EB 85: Louis Cole: How I Got Here (Sept 2015)

[Music] welcome to ear biscuits I’m Rhett and I’m link joining us today in our final recording from VidCon is youtuber Globetrotter vlogger an adventure seeker Louie Cole from his channel fun for Louie Louie travels all over the world and documents his experiences and it’s probably not an exaggeration to say he’s experienced more things in the past few weeks than most people experience an entire lifetime the dude is the real-life version of the most interesting man in the world he I think in his YouTube channel fun for Louie which hosts daily vlogs are these travelling adventures currently has 1.5 million subscribers and 155 million video views some of his escapades include spearfishing and Australia swimming with ducks and London yes he did that integrating himself into the Himba tribe of South Africa horseback riding in New Mexico Paris skiing in the Alps and row boating in Vietnam that’s just a few of his adventures this guy has a good time and he’s not just experiencing the stuff we wish we could experience he’s the type of guy you’d want to be experiencing this stuff alongside he’s got positive outlook his free spirit his ability to live every moment to the fullest really inspires his audience to face their fears and break out of their comfort zones of course this made us wonder if Louie has any fears himself hmm so we talked him about that and a few other things got some great stories I there’s got to be a sequel with this guy by the end but we talked about the gang faceoff that happened on the double-decker bus that he bought and drove around London we thought to valorize eating many extreme dishes on his now private ‘add or deleted I think yeah food for Louie channel including he ate a live scorpion and a live tour Angela that gets controversial and so we unpack all of that and finally how his itinerant lifestyle impacts his personal relationship yeah this is definitely one of the best one of our all-time favorite conversations we’ve had on air biscuits and we know you’re going to enjoy it but first we want to take a moment to mention today’s sponsor Squarespace Squarespace is the easiest way to create a beautiful website blog or online store for you and your ideas Squarespace features an elegant interface beautiful templates and incredible 24/7 customer support try squarespace at squarespace.com and enter offer code rhett and Link at checkout to get 10% off offer code rhett and Link 10% off Squarespace build it beautiful and now onto the biskits our lives intersecting with yours is difficult because there’s one huge variable and that’s your life whenever we get together which this is this I mean we passed at events but like gotten together to create something like even this is like oh this is it immediately felt feels more special because you’re such a moving target well but it’s like you’re the you’re the the real-life example of the most interesting man in the world that’s how I think about it yeah I see that Dos Equis commercial and he says all these things and I’m like but I know a dude who kind of does all this in it in real life yeah disagree again I mean there’s obviously the the the behind the scenes it’s every second every day is not as interesting as the videos and the instagrams but yeah I guess this has been the most interesting action-packed kind of W years of my life this whole YouTube adventure right okay so let’s let’s backtrack from this moment cuz even if I look at your channel currently it’s it’s basically real kind I mean you’re you’re within a day you’re pretty much loads load something up every day yeah every day everything do you ever miss a day I’ve started to as of the beginning of this year I just thought you know it was only me at set the challenge of doing a daily vlog and then I just thought it become it become a little bit unhealthy where I just thought I’m not taking any me time I’m not taking any rate I’m um okay but still give or take I can look at your chin on and I may take off like one day a week one day fortnight but it’s around it’s it’s the least I’m doing at least six days a week so you got the VidCon madness begins video which has been up about a day because that’s a you’ve been in VidCon about that long yeah and that’s that’s almost 15 minutes but then if I backtrack from there I can tell okay you came from Hollywood you were riding on I’m just a just based on thumbnail only yeah you were inside a lot from your thumbnails yeah you were in Hollywood riding horses and then that’s probably Griffith Park yeah and then you were on the beach doing a cleanup is this like a self-imposed cleaning up a section of the beach it was there was a charity and we were helping do a beach cleanup with him yeah okay and then you were doing a GoPro audio test under water that was in New York you were in New York for that yeah doing some rooftop instagrams testing out some of Casey’s danger toys whatever that means it sounds off he’s got these wheels these electric you know these you’ve seen those toys with the wheels and Evan’s floating around on them yeah yeah yeah they can be dangerous and your mom was in New York yep I can tell that and then you were doing some skateboarding but in Central Park I’m like yeah I’m like hitching a ride on the back of one of those bicycle taxis you know those there dies that cycle around and but but he didn’t they didn’t know you were doing it not to begin with we made friends we made friends quite quickly he was cool so even before you were in New York where were you swimming with swans oh that was in London in London yeah and then do we I jumped in there’s a lake in Hyde Park and I went swimming in it there’s actually like your article swimming and that’s not a thing and make England usually like these are this is a lake full of ducks and so just look at the lake yeah but you’re allowed to swim yeah it’s like a thing like I didn’t notice a thing so no yeah we were anyway that was that thumbnail we were jumping in swimming with this one’s flowing around us but put three videos before that the first video in your London series is called back in London so right before that when you were talking with animals where were you that’s Italy yeah it’s alia you were in Italy and and this is over the and I’m just I’ve just taken you through the car is through just five weeks Italy London New York Los Angeles and then where you going after VidCon I am doing a road trip up to Portland and then on the 11th of August I’m going to Sierra Leone in West Africa where the where the Ebola outbreak started but I’m going with the UN and World Vision this charity I’m going to go and I know World Vision interview some some patients that have recovered and it’s gonna be I mean it’s gonna be pretty intense to UM that trip so what we’re gonna get into like specific places and like highlights but let’s just talk about workflow like what’s your approach I said you know you walked in here you had your camera you’re kind of leading with the camera and so what’s your general approach like shooting editing all of that what you work for I mean oh just shoot as much as possible during the day I’ve just found I’m happy to go through a bit more footage each day to capture those moments and I’d rather capture a little bit too much I think that’s my what I figured out over the years are doing this VidCon is an interesting one because a lot of its relational so a lot of its just meeting people chatting with people all day and that’s a little bit more difficult to capture those moments you want to share because some of the conversations it’d be weird if I was like like this the whole time with my camera so the to be honest VidCon is an interesting one that you can capture bit the party scenes I would go and chill in the hot tub a little bit when I’m on the move and there’s a bit more activity to the day and we’re moving around a bit and there’s a bit you know that’s it’s a slightly different workflow because I’m I’m explaining a bit to camera how am I feeling about where I am I might I might get put the camera on someone else and ask them something and then it’s just a montage of clips of what we’re up to and then you know another chat to camera and so it’s pretty it’s pretty edit heavy then if you yeah so a lot of it I mean we had a panel this morning I was with Casey Neistat and Ben brown and the Dean and we all do well min Casey and Ben do daily vlogs and the Dean does travel vlogging and we we were saying it’s it’s almost entirely in the Edit you know obviously you need to capture the moments but then it’s how you cut that together and that usually happens for me late at night I’m my problem is I’ve got that FOMO thing where I can’t miss out so I couldn’t like pull myself away from a party to go and edit I have to wait till everyone’s gone to bed yeah which at things like this I mean I couldn’t even edit last night we had this amazing conversation with a few of us about how we can change the world together as youtubers and you know having an impact until 5:00 in the morning and then I was like who is in this brunch Jerome Jarre do you know Jerome Jarre he’s the biggest Viner in the world and you know he’s that French guy tall French guy he does so really funny okay okay anyway his whole thing is making people happy maybe making people smile and challenging people to face their fears so he like does like public singing and he goes up to people in public and like I guess pushes him out that comfort zone anyway we had this I mean I going to now but we had this incredible conversation about well just give us the conclusion what’s the answer how are we changing the world when we were in bed at 5:00 a.m. I want to be a part of this okay so my original point is I haven’t