rolling wow really the bigger the crash the more she enjoyed
it what a great adrenaline jump yeah she she absolutely loved it and we've had some like
some fantastic times doing it met some great people but then that all stopped simply because of
youtube so that was my that was my real passion that was where i'd spend the winter's nights
laying upside down fixing it repairing it making it better and then youtube sort of got to the stage
where i couldn't put the amount of effort i wanted to win like i didn't want to go there and finish
second or third like i always wanted to everything i've ever done this would sound a bit weird but
i always want to do my best so if i'm coloring in with center i don't want to go over the lines
like i always want to do everything to the best of my ability and with my racing i always wanted
to do the best and with youtube i could no longer do that because it was taking all my energy and
effort and do do you sort of also think maybe with sena being being here that sort of responsibility
if you're like it's so much more now you know if you're if you're racing and stuff is that then a
risk yeah definitely some of the things we did that when i was doing stock car racing
stocks carts he was brilliant but jane i broke my back pretty well bad really bad and sort of like a
i lost my youth like i was paralyzed only for about a minute or something like that but it wasn't
it wasn't a great minute i wasn't very well for a while and obviously she she had to witness that
and she had to go through like it was a lot better for me you know i was ill
but it was by far i had the best end of the stick being the patient rather than the person who was
stood there worrying and after that she she asked me if i wouldn't do it anymore so i totally
respected him when she said that i've only ever driven it once since that day because you know
she puts up with so much but when she said that she didn't want me to do that i was like yeah done
finished especially when she's been in the seat next to her as well she's she's been there and
done that yeah i think the buggy and she was all right with but stock car racing if you've ever
seen it it's just a different it's a different breed you know it's like i've never been you know
to give you an example what that's like when you're racing round and you can't catch the people at
the front you can sort of like semi-stop the race by a big accident so as you're going past
somebody's not so good you will purposely put them into the wall to make that accident so you'll
put somebody a lamb to the slaughter to neutralize the race that's the level of hard car and then
like you know i just that's yeah but that's why people love it what an adrenaline adrenaline though
i mean i can i can see it you know what's feeling that you know to have you know the rules are you
can do what you want you can smash into somebody as long as you're not touching them when they hit
the wall so you can drive along just just you can't push them into the wall you can push them into
the wall but as long as you're not still attached yeah but you know the world championship races
they're literally there'd be two people who are really really good and have a chance of winning
but the one would just say today i'm not winning but one thing is not happening is he
isn't winning so literally yeah the only reason they'll be on that track is to wipe them out and
make sure that they don't get that title someone did that to you um no no but i've heard plenty of
stories where where oh yeah there was there was one thing which like sort of like when i got hurt
yeah that was probably it was definitely one of those times where enough's enough and
don't push your luck anymore who are your heroes in racing i think there are two of them maybe a
little bit obvious but yeah um definitely ken blott for the stuff which which he's you know able to
do in a car yeah um yeah i don't know i don't know there's so many there's so many people who
like i watch and would love to be but i suppose yeah nobody which sort of like i'm obsessed with
like i was with ken blott you know when i when i bought his fiesta like he was obviously alive
and well and i bought a fiesta for like too much money yeah did you get to meet it really
disappoint me not and i now have met so many people who you know i've met his wife i've met his
daughter i've met like you know his friends his team and nobody has one single bad word to say
about that man nobody like everyone says how great he was and when when i bought the car like there
was some of the deal like there was the race suit and there was assigned stuff and you know one of
the things was going to be i was definitely going to meet ken and obviously unfortunately
he passed away and i never got to meet him which was 2022 yeah it must have been yeah probably
probably was i think it was the first of january yeah i can remember waking up that that morning
and all i could see was ken blott ken blott i remember i mean i've never met the guy you know
followed him but i remember how that felt for me never mind you know people you know in the racing
sort of career people have met him but it was doing something it wasn't even no racing related
would it it was it was snowboarding wasn't it snowmobile snowmobile shows you how dangerous
they are but equally big big heavy things i've been a one than they're heavy yeah they're really
heavy yeah it was collin mccray who died with his was it son in a helicopter helicopter yeah okay it's
oh it's the mark she mackers sort of ambulance him and but um like the accidents that they what
they do for a living and then something happens at skiing or whatever yeah innocent and you do
you think of them as invincible yeah yeah watch them do these things and you just think the gods in
a way and then yeah turn the telly on yeah but it's nice to see ken blott stores it lia lia yes
doing what she's doing now i sort of follow it in her dad's footsteps i think that's really
that's really cool yeah i met them at um abad abbey um we went and we went and we did a video
going to abad abbey and i met um lucy his wife and lia his daughter at a motocross event and yeah it
was it was obviously they knew who i was but not because because i had his car you know they you
know and um it was just great to great to meet them and but that car now is just when i first
had that car i could jump it bump it roll it like nobody cared but now it's you know you've
got to be so respectful and you know you've people see that car now and they literally weep they cry
they they get because it is the car you know is the car yeah a lot respect to you as well for
although no doubt you've been offered probably some silly money for that car keeping it because it
it is still the car that your hero drove sort of thing it will always be that it's not a not
necessarily just an investment item that can be sold easily and you know no yeah when when i got
offered a lot of money for the first time you hadn't been you hadn't been passed away very long
oh gosh yeah you would have been deeply disrespectful to um but you know still you know
