5 Reasons Why British Couple Moved To Philippines!

so just to give you guys a little bit of context this video it's a little bit different to our usual style of vlogs but we hope you enjoy it today because it's basically a little bit more of a look into i guess the reason we moved to the philippines a bit of the history of our youtube channel we've had quite a few new subscribers recently so if you're new around here hopefully it's going to give you a little bit of an insight into that side of things we were basically invited to appear on a podcast with our friend kate we'll leave the podcast link below but we are also going to see kind of our answers in this video and we talk about a lot of exciting things travels around the philippines when we first went traveling back in 2018 we tell some funny stories about when we first started our channel in 2014 i believe now and we hope you enjoy it today so if you are new around here please hit that subscribe button give the video a big thumbs up grab something to eat or drink and enjoy this video with us today because it's a little bit longer than our usual content and we hope you really enjoy it today the next clips you see will be us on the cool with kate leave a comment below how long you've been watching the channel because i'd be interested to see and some of you may already know some of these stories we're going to tell so leave a comment below when you first subscribe to the channel or when you first saw our videos and we hope you enjoy watching today we're filming as well we might put some of it in our vlog if that's okay with you yes yes amazing and today i have amazing guests all the way from the philippines jordan lucy hello good morning good morning good evening good evening for you good evening yes for our listeners all over the world lucy a nurse can we introduce yourself so we are youtubers we're vloggers we make videos on youtube um we love to travel although not so much recently yeah we used to love to travel yeah now and we've got a base here in manila in the philippines and we've been here just over a year now uh 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 that's it as a in a cut as a relationship as a couple it's weird because we're kind of like business partners and a couple 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 travelling 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 really 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 tight we loved it yeah but it got very tiring um traveling constantly from hotel to hotel to airbnb yeah one two three night stays packing a suitcase unpacking travelling in between it was very phenomenal 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 but it changed halfway through we kind of decided that wow this is this is kind of working out um 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 can go off 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 in between trips elsewhere 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 bringing back the very first day you guys decided or told your family that you're going to be moving on yeah it was daunting i mean the conversation we we knew that it would be a a surprise i think they knew that we loved what we did and we love 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 a quite a big build up yeah we probably had we probably gave them around a year's notice notice it's just like we're leaving them as a driver yeah i would 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 rucksacks it was worse for us telling our former uh employee employers employers uh that we were leaving then 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 um wow 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 what 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 was in radio advertising effectively yeah our 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 when you're in the industry that means yeah yeah now wow who's your inspiration to do all these things i love your do the thing like the back story yeah sure 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 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 vee gary vaynerchuk yeah yeah yeah so we were hugely influenced by him so uh in through more the work ethic the hustle the grind the uh giving stuff ago 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 daily i think that's good yeah i think the two of them may be but the interesting thing is we started youtube and we started vlogging before we knew who any of those people were yeah 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 to 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 actually it kind of became that a little bit more as we went along yeah but yeah garyvee 100 yeah i mean i i i had two screens in my old office at my uk job i'd have 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 crazy i know that 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 like we we look at our subscriber count and our faces next to it and it's like i i thought it could happen like there was something in me but i like i'm still so surprised every time yeah we're grateful yeah and we just want to keep going you know it makes us want to work harder when we see the bigger numbers it doesn't make us want to slow down um 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 that we didn't care about that we just we kept going some people might try something for a year a year is a long time to try anything new but we did it 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 so 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 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 videos not just uploading the videos but editing them filming them thinking of ideas replying 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 having the passion behind it because it was it was more of a hobby back then we had our jobs which was paying the bills and stuff like that um so and then 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 been you know watch watching you guys travel blog and i have to say i love you guys humility no matter you know there's like it's space there and i think that's so endearing oh thank you thank you that's how you you're more relatable than i think you i like that about you guys so like always grateful never really acting like you know like your head gets bigger like i love you oh that i'm glad that comes about we i think that comes from just gratitude of having something we dreamt of for for a little while and something that we never really thought would become our reality we don't take it for granted ever do we no way and we know it's fragile if we stop posting vlogs tomorrow in a month we'll probably be you know we'll be heading towards being irrelevant yeah so i don't know it's 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 um humility yeah that's 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 um but we're just very stable i guess we just knew that we wanted to try something for ourselves uh 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 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 have we get asked this question a few times about like who edits what part or who does that like people always wonder i would say 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 tick tock i see it she's blowing up on tick-tock i wouldn't say that 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 editing a video so some days you'll get one edited by myself or by george but no one ever knows so