WEBVTT - This guy has 10m followers! Plus Gordie's new V12 car... 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:11.600 Maruns here, let's give him a clap. We do this now, Yes, yeah. 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:13.040 You don't have to clap yourself, no one else will. 0:00:13.760 --> 0:00:16.960 I'll clamp myself just when the waiter brings me pancakes. 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:20.880 That's sort of fun. That's where I'm at. You're a 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:23.520 really interesting character, man. I'm really excited that you're in 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:26.160 because I wanted to hear a little bit about your backstory. 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:29.720 You growing up, how you got into cars. Obviously you're 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:32.960 the owner of Street Effects and you've been pretty much 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:37.159 fronting the biggest car club in Australia as well, amongst 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:39.720 other things. Tell us a little bit about you man, 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:42.519 growing up and getting into the car scene as a 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:43.320 as a kid. 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:47.479 Yeah, well, I think it pretty much came down to 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:52.040 the fact that my parents didn't like cars, and I 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:54.840 you know, when I was seventeen eighteen, first I got 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:56.240 p plates. 0:00:55.720 --> 0:01:01.320 In Victoria right, Warren Dite that is the sticks Well, 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:04.280 not wrong with Warren dar I'm looking at Warrendar right 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:05.480 to buy a lot of that. 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:06.160 It's beautiful. 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:10.360 I love it. It's beautiful there. So yeah, if my 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:12.680 parents went away, so I had like a toy t 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:20.440 E and Corolla and my idea of automotive excellence back 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:25.039 then was probably not quite all there. So my idea 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:28.200 of modifications was, I mean, the car had drum brakes, 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:31.080 and I would take the break drums off and painted 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:34.480 them yellow because I was proud of my I didn't 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:37.399 realize that that wasn't a cool thing, so I had 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:41.559 I painted my my wheels black and bought chrome like caps. 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:44.320 The outer rims, you know, the clippin out of it 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:46.880 had those and yellow drum brakes. 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:48.600 Can I just tell you it's so funny because I 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:50.840 feel like we're from the same era because I remember 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:53.840 when Fast and Furious came out, the amount of mates 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:58.440 that did just terrible things to like Hyundai Excel, whether 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:01.200 it be like stabbing the bloody muffler with like a 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:03.160 show driver so it sounds like it's going to turn 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:04.559 out or whatever. Yeah. 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:07.600 Yeah, I really had no idea. I just didn't. I mean, 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:09.680 fifteen inch weeks, I got to set fifteen's and I 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:11.680 sat back and looked at the CaCO. Man, they are huge. 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:15.040 They looked big on the car, but I remember thinking 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:18.240 that is impressive and now, yeah, and I'd sit there 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:20.880 with like my parents, like super eight video camera and 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:22.600 strap it to the seat to try and work out 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:24.520 what the zero one hundred time was. So I'd use 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:28.120 it to video the dashboard because phone cameras didn't have 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:30.400 they weren't a thing, yes, so and go pros went 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:33.240 any thing. So I had like this this tape camera 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:37.360 strapped to the seat and like like like zooming in 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:39.520 on the speedo. And then I'd go home and I'm like, oh, 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:44.080 I did like fourteen eight zero one hundred. So that 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:46.760 was that was my idea of a quick car. And yeah, 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:48.200 I think that the reason I got into it is 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:50.440 because my parents were really not a fan of it, 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:52.880 and so I'd wait until they go away and then 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:54.520 I'd just go buy wheels or something and hope they 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:58.120 didn't notice. And it got to the point where my 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:02.640 old man, I think his favorite story and like it 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:04.880 was kind of legendary and warrendtyed at the time. So 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:07.880 I had three Toyter t dns because I didn't learn 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:09.600 with the first one being in a shipbox. I had 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:12.000 three Toweter Ti dans and two Starions in the. 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:13.080 Front yard studions. 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:15.240 Yeah, and one of them had one of that someone 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:18.720 had put the previous owner had a I think it 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:20.079 must have been a thing in like the eighties and 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:23.799 nineties to like put canvas roofs over metal. Yeah, right, 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:25.920 so they'd put a canvas roof on top of the 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:27.519 stadion's metal roof to make it look like it was 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:30.480 a convertible, and so of course that causes rust. 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:31.399 Oh god. 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:34.760 So I had this gold starion with a black canvas roof, 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:39.400 two red Ta dans, a half cut of a Toyter 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:45.320 Truno a eighty six, and a white toward t ning 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:47.000 as well, all in the front yard. And my dad 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:49.120 came home one day and I wasn't home, and he 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:52.440 just cracked it. And I didn't know that he'd had enough, 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:54.440 Like apparently there's so many times that he can tell 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:56.240 you to get your shit out of the yard before 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:58.800 this is the front yard just scattered everywhere. And I 0:03:58.840 --> 0:03:59.280 came home. 