even edited yesterday’s video yet so it chops and changes when when I edit and their work flow could depending on what I’m doing so I don’t want it to take over especially conversations like this which I’ll explain the crux of the conversation was society’s broken we have got this incredible voice with millions of ears potentially between the network of people I was looking around last night at the YouTube party and I was like I mean this group of you know the small group of people here we could 100% change the world you don’t need the politicians and the and the big corporates to do it like we we could do it and then we had this conversation of what is it that’s broken and how do you mend it and it was all around the subject of compassion and I think the three words which my friend Dave who I’m doing a lot of called charity ideas at the moment and these are his three words are compassionate problem solvers so finding compassionate problem solvers and getting them to release that and other people when I mean there’s I mean this was a like we start the conversation at 9:30 and ended at 5:00 a.m. so I’m struggling to summarize it but it was like it was documented I mean the cameras are rolling so I filmed a bit and then I just put my audio on record I just wanted to listen back because it was just very exciting because there’s a lot of amazing people and minds here and it people had incredible incredibly different experiences people from all over the world but the one thing common is somehow we’ve built this incredible platform that people seem interested in our lives and what we’re up to and there’s this potential to inspire people and make a difference and I don’t know that’s that’s where my head’s at at the moment yeah let’s skip from workflow to kind of what you want to accomplish you know your environment is always changing you’re always figuring out how to take the footage that you capture which is always compelling but it’s but it’s a testimony to your editing and all this the music and the style that you bring to it but it’s all for a reason like I really get a sense that you you want to elicit something from your audience what it what is that what is your goal it’s an interesting journey I think I started off just wanting to document my life and at times I’m just doing what I want to be doing regardless and then it just happens to be oh I’ll just film with this whilst I’m doing it other times and what I can fall into and I want to avoid is suddenly thinking oh I need to make sure I’m making an interesting video today so then I’ll deliberately choose to do things to make them interesting and I don’t think that’s bad in itself because it does motivate you to you know have a fun day in not just sitting all day but I don’t want that to be the primary drive for me it’s like I have to make interesting videos that wasn’t ever the goal it was just to share my life I think my my goal and what I would love to do is to inspire people when they watch my videos a lot of people say oh you’ve really helped me face my fears or dream bigger or you know some of it’s about travel and that’s my like face the fears of jumping off of random rocks or or even that’s the interesting thing a lot of my videos are literal fears like you know jumping out of a plane and going to crazy countries but I think just if you just think about fear in general that’s the thing that holds people back in life whether it’s a fear of jumping up playing or whether it’s a fear of leaving your house or me making new friends and if you say to you know if you’re if you explain to people it embrace this this you’re pushing out your comfort zone and and and even if it’s scary doing it a lot of people have said you know I wouldn’t have even come to VidCon but you know you’re watching your videos of you know helps me overcome that and a girl yesterday said she wanted to go to she’d never left her state and she wanted to go to university in New York and she’s like plucked up the courage and she’s now got place and she’s going from California to New York in a month’s time and she said it’s all from this this general feeling of like facing your fears which I guess people feel inspired to do so I think this whole thing is like you can watch my life and see what I’m up to and there’s this shallow sometimes level of like just pleasure seeking fun and jumping off things I’m having you know in here and they’re riding horses I’m jumping in lakes but I hope my hope is it’s a lot deeper than that people can see that my kind of heart behind it all is embrace life and and be passionate about what you do and hopefully that can inspire others to to do it in their way it might not be travel it might be something DIF what cuz you know there’s an interesting there’s an interesting dynamic when you when you watch what you do I mean one thing is you might be tempted to think that you don’t have any fears you’re fearless that guy’s fearless I’m scared everything but that guy’s fearless and then the second thing might be like man I can’t go to all those places how am I gonna have how can I embrace life and get the most out of life when it’s going to the cubicle every day or you know whatever situation somebody might be at the classroom yeah yeah that is a tough that is a tough one I know I think that’s why I if I choose to vlog daily it means those off days where I’m not going out having adventures and I might just be sitting at home in my family and the most adventurous thing I do is walk down to a coffee shop and get a coffee which often happens it shows that life isn’t this adrenaline 100% every day doing the biggest and best thing it’s there’s there’s a reality to it as well and I think that’s why I quite like the daily thing right but what are your fears you know in this big conversation we had last night I realized where sometimes I do think I’m fearless I realized I realize I need to think about that because I think there’s some fears I have which are normal which aren’t a normal classic fear well let’s let let’s start just but what sometimes it is like that okay I think I’m think I’ve got a fear of missing out that foam a thing but I think that goes bigger than just like the party I think I think that’s it recently been you know I’m in this incredible position and I don’t want to miss out on the opportunities that I can have and then it’s like well what are the opportunities the reality is in my position with I mean brands are contacting me every day saying we want to work with you in a new projects I could easily draw that and kind of get absorbed into the world of like just making as much money as possible from this platform which it’s a tough one because yes some I’ve monetize my videos and I’m earning an income and I’ve got dreams that require money so I for instance one of them is I want to buy a big plot of forest and build a tree house Ewok village in it and live there because I haven’t got a house at the moment I was like who wants a normal house I want to live in an Ewok village yes we have been locally build a guest room we’d be yeah I mean I want to be multiple but we went and looked at a plot of land up in Santa Cruz which was like I mean it was a big plot of land but it was like half a million dollars and I was like yeah but but anyway my point is I can work with brands if they work organically with my channel and my viewers are cool with that and understand the principle of me doing sponsor videos and it can work or I can get I’m like well I just do sponsor videos every day you know and then I’m just so that’s one of my fears is I don’t want to become unauthentic and I don’t a lien oh my audience and I don’t want to kind of sell out to things I don’t believe in but I also don’t want to be on my high horse to be like I’m not gonna I’m you know I’m just gonna make money yeah I’m not gonna make money because the reality is though money isn’t it shouldn’t shouldn’t be a motivation but I think it’s a brilliant tool and thing that kind of quit that can really free you to do you think awesome things so no that’s been playing up I mean this is the most honest I’ve been Oh Noli and I hope this isn’t like Oh crazy subject to talk about but know this whole thing’s a fear of mine I don’t know what to do in this situation I don’t know whether to embrace it and just do it all or whether to like step back a bit I’m scared of missing opportunities and I’m scared of what if I if I get if I do the wrong thing what could happen well the Ewok village is a definite yes yes the brand would pay you with an Ewok village and take money out of the equation right would that simplify things yeah absolutely yeah well I think that money represents an Ewok it’s an equation yeah but seriously seriously I mean just one piece of advice I would give just hearing that is I think that the nature of your content and the nature of you think the things that you that you’re doing is that there is a really you’re concerned about authenticity and that’s a great instinct and you should keep that instinct it’s I think there is a really authentic way to incorporate brands that you believe in into the kinds of things that you’re doing because there’s you know I mean whether it was like you know Red Bull is an example of somebody does all kinds of adventure things which there’s like a connection there but just simple things like if there’s something that you use or something that you could help you do the things that you do while you’re traveling like there’s a million people out there we would want to give you something like that to talk about you know as a sponsor you have to figure how to navigate it but it’s like there’s a lot of opportunity there and I don’t think that if you if you maintain that authenticity you’re not