it's quite funny like 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 the vlogs have changed a lot recently since quarantine you know since march we've stripped back a lot of the cinematics because there's nothing you know [Music] 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 the 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 for 81 days in one place so they've changed recently but yeah creativity we're both creative but in different ways yeah i would say yeah and who's the best copywriter um neither of us neither of us the titling of vlogs is it's so funny 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 you hope people are going to buy that newspaper because it grabs their attention um clickbait's a big thing on youtube um we try not to do that we we have no problem with leaving 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 thinking oh i wonder what that is 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 that wasn't the question not like uh unrealistic when it's like oh my god this has happened but it literally didn't happen yeah and we 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 and stuff like that but copywriting 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 are relatable as well i think people 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'd 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 well so it was george's younger sister jasmine we've been together for like three weeks or something like back in the day yeah and she was young at the time she was what like 10 or 11 i don't know was she like thirteen maybe she was 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 tiny little was it a cheetah or a jaguar like it was tiny kind of like soft toy and she was like oh i got this i'm gonna give it to you guys as your little mascot uh for like us being a couple like she was quite excited that her older brother got a new girlfriend and it was i was kind of new she was like she was trying to try to make friends with lucy she was like got you guys a present yeah and she said we said okay what was it going to be called and she was like juicy and we were like oh okay strange name for a teddy why is it called juicy she was like well obviously george and lucy and we were like ah love it and then when it was time to think of a youtube name yeah yeah yeah when it was time to think of a youtube name we had all these ideas back and forth and this juicy kept coming up and we were like some people might realize that it's george and 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 from but it's just our names really yeah and it just stuck yeah it's nice and short to say as well i think it's great we get we get shouted out in the street people don't shout some people shout george or lucy but some people just shout juicy or juicy vlog nice and snappy yeah that's a really cute story yeah now how do they say i know it's hard traveling from one places to another how can you stay like burnout did you guys went through oh yeah several times we i'd say with we kind of we're in denial at one point i'd say yeah as dramatic as that sounds we had done traveling like we said i have a 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 what's the word when you're we took no breaks yeah so we were so amazed and inaudible adrenaline the adrenaline of what was happening yeah it was completely addiction we may felt 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 it the long boats at 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 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 we'd have to edit the previous days vlog schedule it uploaded doing something exciting in the day because we wanted to have something fun to vlog as well yeah and so it's just kind of this weird like all the all the other content around it instagram posts taking photos and we filmed stories we filmed the one day and edited that next evening so it was like a one day turnaround thing um 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've 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 both 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 hadn't had that before you know our old 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 you're 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 rapper or something like that 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 by you you want to put out more songs you're not going to play 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 at our hardest point the first kind of year if we hadn't put given it our all there was a chance that it might not work so i think yeah because it was if if you're working for someone else and you don't put your complete all i 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 it's 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 of it and if we don't put the work in then there's a chance that if we missed this upload oh that could have been the one that went viral it could have been that so it was just like addictive like you said it was just it's head-on definitely we didn't want to 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 gotcha so yeah so you're scared of losing that momentum that yeah i'm 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 vlog or any social media content creator you you don't 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 the 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 most importantly yeah and there's a lot of factor that you have to consider like you don't lose that algorithm because it's tricky it changes all the time it does the but the thing is no one knows anything about algorithms really yeah you know it's a funny one 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 worked 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 um it just depends i think there was a there was a period in time where the audience really loved the and still now loved the daily uploads and a a rolling story it was like a soap opera or a series it was like a story come back every day for what they got up to next yeah see what we're doing tomorrow join us tomorrow and see what we get up to and that's still like i mean we pretty much daily we pretty much uploaded every day but now we missed two days in august so we're saying it was always the past but it's still very much yeah 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 i don't know i for me for us is 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 cannot control yeah now tell me what did you learn about yourselves while doing this journey good question wow i think we learned that i mean for me i learned that wow we can actually we can actually do this this is a thing youtube can be a lifestyle you know we 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 the 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 learning 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 you kind of it really goes into a mind and 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 it really grounds you and it really makes you so so grateful for everything around you 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 um 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 if i think as long as you stay grounded and stay grateful for what you've got and work hard for what you've got and you know you're a good person then then i think that's okay 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 outcome i mean we always said we could try there would have been maybe ways we could have tried to grow quicker or