Founder's Story - From Part Time Vloggers to Over 58 Million Views | Ep. 35 with George and Lucy creators of the Juicy Vlog

Episode Date: September 15, 2020

Today we have two very special guests living around the world in Manila, Philippines. They are George Warrington and Lucy D'Agostino the creators of the very popular Juicy Vlog. They started vlogging on Youtube as a side hustle 4 years ago while they were also working full time jobs. They never expected it to grow at this level but moved from the UK to the Philippines to pursue it full time. Now over 400k subscribers and 58 million views later they know they have something amazing.  Please rate, review, subscribe, and share with a friend who will be inspired. Visit KateHancock.com for insights into guests and future episodes. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ibhshow/supportOur Sponsors:* Check out PrizePicks and use my code FOUNDERS for a great deal: www.prizepicks.com* Check out Rosetta Stone and use my code TODAY for a great deal: www.rosettastone.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Welcome to Inspired by Her, the podcast that will give you the inspiration, motivation, and tips for success from some of the top executives, CEOs, and influencers from around the globe. With your host, serial entrepreneur, and named one of the most influential Filipina everyone, this is Kate Hancock and today I have amazing guests all the way from the Philippines, George and Lucy. Hi guys! Hi! Good morning! Good evening! Yes, good evening! For our listeners all over the world, Lucy and George, can we introduce yourself? So we are YouTubers, we're vloggers. We make videos on YouTube. We love to travel, although not so much recently. Yeah, we used to love to travel. Yeah.

And we've got a base here in Manila in the Philippines. And we've been here just over a year now. So that's really cool. Yeah. Okay, so guys, I need to know your story. What was your journey like to get where you are it was kind of kind of interesting up to this point yeah I would say we we made a decision back in 2018 we'd kind of I mean we got together in 2013 I think in a cut as a relationship as a

couple it's weird because we're kind of like business partners and a couple as well so yeah so it's kind of everything's together so we decided to we wanted to make little videos of our vacations uh for some reason just just for ourselves that was like six years ago now yeah from this point and we've been making videos as a hobby alongside our full-time jobs back in the UK for three years maybe and then we said one day what if we can make this full-time what if we can make this like a thing that we do as our job instead of just as a hobby and the only way to try that out and see if it would actually kind of work and if we could do it would be to quit these jobs and just like go full speed ahead with our 6 000 subscribers at the time

so then we booked a ticket to asia and started traveling started daily vlogging from that point and then a few months in things started to really pick up yeah and that just kind of yeah leads us to where we are today i guess pretty much that's where the work started yeah wow that's amazing so how what you know why did you pick philippines as a home base it was an easy decision really by the time that we had to make that decision or rather chose to make that decision we had no home for a year um and it got very tired we loved it yeah but it got very tiring um traveling constantly from hotel to hotel to airbnb one two three night stays packing a suitcase unpacking traveling in between it was

very full on we loved it and we wouldn't change it that was our life for a year yeah um which is kind of crazy i never thought we'd do that um actually i did i did i did it changed halfway through we kind of decided that wow this is this is, this is kind of working out. And we, we came to the Philippines, absolutely loved it. We were only originally going to come to the Philippines for two weeks. That was going to be, it was going to be a short trip. Little did we know. And yeah, and then we decided that when we decided that we, okay,

it would be cool to have some kind of base somewhere in the world um you know we could stay there we could have a desk set up and we can edit our videos we go on trips come back we'd have internet we'd have a little bit of you know a home base yeah and by that point manila was an easy decision because we were kind of using manila as a base anyway just in hotels as a kind of jumping point for other trips to I don't know Japan or Bali or something around the Philippines as well and all around the Philippines yeah all right now bring me back the very first day you guys decided or told your family that you're going to be moving out in Asia what was that it was daunting I mean

the conversation we we knew that it would be a surprise. I think they knew that we loved what we did and we loved making these videos in our spare time. But I don't think they maybe were expecting us to just leave the UK completely. Although we did give them quite a big build-up. Yeah. We probably gave them around a year's notice.

Notice? It's like we're leaving them as a duo. But i'd say we gave them about a year to i don't know where we told them that's what we wanted to go and do we had this idea and then slowly things started moving we handed our notices in our jobs we booked our tickets we bought some huge rush sacks it was worse for us telling our former uh employee employers uh that we were leaving than our family I think because I only had to give a month notice yeah so I'd worked I'd worked a job for four years and then I only had to tell them in four weeks that I was leaving and that was it yeah it was a shock for both of our workplaces I think more than our family because they have no build-up whatsoever yeah um yeah that's amazing now what did you guys do in the UK what was your job so I worked at BMW and I sold cars for I mean about two years I was doing that

for but I was with the company for three years and I did some other work at the beginning of that time yeah I worked for a media company so it it was in radio advertising, effectively, a radio station. So mine was totally different to now. Yours has some things you can use, but it's still very different. It was the entertainment industry, I suppose. So I've learned, I've taken a few skills from that into this. Well, that makes sense. You're in the media industry.