gonna alienate people I would think and then we could build that ye walk village yeah we’ll help you will come and we’ll stay oh yeah come stay we next protocol should be in yes that’s right you know and it’s not our job to solve your fears neither it isn’t I think it’s our job to just make you talk about them no no I I mean my yeah I just need I need some processing time with as many sponsors as we work with though we we are like oh you definitely should be we can find a way we can talk about that more later I would I will say that I think that the the challenge is to find integrations that the brand already reflects your your values yeah because a lot of brands want that’s a good point a lot of van brands want to attach the selves to us to you in order to by association put your values on to them you know yeah and that’s what you that’s what you don’t want to do you know and that’s where it when you when they throw a dollar amount out there sometimes it’s difficult for us say okay oh now that there’s that amount of money on the table well we got it now we got it come on boys we got to have a conversation right because there are different kinds of realize you can’t do that it can’t be about the dollar amount right because they’re different kind of brands I mean coke could come to you and say we want to sponsor you and at that point it’d be like okay why is Louis being sponsored by this huge soft drink but there are smaller and their slogan is is has been enjoy happiness see how that really makes sense but what does that work for you and you don’t answer that yeah there’s not two specifics but the general the general thing is I I mean it’s been tough some some brand things have worked with it starts off great you’re like yeah I think we’re on the same page by the time this contract sign and you’re starting to you know you starting to get things reviewed then suddenly everything changes and you’re like wow this wasn’t over the plan like and then it’s yeah this stress of like I really don’t want to start like do it reading lines and skies in my this isn’t a fictional thing this is my life so this this is that this is the struggle anyway but yeah I mean I think it is but I think we are getting to a place where there’s enough that’s starting to work correctly that there’s hope that it can be there can be trust the brain can actually trust us yeah but but let’s just see if that happens yeah the other fear of missing out is an interesting one because that’s just more we’re going just more inside your head and not inside your wallet right yeah yeah this is like I think the other thing is like I don’t know if it’s quite related but like is this whole shiny thing syndrome where I’m like I arrived at something like VidCon and I’m like I know like a kid in the candy store I’m like huh and it’s all about a lot is relational I need only go and check to that person look at this person and also people come up to me they’re like Louie we want to talk to you I’m like yeah let’s talk and then it’s this whole thing of and then it’s like meeting my viewers and it’s like exciting but also sometimes about overwhelming and and it’s this whole thing of I my attention is not in one place for like more than 30 seconds and this is this is Rick probably here sitting down and having a conversation because you you’re scared of missing out because why you know is there so what I think part of its just wanting to make the most of everything you know and make the most of life and I mean this is great I haven’t really I don’t know I don’t I don’t know if there is the answer but yeah let’s talk about it I mean let’s see if we can derive it because now I have a theory that as a youngster you were locked in a dungeon and deprived of all sorts of stimulation so now you’re just a young boy at like age 18 so let’s see if we can get there oh yeah how did you how did you become Louie I mean how did you become this guy that is the most interesting man in the world for real no I mean brilliant family really close with my family loving home I was always a brilliant and not like like extremely smart but like just like like in the British Way of brilliance like when Charlie says lovely he doesn’t mean lovely he just means great I mean great yeah right got it great family so is Martita yeah and we’re British quite um quite a typical like grew up in the suburbs middle-class didn’t have loads of money my dad’s been a high school teacher his whole life he’s actually been I think like 33 years teaching at the same school and we’ve always lived in the same house so this is a very you know in terms of like in terms of security it’s just been same house same town I grew up in it’s been nice it’s been great but also this has been running strand of like my parents have been quite supportive and encourage all of us to think outside the box I’ve got two sisters as well so it’s like thinking outside of the box and as the kids are but I was like I love rainforests I love jungles I’m obsessed with like jungles so they let me completely transfer all my bedroom into a rain forest I had like a running waterfall I lived in a cave I painted trees all over the walls I had a pet iguana roaming free in my raising as long as he didn’t leave the threshold of your door then yeah and after airing yeah I mean where did that idea come from I know my head I mean I just always loved I was always in as a kid I was always in another world like I was in Fantasyland the whole time like I just daydream the way my way through my childhood I was just always playing games even at school I imagined I was it I was a spy in a military camp like every day I was like I just create this fantasy world around me – it wasn’t an escapism I just saw one I loved seeing the magic in the world around me yeah it was fun it just hit me that rainforest cafe could be a sponsor ya know I love this I’ve always liked your room but they serve food yeah isn’t great though but you know but it know your financier is like that was that is my room my room was like the rainforest company but and then it’s been I guess just crazy ideas I’ve had that don’t fit into the normal like so let’s fast forward ten years like I bought a double-decker bus like there you know the London double-decker buses got quite a fast-forward I bought a bus got some friends to paint graffiti all over the outside and then I used to run and help with young people and like bad neighborhoods around London like gangs and we and they set up a music studio in there and we like I used to like help with youth clubs and churches and different people did you drop out of high school no no no this is that I’m fast-forwarding past high school no I I did I didn’t go to university though that’s the interesting thing and a lot of my friends I’ve talked to that doing bigger things you know entrepreneurs and they set up big world potentially world impacting things didn’t do degrees I didn’t go to university which is a common thread with a lot of my friends at home but your parents kind of stoked that flame of always you do this yeah it was in it and then do it yeah invent whatever you want to do do it yeah so what was was the double-decker bus the first example of that how many is multiple like I remember wanting to do something really fun for my 21st birthday and we could try and rewind I’m trying to think what else so my jungle bedroom teenage years I did a I did a I did like a work placement instead of University and then where was that would you work I did like 3d animation I worked in an office in for Sky TV oh really so it’s all like because I love graphics and visual stuff was that before or after you were homeless for the first time this was before okay so anyway then I left then I left the corporate world of like I mean it was fun and it was visual it was graphics but it’s still at office and I had to keep not keep almost a cubicle like it was an office I just had the same see every day but then I thought oh you know and this isn’t me I can’t do this anymore so after two years there I just left I thought I can I can save some money because at that point you like what’s important to me I’m paying rent and it mayn’t it made me challenge everything I knew about society I was like wait hang on I don’t I don’t think this has to be the way that I’m told it is like I think I can just decide what I believe so the belief that I needed a house because I was like that’s a big out going you know renting us a house so I just bought a minivan and I just thought I can just live in here and it’s free so I let in your giant said well my they was supported they were like they were like well we know you’re skilled enough to go back into a workplace if you want to but in the meantime go and have fun and you know that I’ve got a funny story so he went lived in this minivan for a few years drove around Europe with my friends literally survived on maybe 20 dollars a week always like eating cans of food and I just thought oh I can live for free who needs money and it was this whole thing of like I just want to might at that point I was like time is so much more valuable and I remember leaving my job and thinking with all the time in the world I can do anything I can I can literally take over the world not in there in a good way yeah in a good way I can just do anything and I still gotta put gas in that minivan yeah and that’s because I was always traveling with friends I would be I’d literally put in a gas station and be like can everyone just donate put in like $1.00 I mean I’m talking American so you feels like can everyone give me one pound to put in for fuel so I had to get one to chip in with bit 10 pounds in the tank it was literally like that I remember often running out and and often having nothing