something with 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 few 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 would you say i mean 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 casey neistat yeah you take it but now i'd say no don't do that 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 exactly some 10 10 might stick yeah but you know yeah it's great it's great feeling to do it kind of on your own i love it now once you guys learn this story telling your you guys are both great stories 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're getting brought up 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 maybe that's what it is 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 freak out 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's 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 probably helps we just enjoy it if the per 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 they know what lucy cooked for dinner last night it's it's a very personal it's a very personal close relationship even though it's it could be a hundred thousand people watching yeah it's amazing how you guys built this strong community and that's how you become so successful they know you you know you're in and out yeah definitely 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 leaving the 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 so someone's opinion of us who we don't even know is not it's nothing to do with us it 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 off yeah it's a good strategy next it's a good strategy why not yeah yeah yeah now what is the worst day of george and lucy traveling tell me about the worst stage i think we're thinking the same thing the stranded one yeah yeah it was it was the worst like on paper but i guess it turned out quite cool really yeah technically 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 koh rong and it was a tiny island not that many people on there there was a little strip of beach with some restaurants and a couple of little there weren't really hotels they're more like hostels guest houses this kind of thing yeah beautiful beach really nice we went on this trip a day trip we were staying on ollie's my phone so we are staying here on the island on a hotel and we get picked up from this part of the island so we traveled round to here in the morning on a boat we did this amazing boat trip and it was like beautiful but then halfway 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 the other side of the island like it's crazy wind the waves are insane um and as you said it was like something from a film it all got a bit dark the rain kind of came raining the clouds went growing and we were stuck on this little beach and with this boat you're looking out 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 not 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 your hotel where our expensive laptops are all of our gear all of our uh 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 shoot videos there and make content and take things these two people that are staying there just didn't return that night the hotel are probably thinking 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 like darkness we were new to asia we were new to traveling we were six weeks in at this point maybe like four or five maybe because like it was quite early on and um how did it get resolved so we stayed overnight in this little uh tiny little random a night or something it was super cheap sand all over the floor mosquitoes it was kind of crazy and we yeah woke up in the morning and they said we worked about 6am and they said you've got two choices you can try and hike through the jungle but it's very treacherous it'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 guy that owns a boat and just ask him to take you back yeah 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 he dropped us quite far down on the beach we're walking back to this hotel like looking awesome no showers we're like we're here breakfast still open yeah we managed to make breakfast i think yeah sorry for the long story how many hours was that ordeal uh i would say 24 24 hours yeah i would say overall yeah yeah probably wow well don't we travel it does it does we've done a lot of long bus rides yeah flight flight after flight i can't find all situations and it keeps you uh i think advice for anyone that says i'm coming to asia like have you got any advice is just stay flexible because you don't know what's going to happen you 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 to stay there longer so just stay flexible i think 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 on time yeah exactly which we 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 and that was the best like you said views of videos yeah yeah yeah kind of crazy for us because it's like the the most raw personal content as in talking about more on the vlogs i said yeah we could only get the least travel content yeah yeah exactly there's no been 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 subscribe new subscribers each month yeah and that's still similar i think uh 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 being like behind me here like flight because of that how do you guys uh actually yeah it's happened a few times where we really need to get somewhere else we want to always be polite 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 but 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 so it's a really really nice feeling wow now what is the best compliment you guys have like a message from your community wow that really makes you inspired ah interesting what do you think when people say that we're real and when people say that we're funny and when people say that we're relatable relatable and um nice people yeah all the stuff that you want to hear in normal life i think more so that than complimenting like the actual like cinematics or something that any compliments obviously lovely but yeah people say that editing was great that's really nice when it says 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 the main people always like your hair as well yeah you get a lot of comments on your hair well everyone's obsessed about your british accent i know that too oh wow we get we get a lot of comments so many 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 we're just like hearing you over and over again yeah saying we sound like harry potter but there we go that's very true yeah i think like instantly even my podcast like intro outro 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 had no idea you know we everyone sounds like us back 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 23 younger and yeah it was normal to us but now it's something even when we were making videos trying food in certain places for the first time 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 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 where you guys are now what what what do they say are they they miss us yeah first of all we normally go home maybe twice a year so christmas and then like a middle of the year english summer um so we should have been home we were gonna go over around around june for like i know a month or six weeks or something obviously you couldn't actually can't because of quarantine 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 families our jobs i guess yeah it's very different it's very different um i 