it's there's one life live it you know you've got to do what you've got to do but you know um
i i'm glad i kept hold of it now sure um it's a shame it's worth so much money for the reason
it's worth so much money um you know nobody wants to see a wife and three kids without their dad
increase the value of a car but you know the the truth fact is it has and it's worth
literally 10 times more than the day i bought it um which is yeah which is you know also as well
that car has you know i went you know i raced at goodwood festival of speed because of that car
you know like a proper proper dream bucket list you know not just me like me and jane went to the
ball you know we stood at the ball and all these famous people there and Worcester they're going
oh my god there's that and you just like bench me moment just amazing and you know again
this year we went to the pride of britain awards and was you know there's cat dealing behind me
with somebody old and an umbrella over a red and there's like h here there's like every
lot to be fair i didn't know a lot of them who they were but jane knew that's that person that's
like everyone everyone on the telly even kia starmer was there on that night and there's me and
jane these like just these like youtubers like you know got like somebody looking after their six
are old and were they're going you know i didn't even have a pair of shoes like you know and then
i'm having to go shoe shopping and we're there at this this event and and just like my god thank
you youtube you know we're there we've been invited to the pride of britain awards and
it was just an experience just unbelievable like to give you an idea about how like some of the
stories i like to tell we were there jane goes to the toilet she's got up this woman sit next to me
i'm thinking that's jane say yeah so i'm like i'm not sure you're supposed to be sat there and she
sat there she's like all right and i'm like yeah and i'm thinking who are you what's going on here
and she was like oh good and then as she come back like jane came back from the toilet she stands up
and walks away and i'm like but she's a seat filler so when you go to somebody goes to the toilet
they employ other people to sit there so it looks full brilliant i didn't even know that what a job
i'm like i'm bored with that so basically yeah luckily they don't go after somebody's been to
toilet but like yeah there's still a toilet there they just sit in their seats i don't know if there's
somebody on the toilet seat for jane went into i can't remember if she she again there's this this
this guy i don't know i can't remember his name now but he's he's he's sat by the side of me and i'm
like you're right and he was like yeah and i said oh well what do you do then he was like an actor i'm
an actor i was like oh no way cool um anything i'd have heard of and he was like this this is
not heard of anything i was like oh cool that's that's brilliant and i was like
you know you're all right for work because i know because i'm thinking i always hear these stories
about actors you know they struggle and this all right for work like you know sort of like just
chatting he was like yeah yeah i've been busy i was like oh sweet like that's really really good
he does one somebody else is sat in his seat obviously at this stage i don't know who this
and then i'm thinking well he's obviously gone home early next thing you know he comes on he's
presenting an award this much is sat next to me i have no idea who he is and then he's like
going next i'm going to present this one i'm like he's was that here a minute ago and i was like
james like i told you who he was i'm like i still don't know who he was but he was like you know he
was on the on the table with us that's amazing surely you must get a bit of that now though
because of the how the channel is going surely you're at petrol station or you know shops and
you must get people caught to you and yeah notice you and yeah and it's really flattering and it's
like it's getting to the stage now where it is like everywhere you know everywhere whether it's
go out from me or you know go to the petrol station do like it's literally everywhere now which is
which is just a sign of like you know how good our team has done and yeah it's i love it when you
i'm definitely not bored if that's for certain when people tell us how you know they enjoy the
content or they want to sell for you or anything like that it's you know it's an honor for to be
in that to be in that position and what i really like is when you know the rest of team get recognized
and they get the you know because as much as i say to everyone it's not me it's not just me
you know obviously i still get all the like the majority of the praise but you know jane
now gets the stage now where she goes somewhere and she comes back she's like i had two selfies
she's been to morrisons and she's like i've had two selfies and i was like oh wow who was it and
she's like so she gets in you are winning together really the channel is sort of broad
the both together like this this morning center on the way to we've got a problem with a vehicle
which it will be a great story and she was like what about that i said we can't use it power like
the government like you know we're not allowed to do this with that and she was like tell them
youtubers daddy she's got center she's had a like free stuff she gets free stuff sent to her like
we all love free stuff when free stuff comes i'm like my god i've got free stuff is great yeah
and you know when when people say you know do you want this and i'm like listen appreciate that
thank you but you know i can't mention it you know because you know that would cost whatever
and they're like oh no just just have it and if it's in the back of the videos you know we're
not expecting anything back and and it's just like wow that's great yeah and center one day
will realize to sort of get the value of oh yeah well when i was younger i got that and
it should very well be more respect sorry what that was totally and and she's got like um yeah
she got sent this um this this bike um this week a revi and i said to her i tried to explain to
they have sent you this because you're good at what you do you're good so i try to explain to
the only reason she's got that is because she helps and she's you know she's well mannered and she's
sort of like respectful when the cameras are and she's not she's not being no because kids can be
dicks can't they you know they show enough and she's she's not you know she's very grounded she
understands right from wrong and so i try to tell her that you know the reason she's got an air
up bottle and the reason she's got a revi bike is because these people have gone i'm sending that
to center because they enjoy watching center yeah that's great that's fantastic that's a good way
of doing it i like that absolutely yeah what do the kids think at school because i imagine she's got
some friends at school or everyone or in like the cars on youtube and yeah it's great because like a
lot of the dads like the the her schoolmates dads they sort of watched the channel and obviously a
