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Join Jayden as we talk everything about Youtube and small businesses!
Just having some true good yarns with some true good people!
Jayden (00:01)
Oh well, here we are, first podcast. Don't even have a name for it yet. Just gonna give it a go. I guess a bit of a disclaimer, it's not a family-friendly podcast, I will be swearing, because I think just having a legitness of people talking in their own language is good. So yeah, not a family-friendly podcast. Not sure of a name yet, you'll see it on the title, I suppose, we'll figure it out. Yeah, so I've been, I actually wanted to do a podcast for a while, but I've...
Brad (00:05)
Yep.
Jayden (00:31)
I'm not very good at talking I don't feel so. But I've met Brad a while ago now I suppose through social media and all that and on the channels and the first time we had a phone call we had yarns for like four or five hours or something about YouTube so I thought what a better person to start it off with. So Brad from Red Dust Adventures how are you bro?
Brad (00:48)
That was.
Good mate, good. I'm happy to be here. This is, yeah, I feel like a bit of a test dummy, I guess you'd say, but that's good. Like I've never done a podcast before, so yeah, it's a bit of an exciting adventure, I guess. Yeah, I'm glad that you've chosen me to talk shit with, mate. I'm good at it.
Jayden (01:14)
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, it's just good. I guess having um, it's just you're a very legit bloke and no sort of bullshit So some I don't know. It's good. We had good yarns. I've enjoyed them. So I'm also recording so other people hear us talking shit or spice Um, so i'm getting it i've got like a list of questions i'm sure Yeah, that's it. Um, i've got a bit of a list of questions rough topics i'm sure like we've discussed before we're gonna end up just
Brad (01:32)
Time.
Yeah, well, at the end of the day, probably will have a lot of crystal hide this one night.
Jayden (01:47)
doing our own thing anyway, but um, so I guess we'll start the start. Like where'd you sort of grow up? What area did you, you know?
Brad (01:57)
So yeah, well, my childhood, mate, I grew up in a little country town called Healesville. It's probably well known to some people as the Healesville century. It's actually quite a big town nowadays. It's not the small little country town that I grew up in some 40 odd years ago. Yeah, and we spent basically our whole growing up days, Telangie State Forest, Bic High Country.
Fall driving, camping, fishing, motorbike riding, all the stuff that I still do today at 50 years of age. So it was a pretty cool spot to grow up to be honest with him. I grew up there with my mum and my stepdad. So yeah, that was wicked. It was a good place to grow up.
Jayden (02:44)
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Definitely wanna get over there sometime. It seems like an awesome little spot. Yeah, get over there one day. But so obviously that being in that area, is that where you sort of got into forward driving? Like is that just naturally, that's what people do over there or?
Brad (03:00)
Yeah, 100%. Yeah, Telangie's renowned for tough tracks. I know a lot of other people that have got YouTube channels and that, you know, they talk about Telangie State Forest. We used to be up there every weekend. The house that we grew up in had all open fires, all open fireplaces. So that's what we relied on to keep warm in the colder months. And it gets bloody cold down there. So, yeah, we spent a lot of time up there just getting wood on the weekends.
Jayden (03:20)
Yeah.
Brad (03:29)
And it was essentially a process of head up by the Friday night and just camp. Saturday would be just fishing, a little bit of four wheel drive and doing some tracks. And then Sunday would be get a load of wood, chuck it on the trailer and drive home and spend the afternoon unloading it and stacking it. And then do it all again the next weekend. So it was a pretty cool way to grow up, to be honest with you. Obviously once we grew up and sort of, you know, become teenagers, our lives slightly changed a little bit, went off course.
and we've become teenagers in rat bags but yeah as a kid yeah that was essentially what we did and we spent a lot of time in the high country. Walla Halla, La Colah, Jamieson, Marysville, Mansfield, all those sort of places you know Big River, Eildon, Bonny Doon, all these places yeah we used to go up there and just enjoy life so it was pretty sick growing up to be honest with you.
Jayden (04:28)
Yeah, yeah. It's a similar way, because I grew up there. I managed them up down at the bottom of WA here, and that was, got all the jarrah fire. So that was, I guess, a big memory growing up, was getting firewood. And I don't know, it's cool, I reckon, getting out with the fam and chopping wood, and carting wubais around and all that sort of stuff. And so did you meet your partner over there, or back in WA?
Brad (04:42)
Yeah.
Absolutely. Coach your fits.
Nah, so funny story, and look, I mean, it's a story I've told plenty of times before. So both Faye and I have both been married and divorced, and we actually met each other. We had a local pub where, at that particular time, yeah, I was living on my own, just my only dog, and some good friends invited me to join them Christmas Eve, yeah, 20 years ago.
Jayden (05:03)
Yeah.