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 this current team um filming a lot of videos filming lots of videos that honestly has it's been so good it's kept us very uh it's yeah it's given us something to do every day yeah making videos just doing what we were doing anyway but in a different way we've gone through all the phases of quarantine though they're like crazy amounts of exercise the um drinking alcohol part that all the different types of i feel like this is stereotypes yeah exactly i feel like we've gone through a fair few we've done it all we've had ups and downs yeah you know we think like everyone we've watched a ton of netflix we've watched a lot of tv uh we've played video games we've done 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 a bit 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 uh we've just we've just adapted to what's going on that's awesome now who is the most interesting person you've met so far well in wow [Music] other than you um interesting person one person we've met a lot of people we've met mayors and um celebrities celebrities some people have become friends and um interesting interesting people probably andy smith actually that man that guy's a mystery he's always still to this day do you know him you know do you know andy smith uh do you know diana zubiri an actress in the philippines i think so yeah it's her husband yeah and he's great great friend of ours but he's a great guy i like him a lot very mysterious very mysterious always off to meetings always wearing a suit um diane is amazing she's great we had her on our podcast last year yeah was that last year yeah actually yeah that's a great story um and she was explaining that she came i've forgotten the word into 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 a 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 from a life almost pretty much on the streets and eating eating food from leftover garbage and things like that there's a tagalog word but yeah she explained it to us and from that to where she is now uh it's just incredible yeah there was nothing handed to her she went out and did it on our own back so yeah 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 genuinely i never thought i'd know so much about another country that's not the uk i think we've traveled more of the philippines than we've traveled england oh easily easily and 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 of people here all right so like food family and love are the three things that really stand out to us here and so people are like like food is such a bonding thing and like having huge like buddha flights and things and big buffets and people like bond over food and family is huge here people like great families in the uk and it's just really nice and then also like love everyone is like loves love here don't they yeah it's very open and people aren't ashamed to um be romantic yeah and be um all the love songs on karaoke and things yeah the love yeah exactly just so nice to see like i feel like in the uk people sometimes you're more shy people suppress that side of them and it's embarrassing to be like a two or two romantic two maybe gushy yeah but we love it and people are very friendly here people are incredibly friendly to us when we meet them even just interactions day to day of people in stores and restaurants coffee shops so nice people are people are just nice um 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 interested 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 now would you guys ever consider of doing a movie or modeling is it something like that yeah definitely yeah 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 to it yeah i don't know if i could act i think i'm a bad actor i don't think i could be an actor but i'd love to i'd love to be a part of a show of some sort or yeah we're definitely open to opportunities like that modeling i don't know you know you could be a model we can't we can't try and be anyone who isn't ourselves so if they want a six foot two uh you know guy which is a beard that doesn't properly grow here then that's fine but uh yeah you know we're we're open to funny new new things definitely yeah yeah you know it's crazy story um because i met lucy through airbnb i know big fan of your placing yeah can we love it what are you guys coming back oh as soon as possible when we can as soon as we can yeah we'd love to come back awesome we miss we missed that kind of thing we loved especially going to your place we loved it because we could we could wake up at 6 00 a.m here we could uh get a grab to the airport with a small amount of traffic at that time in the morning uh get a short flight to kamigain and be by the pool perform a day at bintana uh at 11am yeah so it's crazy it's still the morning we'd be there in like an island paradise so yeah as soon as as soon as we can we'd love to come back and thank you for creating that amazing video by the way yeah build it to the american philippine american community they loved it oh great well we want to 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 us trips uh we wanted to go to new york and la maybe on separate trips but maybe next maybe next year or the year after yeah yeah for sure definitely that'd be great yeah yeah you guys have to go to utah i think you talk really oh cool okay we'll check out yeah let me know that's right now what's your end goal what's your big pairing score i i wouldn't say there was 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 i want that now i think goals are just moving all the time 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 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 and go 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 she's enjoying the process well 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 a remember each one of you 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 brought happiness in some way nothing's nothing too we i don't think i want i don't need to be known as like about uh physical like um values of like money and things like that i think more someone who left happiness left to place or a person more positive than before they found yes i would say something like that um i think oh that's a really good question i love that i've never been asked that uh yeah this is just a just a positive impact yeah positive impact oh my god guys thank you for sharing your story where can they find you you're welcome 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 tick tock at the juicy vlog go and check out occasionally i'll make a cameo appearance um 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 yeah thank you yeah yeah yeah 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 can begin definitely for sure for sure when's the podcast out it will probably be out by next week cool next week cool last night and then we'll share we'll share it as well yes and we were number three in the philippines for our entrepreneur wow congratulations that's awesome amazing really really cool it's a lot of work yeah yeah yeah it's a lot of work definitely awesome i appreciate you guys and thank you so much for being here no thank you it's great good to speak to you have a good day bye that is the end of today's video thank you so much for watching we hope you enjoyed it like i said at the start please give the video a big thumbs up if you enjoyed it considering actually bringing our podcast back but just george and i let us know 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