lot some of the kids do as well but like the dads so like they it's really yeah it's just great you
know yeah like you know we went on a track day together with all all the dads and yeah they're
great bunch of people and yeah it's it is great you know where people you know want to know what's
happening and they've seen the video and then stop me and say you know and send or say that a teacher
they say missus whatever watches our videos i'm like that's crazy yes that is weird you know
like a school teacher is watching yeah she'll never get into trouble i mean
like when people say to her you know we're at places and she loves a photo like if i'm having
a photo taken she's in the photo yeah but you know she signs like we like somebody last for
signature but then she has to sign as well amazing so somebody's got a teacher or you know something
like that which they have spent this money on a carrier in a bag with a pen and asked me to sign
it and then she's like can i sign it as well and you can see the lad going yeah but he's in a situation
now where he doesn't want to be in this he can't say no he can't say no and then send his like flipping
spelling a name wrong or it's going like that over the top of mine and she's like and i'm like
bless her she's amazing she's just she's just yeah i think that that's the thing as well i think
life the way things are going life might be a little bit different for her to normal okay you
know because this is a bag like you know this why shouldn't why won't she carry this on you know
if this carries on going now it's going you know she's already recognized she's always getting bits
so and also as well i feel like when i was younger i haven't got any photos of me with my mom and like
you know they're very very rare and yeah but she's going to be able to watch herself yeah that's
amazing it is like a lifelong it really is like a lifelong documentary that's been with us little
and this is me now sort of thing one youtuber we had on actually said that was the reason he started
was to essentially document his his what he does every day for his kids which is brilliant amazing
yeah and it's obviously just took off from there and now it's a a religious thing he does every
day yeah because she was probably three and obviously didn't really say much but now she's
turning into a you know a proper a proper character and the trouble with her which is which is really
good is you can't if you miss it you can't say say it again yeah like it doesn't work like that
even if you say you say that again she's like say it again no no no not not say it again
yeah she needs to be raw otherwise yeah but i always say to Rhys if she's involved keep that
camera rolling yeah because you know it's going to come out at some stage it's going to be quality
but don't miss it yeah but yeah it was the p1 uh reg plate that got me once yeah she was spun out
at any second she was going to say it and then she just said sort of really isn't i can't remember
exactly how it went and then i thought it's police police we were like amazing amazing
where did that i bet you were in psycho oh my god that's exactly what we did we were all like oh my
here we go here we go you're gonna say it yeah no no that is amazing again that's a clip forever
you'll have that moment on camera you know she did it this week in that big fatty video she said
daddy's bought spaghetti vayron and he's in big trouble and how true a word could be spoken
yes spaghetti vayron yes so wait was was saying of the inspiration for spaghetti vayron then
yeah yeah she she couldn't say that's amazing so obviously we said spaghetti vayron she just
you should you could she could sell t-shirts with that yes spaghetti vayron yeah it's a merch line
fair your vayron looks oh no sorry
yes and no there was there was a real we love the name the the one sort of
hedge thing formula one thing we've got out there is and send us mp4 but also there was a
there's a really good british trojan car driver called senna proctor and all right so that was
where i heard the name often yeah and yeah so so yeah basically senna is quite a boy's name but
we've had lots of people now like only one the other night as well say that you know people message
to say that they've called their daughter senna after senna and that's like proper proper call
cause it's sort of carrying a bit of a wait a wait now with the for the name i suppose the
history and people doing the same thing when people say that like you know they like her and the way
she is but yeah i'm really lucky like you know i've said it before but the team my family my friends
you know they're not celebrities no they're my real proper proper friends yeah do you think with
with every win that you have do you feel like there's a big responsibility there though when things
maybe go south so for example the video where it was the um the sort of picture was sent here just
of your fact of jay man sent it together that you suddenly thought oh i stepped on here a bit
yeah at the time um that was horrible because it was i'm not very good at sleeping sometimes
and that was like the middle of the night couldn't sleep picked up my phone and you know it's like
i don't know if it's the same for you guys but things are always worse in the night yeah oh yeah
absolutely stress and worry and thinking is worse and i saw that and i was like oh shit and then
like what do you do do i wake up jane then or do i tell her in the morning and like it definitely
wasn't a good thing but you know when you think about it logically you know when we spoke to this
guy he in his head he believed he was a car dealer true he'd never sold a car in his life
he was a fraudster um but he really think he in his head i think he thought that we'd ruined his
business yeah yeah sure which he did business dealership shut down yeah let her go all of his
staff yeah but like yeah he's valid in Bayes and he like he was yeah he was angry and but then
when you think about it i know who he is like now i know who he is and you know because again
are the people who sort of like come on our side and you know they all these people are like
i'm going to find who he is i know i know exactly who he is and i'm never going to do
anything about that no like he can do his thing i'll do my thing but i know who we're everything
about that guy thanks to people helping us um to do that but and is is the when he said he was
going to come and do this and come and do that is he like how many how many acts wielding murderers
also says that they're going to do it and like an sas man like i've always i remember getting
told this like when somebody says i'm going to knock you out or anything like that it's not them you
want to worry about it's the ones who don't say a word yeah and if you say you're going to go do
this you're not going to go do this and yeah maybe will and maybe old fate cannot come back and and
you know but i think he's he's had his he's had his day like you know and
yeah it was bad at the time but yeah it's a good 12 hour flight away for a start so you know
where he lives it's not
but probably yeah a little bit closer than that unfortunately but but yeah even so like you