and going hungry but I love this testing the limits of what do I need and how can I adapt to create more time in my life so is this whole experiment of time then I got I had this vision for the double-decker bus I told everyone I’m gonna get double-decker bus but I you know you need you need 10,000 pounds or whatever to 18,000 dollars even to dealer and then someone came up to me and they said we love your vision here’s the money which was awesome I think someone came up to you well I I was I was involved with circles of people that like want to do cool things right so someone showed their friend he showed their friend and that I found this almost like a foundation that when I support cool projects and they said we love the idea here’s the money and it was like literally wrote me a check now is there a belief system that your parents kind of put in place that kind of kind of formed the structure for this was it just your parents saying go off and have fun or you know was there something else well I mean I won’t go super into this but like my and on a personal level I have like a kind of a faith like I grew up in church and like okay I think part of that mentality of seeing a bigger picture to the world it’s not just the here and now it’s like there’s more going on and I think that’s all always thought this sense of magic there’s a spiritual realm there’s more going on and I later on read books like the secret where you like you know you’re like putting things out there and you know when you or it’s like having even if you don’t want to put it in terms of God and stuff like if you have a belief in belief that you can do something and that something’s going to happen I honestly feel that you can make things can happen you know like you can almost will things to happen whatever whether you believe that’s like a spiritual spiritual yeah whether you believe that’s like a spiritual like God’s got a path and he’s you know doing something or whether there’s just a lot of universe well whether it’s a law of the universe well however you perceive it because I’m honest like preaching my personal beliefs but like how have you but I know that you gave there Jesus shout out in your draw my life well I just said you were inspired well I just wonder yeah I mean I just wanted to explain I wanted to mention it because for me personally that is a massive impact on my drive and motivation what’s difficult in in society is there’s a lot of connotations and and and assumptions when you label yourself if I lay with myself a Christian for instance it’s you just you know it’s just like such a negative thing I’m a get a lot of stuff and also there’s like the whole Republican Christian southern inner southern American thing state you know everything all of that for me I I like the idea of you know Jesus was an incredible character whether you believe he was a son of God or whether you believe he’s just this cool guy that did some awesome stuff or whatever like so when I say I’m inspired by Jesus and I want to follow what how he taught to live I don’t I feel like that can’t be that offensive for people I think he did drive a double-decker bus yeah but you’ve got the bus so it got the bus yeah let’s go back to the bus so we’ve got the bus and from this motivation of like honest you know growing up being taught as a kid it’s bigger than you it’s look at the world around you we’ve care for people love people this is the whole message I grew up with like it’s about loving people and then I’m like well what was in the mini van like driving around I’d meet these kids on the street which had nothing hadn’t didn’t have good homes some of them had left you know run away from home or whatever I remember sleeping under like in a highway like a noise you know there like a highway the bridges that go over the highways and there’s a little tucked in there I remember this kid was like destroy it run away from home for some reason the police were after him and I tell her I found him anyway and it’s conversation with him and ended up having a conversation on the phone with the parole officer his police person that was gonna look out for him and and just I just thought wow this people really like in much more way more broken situations in their life and they’re like struggling and I just thought like I can help like I try and help and love them in some way and then I just thought this idea of oh if they had a place to come that wasn’t like this set location like run like government run youth which there’s so many restrictions and paperwork and I just thought oh I’ve got some friends around me as well that love to help and I just wanted to set up and I thought oh I could live in the double-decker bus as well because it’s much more spacious than the minivan so in the van where you can make a double-decker bus work double-decker bus had some it kicked kitted it out I mean I need to show some pictures in a minute these guys can’t see but anyway so I just thought it’d be great had to have a safe space that I could pull up in the neighborhood kids could jump on boards it was all safe like we had often volunteers I even worked alongside the police the police said at one point this is the best thing we’ve ever seen like this project so it was like working alongside people already in the areas like charities churches the police the council and just helping support young people often through just having somewhere to sit down have a drink have a like a hot drink of hot chocolate or something or play a computer game or one and rookie they want to record like we were like making CDs of their music at the time and so that was my motivation was this how can I love people in an interesting way that’s not you know doesn’t fit into the norms of society necessarily but it’s like how did the bus work like it was okay I’m gonna drive up under this bridge and say hey guys I got a double-decker bus come on get in I had this sound system that was so loud cuz I also used I forgot I used to DJ a little bit as well just at parties for fun so I had this sound system was so loud the the base speakers could set off car alarms as we drive past so you could drive down the road and like all the cars inside the road the car loans ago so you just start pumping music and people would come flooding and then I had a microphone and I just hand it took it I was like do you like rap um CD and I just give him microphone and then suddenly they’re spontaneous MC battle on the street it would happen all the 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them do but not like no not everyone not everyone’s carrying a gun okay but they can get hold of guns illegally so anyway so I II was working I was living in South London a time and I had worked in this neighborhood where there’s this particular gang and I’d built relationships with a lot of the members and was just trying to be a positive influence in their life but it’s I mean it’s a crazy structure like the drug dealing there the the hierarchy everything so I took a bunch of them out for there one of those one of their birthdays I was like oh I’ll take you I’ll just take you out so it wasn’t like they weren’t renting it I was just like come on let’s go and do something free before they hang free before the game anyway so we go off into um double-decker bus we’ll go up into London pumping music some of them are like emceeing often when I stop the bus people crowd around and then other people wanna join in so often it will be there’ll be spontaneous MC battles with people on the street that just happen to be walking past and it attracts people over so anyway there’s like this other gang that kind of show up and they start like emceeing and then they have their own double-decker bus now they just walk along the street and then and then and somehow they ended up in the bus no no and on the same day probably this no this is the thing that’s two decks they original they did separate the original gang members were chillin upstairs I’m like either they’re probably playing on the PlayStation whatever this other gang no there’s a PlayStation yeah thanks 52-inch plasma screen anyway so downstairs this other gang come in and they start like chat like emceeing on the mic and then they start representing their ends which is like their neighborhood and they start shouting out because this is turf war right they’re like North London North London I’m like like because my gang is from South London like anyway I’m like I’m just gonna I’m just gonna I pulled over I was gonna go upstairs and check that this is this is safe like that cuz I can’t kick them off I can come down like walked upstairs the gang I’d originally came in I had pulled over balaclavas on their face five of them blacked out all black balaclavas black masks I don’t know England come balaclavas so it’s just there I host the mouth where you’re gonna do a robbery or something right and and they pulled out like knives I’m like I’m like whoa I’m glad you went upstairs guys guys chill chill like this isn’t this is not happening you are not having a gang fight in my bus like and I because I built relationships I’m eight they actually respects me so I’m like like potatoes my stuff calm down I can tell these other guys to like get off like this fine you know we don’t need to start a fight over this but what was crazy is they ended up making friends they came down it was all chilled and I was trying to be like let you don’t fight you because you live in a different area this makes no sense I think in the gangs thing maybe like this drug territory where they this deal is stuff anyway I managed to like an ecosystem of yeah I noticed I managed to somehow make this bond over the music name everybody’s people on a double-decker bus