That makes sense for you to do this. Now, wow, who's your inspiration to do all these things? I love your do the thing. Like, tell me about the backstory about that. Yeah, I think there's a few people who inspired us, but I don't think we ever wanted to. We never really wanted to copy anybody we never tried to do that we um we took things from different people i guess like yeah i'd say when we when casey neistat was daily vlogging we were watching his vlogs and we were like wow this is cool like you're seeing his life every day and what he's up to around this huge city like that's amazing and at the same time you know gary v

gary yes yes yes but we were hugely influenced by him so uh in through more the work ethic the hustle the grind the uh giving stuff a go the what ifs and just trying things and that kind of side so i'd say like a combination of the two gary made us go for it but casey gave us the idea to do the day i think the two of them maybe the interesting thing is we started youtube we started vlogging before we knew who any of those but Casey gave us the idea to do the day. I think that's good. I think the two of them maybe. The interesting thing is we started YouTube and we started vlogging before we knew who any of those people were. We started making videos for YouTube

before we watched YouTube. Yeah, we used YouTube as a place to upload our videos to share on Facebook, show our families, that kind of thing. It wasn't like we were watching all these vloggers and then we were like, we want to do that. It kind of became that a little bit more as we went along yeah but yeah gary v 100 i mean i i i had two screens in my old office at my uk job i had my work on one and gary's videos on another with a

earphone in all day just him talking to me all day for three years i think he made us push like take the leap of trying it yeah and giving it a go yeah i'm glad we did yeah that's awesome now oh my god how did you get into this 387 subscriber in youtube tell me how it's a lot of work i know that for sure yeah we still we still have pinch me moments all the time we're so grateful and sometimes it doesn't feel like it's our channel we look at our subscriber count and our faces next to it I thought it could have happened

like there was something in me but I'm still so surprised we're grateful and we just want to keep going it makes us want to work harder when we see the bigger numbers. It doesn't make us want to slow down. How do we get there?

I think it was persistence and consistency, really, and hard work and not giving up. You know, we didn't make any money on YouTube for four years, but we didn't care about that. We just kept going. Some people might try something for a year a year's a long time to try anything yeah yeah we did it for four you know I always say we could have given up after three years we wouldn't have known what would have happened after like it's

crazy even now if someone said I've done I've tried something for three years and nothing's really happening I'd say well maybe try something else but I don't know for some reason we carried on we loved it so much it wasn't even that we were trying to make it work back then I mean when we decided to go to Asia and travel we were like okay we could give this a shot let's try and make it a thing but before that it wasn't that we were trying to become big youtubers it was that we just we just love making videos and vlogging it was fun yeah I think that's it isn't it yeah you just enjoy it so much the enjoyment behind it and we'd wake up to i don't know like 50 views on a video we uploaded the night before and we wouldn't be disheartened by that we'd be like cool imagine 50 people in a

room like that's a lot of people like actually watching taking the time out of their day to watch a video to watch our video and i think the enjoyment for making the video is not just uploading the videos but editing them filming them thinking of ideas applying to comments having this small community that we had at the time actually like talking to us and interacting with us it was so overwhelming and we loved it so much that the views didn't matter the income didn't really matter the subscriber count like we kind of didn't look at that We just had kind of tunnel vision of having the passion behind it. It was more of a hobby back then.

We had our jobs, which was paying the bills and stuff like that. And then things started growing, and then they started growing kind of rapidly. And it's just been this incline for nearly two years, I suppose, now. Wow, wow. Now, I've watch watching you guys travel blog and i have to say i love you guys humility no matter you know there's like it stays there and i think that's so endearing i think that's how you you're more relatable than than i think i like that about you guys you're like like always grateful, never really acting like, you know,

like your heads gets bigger. Like I love that humility in both of you guys. Oh, I'm glad that comes from, I think it comes from just gratitude of having something we dreamt of for a little while and something that we never really thought would become our reality. We don't take it for granted.

No way. And we know it's fragile. If we stop posting blogs tomorrow and something that we never really thought would become our reality. We don't take it for granted, I believe. No way. And we know it's fragile. If we stop posting blogs tomorrow in a month, we'll probably be heading towards being irrelevant. So I don't know. We're incredibly grateful for everyone who watches us. We know we have to work hard and keep going and pushing,

but we love it. So that's just not a problem. Humility. Yeah. that's nice to hear I think I think it comes from having a very different life before which wasn't a bad life we haven't particularly come from any hardship or anything like that we had a great upbringing both of us uh we you know we had jobs we had an apartment we had some disposable income to enjoy our life. Yeah. It was very stable, I guess.

We just knew that we wanted to try something for ourselves. We knew we kind of wanted to try and work for ourselves. We both disliked having a boss, having people telling us what to do. What to do. And we had the opportunity to try it. We would save some money and we had the opportunity to try it. We would save you some money, and we had the opportunity to try it. That's awesome. Now, who's the most creative between the two of you?