the people have always said you know there's there's there's going to be a byproduct of
when we're doing that sort of thing and you know there's all sorts of dealerships and things which
people have told me where this has happened and we could go after all those people but
then it becomes very personal and very you know i've got to think of you know people say oh do
this do that and i'm like well you do it like don't tell me to do it you you get you know your
house burnt down you get you know somebody come and threaten you so we have to pick our fights
because i think you do it in such a clever way that you know you tell the story but you're not
saying anymore yeah and i think as long as we're on the fence you know there's there's definitely
times where i've got more of an opinion that than you know we can put across but i don't want to sway
the audience it's up to it's up to the audience whether they think they're legends or think they're
horrible people you know we're trying to do a a biased opinion from both sides and you know it's
it's up to our audience to decide which way they want to go yeah is there a video that you can
tell us about that never made it to youtube that potentially you can't reveal the video but you
can tell us what the context of the video was that you've you got it about or would have done really
well yeah yeah there's there's one which we're trying to get done now which yeah which which
actually will go out but yeah some of no but there's there's some bits where i found out about
big companies and shareholders and people have done some pretty disgusting business decisions
which has altered people's life and health for monetary reasons
and big big companies where they should have done something they didn't because
doing something would have cost a lot of money so they're happy to see the negatives because it
doesn't hurt financially their pockets yeah and when you see that and you think yeah i understand
why because it's a multi-million billion pound company and the shareholders and pressures
but you think yeah but somebody's probably dead yeah how do you live with that type yeah
and you know you could have stopped the second person dying if you'd have done something about it
but doing something about it was too costly and then you know some of those things are like
but then probably that that probably happens in all walks of life yeah every day but when
there's a few of those where we've heard over the time where you know but again that's something
where would tell in that story how it is as a selfish way might risk my family and my life
and my house so you know yeah some things left best yeah yeah yeah it's one for down the pub
with my mates i tell them they're like oh my god and i'm like you know the few people i've told
about that they're all like what yeah that's it and nothing will come back on you because it's
hearsay isn't it it's not being released out yeah like like it would make a great video
yeah
well yeah just bank it bank it what you're done with youtube yeah we just go okay last video
i think yeah i think it's when when i no longer do you know like have you ever seen ricky javais
afterlife yes yes when you no longer care when i no longer care yeah it's probably three or four
great video yeah maybe you might put the telly on one day you might see a headline and go we're on
yeah what a series by the way yeah that's inside scoop yeah absolutely oh it's a fantastic series
yeah with the the car collection again coming back to that whole hindsight thing but is there a car
that a you wish you wish you would have bought to now have an either keep or sell or a car that you
wish you wouldn't have sold and you still have to obviously the crew the crew gts were different
because they didn't really that was definitely a business decision so i saw there was a gap in
the market i saw the dollar rate was good i saw they're undervalued in america and i bought those
the second one with my dad simply because i knew we could make money i didn't really not a massive
fan of the car not not a massive Porsche person anyway um but there was one which which i talk
about quite a lot so it was a um elancia delta martini six very special edition white with like
the blue and red stripes beautiful car these amazing blue seats inside and we actually this is a lot
more effort than we usually go to me and jane went on a plane to italy to go and see this car
and it was 45 000 pound at the time and looked this car and it was
unbelievable but way too good right like something just wasn't right and everything
about it something wasn't right and now i know what i know these years later i can have a fairly
good idea that this car was a clone or there was obviously something very wrong with this car
but it was one of those where wow and now that's 200 000 pound oh wow yeah so but i'm pretty sure
i'd have either lost my 45 000 pound or it would have been somebody else's 45 000 pounds with a car
so but yeah that's definitely one where especially as i love the car so much as well i want i want
i want one of those cars but again miss the boat now there's a few cars like that like a
Countash would love a Countash but there's no way now that's ship sailed like i'm not
if i'd have been on it early enough i'm all i'm all up for it but i'm not paying the overs
those cars yeah i've gone to now so mercilago sv again wow yeah what a car there's a few cars
where ship sailed yep yeah never said never bought you're right it's uh yeah it's one of
one of very few though around that let's say aren't in the collection or in a seal box somewhere
i've got an idea fix that bugatti yeah because that's easy put a put number 64 on it a one of
one plaque sell it for a million quid over buy what you want that's it there you go all so easy
yeah i've done my tomorrow evening don't you just need a test rig in there yeah that's it yeah
yeah there's the small the small issue there yeah with the car collection of your size
the maintenance costs and implication what and because you did a video covering this
what does it really cost you to keep these cars going um personally me not too bad because
i'm lucky enough to have the space and the facilities here which you know don't cost me
any money for rent storage most of the cars are sawn i don't service them every year i don't
mot them every year they just sit there dry stored yeah and then when i if and when i come to use them
or sell them obviously we've got to do a bigger service a more expensive service but not too bad
the my downs my downsides which thanks that video i have sorted out i had too many cars
taxed insured and mot'd like you know there was cars which i hadn't driven for three four months
which are taxed insured and mot'd on my drive which was ridiculous like you know so wasteful
so now i've like sawned more so that there's there's still a ridiculous amount of waste but not like
not like what it was so it's not it's not too bad my my the problem is insurance and not that i pay
over the odds for insurance because i get a good rate it's just the cars are that expensive