Brad (05:26)
for drinks Christmas Eve and I went down to my local pub with some friends and at that particular time I was single and running amok and doing some cool stuff and this particular pub that I used to frequent on a Friday and Saturday night, they had a band there that used to play one Midnight Oil song each weekend and I grew up sort of loving Midnight Oil and that sort of thing and I had me sort of Peter Garrett dance sort of down pat.
and I used to just get up, I got up once and I did me my Peter Garrett dance and yeah I sort of became a little bit of a legend on Friday night if you know if they started playing Midnight Oil they'd call me up and I'd get on stage and I'd do me dance and everyone would get around and have a bit of a blast and then off I'd go again and so this particular night yeah that band was playing on Christmas Eve and
Jayden (05:56)
Yeah.
Thanks for watching!
Brad (06:25)
Yeah, called me up and said, you know, my nickname growing up was Gecko. And yeah, Gecko, you're in the building. And yeah, and I was like, no, I'm not doing it tonight. I'm not doing it. And yeah, all me mates are just get up there. So I got up, I did me Peter Garrett dance. It was only about sort of 20 odd people, maybe 30 people in the pub. It's pretty quiet night, to be honest. And yeah, I got up and did me dance. And just so happens, Fee was there with a couple of friends, seen me dancing, took a liking to it.
and basically come and introduce herself and funny story, she came over, she went to the bar, grabbed a permanent marker from the bar staff and come over to me in front of all my mates and just said, I just wanted to get an autograph and I was just like, a bit weird, like yes, a hot looking chick, picked me up for an autograph and I'm thinking, it didn't click to me and she said, yeah, I just want to know if you can sign pretty Garrett and I just had a laugh and yeah, happy days and she offered to buy me a drink and...
basically sat at the bar till closing time, we got kicked out. And basically Christmas day the next day, she rang me at lunchtime, said, do you want to catch up? Had a great night last night. And we're basically been inseparable since. I think I moved in with her. Oh, mate, I think I moved in because I was just living in a little one bedroom unit on my arm as a dog. And would have only been maybe two weeks, maybe three weeks tops. I moved in with her. She was on a.
a five acre block not far away from me with a couple of horses and yeah just and a dog and a four big four bedroom house and yeah me and my dog moved in there and basically I think it was no wouldn't have been long mate would have been four or five months later we she had a work trip to Fiji we went over to Fiji I met her over there I flew over a week later and yeah I
We went out on this island, we did a bit of snorkeling, did a carry on and she went up on the beach just to do some sunbaking. I was doing some snorkeling. I seen this shell shaped like a ring on the bottom of the ocean. I swum down, I picked it up, I swum over, I crawled up the beach on my hands and knees and asked her to marry me about four months later. She said yes. The rest is history. We've had a couple of beautiful daughters and yeah, been together for 20 odd years. Yeah.
Jayden (08:31)
Yeah. Alright.
Brad (08:45)
So we grew up in similar ways. She did very similar. She was a bit of a surfer on that back in the day. Grew up, spent a lot of time talking about that with family. But yeah, just great Aussie family and very similar interests. And we just hit it off, mate. And we've been best mates outside of being husband and wife, girlfriend, boyfriend, whatever. We've been best mates since the day we met. So it's been an amazing ride with her. She's a handful, I'll give her that, but she's...
Yeah, she's a legend. She's absolutely the ultimate.
Jayden (09:17)
I guess that's just all women in it. Sorry guys. But I'm not going to touch on that too with your doing your YouTube. It's awesome to watch when you're traveling around and filming and all that sort of stuff that you're you just best mates. It's not oh, you're not there for the filming. You're just out there enjoying life, enjoying your trip, enjoying your fish and whatever you're doing and you're just doing it with your best mate and I reckon that's a big thing. It's cool to see.
Brad (09:21)
Yeah, yeah, that's it.
100%. And look, I mean, I think that's the key for us, mate. Essentially with the YouTube, I mean, obviously, if you're setting up cameras, in some ways they perform, it is sort of, I guess, you know, stage plotted, whatever you want to call it. But I think our style is just about just checking the camera up there. I mean, we're learning, mate. And it's an amazing thing to learn with your partner.
just because we feed off each other and don't get me wrong, we sort of have our little debates about different stuff and where we should put a camera and how we should do it and what we should do and so on, but essentially we just want to capture us having an amazing time together and we're really enjoying the journey. Yeah, it's pretty cool to do all the things you love in life. I know a lot of lads do lads trips and all the rest of it. You know, I've never done that.
and sort of just not how I grew up. Like, yeah, essentially it's always been family. And then obviously when I was sort of on the island, and I met Fee, and it's just, it became me and Fee for a long time, until the kids were born. And then the kids have just grown up around it. Essentially how I grew up is how my kids have grown up. So they've done some amazing traveling. And then we moved away from our family, pretty much when our 19 year old daughter,
was born we pretty much moved away and then Chelsea's moved, sorry, born up in Queensland and we've essentially just been the four of us, obviously in our dogs, but been the four of us basically the whole kids lives. So we're pretty close, we're a pretty close new family and we've done some cool stuff, like, oh we've done some cool stuff together. It's been amazing. Been cool.