We've been asked this question a few times about, like, who edits what part or who does that. People always wonder that. I would say even outside of the vlogs, we're both creative in different ways. Yeah, like, you're very musically gifted. Yes, i play guitar and piano and sing and write songs and stuff like that and i don't do that but lucy is a great painter

yeah she's a great dancer you might have seen her on tiktok i've seen some of it yeah and we both bring different things to the table. I think in the vlogs, our editing style is slightly different, but I don't think people know who's editing when they watch a vlog because we might just take it in turns with every single video. So some days you'll get one edited by myself or by George, but no one ever knows, so it's quite funny. It might look slightly different in the editing style or the music choices or the transitions and some of the cinematics and things,

but I think we've got a similar level of creativity and I've got to change a lot recently since quarantine you know since March we stripped back a lot of the cinematics because there's nothing you know that much you can do there's not much we can do we filmed 80 something daily videos in a row just in our apartment without leaving for some reason people loved it the views were higher than ever we've had a record three months on youtube yeah i don't know how we had things to say about anything wow wow so they've changed recently but yeah creativity we're both creative but in different ways yeah yeah and who's the best copywriter who does the title neither of us neither of us the titling of vlogs is it's like

i imagine it to be like if you're an editor of a newspaper and you have to write that one headline per day to get people to buy your paper that you hope people are going to buy that newspaper attention um clickbait's a big thing on youtube um we try not to do that we we we have no problem with leaving it a little bit of mystery in the title yeah because i don't think there's anything wrong with creating a little bit of excitement um and people think oh i wonder what that is 99 99 of our comments if we do a bit more of a mysterious title um people don't mind people don't mind they they want to click on the video they watch us because they want to watch us yeah um and we never i would say we never clickbait

too heavily not like uh unrealistic when it's like oh my god this has happened but it literally didn't happen yeah and we don't spend too much time on it it's something we do every day um and we do carefully think about our titling stuff that but copywriting yeah i mean our instagram captions i put no thought into it whatsoever really i just whatever i've got on my mind at the time yeah it just comes out i'm not too fussy or particular on that i would so rather try and be a little bit more real and raw I think people as well yeah people respond to that more these days I think I think five years ago there was a lot of a lot more curated yeah Instagram posts captions uh what people people were very narrow on what they

would share online and they'd show the very best of themselves and they they're not flexing online or i did this or i achieved that um but we'll talk about a lot of different things in our videos and the same goes on all social media platforms really yeah now how did you come up with the name the juicy vlog what's the backstory so it was towards his younger sister jasmine we've been together for like three weeks or something like back in the day yeah and she was younger she was what like 10 maybe she's like she might have been 12 yeah and she went to like a fair thing at her school and she bought this i think she won like a little, was it a cheetah or a jaguar?

It was tiny, kind of like a sock. And she was like, oh, I got this, I'm going to give it to you guys as your little mascot for like us being a couple.

Like she was quite excited that her older brother had got a new girlfriend and it was, I was kind of new. She was like, she was trying to, trying to make friends

with you, so she was like, got you guys a present. Yeah, and she said, we said, okay, what's it going to be called?

She was like juicy and we were like oh okay strange name for teddy why is it called juicy she was like well obviously george and lucy and we were like oh i love it and then when it makes sense yeah yeah yeah and it was something you should know we had all these ideas back and forth and then juicy kept coming up and we were like some people might realize it's georgia lucy some people might be like juicy what does that mean like it's kind of intriguing i guess yeah a lot of people don't know that's where it kind of came and it just stuck yeah it's nice and short to say it's great we get shouted that in the street people don't shout some people shout georgia lucy but some people just shout juicy or juicy

that makes sense that's that's a really cute story that's a cute story yeah now how do you guys stay i know it's hard traveling from one places to another how do you guys stay like burnout did you guys went through that oh yeah several times we don't we i'd say we kind of were in denial at one point i'd say yeah as dramatic as that sounds we had done traveling like we said out of like one bag of backpack for one whole year and the day we were daily vlogging the video was doing incredibly well we were growing subscribers we had like i don't know like 70 000 subscribers in one month at one point and it was like it was going crazy and things were kicking off so because it was so exciting and there was so much word when you're we took no breaks yeah so we were so we were so

amazed and in all adrenaline it's hard not to get addicted when you get all that yeah we may feel i felt oh we're a bit tired today but it'd be like what do people want a video we want to make a video we're going to upload a video so we push through and we're traveling travel travel takes it out of you as it is the long boats of the airport waiting times and stuff but daily vlogging and editing on top of that and trying to find internet places to upload it was it was tough i guess yeah it was full on but because it was so exciting we didn't really feel the tired part as much because the more exciting it was bigger we didn't acknowledge it we we would literally work constantly all day we'd get up early we'd start