once you get on the same and also because we’re driving around we’re driving in and out of different areas and there’s no we’re not in like oh you’re in my location you’re you’re confusing him they’re going in their territory then they’re going in somebody else’s territory this is like the most genius gang solution there’s ever been so I mean I wrap them all off at the police I’ve had to like I’ve had to like confiscate weapons off got it guys I’ve had to like Brighton physically break up fights it’s been it was a crazy time actually I mean I should probably write some of these stories down but but it sounds like logistically it started to become too much to manage yeah and I think it was just yeah it was tiring I felt like I’d I was achieving the bigger thing I’d wanted to and then what happened was the the YouTube stuff started alongside this right so I with some friends started eating crazy things just as a it was just it was never my thing it was just like a silly thing I did it was this whole thing of like questioning society why can’t I eat a spider let’s face my fears you know and so the first thing you ate was a what I actually drank it but on my on my food for Louie channel which is the first channel I had a new tube it was we had some old footage on a mobile phone of me like eating a little spider off the floor and it was just just to be just it was nap it was never meant for YouTube it was just me messing around with some friends and they’d be like eat that spider today right so I’m like okay okay cuz I’d already at that stage already like done jungle trekking and traveling in like I’d seen like there’s this why not I can eat spider and and anyway so I did that and then you you had seen people he despite her probably yeah exactly so then I did that and then I so we had a few clips that we put on YouTube because we just let all this what do we make the thickness of thing and then my friends were egging me on and they were like they encouraged me and then I drank a whole bottle of wasabi sauce and then things started getting more like your dream this was mm and maybe 2011 okay maybe maybe end of 2010 there yeah so you have this this footage off of youtube you start the channel you can call it food for Louie because hey you already had some meeting stuff yeah and then they just keep leaving you more stuff it kind of escalated alongside the stuff so I was only doing snowboard I mean it was like yeah it’s like once once a week and I’d be doing my bus thing still a week and then once a week go around my friend’s house what am I gonna eat this week oh we bought you a box of crickets so you can eat them all or you know and then it’s just escalate and people were suggesting things in the comments that’s when the video started going viral a little bit and then that’s when we realized we’re like huh this is this could be a thing like people like this these people like this and also at this point a few other UK youtubers reached out to me because I was starting to get some traction and interest and these are the like the younger guys that were coming up so this is whole crew in England and it was just the perfect timing and they wouldn’t to make friends of me and I was like huh so what do you do what do you eat I don’t know I did and they were like oh no no we did you know we vlog in our bedroom and I was like I didn’t even know there was people on YouTube I just watched music videos on there or like cat videos so all like fail compilations uh-huh so I’m like okay so you’re tracking in your bedroom what do you eat yeah so you’re checking your bedroom and you’re not eating the mattress or dropping out of the window you’re just talking yeah just tool kit I’m very interesting so check to these guys and that’s when I came to I think at this point it might be in 2012 I came to a VidCon anyway that’s food for Louie and met a bunch of the American youtubers and I was like this is an amazing community and at this stage I got in a ton of trouble in the UK for what I was eating I actually got threatened with the rest taken to court for eating a goldfish which anything England is actually illegal so the RSPCA showed up my house they always had it was it was live in swimming it was swimming around I picked out a bowl chopped it up quickly and in my opinion still didn’t cause it to stress off or like pain like unnecessary pain you didn’t wallow it live you know its head off so then you swallow yeah then I ate oh so in my favor my thing was if you’re gonna eat me don’t be naive and think that that animals not dying for you to eat that right so my I took it to the extreme of like well I didn’t like the fact that I’m killing this animal that’s not what I’m finding pleasure in it was just pushing the limits of like how can I challenge myself to think outside the box and eat something crazy and it turned out I ended up eating live animals like scorpions and spiders and that’s what I think a lot of the variability of the videos is like okay people thought I was a psychopath right well okay so let’s let’s explore a few of these because that was our that was our faction yeah was I think the tarantula one was the first one and I was couldn’t start watching is about all of them tell us about the tarantula that was the the most scary woman the most scared it’s time in my life because this tarantula was this was when when we bought it from the pet shop right they they wouldn’t handle it they were like you can’t handle this species of spider these it was like some Brazilian I can’t exactly owes anyway so they kind of like kind of put you know two of them are like standing back pushing it into this plastic case I walked home with it did a bit of research like a trench was dangerous and it was mainly like you know they’re not fate it hasn’t got fatal poison but it were it’s gonna hurt a lot if it bites you and especially around your mouth throat area like I’m like the swelling yeah they can see there being a serious danger here also it has these hairs all over it that can like flick it flicks a predator tires far away as far predators to to deter them right something can all of this some like mmm yeah this is scary and what was the biggest most ambitious thing you had done up to that date I’d eaten the scorpion already which was again scary because of this stinger and the pincers and it grabbed my mouth started on the crickets right like live crickets and I’d as a kid I’m pretty sure I’ve eaten or I mean I’m sure I’m sure I’d like eaten live crickets and things in the garden or whatever like yeah sure like I I do everyone’s eaten number a spider during their sleep this scorpion was what what type of scorpion emperor scorpion is the biggest species of scorpion had a stinger so I upgraded from I think I’d done I might done cockroaches before that which were pretty vile like the taste of pretty boy but the the the scorpion was the first kind of arachnid predatorial little thing that I’d eaten where I was like this is going to attack me rather than just yummy when in a video you hold it by its tail’s you have a stinger and then begin to drop it down and you’re right on my tongue to the pincers grab your tongue then you just kind of like bring it right in and just yeah yeah I mean that was scary but as soon as I had the stinger because this thing is the dangerous part right so you ate everything up into the stinger pop that out put it on the plate the great thing of these videos I mean I’ll fast-forward to why I moved away from this and then I’ve actually now taken these videos down right I’ll explain in a minute but they it was all my friends were crowded behind the camera laughing and egging you know but there’s a lot of banter they were like saying funny things that was hard part of the fun of it it wasn’t do you know Bear Grylls he does like the man vs. wild yeah so the whole time I’m like this is no different from going out into the jungle pulling over a tree stump and finding a spider and then you know eating it which he does all the time cigarette everyone’s like wow like he’s showing us how to survive well Bear Grylls jumped off a cliff would you he did way in my opinion way more extreme things than I did but kind of got away with it as like oh he’s out in the wild right I’m like oh I’m just in my friends living room like you’ve got a pair sitting on the couch yet but it’s the same thing it’s just it’s a weird out of context right so the Scorpion a called tranch allure next step up because now I can’t hold the sting of the tarantula right it’s got to its massive fangs like inch-long fangs just a question about the Scorpion if it’s got venom that can come out of the stinger when you eat it isn’t that venom no it’s all in the thing it’s all anus so also there’s a difference between being injected into your skin like a venom and poison it’s different so you can some venom like once you digest it it breaks down it’s like protein whatever like okay so I did enough research to be like I’m pretty sure this isn’t gonna poison me it’s not a poison it’s just you know it’s just if it stings you that’s like you know like bee stings are acidic or whatever it injected this said engine I’m pretty sure your stomach can cope without if I ate a bee I don’t think that would hurt either like it’s longer than sting me on the way down but you had to find this out there’s only so much we can wiki yeah I know and we I mean we really didn’t do much research either and the part that was part of the fear you did say pretty sure pretty sure wasn’t well we had this whole joke there’s a guy in the show I mean no doctor oh you can move an admit but he wasn’t a doctor he was my friend and we called him the doctor the doctor and we were like is this cool and he’s like yeah is this how like very