that the risk yeah means the insurance companies have to have to charge a lot of money yeah and
it's the price of tax down as well if you were to some of those cars like that that um that ktm
i think it was three and a half grand for the first year tax what like this is this first year
luxury car tax is all right okay isn't it yeah yeah but then annually after that as well yeah
it's but it's not as look like it's a fraction compared to the the first year yeah i think the
first year is like three times as much as some stupid is crazy because one of those cars that
amazing car by the way um it you know you can't drive it every single day in on all roads and
three and a half grand what for whatever car is a bit of bills to swallow but when you can't drive
it daily i think you've been doing a good job of getting out when you can though but yeah do you
know what i mean it's crazy yeah what i can't what i can't i mean i think it's like the perfect
recipe really isn't it because it's got you know i mean what an engine that rs engine is for a start
but matched into something that doesn't weigh a lot looks like that i mean you know it's it's
like the perfect recipe surely yeah but that that car i first saw it i saw it on then on tim schmi's
channel so so i saw it on on his and then i asked tim has he got any contacts at ktm and we went to
see it and again that was that was a risky video because is anyone going to care about a ktm like
if you're a motocrosser you're into your ktms but is like you know our our uk automotive audience
who watch our channel slightly interested in the ktm and you know we went to see this ktm and
what a company like you know proper proper company lovely people staff which have been there forever
staff which are really like you know really proud of their job and you know they are the underdog
and everybody loved the fact that you know they were taking on the big brands but they weren't a
big brand and but you know so and really good with that first video we crashed the ktm website the
car website really wow oh wow that's really which is great like you know i don't get anything out of
that i don't get anything out of them selling more cars but they've definitely sold more cars
and they deserve to sell more cars so i'm happy to have helped that you know yeah you know them
sell cars because you did well you fooled me then because uh you did so well that's repping that i
actually thought there must be some sort of like ambassadorship brand you know thing going on there
because of the the racing and yeah yeah and i think you know that of course we we get offered stuff
and you know do you want to be this do you want to be that but that's not what our we're really
i'm really conscious of this ambassador getting a percentage all that sort of stuff it's you know to
do that i could be doing that all day every day on instagram saying this this i want our content
and people to watch yes of course at times we're going to do a sponsored ad we're going to do
something on instagram but what i do want to do that is do that every day yeah so we're very very
picky with what we do um you know to the fact that it's not that you know our our followers can still
see funny entertaining comedic like clips yeah without being told to buy this or use this discount
codes like you know which you know so we are yeah the opportunities definitely come more than we show
but you know sometimes whether it might not even be financial sometimes i just think sometimes it's
just we're better off not taking the mickey and just respecting that people want to watch real
content yeah absolutely respect you for that you know you're not sort of i guess being selling out
yeah i said yeah you're doing what you want when you want to do it yeah i think there's like
we've got to be careful because we've got bills to pay yep absolutely and i've got a big team
and we want to see the content yeah which which obviously you know
through the years has cost me a lot of money and now it's getting to the stage where at last you
know we're seeing something put something back for that but you know i've got mouths to feed and
people who deserve good wages because they do such a great job so you know there's there's definitely
a balance of you know we've still got a we've we've got to have adverts we've we've got to have
sponsors you know we've got to monetize because otherwise i'm not spending you know money you
know the amount of money we've it's cost us to get where we are which is not a problem because
we've enjoyed every single second of it but yeah there's there's more mouths to feed than just mine
yeah i want to keep it going so you've had a really good experience with ktm has there ever
been a time where you've had say the worst experience you've had with a with a dealer or a car
manufacturer the only the only one really was when we went when we did that the Porsche GT3 oh yes
yeah that was the only one and really their business model is a great business model really
really clever they use a sort after car to sell more cars great business you know that's
total business sense is you know use that dangling carrot to feed more car sales you know which are
difficult to sell no problem whatsoever and their best customers in theory get those opportunities
exactly how it should be but the problem we had and sort of highlighted is sometimes
those best customers don't get that car despite being semi-promised that that car's come in their
way so you know i jumped i got offered a slot and i jumped a load of people because they wanted to
get rid of free take-hands well that's that's not fair no it's not it's not fair like somebody
deserves that car and it's definitely not me you know it's somebody who's bought 10 cars got a great
relationship is in there every week going on the Porsche trips got themselves a mountain bike go and
spend some merch and walking around in a like a 300 quid soft shell Porsche soft shell which i mean
that's those are the people who deserve that car i didn't deserve that car so you know that was the
only one where again no badness on Porsche it's just it's a great business model that you know
it's a clever business model but i didn't like that we were sort of led to believe that we could
get a car if you bought these three cars look we can't do it but we can do it if we just get
you know just buy these and yeah lose a chunk of cash and again like you know some of the
things we didn't put in the video because like like if we'd have said who that dealership was
and what it was all the people who didn't get a car at that dealership would know would have gone
berserk yeah so again we've respectfully left details out which doesn't help the story yeah
but could have caused chaos yes okay like you didn't know to know what dealership that was you
didn't need to know that no difference made no difference in the story yeah you've built the
picture without exposing the the actual the details if you like yeah yeah and is the GT3 RS
worth buying three take-hands do you know what definitely not for my life i think if you lived
by a track or you're a track dayer or anything like that that car was amazing when i eventually got