filming we'd film the whole day in between that we'd be doing emails we'd have to edit the previous day's vlog schedule it upload it doing something exciting in the day because we wanted to have something fun to vlog as well yeah um so it's just kind of this weird like all the other content around it instagram posts taking photos and we've filmed stories we filmed the one day and edited it back next evening so it was like a one day turnaround thing so I'd say it wasn't until maybe when we went back to the UK oh no I think around last July time we were on our way back to the UK I think we did a stop in Dubai and we both kind of woke up one morning and we said we've both had a

lot of sleep like we're fine on the sleep part but we both feel exhausted completely drained kind of ill in a way like yeah we didn't feel good like we've had enough sleep but we're still tired that kind of thing and we were like i remember we googled like how do you know you've got burnout and how to help with burnout and then we were reading these things we were like yeah i think this is us yeah because we haven't had that before you know in our oral jobs it was a nine to five uh we could finish at five o'clock walk out the door and you go home and you chill you relax you watch netflix or whatever but it was imagine your i don't know what hobbies you might have or anyone listening or what you might have but imagine your the hobby you love the most um imagine doing it for years and then you suddenly have a lot of people watching you do it and they're

loving it say you're a singer or a rapper or something like that a guitar player and suddenly everyone's buying your music everyone's listening to your song everyone wants to know everything about you you're not going to stop are you you want to put out more songs you're not going to we wanted to put out more videos we wanted to keep going it was incredibly exciting and yeah we definitely neglected ourselves i would say yeah a little bit you know um we've changed that now we've changed that now we're still adapting you know it's always changing we even said the other day oh we could do a little little bit of a change up or a break or a day off yeah but we just kind of listen to ourselves and do what we need to do whenever it's necessary now. I think one of the reasons why we went so hard and we still do a lot of the time is because when we were pushing our hardest point in the first kind of year, if we hadn't given it our all, there was a chance that it might not work.

So I think, yeah, if you're working with someone else and you don't put your complete let's always say like i think gary said it before your people that you employ aren't going to care as much about your business as you are because it's your business it's your baby what you've created and what you want to make work so if we it's basically the more work we put in the more we get out there and if we don't put the work in then there's a chance that if we miss this upload oh that could have been the one that went viral it could have been that so it was just like like you said it was just it's head on yeah we didn't go back to i mean it wouldn't have been you know it's still a nice life but we we didn't want to go back to the life we had when we started

making tracks on a different life for ourselves got Gotcha. So yeah, so you're scared of losing that momentum that you guys have been working on. And that is still true to this day. I would say we work just as hard, but in a different way. We're doing a lot of different things now as well. And I think the momentum thing is so key. I think with any YouTuber or vlogger or any social media content creator,

you don't want to disappear and you don't want to feel irrelevant not for your own self worth or anything like that but purely on front of you enjoy doing it and you want the audience to enjoy it and you just want to keep the audience happy and keep yourself happy yeah and there's a lot of factor that you have to consider like you don't want to lose that algorithm because it's tricky it changes all the time it does but the thing is no one knows anything about algorithms really yeah you know funny one isn't it we people people say to us should i daily vlog i want to start a youtube channel should i upload every day is that how you did it is that what works and all we can say is we don't know maybe there's people who upload once a month, who have incredibly successful channels, once a week.

It just depends. I think there was a period in time where the audience really loved the, and still now, loved the daily uploads and a rolling story. It was like a soap opera or a series. It was like a story. Come back every day for what they've got up to next. Yeah, see what we're doing tomorrow. Join us tomorrow, see what we get up to from what they got up to next yeah see what we're doing tomorrow join us tomorrow see what we get up to and they're still like i mean we pretty much

daily we pretty much upload every day but now we missed two days in august so we're saying it's always the past but it's still very much happening but we do it slightly differently now we might film two videos in one day yeah and then not film the next day but then we're doing something else on that day you know so it's changed up a little bit but uh algorithms yeah i don't know i no one can figure that just head down make your content don't worry about the algorithms you know the time you spend complaining about algorithms you could be making a video you know what i mean because you can't control it we spend very little time on things that we can't control we'd rather spend time on things we can't control yeah now tell rather spend time on things we can control.

Yeah. Now tell me, what did you learn about yourselves while doing this journey? Good question. Wow. I think we learned that, for me, I learned that, wow, we can actually do this. This is a thing. YouTube can be a lifestyle. Because growing up in a smallish town,

you grow up with the same kind of friends. You grow up with a small group of people around you. A lot of people do the same thing. You go to college. Some might go to university. And then you apply for a job. and you hope to get a job at a company that you kind of like and that's kind of a set structure in society um and I think it was very cool for us to see that wow there is something else there is yeah if you want it and if you do