like blase like yeah yeah like it was we made the whole joke of it he actually when these videos taco Varro his his employer asked him to not be on the videos anymore asked him to step away because they didn’t feel it was they he was representing the company you know he asked they asked him to stop be appearing on them so at one boyd replaced him with a dog my friends pet dog here is just like they’re in it in the same jacket just looking like it’s the same thing okay so now read ascribe the tarantula so the trench ler it’s got these poisonous Barb’s or whatever and it’s got these fangs and I’m like oh if I don’t eat this correctly it will bite me because they’re ferocious and it’s a very vicious kind of attack thing that you shouldn’t handle it I looked online I researched eating tarantulas I found these Amazonian kids they would pull these trench hoes out the holes in the ground and and the way that they the way they grabbed them I was like ah okay this is how you’ve always wondered why you grabbed it I was like how did he figure this out so these kids like what they do is they pin it down say put a finger on it back and they they pull its legs up so it all this legs are above it yeah so it can’t run away and it can’t grab it and then you just pick the legs up and they all like you know bent backwards you know all the legs are pointing toward the palm of your hand and you’re holding an end holding it and then it’s almost like a lollipop it’s like the legs of the you know and then it’s the body and you’re underside we understood the trenches but then that it’s exactly like a lollipop it’s a spider lollipop but the the fangs are still there and I was like if I I need to also I don’t like the idea of causing unnecessary pain and I eat meat right so in my head I’m like right I eat me I never research how that makes being killed the reality is and but and the sad reality is for all of us we eat me we don’t research where it’s come from it’s come from slaughterhouse it’s come from you know battery chickens where they don’t get looked after they’re in agony their whole lives often so I’ve got a lot of criticism for my channel by the way like people hated it and not yeah some people loved it some people hate it was very controversial but my thing wasn’t like I’m gonna torture this spider I’m gonna pull its legs off one by one and then you know you know I just was like my thing was I’m just gonna eat as fast as well so I don’t I put through unnecessary pain so within seconds my ideas within seconds on it to be dead right and also you’re explaining this on camera yeah some of it yes I mean I’m like I don’t want to also don’t to get bittered so I’m like if I just bite his head off Oh quick oh you know so I’m like ha bricks hovering a photo in mouth this is where I like I honestly black out I can’t remember happened next and I can watch it on video but I blacked out from the fear because I’m like if I don’t really like miss if I miss my mouth or something and then it sinks its fangs into my lip like that’s what I’m scared of like I got a spider bite my mouth like imagine like and then their barbs I’m like this could go all like my face my whole face could swell up so I’m these reality real things I could happen right but I just went for hours you know you know shaking my friend who was filming was the one of them guys were back of the room shaky like even right now if you talk about it again I’m like kind of backing away from you so do a bit the head off all done really scary but yeah done no not really I think you got to get it down then you got to actually chew it to assume it at that point what’s this dead no no no it’s not gonna bite me I’m chewing that’s fine that’s just because once that because did you also do research or at least ask the dog that if it was okay then once you bite the head off not only can it not bite you but it can’t like fire its barbs because I would be afraid about the barbs coming out off of the legs as it was trying to get down my throat only she didn’t research it I just assumed what’s good at my mouth those things spike spiky things wouldn’t be as bad but I were there no I it was all right it was actually okay what was the texture like like a legs were saying the legs were quite chewy the the bulb the the bit of the back like the I don’t know what that is that yeah the spider but was it was squidgy and like goopy it had like it was like creamy inside its fight or do some soda and what was the taste it was like mushrooms and I can’t read it explain the taste it wasn’t you a blackout yeah exactly anyway let’s not look let’s not spend too much longer on it but the fact is I did all these things I got in a lot of trouble because you know I know what is gonna say is the RSPCA which is the Royal Society of prevention against cruelty to animals it showed up at my house it came here with freak with lights yeah I don’t know how they found my house with an F literally an FBI style file on me like literally show me flick through documentation every and every video like you know and their point was they were like we were against what you do and you’re taking it too far and they were waiting to pin something on me see we’re waiting to pin something on you yes so they wait it’s been something on me they said this goldfish thing right they’re like this is in the UK illegal now what I could have done is say I didn’t film it in the UK filmed in France or something you know because I was traveling at the time of doing different things with friends but I was like something in me was like no I’m just gonna be honest like I I did feel this I don’t think there’s a problem with it right and if if I’m gonna get in trouble like I found that a bit ridiculous like you can go fishing in the UK you can catch you can just shove a hook through a fish’s mouth pull out the water slap you know stab it in the head hmm take it home cook it in eat it I’m like stabbing it in the head with a knife and and chew and chomp it and bite his head off with my teeth can I can I catch a fish in the river with a hook take it out and then bite its head off and then take home and cook it in here you know yeah this is my home and this is my whole theory right so I’m like wide pulling out and buying his head off and then eating it how is that illegal I don’t understand anyway they took me to court they took me to court and it was in all the tabloids all the newspapers national press it was like psycho guy you know eats that I was like hammered by the press about it and no one was on my side because it’s not like I’m standing for an important issue yeah yeah yeah it’s just like a wit like who’s this weird guy and he’s eating goldfish this is this is wrong England’s big on animal Cory but so am i I don’t wanna cause animals pains but but then I’m like I also I am also a meteor and I know I animals are dying for me to eat this is my point this is my hole the premises like are you making this point from the witness stand yeah I’m not talking to the judge and he thinks it’s ridiculous but they’re spending the the charity of spending and the honestly he thinks their case is ridiculous yeah the RSPCA have is the biggest charity in the UK to have the most donations millions of people donate their private money to them they spent families have really good commercials they spent fouls well it’s good we see Soros Peas in the kittens and like poor puppy you know Erin McLaughlin is singing we more than any human charity right which I find a bit crazy like I love animals but there’s people dying as well yeah anyway so they’re spending thousands of people’s donations money on lawyers to pin me down for this and I’m like really like really anyway so it got to the point where I was asking my friends I don’t know what to do hire a lawyer yeah I’ve had to pay a lawyer I got to the point where I was like I don’t need to fight this battle I don’t this isn’t my I never set out to be an advocate for like the right to eat goldfish so I just I just said out-of-court settlement was like I’m sorry I’m not gonna do it again right they gave me an RSPCA caution it wasn’t a criminal thing just a caution so like for instance if I if I then a court again like abusing a pet then I actually get issued this warrant thing saying I can’t own a pet and then the police can confiscate me or whatever so I was like that was that was the thing I had to admit that I was wrong and there was no criminal thing filed or anything and I was like she didn’t have to delete the videos no I didn’t have to and they said like making a public apology and I think maybe I tweeted something but it was at this point they were like no I did I had did have to delete the goldfish one okay no but at this point some animal rights activist group to gun in line and they had gone on to my channel and just started flagging all the video so like eight of my videos got taken down the day after all the tabloids showed me online so like ton of people side my channel actually got removed by YouTube because so many people flagging it I went back to YouTube and I was like hey look I don’t agree with this I don’t think it’s all wrong some of it was me drinking bottles of wasabi sauce you know maybe the goldfish was too far but that’s an opinion thing anyway it got my ton of what Pitt back up like snuck a couple of videos back on it the same videos they got removed you know and it was it all started going again and I was like I think I did a few more videos after that but at that point I was like and I think one of my friends said to me is this what you want to be remembered for is this your legacy in life is this channel and right now oh really isn’t I’m not a psychopath I’m not a life people like you ever like you definitely about but I’m