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:02.200 You made hisse looked like like the house of Nelson 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:03.600 Mutts from the Simpsons. 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:07.880 Oh it was. Yeah, I can now in retrospect, I 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:10.240 could see where the frustration came. But at the time 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:14.240 I thought, what's wrong, Like this is perfectly normal. Anyway, 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:16.839 I came home and I remember just sitting down, I 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:19.560 started eating chips or something, and I remember thinking, what 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:22.359 was that weird red thing near the bin? And I 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:24.520 went back outside and it was a half of an 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:27.720 A eighty six bonnet I cut up, and then I 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:29.279 looked around the corner. The rest of the A eighty 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:31.440 six half cut was gone. I'd only just bought. It 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:33.000 was like a four thousand dollar hard cut, which now 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:34.440 would be worth an absolute mint because I had to 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:38.360 pop up headlights and everything, and like the engine, the gearbox, 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:40.560 the whole lot all gone. And then I've come back 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:42.080 to the house to go, why is there half a 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:43.760 body near the bin? My dad goes, because I ran 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:48.000 out of angle grinder bits and or discs, and he'd 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:51.039 sat there cutting it all up, and he just because 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:53.000 I think the warre and I had been put on 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:55.360 town water, so they got the sewage a bit of 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:57.960 the septic tanks, so that was all cracked open, and 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:00.280 he'd started pushing all my cas st up into the 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:03.920 septic tank and then buried over it. And so I've 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:06.120 got like a four a G motor, half of a 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:10.280 eighty six, bits of thad and rear end like Sileika stuff. 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:12.719 And yeah, the only reason that more stuff didn't go 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:15.359 in the binner is because some the septic tank was 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:18.120 full and the bin was hit that he couldn't cut 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:19.039 up any more pieces to fit in the. 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:22.040 Rubbish, so he Jeffrey damage your car. 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:25.560 Yeah, so that was probably why I got into cars, 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:27.440 because I was trying to rebel. 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:28.840 Yeah right. 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:32.480 My parents were always into the Toyota full drives. That's 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:33.720 where my Twitter roots came from. 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:36.440 Yeah. Right, so you've always been into jdm's Yeah. 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:38.360 I think the twiter thing was just because my parents 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:39.960 told me that was the best car in the world. Yep, 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:43.320 and then gladly they got rid of their Volvo. Before 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:45.919 that part of my life, before that part my brain developed. 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:46.160 Yeah. 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:50.520 Yeah, and when did when did street well what is 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:53.360 street effects and when did it officially start to become 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:55.400 you know where it is today, which is like ten 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:59.280 million followers on Facebook and other social platforms. 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:03.560 Yeah, well that started because I was kind of living 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:06.640 halfway between Melbourne and Brisbane and I had a drift car, 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:09.520 just one Ady SX with the SR twenty six speed, 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:14.200 and I was doing the super cheap Auto drift competition 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:19.640 and I on the practice laps, I hit the wall, 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:22.280 rolled the car on the roof, skipped along on the roof, 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:25.600 because at the track they had put the tires on 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:28.600 a forty five degree angle and made it like a ramp. 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:32.120 And I mean, obviously talent came into it as well, 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:34.520 just a bit, you know how, like everyone likes to 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:36.640 run the wall. That dragged the rear corder along, and 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:38.200 I didn't care about the car, so I try and 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:39.680 tap the wall, and I hit the wall just a 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:41.280 little bit too hard and it flicked the car right 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:43.640 back around. Because I was on full lock left, it 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:46.000 ended up driving up the wall and then ended up 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:47.960 on the roof, skitting along on the ground, which was 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:51.080 actually it didn't feel as impressive as it sounds like. 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:53.040 It just was like kind of like a slow oh dear, 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:55.880 that was not ideal, And I pushed the car out 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:57.880 onto the street. I had no money at the time, 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:00.200 so I pushed the car out onto the street little 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:03.640 bit away from the drift track and called RACQ and said, 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:07.120 my car won't start because like when you started, it 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:08.880 like oil would like it was full of oil because 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:11.400 down and I couldn't drive it in the condition it 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:13.000 was in. It wasn't actually even registered. I think I 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:16.160 was driving it there on temporary permit. And yeah, I 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:18.680 pushed it like one hundred meters away from Archfield drift 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:22.240 Track and caught RCQ. They came out and they're like, 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:23.640 has this been an accident? 