right things and you know have all these dynamics come together you there is a whole different world out there our life is so different we're not living a small town life in the UK anymore and I think we've also gained a huge amount of perspective from traveling I know it's very cliche to say when you travel you see all these things and you change your mindset but it really does because you see things and you think when people are moaning about tiny little things at home and then you're traveling through a tiny town in the middle of Cambodia and people are all on the streets and this awful history this country's had and then you kind of it really goes into your mind you just think come on just be grateful think about what you have how lucky you are to have been born into this kind of lifestyle and this privilege yeah it really grounds you and

it really makes you so, so grateful for everything around you. And that's why we always try and stay like that. We wake up every day so happy and grateful that we can do this. And this is our life. And it kind of makes you, sometimes you're cautious of what you say sometimes, because you know a lot of people, including your audience, a lot of people are living different lives, and you don't

want to come across in a certain way, sometimes maybe, but I think as long as you stay grounded, and stay grateful for what you've got, and work hard for what you've got, work hard for what you've got and you know you're a good person then and I think that's okay love it now knowing what you know now what would you guys do differently nothing I wouldn't want to know yeah I don't like that because it scares me if something was slightly different it might not have had the same I mean we always said we could try there would have been maybe ways we could have tried to grow quicker or something with true titles or done more food videos or certain things that you know work sometimes on youtube but we were just filming the story of our lives and that's what we're still doing i wouldn't want to i think if you change it if you get like i don't know a huge shout out from a huge youtuber

with millions and millions of subscribers you get a fat for quite a few thousand probably but these people probably don't care about you they just care about the person that's told you to subscribe to them if that makes sense so i think growing more organically and growing an audience that like you for you not because you've jumped off the back of someone else yeah i mean some some people have had success like that where they've had a yeah of course a help up from a bigger creator and we'd love to help smaller creators as well yeah than us obviously we're not there's you know great you can't ever think that you're at a certain place because there's always someone above you

there's always someone below you so that's why we just said we just keep our heads down we do our thing but um yeah you're so right i think years ago a dream of ours would be to have a shout out from a big youtube yeah you take it but now i'd say no don't do that um i'm glad i'm glad how everything has happened and how it's happening yeah because that is a surface like they're not really your community they're not they don't have a story they're not they don't create a bond with you yes yeah but you know yeah it's great it's great for you to do it kind of on your own I love it now when did you guys learn this storytelling you're you guys are both great storyteller really um I don't know I think we're both quite chatty and sociable people like we can start a conversation with anyone any stranger we can just chat I just think it's just

I don't know maybe if they give it back maybe I think we're like talking to you is great it's fun um because you're engaging you're asking really good questions uh it's a back and forth thing yeah i think storytelling because we're talking to like a camera we're talking to that most of the time so i don't know you feel like i never feel like i'm on my own i do genuinely feel like i'm talking to people didn't i say on the vlog the other day i had a bit of a free cat moment because i looked around and george was like editing on something with headphones in and I was literally like looking into a piece of glass and I was talking to it and normally I don't think about this and I was suddenly like huh there's no one here right now this is like an object and I'm really really talking to them getting quite deep

and talking about something and laughing at myself to them yeah and then I was like obviously I'm talking to the audience but there's this whole editing process before. So it's like, it's kind of weird, isn't it? It is a bit bizarre, but I guess talking on the vlogs and I don't know, we've done my interviews in the past and stuff. We just enjoy it.

If the, if the situation's right and the person's right. And you know, with the vlogs, we're talking to our community. We're talking to our audience who know us. They know like that. I got a new t-shirt two days ago. You know, with the vlogs, we're talking to our community. We're talking to our audience who know us. They know, like, that I got a new T-shirt two days ago.

They know what Lucy cooked for dinner last night. It's a very personal, close relationship, even though it could be 100,000 people watching. Yeah, it's amazing how you guys built this strong community and that's how you became so successful. They know you. they know you you didn't know you're in and out yeah and i think people have to be careful if they're starting what they choose to share and what they choose to not share because obviously we we deal with we get not much but we get hate comments we get strange messages we get

you know insults whatever um but i think to deal with that we it's just the heads down approach keep saying that today and think about uh i guess have more sympathy for the person that's really going to hate comments and what's going on in their mind and the reason they're being mean online like i just totally don't get it i think someone's opinion of us who we don't even know is not it's nothing to do with us it yeah that's fine you know it's not gonna affect us absolutely yeah I think what I do with that is sometimes I just don't read it I'll just like what erasing it doesn't exist it's a good strategy why not yeah yeah now what is the worst day of George and Lucy traveling tell me about the worst day of george and lucy traveling tell me about the worst day traveling it was it was the worst like on paper but i guess it turned out quite cool really yeah

okay so i'll try and make it a bit shorter because i do ramble on with stories sometimes so we were in cambodia on an island called korong and it was a tiny island, not that many people on there. There was a little strip beach with some restaurants and a couple of little, they weren't really hotels, they were more like hostels, guest houses kind of thing.

Beautiful beach, really nice. We went on this trip, a day trip. We were staying on, Arlene's my friend, so we are staying here on the island, on the hotel, and we get picked up from this part of the island.