not and I just thought this is it was just a weird thing I was doing that kind of got way out of control but but the positives are that I’d met this YouTube community I’d realize there’s a bunch of different content online and I just thought I can do anything I want so I at that stage time I said why don’t you film your life and just what you get up to everyday in adventures stop eating crazy things and then that sort it’s started doing at the end of 2012 maybe and it wasn’t a guarantee that it was gonna work my love worked I think it I think I just I started a brand new channel didn’t even really push people over from I I think it scratch yeah I probably had 400,000 subscribers and food for Louie and I just from scratch started again didn’t even really push my subscriber base over because those people didn’t care about me they were like that’s that weird guy eating weird stuff they weren’t like how we love you Lilly right so then I start from scratch got my YouTube buddies that I knew in the community to help me and just built the channel from scratch again started the daily videos took my double-decker bus on a tour around the UK and at this stage this is where the transition was going back to the start then I was like okay I’m gonna I’m gonna take a pause on the bus stuff they’re working with gangs and all that go on a little tour and then go and spend some time in LA came out here beginning end of 2012 I think and then it just all took off from there met cool people start having cool adventures documenting it all and now I’m here with much much bigger channel I surpassed my channel quite quickly and now I’m occasionally recognized as food for Louie but now I’ve really have like re rebranded redefined Who I am online and it’s a bit of a mad story of how I got here really right well in at this point with it being you know you said okay you when you started with the double-decker bus you took it on a tour but at this point it’s just one adventure after another is what it seems like and is it now the adventures are for the purpose of the exhibition right there there so people can see it so now it’s just now is it is it like I’ve got to plan the next adventure because I’m gonna continue to bring people along for the ride is that sort of how it works well yeah this is the interesting thing so now I’m like I can fall into this trap of like I need to keep having adventures so people keep watching or I can be like look people were invested in me whether I’m jumping off cliffs or you know you know doing adventurous things or just being me so I really want to be doing the things that I care about and want to do and the world-changing projects and and then I think I will naturally just be doing that in an adventurous way anyway and let me let’s qualify the the word adventurous here because okay what what’s the new equivalent to eating the scorpion in a trailer because what’s the craziest thing that you’ve done in your in your fun for Louis adventures well this is quite have qualified that this the connection here would goes back to what we said before is it’s about facing fears right mmm so that was all about me facing fears every time I had a new challenge it was like can I do this sometimes there’s a fear of it’s gonna bite my mouth or sometimes it’s a fear of like this is gonna taste there’s gonna be the worst tasting thing I’ve ever aired and now in in my traveling and adventures it’s not I mean what’s rivaled that like it what has ride with that I mean there’s been some kind of adrenaline style things sporty things that have been scary like you know jumping waves on this motorboat on this like high-powered engine boat in South Africa and there’s like sharks in the water and there’s like crazy high waves and I didn’t have a life jacket on I remember that’s really the most scared I’ve been on an activity thing but I think sometimes it’s yeah I mean I don’t know it comes back to what are my fears right now I think sometimes the things I’m doing aren’t necessarily my greatest fears but they are things that people typically can be scared of right so going to new places connecting with people or making friends just doing things day-to-day that’s slightly typically slightly outside people’s comfort zone so hopefully being like you know I can do this guys and also show it showing that it’s not as scary as they think so a lot of fear is in our mind it’s not things aren’t black and white this is a scary thing you should be afraid of I mean there’s some basics human fears which are good but a lot of it is just in your mind like and if I can show people just this is eat you can do this like it’s easy to do this it can encourage people to do what what do you think it’s what’s one of the coolest things you’ve done like this stands out in your mind like you can’t go back there in your own memory whether Yury watch the video or not like this was a surreal moment maybe it’s this sunrise at this place maybe it’s it’s not jumping the wave with the sharks yeah the craziest thing the coolest thing the coolest thing I can think of this year was I went to I’ve got a pilot friend and we ended up flying this to see are playing around Namibia in South West Africa and we went to this tribe called the Himba tribe and they were like this the most primitive people group I’ve ever met they they pretty much naked they wear like clay in their hair and they they live in mud huts right and they speak this tribal language and they’re just very it’s just so basic and they just heard goats that’s their thing and when you showed up what were they thinking well there’s a good there was a guide who who translate a bit he grew up in the area but then had modernized his lifestyle right so he grew up in a similar as a kid in in super rural primitive then modernized gone to a school and like start wearing clothes and learn a bit he brought you back so he came back with us and this particular tribe had said look we’re happy for tourists to come and it’s funny because they don’t they didn’t even have a concept of money they just said bring us food so you bring up a big bag of like and you give it to me here’s the maze can we just come and have a look around it felt interesting because some of the people there wasn’t a bunch of tourists there but at one point this German guy showed up with a camera and just no real interaction with them just taking photos right and I’m like I don’t know I feel about this like it’s it’s tough isn’t it because it’s amazing to us and we want to capture it and be like look at these people like but you’d also don’t want it to feel like a zoo like there yeah you know so I really wanted him to interact or to engage and don’t speak the language but I was trying to have fun and they were showing me how to milk the goats the kids are loving it I actually ended up showing them an iPad I had my bag with a photo booth with the thing that squashes your face yeah and this photo actually this photo went viral on the internet recently as the best photo and the Internet and I’m one of you or of love these kids holding this iPad and all grinning and going crazy so this day was incredible for me and I want it to I want it to stay down I was like can we stay for a few days I want to like live like them I want to learn how so they we went we went for a few hours and we went back that night and they showed us how they cooked their food and I was like helping them cook their food and making a big mess of it and they they were just so happy so content had no material possessions apart from a couple of them who actually had like Nokia 3310 phones they didn’t know how to text they just used them and they used to charge him down the road at a solar power solar panel but they had nothing out in their clothes but like a mobile phone around the neck where do you put that all right they hung it around there yeah hang around the neck which is a kind of wild thing so that I think that stands out was like it’s totally fun culture these people are content they they’re not in the rat race they’re not don’t care the crazy thing is then there’s the full-option around them with other villages to modernize and they just don’t want it they’re like no we love our we love our like traditions and you cannot like they’re oblivious to it and they see the iPad and they like cool and they like go and play with their goats is work like generally it’s not a thing like they don’t want to be and what I loved is they didn’t seem to want to chase after this these technical know these technology and this other stuff they didn’t have the fear of missing out yeah I guess they just were so consumed so content and I mean it was a mine’s by this girl who was obviously thirsty running around with this little cut up and she just grabbed a guy and just milked the goat into tattoos tiny like fight and go into a couple is just chilling like just want a cup of milk yeah cool got really eat yeah I was just like she’s just got everything she needs you know now you had the option to stay there you had the inclination to spend more time with him but you did do it you could have I could have there I could have they specifically at the time that got the men of the village were off herding some goats in another place and they said it might not be appropriate to stay just with all the women and children but I would have if the men have been there and it was cool I would have changed plans and I would have slept there I would have liked I don’t I do so in fascinating by this culture I was like this ie I’m willing to do this you know this is I’d love to learn and and also interact and have fun um it’s not about like oh look at these weird people take photos and leave like I’m like this you know I know they always show me how to