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:25.280 I'm like, nah, no, what makes you think that? 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:27.600 Yeah, there's like the windscreens cap and it had a rollcage, 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:31.920 so it wasn't too bad. And then they put it 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:33.640 on the truck and took it home and all that, 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:34.840 and then I'm like, what am I going to do 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:38.720 with this car? I got like this car, so I 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:41.280 rewind just a little bit. They'd said in order to 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:43.360 take it into the super cheap drift comp the car 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:45.400 had to be presentable because of the shipbox. They said 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:47.840 that wasn't acceptable, and I had to put some to 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:50.160 get some money together, I had to put some stickers 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:53.000 on it, and everyone was charging a fortune for stickers, 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:56.080 so I bought a sticker printer. It was like twenty 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:57.800 eight hundred bucks for a roll and stick a printer 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:00.520 that could print and cut. It was a very basic 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:03.960 thing for the time. And then that was cheaper then 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:05.280 because it was going to cost four grand to get 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:06.720 the car stick it up. So I'm like, well, I've 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:08.320 paid to spend twenty eight hundred bucks and then so 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:11.120 I just bought this cheap sticker printer, and that's where 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:13.040 after I buggered the car up, I'm like, I got 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:15.160 to make some money because I got I got to 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:17.520 fix the car. And then I'm like, well, I got 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:19.560 this printer, what can I do with it? And I 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:23.080 started making like little break tail light decals that stuck 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:25.200 over the top of the third brake line, so if 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:27.760 you hit the brakes, it would show the make of 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:30.760 the car. So you'd put like one eighty sex and 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:32.120 you'd put it over the one out your sex third 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:33.960 brake lin and so you'd hit the brakes and then 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:36.600 that would glow that color. And then I just posted 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:38.440 them all eBay and they was selling for like twenty 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:41.720 bucks each and they were costing like sense, so literally 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:44.800 I was making I was printing twenty dollar notes with 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:48.560 this thing. So within probably three months I paid the 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:50.880 printer off. Also I had enough money to repair the car. 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:53.400 I then went I bought I didn't. I didn't end 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:54.880 up reheading the car that time. I ended up buying 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:57.880 bigger printer YEP, that was like like a twenty thousand 0:08:57.880 --> 0:08:59.920 dollars printer instead. And then that's just where they come 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:02.040 and he started from just from that. 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:03.240 On eBay basically. 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:06.120 Yeah, it was kind of like a little spark like 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:07.880 that and it just started everything. 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:10.319 Yeah, it was all just because I had a printer 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:12.880 and I rolled the car and I needed to do 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:13.720 something to try. 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:16.680 And get some time and an empty bank account. 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:19.200 Yeah yeah, I mean my bank acount is still empty, 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:20.040 but now I've got more cars. 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:23.560 So because this is the thing a lot of people, 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:29.240 they kind of don't really understand I guess the quantum 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:32.199 of what you can earn online. So you kind of 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:36.319 went from selling stickers with street effects. You then started 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:39.880 a Facebook page and it sort of grew from there. 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:43.600 Ye without sort of talking exact numbers, if you were 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:46.280 to put a number on how much you were able 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:52.520 to earn off the internet that is stickers, Facebook and 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:54.679 doing all that sort of stuff. For some of the 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:57.440 people that are listening, I think they will be blown 0:09:57.440 --> 0:09:59.560 away with like the amount of money involved in all this. 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:01.720 What kind of number would you put on it. 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:06.000 Well, we've moved from stickers now we're more doing car parts, 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:10.400 so we can be doing anything from supercharger kits, wheels, exhausts, 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:12.640 all that sort of stuff on body kits and everything. 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:17.280 But in e commerce you'd be I mean the company 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:19.360 I'll be speaking on the spot seen years or so. 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:22.640 It's got to be close to one hundred mil by now. 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:24.400 In turnover, I. 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:27.280 Mean that that all right, I'm gonna do that. 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:29.280 Later. 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:32.560 Yeah, that's it, just an EPSOM forty one six. Yeah, 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:33.000 that's the thing. 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:35.600 A lot of people don't understand that that the Internet. 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:38.480 It's a little different today because today it's much harder 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:41.600 to monetize stuff. We're seeing on YouTube as well that 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:45.280 they just take so much money. But back in the day, 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:48.080 you could earn money off selling things off online. You 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:51.600 could earn money off content, you could earn money off 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:53.319 buying page. 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:57.520 Any money off that. 