So we travelled round to here in the morning on a boat. We get picked up from this part of the island so we traveled around to here in the morning on a boat we did this amazing boat trip and it was like beautiful but then half way through the day the guy that's running the tour said so actually the winds are too strong we can't even try to go back around to the other side of the island like it's crazy winds the waves are insane um and as he said it was like saying from a film it all got a bit dark the rain kind of came down the clouds went gray and we were stuck on this little beach and with this boat you're looking at our boat and it's i'm not exaggerating it's like going crazy in these huge waves we've got our huge camera and all of our gear with us and we're

thinking how are we going to get back onto this boat we've got to swim to this boat in these choppy waves so we're like holding the camera above our heads like kind of drowning under drowning i'm being dramatic but like our faces are under the water and we're like trying to keep up with these waves we get back on the boat we make it back to the main kind of strip area and he says there's no chance you're getting back tonight to the hotel where our expensive laptops are all of our gear all of our clothes our toothbrushes like everything so we're like okay and that was a collaboration with that hotel that we were staying with yeah so we had uh you know obligations to film videos and take these two people that are staying there

this didn't return that night the hotel is probably thinking so we disappeared where are they my phone had got no battery left we didn't have any wi-fi we didn't have any chargers like it was kind of scary because it was a little bit we were new to asia we were new to traveling we were six weeks in at this point maybe like four or five maybe like it was quite early on and um how did it get resolved so we stayed overnight in this little uh tiny random tiny two dollars a night or something. It was super cheap. Sand all over the floor, mosquitoes. It was kind of crazy

and we woke up in the morning and they said, we woke up at 6am and they said, you've got two choices. You can try and hike through the jungle

but it's very treacherous. There's not a path. There's like cliffs that you've got to abseil down or if the wind's better, you can try and convince someone to take

a boat round. Just find a someone to take a boat round just find a guy that owns a boat and just ask him to take you back which we did so we found someone that did that and yeah managed to get back but it was like something from some like shipwrecked movie we like we dropped us quite far down on the beach we're walking back to this hotel like looking awful no shower we're like we're here still open? Yeah, we managed to make breakfast. Yeah. That's amazing. How many hours was that ordeal?

I would say 24 hours. Yeah. I would say. Wow. Wow. Well, definitely travel teaches you resilience for sure. It does. It does.

We've done a lot of long bus rides. Yeah. Flight, flight after flight after flight flight top to flight situations and it keeps you uh i think advice for anyone that says oh coming to asia like have you got any advice is to stay flexible because you don't know what's going to happen you don't want to go somewhere and say there's 10 points i want to see i want to sightsee and see the 10 top points because you won't things will change you'll miss a bus you'll really enjoy that place and stay there longer so just stay flexible yeah yeah yeah i could imagine you guys living in the uk and you're traveling in asia where everything is so disorganized and there's no such thing as being on time how do you guys deal with that it's also love that's

one thing we love about philippines as well everyone is so laid back um you know it kind of suits us that people aren't too stressy and it's very very very different to england yeah but we really like the the way of life here i think and the pace of life wow that's amazing to hear now it's amazing how at this time during the quarantine that was the best like i said views of videos you guys yeah yeah kind of crazy because it's like the the most raw personal content as in talking about more on the blocks i said yeah we can only talk about travel content yeah yeah exactly there's no there's been no travel for months um so we were just very very happy and pleased that the audience wanted to still join us and come along with us yeah and

new people we had 23 000 subscribers in one month during that time and other months were around 17 to 20 000 subscribers new subscribers each month yeah and that's still similar i think it's just great that new people are joining the channel and wanting to see what we're up to and stuff like that and it just makes us want to keep going that's amazing now how do you guys deal with traveling where you guys will be stopped everywhere for taking photos have you guys been like behind with your like flight because of that how do you guys handle that? Actually, yeah, it's happened a few times where we really need to get somewhere.

We want to always be polite and we never want to say no to a photo. But sometimes it's like, sorry, really quickly, we need to go, we need to go. Yeah, but it's always nice when people spend the time to come and say hi. Yeah, definitely. I mean, it's different now because, like, all the selfies are distant and stuff like that. Yes. Kind of smiling through a mask. It's one of the nicest feelings when you meet someone who's genuinely excited to see you because they love your videos.

Yeah. And they love what you're doing. It's a really, really nice feeling. Wow. Now, what is the best compliment you guys have, like a message from your community that really makes you inspired? Ah, interesting. What do you you think when that stands out or just when people say that we're real and when people say that we're funny and when people say that we're relatable and um nice people yeah all the stuff that you want to hear in normal life I think more so that is complementing the actual cinematics or something.

Any compliment is obviously lovely. Yeah, people say that editing was great. That's really nice. When it's something personal to our personalities, it's like, wow, that's actually really kind. Digs a little bit deeper. Yeah. Yeah.