make fire and everything it was brilliant I loved it so that anyway I’m babbling but that’s what that’s what it with the coolest time of my vlogs pretty cool okay so in speaking of women you just said you’re a being with women in a village this kind of thing living this life yeah this has got to this has got to get the ladies a little excited what the audience being the most interesting man in the world this is sexy you know and I’m gonna go out on a limb here I’m gonna tell you something my wife has a little bit of a crush on you and here’s why okay she likes guys with dreads she likes tall guys I’m a tall guy but I don’t have dreads and I remember the first time we we saw your your videos and then you were gonna be it I was like this is I guarantee this is the kind of guy that my wife would you have a crush on so you showed the videos you like served when I’m latter know me and the boys were watching some of the crazy that my kids just absolutely loved the the food for Louie videos yeah and you know in it wasn’t like she saw it sought it out but I was like this is you’d like this guy right they disguise your type in shyla this she was like [Laughter] yeah so but I’m not threatened I’m gonna happy marriage 14 years and getting going in the same county as you most of it hey my what exactly you’re constantly traveling the world so she’s this is the thing this is the thing girls I think my experiences and some of the comments from viewers and what it’s taught that the start is like most meridians pulled in we’re like teenagers right because they’re not my friends had their teenage daughter you right so and I’m a I’m old enough that they’re not is a bit weird I’m a little bit out too old for them to have a real like obsession crush on like some of these young superstar youtubers that like you know the Justin Bieber style like right so a lot of the interaction is you’re cool and you’re like an older brother kind of vibe I’m like I love that vibe like you know I can I can inspire you guys I can try and be a good role model that’s much better so I’m not getting that the same obsession but then I do meet a lot of people were little bit older that alike yeah they might have they might and vines what I II have gathered is the my lifestyle is very like a romantic idea I just I don’t I just travel the world have fun exactly but the reality is there’s no security in that I don’t know what I’m doing day to day often I’m completely erratic there’s not much structure that when you start breaking it down and start thinking about not many people want to live how I do and it sounds romantic so I you live the best life and wish I could live like you I don’t think everyone’s built for it I honestly don’t I think a lot of people need like a bit of a bit of like that they want the home they want somewhere they can just you know I’m home you know they want that that comfort I’m built different and why differently I don’t need that and I I think when people might initially be finally sigh they suddenly concepts romantic but the amount of people that step in and be like oh yeah I want to do that everything and really when they think through it I’m gonna write I’m gonna move out and what has it happened though have you had we have you been in relationships that were stressed because of your lifestyle before YouTube yeah I was always I always loved traveling and I I didn’t see eye to eye with one of my ex-girlfriends and she was like she’s I don’t like Whitney travel and I was like but I love and I was like come with me and then she didn’t wanna and I was just like like this isn’t he was gone yeah it just didn’t work so what about now what’s your love life like I don’t talk about that but let’s talk about more vaguely like I I think it was even vague thing is if I was to I just you know a lot of viewers speculate I hang out a lot of cool girls on my channel right and everyone’s always speculating who am I in a romantic thing with ie at this stage I don’t want to like talk about that but all I will say is like I think at the moment of my life the only way a relationship with any sort could work as if I was traveling more often with someone that they had a more nematic approach to life I would never be a fan of like like a long-distance thing where I had to go back to somewhere to see that person so I think that’s always been the thing I thought I thought well I’ve adopted a lifestyle which creates me it means that meeting someone and being able to start and sustain a relationship is really hard really time like I’m sitting the bar really high like I’m saying I don’t live anywhere I travel the world and I fill my life every second of every day like it’s all it’s quite lot to you know suddenly if someone’s like you know oh I want to be with you I mean there’s a lot that comes with that there’s a lot of yeah conditions you know and also then I’m like you know how far if I just fell head-over-heels in love with someone what would I sacrifice because the reality is and I’ve seen it around like daily vlogging isn’t great isn’t always conducive with like a healthy relationship that where you’ve gotten where you’ve got like a marriage and you start thinking about family and stuff someone some people have done it those channels with you know there’s there’s families that do it but I don’t know I don’t know that’s all future stuff I don’t need to think through but it’s it’s much it the whole thing works a lot easier with this concept if I’m just me I’m Louie I’m single and I’m just doing my thing and I don’t need to I don’t need to worry about like someone else’s decisions in it oh well I think it’s gonna be it you know my prediction is there would be a magical moment at some point in the future you’ll be you know somewhere in a savanna like riding on the back of a lion and you’ll come up on this beautiful beautiful woman like drinking directly from you know zebra to Buffalo yeah and oh yeah let’s just say a zebra drinking directly from a zebra and you’ll lock eyes I’m gonna be like well I’m riding puss in the lion like yeah and then should be like I’ll get on that line with you yeah you don’t have to find under the zebra would either way yeah it’s it you’re gonna be going the same direction and you know in better yet she’s gonna already be vlogging it you know she’ll be down there next to the zebra teat with a camera on herself and you’ll be like you understand me let’s make this happen so ladies if you’re out there and you’re currently suckling zebra I’m filming it then we’ve got the man for you ladies like there’s multiple yeah all of their heads popped up and this has been fun man I think this this may be one of my favourite biscuits ever made we need to plan an adventure together is what we need to do is so up for that our adventurers have to be very well planned in advance hmm but I didn’t even tell you about this you may have seen the email but I met a guy yet last night you may have seen that weird email that came in from Australia this guy was like an adventure planner dude in Australia for years and I was telling about one of our dreams is to do some off-roading and surfing combo thing and like Australia he was like oh I know all the people to hook you up with don’t be talking about in front of Louie no but he’s okay we’ll invite him yeah still here yes okay yeah all right thanks for hanging out man this is great really fun all right [Music] and there you have it our conversation with Louie we had a lot of fun with Louie I was gonna make a play on his channel name which is fun for Louie we didn’t have fun for him we had fun with him in the conversation let him know what you think about tweeting at him his handle is fun for Louie use hashtag ear biscuits I’ll tweet it that guy it is definitely difficult to have a conversation with a guy like this and not think man I need to get out more which i think is you know a good thing it’s a good thing because we should get out more we should I’m not necessarily saying that we should be eating any live stuff or we should necessarily be buying double-decker buses even though all that success that’s exciting what he does neither of those anymore in fairness bro but this whole idea of squeezing all of the excitement and experience out of life in as many places as you can that’s something that I’m gonna try to make happen just in my commute well yeah that’s a Southern California area that’s what I’m good that’s exactly what I was gonna say was it’s not like you’ve got to like dive in to the Amazon to experience life I think the challenge for us is within the parameters of the life that that is ours that we have you know with our wives with our kids with our friends with our co-workers within the context of commuting finding a way to squeeze their the realness out of it learn that moment yeah and there is something that we can both begin doing right now that doesn’t require travel we could grow dreads I just started could you tell no you didn’t wash your hair today I did but I just started I didn’t wash it right right now again okay so that’s it we’re not washed dreads we’re not gonna well it’s it’s a complicated process just wiki it man okay it involves washing and not washing it’s you can’t just put shampoo normal shampoo and put your hands in there separate your hairs cuz then you can’t make dredge you have to let them lock up and then once they lock there is a way to wash them but it’s not a traditional way and but we’re not gonna talk about that because that’s gonna be wiki that that’s also your assignment start growing your dreads and experience life to the fullest those things are you don’t have to do both you can choose one of the other but they are mutually exclusive and we’ll talk at you next week guys [Music] [Music]