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:00.839 If anybody knows about e commerce, it's friend Paul here. 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:02.959 I mean, I don't know if you're familiar with his 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:09.559 only fans, but it's it's basically called pavlanismeal dot com. 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:10.080 And his meal. 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:13.720 Oh wait till he gives him a sugar cube. Wow. 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:18.840 But yeah, online is absolutely huge. So you've got an 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:21.480 audience now of ten million followers on street effects, you're 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:25.440 still selling parts out of Brisbane here. Yeah, you've obviously 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:27.520 blown most of that money on useless things. 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:30.840 But yes, I mean yeah, well, I mean that none 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:34.600 of the things that I've bought work anyway, so they're 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:36.839 all just pretty much in garagees Bustard. 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:40.719 Well tell me you you also have have had relationships 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:42.679 and still obviously do have relationships with a lot of 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:45.480 the big YouTubers overseas, And I think the big difference 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:47.960 between Autralia and overseas is you hit a cap in 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:49.800 Australia pretty quickly on what you can do and what 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:52.440 you can achieve, but overseas it's a different story. You're 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:56.559 friends with Cletus McFarland. Can you run everyone through his backstory? 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:58.600 And if you don't know who he is, he's a 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:01.839 massive YouTuber that but hopefully he's currently alive because there 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:06.080 was the hurricane was like running through the Freedom Factory 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:09.280 and who knows where there's his third time that's gone 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:12.040 under water last year. Yeah, can you run us through 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:14.840 his background as well? Hanging you him because he he 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:16.120 kind of has a character. 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:17.360 Right, it's a bit of a persona. 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:21.000 Yeah. Well I met him through Kyle from thirteen twenty video. 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:23.640 They've come over to Australia and hung out with us 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:26.040 and we've done some videos together. He was the one 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:28.679 that shot the video of the lambeo versus GJ. I 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:30.800 think I'm not getting it. I'm burying myself for getting 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:34.200 back to that. So, yeah, he was one of their 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:37.120 staff members. I think, just help. I don't know if 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:39.680 he did videos. I know that he worked for thirteen 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:41.959 twenty and then they kind of just I remember one 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:44.839 day Kyle said, Hayking, you promote this clean to sect. 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:47.839 I watched the mate. I didn't get it, Like, what 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:51.400 is he talking about? I didn't really understand what, Like 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:53.120 it was a whole persona from the start. They had 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:56.520 a plan right in place, and honestly, I just didn't 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:58.000 get it because like it must have been American thing, 0:12:58.040 --> 0:12:59.360 but it was a bit of cultural difference. So I 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:02.360 shared this. I still didn't understand what their point of 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:05.160 this guy was. But yeah, it just grew from that, 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:06.839 and then he went out on his own and now 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:08.959 he's got he owns a racetrack. I think he's bought 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:09.600 a helicopter. 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:11.400 Yeah, he's got like a pilot's license. 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:14.040 Yeah, because there's a lot of those YouTubers over there 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:16.720 that and we've seen that blow up recently with everyone 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:21.160 leaving Donut Media, everyone leaving all the other established sort 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:24.480 of companies at all going out on their own. And 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:27.360 it seems to me like they have different degrees of 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:29.920 success with it. A lot of them who relied just 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:32.800 on YouTube revenue or realizing that it sucks and you don't. 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:35.720 I think the most I've ever made on YouTube is 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:39.760 maybe six grand US a month, Like it's not enough 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:41.880 to I mean, I spent them more than our camera gear. Yeah. 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:43.280 Yeah, it's not a career. 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:45.520 It might be worth it if you're getting endorsements, but 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:46.760 it's not worth it from the views. 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:47.960 That's where it all comes from. 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:50.120 And I can see with him, he's he's earned enough 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:52.319 through endorsements and doing other stuff to. 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:53.920 Be out with guy fan base and he can do 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:56.880 merch and that's where merches, good bank comes from. 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:59.440 That sort of yea, yeah, merch. Merch is absolutely huge. 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:03.120 Some of the other characters overseas that you may have 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:05.200 met early on that have made it big now, any 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:07.000 others that you sort of popped to mind? 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:11.200 Oh, Like, like I said, Kyle, he's had a great 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:13.920 business model doing his thirty and twenty video stuff, probably 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:16.720 a little bit more professional than the cleadest thing it's 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:18.480 more like that they've got their core. It's not like 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:24.880 fun as such. And then there's like Rob Duhmond Robbed built. 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:28.080 Was he the one that built that that crazy rota 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:30.360 that was it like a. 