I think that's amazing. People always like your hair as well. Yeah. Yeah. I'll pull it from your hair. Now that it's getting a bit People always like your hair as well. Yeah. You get a lot of points on your hair. Now that it's getting a bit longer. That's a different story. Well, everyone's obsessed about your British accent,

even here in America. I do. Oh, wow. We get a lot of comments now about the accent. Sometimes I'll say a certain word and there'll be loads of people commenting the time stamp. And I'm like, why are people commenting this? Like, did I say something wrong? And it's like, no, no no we just like hearing you over and over again yeah we sound like Harry Potter but yeah that's very true you know I think like instantly even my podcast like intro

outro I hired an English accent because it just elevates your branding right oh nice yeah to us it's just normal it's just how we speak and the funny thing is traveling opened up us opened us up to that as well because we didn't know that people liked the British we have no idea you know we everyone sounds like us at home yeah everyone sounds like us at home and that's what we've grown up with for 25 years 20 years if you're younger and yeah it was normal to us but now it's so even when we were making videos trying food in certain places for the first time yeah it was cool for us because we were we wanted to try the food of course wherever we are we love experiencing culture

and food and things but we were kind of like wow so many people want to see us try it why is that yeah and then we and then recently we found ourselves watching other foreign people to the uk trying british food trying fish and chips shepherd's pie i love it a full english breakfast and now we we totally get it like we want to see what oh how will they react to that sausage roll yeah they like it what do they think of that so we totally get it now um i think traveling opens you up to things like that definitely now how's your family seeing you guys what you all guys are now what what what do they say now uh they they miss us yeah first of all we normally go home

maybe twice a year so christmas and then like the middle of the year english summer um so we should have been home we're gonna go around around June for like another month or six weeks or something uh-huh obviously you couldn't obviously can't because there's quarantine so we're definitely missing them they're definitely missing us but I think overall they're very proud of us they yeah find it very cool I mean it's unlike anyone else in our family is our jobs I guess yeah it's very different it's very different um i think our parents are proud yeah and they're happy that we made something successful and that we're enjoying life what more would you want for your kids i suppose we don't know yet but um i suppose they're yeah they're just happy for us and they miss us i think that's it

how are you guys handling with this quarantine? Is it difficult? Filming a lot of videos. Filming a lot of videos. That honestly has kept us very, it's given us something to do every day, making videos, just doing what we were doing anyway,

but in a different way. We've gone through all the phases of quarantine though. The like crazy amounts of exercise, the drinking alcohol part, all the different types of, I feel like there's all over the picture. Stereotypes. Yeah, exactly. I feel like we've gone through a fair few of that.

We've done it all. We've had ups and downs. You know, I think like everyone. We've watched a ton of Netflix. Yeah. We've watched a lot of TV. We've played video games.

We've done a lot of things that we haven't done for the last two or three years. And maybe it's a good thing to slow us down. Yeah, it's been quite nice. We feel like we were forced to take a breather slightly. Although not even in terms of uploads, because I would say we've uploaded the same amount of videos, but I would say a breather in terms of actually traveling,

going to do something every single day, moving around, exhausting ourselves. We've just adapted to what's going on that's awesome now who is the most interesting person you've met so far while in the philippines other than you um interesting person we've met a lot of people we've met mayors and um celebrities celebrities some people have become friends um interesting interesting probably andy smith actually that man that guy's a mystery he's a mysterious man do you know him you know do you know oh yeah uh do you know diana Zubiri an actress in the Philippines

I think so I've heard it her husband great friend of ours but he's a great guy I like him a lot very mysterious always off to meetings always wearing a suit Diana's amazing we had her on our podcast

last year was podcast last year. Yeah. Was that last year? Yeah. Actually, yeah, that's a great story. And she was explaining that she came, I've forgotten the word in Tagalog. She really opened up on our podcast.

And we asked her before, obviously, if it's okay, if she wants to talk about it. But she came from, she's a very successful actress here. Yeah. And she. From a very young age as well. Yeah. And she got into it.

But from a life almost pretty much on the streets and eating food from leftover garbage and things like that. There's a Tagalog word that you're trying to learn from that. I've completely forgotten it. But yeah, she explained it to us. And from that to where she is now, it's just incredible.

There was nothing handed to her. She went out and did it all on her own back. Yeah inspiring those two are great and they've become good friends of us yeah that's wonderful now what do you think of the philippine culture oh we love it we love it we i feel like we know the culture more than our own now i never thought i'd know the other country that's not the uk i think we've traveled more with the philippines than we've traveled england oh easily easily um we it's just so great i think what's the three we always say there's three things that really stand out the friendliness of the people no i mean as the part of the culture what's in inside the people here all right so like food family and love are the three things that really stand

out to us here um so people are like food is such a bonding thing and like having huge like boob and fights and things and big buffets and people like bond over food and family is huge here people are like very family-focused orientated it's just really nice. And then also, like, love. Everyone loves love, don't they? Yeah. It's very open. People aren't ashamed to be romantic and be... All the love songs on karaoke and things.