it here and i drove it amazing no doubt about it but i could have been sat in any of the Porsches
yeah like as for going from my house to Rowley Regis in a traffic jam at 30 mile an hour via
the school run like that car didn't really do no anything i think looks cool though yeah really
cool round the corner at 170 mile an hour i'm sure that thing is unbelievable but that's not
my life but a Lambo is you know i can go to do that same journey in a Huracan Strato with it
banging, popping, revving and jumping and like you know kangarooing and it feels like a theatre of
amazingness yeah but with that Porsche it was just a great car yeah no i totally
sort of understand that because it is built for as you say doing exactly that you know the hard
corners the fast corners not built for the middle of the country where there's potholes and yeah it
yeah it just didn't do enough for the money yeah it was in my life like another person it probably
fitted better but for me you know i'd much rather go to work in a 205 GTI than go in a Porsche
I think you and a lot of other people included you know no safety systems no speed limits
yeah i've stopped hard yeah just that how cars should be you know that's not jumping on that
i'm not going to sit here and go i want to drive a GT3 i'm one of those i'm driving that GT3 RS to
go on and it's half a mile away it's such a poser yeah that's it yeah definitely an amazing car but
yeah yeah not that not for me yeah no no let's start it's absolutely yeah totally understand
that totally understand that yeah um here's a good one so what car not financially but emotionally
means the most to you um the Porsche is called because of the story obviously that car which
got stolen and knackered is now back at this house which is which is called yeah my blue
205 GTI is really special because at 17 that's the car which i'd have done anything for that was like
the perfect car which obviously i was never ever gonna ever gonna afford then there's the
the event or svj because like it was our you know it was we did our honeymoon in that and it
it was great for the channel so there's quite a lot of cars which have their own little their own
tied to um and obviously the ken block car because of who and what what that is but this yeah this
and the c63 black series again just because i bought that from profit of buying and selling
stamps so that was a cool like i felt like it was like a real clever way to buy in my own little
world and so like that that means quite a lot to me as well um but yeah look i suppose lots
that you go now that's the car there that's i mean the next question on there is um what car
what one car would you save in a fire now if you if i asked that i suppose it's that whole thing
yeah they all have their own identity they are their own story so i suppose you couldn't just go
i'll save that one there because they all have a special yeah like everything's for sale yeah
you know everything's got its price of course yeah you know so you know nothing's for sale but
everything of course is when it's somebody offers you 10 times more than it's worth it's it's definitely
going um but yeah i don't know what when somebody says what's the one car if you had to keep just
one car and it would be my white Mercedes c63 black series would be the car which i think
does everything because it sounds great it looks great it drives great it's dangerous it will kill
you and it increases in value every day yeah yeah what more could you say yeah tick tick tick
tick yeah no on what a car what a what a sound you know there's nothing i think that was the last
car really of sensible sort of class where it's quite by nothing anymore everything's
everything's a smaller v8 v6 now four cylinders that engine will never be made again yeah that
like there's a few engines like like the v12 lambos yeah and the you know the v10 lambos and then
the 6.2 Mercedes yeah like v8 there's there's definitely some cars which now i don't think we'll
ever ever ever see again no even new cars you know you say like the valter and stuff
there is v12 but you've got opfs you've got cats you've got your emissions where stuff like that
there's back in the days where there's barely many emissions sort of laws to abide by is just raw
engine oh hundred percent you know this that car is partly responsible for the ozone layer
yeah but you know even now like if somebody said to me do you want a temerario do you want a
new Ferrari whatever they are like a 296 i i don't have that i don't i don't want one yeah yeah
which is a real shame me and carl have had this conversation so many times that like i don't want
that car now and and it's not that you know there's a few reasons number one i'm getting a little
bit older and a little bit more sensible and thinking enough's enough like let's not just
buy stuff for the sake of it because i'm seeing losing money i respectfully earn that money so i
understand that losing 20 30 000 pound a year is ridiculous and i don't want to be that person who's
doing that and also they just don't like they look great but then they already look great and so did
the one before look great there's nothing wrong with my hurricane that a temerario is yes it looks
better but does it look 30 000 pounds worth of loss a year better that's if it does do that
it might go up in value yes but but also as well even driving it sounding it listening to it you
know i just i definitely prefer the and i think so many people in the same boat now like you look
at a 355 a 360 like the prices my my 993 Porsche they're going up and up and up and up and up and up
because people you know this whole this hybrid thing's going to happen electric the cars are
going to go up which everyone talks about well it's happening yeah yeah it is happening yeah i
said a couple years ago when i had my i've got m3 that is the last new car i will own for that reason
i don't i'm not interested in in electric i'm not interested in hybrid
i don't want something that's going to lose money that's the last of the best in my opinion of that
sort of that sort of category yeah yeah and i think the trouble is as well that's that's
happening a lot yeah so the the manufacturers some of the manufacturers who have had it so good
for so long are definitely going to pull yeah that they're definitely going to feel that that you
they're reporting the losses and yes without doubt some of it is because the country's in a
bit of a mess the world's in a bit of a mess that's one reason yes without a doubt but also a big
part of that is just cars like i've got an a45 and it's a 2017 yeah i don't want a 2025 no that
is the optimal it's the per if you want an a45 that is the perfect a45 the new one might look
a little bit better might go a little bit faster might be a bit more comfort the stereo and the
all the the infotainment's better but that car is the is the best drive in a45 100 percent agree
almost i think i think you're right 2017 18 was the last of the best yeah i agree yeah i agree i
think anyway anywhere between 2010 and 2018 like you say that's the the window where you add power