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:32.640 Ten hours old drive he put the oil drive road. 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:34.840 Oh no, there was that one that you're talking about, 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:38.040 the twenty six Leader that was built. But that was 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:39.680 one of the biggest stories that we did back in the. 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:44.200 Old car all those days that one's been through the 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:44.600 ringer off. 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:47.000 Yeah, like the golden the gold. 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:49.320 Yeah. 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:52.120 The funny background here is that that I've known Mark 0:14:52.160 --> 0:15:00.000 for a while and I think we're probably exceeded the the. 0:14:59.320 --> 0:14:59.920 Statute of them. 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:04.880 But we used to to kind of in months where 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:07.480 we needed extra traffic to the site, we would come 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:09.760 to Mark for any viral stories he had, and there 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:14.280 was that gold gtr was like a source of almost 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:19.560 infinite gold rows of traffic for us, closely followed by 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:21.400 Old Mat with the twenty six Roader. 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:24.800 The twenty six liter Rotary and yeah, the twelve Roader. Yeah. 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:27.280 It's it's crazy because you could basically write the story, 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:30.920 share it on social and like on Reddit, and you 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:31.480 would get. 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:33.760 Go nuts again every time you recited. We just had 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:35.480 like that, they just were part of the rotation. We 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:37.920 just just it just refreshed and then you just change 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:39.840 the words a little bit, like you'd never guess what 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:40.640 she did this time. 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:44.120 That's probably a lot of stuff. 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:46.840 Yeah, speak of speaking of YouTubers, I love there's a 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:49.160 guy in the UK, mattter Armstrong, who I'm sure you're 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:52.400 familiar with, the guy who would take like ridden off 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:55.640 like Lambeau's roles. He's done a really impressive thing with 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:59.360 their roles lately. He's been getting a lot of influencers 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:02.280 like ridden off cars and fixing those. 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:06.080 But like that cock head the other day, mcclar, that guy, 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:07.880 he's such an idiot. He's the one that picks fights 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:09.360 with people. Think it's security a step in. 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:12.280 Did you see that Gordy He was driving he's McLaren 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:16.680 something like streaming and he was it was like seventy 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:19.720 miles an hour in the sopping wet and he aquaplane, 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:23.200 hit a wall, continued live streaming while someone extracted him 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:25.720 from the car, but then he shut off. Yeah, but 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:29.080 is in the car with his head bleeding and he's like, 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:31.560 oh my god, my car, my car, my car, His 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:34.240 mate gets out, He's like, oh you okay, it's like. 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:36.360 Hands in the camera. He goes, hey, keep video. 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:40.280 He has just absolutely copped it online. 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:42.600 And he lives off the hate. Like I don't understand 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:46.440 he makes money because nobody likes that clown. Everything I've 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:47.720 watched of him, I just want to punch him in 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:48.080 the face. 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:50.120 Yeah, but I bet you'd go back and watch it again, 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:52.200 do you know what I mean? Like people love watching 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:52.520 that shit. 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:56.560 It's especially people love watching negative stuff. Yes, it's just 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:58.120 I mean back when we used to have to make 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:02.600 up articles before those fact checking stites came in. Do 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:05.040 you remember that Ty Lopez guy that was always going 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:07.520 on about like here in my garage, you got my Lamborghini. 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:11.840 Knowledge is more important than Lamborghinis that if you ever 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:14.320 want to spend a little bit of time looking through 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:17.520 look up Ty Lopez crashes Lamborghini. 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:19.760 Oh this is so interesting because he's coming up in 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:22.240 my feed recently for his podcast or something. 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:25.040 So I unded a company previous to a lot of 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:28.320 this stuff called Epic Media, and we used to just 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:30.040 just the whole thing was just to get viral traffic 0:17:30.160 --> 0:17:33.480 in order to make ad clicks, right, and then ninety 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:34.920 percent of what you see on the net is all 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:37.520 fake stuff, like, so we just make up news articles 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:40.640 that looked like they could be realistic that everyone wanted 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:44.160 to click on, like man gets Dick stuck in ATM 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:47.520 for the fourth time, just start following me, all right. 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:50.880 And then there was this picture of my mate Scottie 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:53.879 South and I put him on all of them. He 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:56.200 was always the guy getting his junk stuff in something. 0:17:57.119 --> 0:18:01.040 He also he started a flab in the bow and 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:04.280 mango like when it got when it disappeared, like there 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:06.760 was just all these news articles had his face on them. 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:10.200 So anyway, we made these ones where because tyler Pez 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:12.520 was spending mad bank on YouTube, it's like I think 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:14.760 he just dumped millions of dollars to be the intro 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:18.000