Yeah, all the love. Yeah, exactly. It's just so nice to see, like, I feel like in the UK people sometimes are more shy. People suppress that side of them a little bit. And it's embarrassing to be too romantic, maybe. Too gushy or whatever. Yeah.

But we love it. People are very friendly here. People are incredibly friendly to us when we meet them. Even just interactions day to day with people in stores and restaurants, coffee shops. So nice. People are just nice. And we've seen a lot of different cultures around the Philippines all kind of different levels of it and yeah it's so interesting to see any any country is

interesting to see a culture but I think the Philippines is so diverse but then you see similarities everywhere you go which are the kind of things you see the same that's awesome now would you guys ever consider of doing a movie or modeling is it something that you guys would be open to or you guys been approached all the time it'd be kind of crazy doing like a movie because we're so used to being the our directors our producers our editors for ourselves so like someone's saying do that do that i think it would be a bit weird it'd be weird for us to adapt yeah i don't know't know if I could act. I think I'm a bad actress. I don't think I could be an actor, but I'd love to be a part of a show of some sort.

Yeah, we're definitely open to opportunities like that. Modelling, I don't know. You could be a model. We can't try and be anyone who isn't ourselves. So if they want a six foot with like, a beard that doesn't properly grow, then that's fine. But,

yeah, you know, we're open to funny, new things, definitely. Yeah. You know, it's a crazy story

because I met Lucy through Airbnb. You guys are one of my guests. No. I know. Yeah, we love it. When are you guys coming back?

Oh, as soon as possible. When we can possible as soon as we can yeah we'd love to come back we miss we miss that kind of thing we loved especially going to your place we loved it because we could we could wake up at 6 a.m here we could uh get a grab to the airport with a small amount of traffic at that time of the morning uh get a short flight to camigan and be by the pool before midday at bintana uh at 11 a.m yeah so it's it's still the morning we'd be there in like an island paradise yeah as soon as we can we'd love to come and thank you for creating that amazing video by the way i showed it to the american filipino american community and they loved it so thank you

we actually want to come to the U.S. that was one of our plans for this year we were gonna we were gonna do a few U.S. trips we wanted to go to New York and L.A. maybe on separate trips but maybe stop by in Orange County yeah for sure yeah yeah you guys have to go to Utahah i think utah by far is my favorite place yeah okay yeah it's a good drive now what's your end goal what's your big hairy audacious goal i i wouldn't say there's an end goal i would say that we love we love the process of what we do if there's an end then then when you're at the end goal that you made you'll be like oh but i want that now i think goals are just moving all the time goal yeah um but for us i think

generically speaking is happiness and just continue to be happy every day waking up with freedom to do what we want to do that makes us happy exactly and we have some other more uh real practical goals uh that we want to achieve but but really it's just keep going keep adapting keep changing keep evolving follow happiness follow what you want to do um or what you want to do and yeah end goal i think if you also a lot of people work for an end goal and then it suggests that they don't enjoy trying to get there they're always working for something they're waiting for something to enjoy the process or they're trying to do something they don't enjoy now because they think that when they get to this end goal they'll be happy but I think then you

just you're just wasting time a lot of time and you know there's so many different scenarios for so many different people but for us we'd way rather enjoy the day-to-day and if we get if a byproduct of that is achieving some of our personal goals and along the way then that's that's great but we just want to enjoy enjoy every day i love it now how do you want to be remembered each one of you oh um i don't think i've ever been asked that i think that's the first time as someone who as someone who made a lot of people smile yeah or laugh or happiness in some way nothing's nothing to we i don't think i would i don't need to be known as like about uh physical like um values about money and things like that i think more someone who left happiness left a place or a person more positive than before they found us i would say something like that um i think oh that's a really good question i've never

been asked that uh yeah just a just a positive impact yeah positive impact oh my god guys thank you for sharing your story where can they find you what's your site um we are on youtube just put in the juicy vlog we're on facebook or on instagram we have a podcast on spotify um we're everywhere lucy's on tiktok at the juicy vlog go dances. Occasionally I'll make a cameo appearance. Yeah, we're everywhere. So if you like seeing what random people are up to in a random life. In a random apartment in Manila. Then come along.

Well, thank you so much. I enjoyed talking to you and it's nice to finally see you. Like Zoom. Yeah, it was great to finally actually kind of see you like zoom yeah it's great to finally actually kind of see you absolutely that's been great thanks so much yeah hopefully one day we'll see each other and come again in vincenna for sure when's the podcast out it will probably out by next week next week cool let's know we'll share we'll share it as well yes and we were number three in the philippines for entrepreneur wow amazing congratulations thank you really really

it is like what you guys do it's a lot of work it's not easy it's a lot of work well i appreciate you guys and thank you so much for being here thank you it's great good to speak to you bye we hope you enjoyed the show don't forget to rate review and subscribe and visit katehancock.com so you don't miss out on the next episode