you add reliability you add noise and you didn't you had electronics but you still add a little
bit yeah well now if you most cars if you turn traction off it doesn't actually turn traction
off yeah like i want if i want to try and kill myself and smash my car let me do it that's my
choice yeah don't tell me it's off when it's not off that's it don't when i turn it off it's how
i need to do an update now and it takes 15 minutes and then you can't jump back into it to drive it
off because it's still doing an update just leave it you know if you want an update doing i'll take
it to the dealer and you can do it for me yeah you definitely they definitely take you the choice
out of it yeah that's it you know exactly so now we can agree on that yeah cars aren't getting better
now they're changing yeah but i feel sorry for the manufacturers actually because they are being
almost forced really to push that agenda there are fines for any car that doesn't meet the criteria
now so before they even make any profit at all they're losing average between 14 and 15,000
pound a car they make because of the electric emissions stuff yeah but like yeah i've seen this
now yeah we no longer live in a free country do we you know we we through taxes were forced and
steered into into where they want to i'm not gonna get political but we do we do get forced into
you know by making everything so expensive it pushes you know people down a certain route because
although they want to go down this route they can't afford to go down that route that's it so
you know they they use money and taxes against us to to influence our decisions yeah but it's not
the manufacturers doing this so um yeah no there's nothing on them personally at all but um that's
that's how they're being sort of forced to to um i think exist and we did it we told us
electric cars oh yeah we said for four minutes don't talk about electric cars because we feel
sometimes um with like algorithm and stuff if you mention it it's it's a boring subject now
everyone's done it they've all hated on it that's it yes yeah i saw a comment today somebody was
going on like we'd mentioned there was a clip which somebody clipped up about um in our last podcast
we talked about um testers don't get stolen and so i joked i said yes because nobody wants to
but like it's just a joke and this guy's gone oh god here he goes again going on look like i don't
like electric cars i have that choice to say those words yeah exactly you're really a free country
i'm not saying everybody else should hate electric cars i don't like electric cars i don't like you
know that's just the way but i've got the choice to say that if i'm not saying do not buy an electric
car no no i i don't want an electric car i don't want to without a doubt electric cars for some
people are perfection they do everything they need to do at a fraction of the cost you own a company
you get it through direct directorship you get the you know the rebates you have your own petrol
station in your front garden you know by plugging it in you get like there's so many yes yes yes for
me it doesn't work i don't absolutely agree i don't live that life which suits that car i don't
live in the place it suits that car agree yeah but for some people it's perfect i said it suits a
purpose it's an appliance for a certain purpose yeah and i i feel like a lot of people as well
i think a lot of people who have electric cars don't actually want an electric car
but just financially yeah it's not it's yeah the the the smart choice for them for them and their
lifestyle and that's that's fine you know i won't ever say a bad word about them personally but it's
not not for vegetarians that's it yes that's them yeah where's where's mark in 10 years from now
what do you sort of hope where do you think this is all gonna go
god i don't know um i got you maybe uh maybe no no no it's a good question because
i worried about my mom um agent stuff like that i'm worried about
safety with the life and the way things are going i want to be i want to i suppose really
our youtube channel brilliant want to keep on doing great things want to make sure all the lads
are cared for and have nice cars because they've earned them and they're living a better lifestyle
because they've worked so hard and then center like you know like i never thought i'd be a dad
and now i'm a dad my god everyone you say to me when you're gonna have kids that's what life's about
procreation or whatever it's called like you know i like the practicing bit but i weren't that
bothered about wasn't that bothered about a childhood and now i've got one you know like in
10 years time i just hope i'm fit and healthy enough to enjoy a 16 year old daughter at that stage
which i'm sure will be a very interesting life because if she like knowing what she's like now
like to give you an idea there's a teacher at school center calls her a different name for no
reason but to wind her up brilliant so that tells a good picture yeah that's what if a six-year-old
is taking the mickey out of you and doing that just to wind you up that gives i feel like boys
are gonna have it tough yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah she's grown up around adults she's around
good people she's switched on she's struggling with old stranger danger which we're trying to
trying to sort but like yeah i think 10 years time i want to be i want to be
one of the things which sounds really boring but healthy yeah no totally totally valid point
yeah that's acceptable yeah absolutely yeah and i can't wait for her to know more about cars than
the boys as well yeah oh my god they pull up in what they think is a really cool car knowing who
you are and she gets in it like yes it's pants yeah oh my god yeah amazing amazing the one thing
which i worry about is when somebody breaks a heart when somebody makes her cry yeah that's
going to be a tough one yeah a real tough one yeah because like mark's got to be mark has a
responsibility as a human being because of the the the reach we have so mark's got to be an even more
sensible dad yeah but like i can see why people lose it with bad boyfriends and also as well you
know that that i was really lucky my friends were good people and i was around people who were
athletical and yes we went out and got drunk and yes we had a great time but we still we weren't
off our heads on drugs and stuff like that and it's only her life could be swayed in that direction
just by that one wrong person yeah yeah and and how and me and jane talk about it like you know
when you say you're not trying around that person it probably has the opposite effect
i'd yeah yeah you're right yeah yeah that's sometimes sometimes that that well an older age
you just want to do everything you can to rebel and you know sort of be your own person i guess
don't you but you know as a as a dad all you can do is give them the best opportunity tell them
the right some wrongs and you've done everything you can let them make their own mistakes but don't
let them make too many of them yeah yeah that's a good idea and i want her to be whatever she
wants to be as well yeah i don't want her to be like i don't need it to be a brain surgeon i don't
need like if she wants to bust skin the streets but have a smile on her face crack on i don't
mean like i just want her to be i want her to be what she wants to be and just enjoy life you know
when i was i was almost sort of like expected to be an engineer and go down that route with work and
but you know yeah i just wanted to be a good as long as she's kind and polite that's the most
important things in life yeah that's a much more than that that's a really good point yeah
anything else coming up yeah i think that's pretty much our topics don't get me wrong you've done so
much there's been so much there will be people who go how come you didn't answer them asking
me about that oh no it will be something we've missed and we'll get in the car and go oh god we
done that's that yeah um yeah any any insights you can you've got what you've got tomorrow yeah we
bought with today we bought a focus st which is stolen and recovered um which has got altered
vins really excited for that because we've done that video twice a real great rinse and repeat where
so we're going to buy this car try and figure out what happened to it yeah i like that was cool
and we have no idea no that's that's that's like we're going to get to copart in war rampson and
pick up this car and we know nothing about this car then we're going to get on this journey to
try and and the last two times it's just been it's almost like it was the perfect script
yeah yeah the the 120 you know the lad had lost his job his misted had lost his side hustle
like he he'd gone into depression we gave him his car back the other family had been ripped off
they were struggling like it was the perfect scenario well with this one it's we're going down a
different route with the car so it's more of a you know more maybe of a car fan who's been ripped
off we don't know like you know yeah we don't like this car the car's got no keys so we don't know
even if it starts brilliant yeah it's an s t with a titanium x front end right it was already something
like yeah already something's like where is what rabbit hole are we gonna uncover next so that's
that's the one we're excited for but obviously tomorrow i've got to go to work and the you know
the day after i've got to go to work so it's trying to it's trying to fit all this in with a full
time job is is going to be oh yeah but like if i could stop at home every day and make youtube videos
i would but i've got responsibilities yeah yeah you never know one day you know it's uh i can
hindsight's one more thing it it may be that one day you know you can do that you can you can
sort of do what you want when you want in terms of content but yeah what you do already is is
fantastic and i'm sure a lot of people will agree so yeah yeah i love it content is amazing yeah love
it yeah enjoy it we really do enjoy every second and that's that's the most important thing if you
can wake up and enjoy what you do then yeah yeah and the time when it doesn't do that then maybe
we'll take our foot off the gas yeah and it is hard it is hard to oh yeah yeah yeah no we can
we're getting a taste of just how hard it is to keep you know pumping out what people want to
watch and listen listen to it is it's difficult whilst trying to do like a full time job yeah and
i think some people rely and we are you know i have messages saying you know you're the only thing
which i look forward to in my week you know you know i've got nothing else when you know
and so there is a responsibility to to sort of like some people who are so invested that you
know that you know they've been good enough to give us their time when they've got so many
things to watch that yeah there's a responsibility for us as well to make sure that you know the
people who have you know committed to us that we carry on given them what they want yeah and when
you put in mark mccann in on youtube then you haven't released a tuesday video for two weeks
people get it's actually three weeks three weeks tomorrow yeah three weeks tomorrow so people
are not happy yeah yeah come on how quickly you know you can pump out these bugatti videos
come on let's take five minutes some people are like quite rude they are quite rude amazing yeah
yeah they are quite rude but obviously you know if you saw well i'm sure you know how much time
and effort i said to you before we started this we had the one clip at the start of the video the
other week it had to be in front of the p1 we drove the car isn't here it's in storage we drove
basically all day there and back for this five second clip and that's and like my team when they
say we've got we need that clip and i'm like yeah but let's just put a clip in of like the car and
they're like no we need to be stood in front of the car and i'm like yeah i don't want to do that
because i've got a job i've got a daughter i've got a family i've got a wife i'm tired but that
aren't my team you know we always want to make the best video and that's what you know that's
what we do and so sometimes the sacrifices which people don't see like we get the good bits without
a doubt but we are also trying our best to make the best quality over quantity but you know
it's difficult to juggle life and if we could make more videos at that level we would yeah no
pressure well thank you very much mate i've really really enjoyed it so thank you no likewise
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About this episode
Mark McCann shares his journey from dreaming about owning a Porsche 911 to acquiring high-end supercars like the Bugatti Veyron and McLaren P1. He reflects on the highs and lows of car collecting, including a dramatic story about his first Porsche being stolen and crashed. Mark discusses the challenges and excitement of investing in rare cars, the unpredictability of their value, and the risks involved. The episode also teases a dramatic car recovery story and the ongoing Bugatti project that could be either a huge success or a costly mistake.
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In this episode of the Talkin’ Shop Podcast, we sit down with Mark McCann — entrepreneur, car collector, and one of the UK’s most well-known automotive YouTubers. From building businesses outside the car world to creating one of the fastest-growing car channels in the country, Mark shares what really fuels his obsession with speed, risk, and going all in.
We dive into the mindset behind big-money builds, high-stakes challenges, and why YouTube success isn’t just about supercars- it’s about storytelling, pressure, and constantly raising the bar. Mark opens up about gambling millions on ambitious projects, chasing world records, and the reality of balancing family life with a lifestyle that rarely slows down.
From outrageous challenges to real business lessons behind the scenes, this episode is packed with ambition, straight-talking insight, and proper car chat. If you’re into supercars, entrepreneurship, big risks, and the mindset it takes to operate at the top level, this isn’t one to miss.
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