Jayden (11:34)
Yeah, I think I was with another channel for a while and then now I'm by myself, but it's sort of, I actually enjoy it a lot more being able to do it with Shannon, my partner. It's, I don't know, it's just, we love camping naturally anyway and it does, like you say, it's a bit of work, so it does ruin it to an extent, which I was going to talk about later anyway, but yeah, it's just cool being able to do it with you. You're naturally allowed to do it anyway.
Obviously the cameras is, like Shannon's not like major camera friendly, like still getting used to it and won't talk or anything that much, but I sort of, I throw up it. But yeah, it's just awesome being able to do it with your partner and it's just a natural thing you're not, you know, presenters or it's just a, it's just real life, you know, you're just out there, you're doing the trip, like most of the videos I've done are just trips I'm doing anyway and you're just capturing the moments and the adventure and all the shit that happens and yeah.
Brad (12:24)
the
Yes.
Yeah. Oh, look, and I think we've spoken about it in a couple of our yarns. Pardon me. You just, I don't know, the feeling you get when you're with your partner, or for, you know, for people that do it solo or with their best mates or whatever. Yeah, when you're with someone that you enjoy their company, that's just so much easier. Like it doesn't feel like it's hard work. It just, yeah, you're having a bit of fun and...
I mean, again, you know, we're spoken about it, mate. There's a part of it that just needs to be time out, just go and chill with your missus. Because we love to do that too. And then there's time where it's like, yeah, I wanna do a bit of filming and enjoy it, but I think trying to find that mix. We've found just recently a bit challenging, where we've just said, oh, just gonna be bothered, just wanna just go and chill out, like just have time out. And I know like, yeah, I'm tipping.
this podcast, we will just run off track a fair bit. We'll be off track, on track, off track, on track. Because that's how we yarn. We just start yarning and we get halfway into a topic and we just ramble on about that for a bit and then we'll just like, well, what were we talking about? We'll go back to that. So yeah, it's my, and I think just watching you guys, watching your previous stuff to your newer stuff with you and the MISSO, it's definitely different.
Jayden (13:39)
Yeah, 100%.
Brad (13:57)
Yeah, not at all. You're a character, you're an absolute character. And I think just, yeah, Shannon sort of feeds off you and yous are actually, yeah, it's, I mean, for a better word, a bit cute together, mate. It's cool to watch because it's, I was saying to you the other day, some of the looks when Shannon just sort of looks over like, really? Like, because obviously, yeah, you are the character in the couple. But yeah, we love it. We sort of sit there and piss ourselves off. And it's cool. And I think that's what attracts people.
I mean for us, mate, the channel's Wi-Fi. It's not always the exact stuff that, you know, I guess we'd follow, but it's the people. We sort of really, I guess, gravitate to the people more so than the content sometimes. Because I think if you can relate to the people, their content's good anyway. When you're watching strangers, they can do some cool stuff.
But it's just, I don't know, it's just not the same for me. Anyway, and look, a bit of a disclaimer for this podcast, mate, is anything I say or I guess talk about is just my opinion. It's not, I don't have that opinion because someone's got a gun to me head right now. It's just, this is just how I feel. This is what works for Fee and I and for us at Red Dust Adventures. But it's just, I'm sharing my opinion and what works for us and what doesn't. So yeah, watching you guys.
Jayden (15:08)
Hmm.
Brad (15:26)
and just try to know when you know you're a couple and there's that little bit of humey issue. Yeah, I love it. I'd actually follow that 100%.
Jayden (15:33)
Yeah, I know exactly what you mean too. Like, for example, everyone knows Ford Drive 24-7 and like, you know, awesome production, really good, it's been around forever. But half the time I'll actually watch the off-grid series with the caravans and I don't plan on owning a caravan for a long, long time, but I'll watch it for Graham because he's just such a character, he's so funny.
And it's just like, yeah, so it's definitely about the people, you know, and then like I said, there's a lot of, I've said before, there's a lot of videos I watch. It's not my style. It's not how I want to make a video, but it's the people. And yeah, I think that's, and I was talking about that a while ago about a podcast is that Bridget, that, you know, like I said, there's only one of you on the internet. So it's, yeah, I guess that's when they say people like be yourself on camera. It's exactly that, you know, there's only one of you on there.
I guess people fall in love with the character that they're watching and yeah.
Brad (16:32)
Absolutely, absolutely. Look, I mean, obviously you still got to produce good content and be of interest. And look, we're finding now, I guess, mate, and as time goes on, and again, we'll go off track here. We don't necessarily have a niche. And obviously, as again, you know, this podcast, my understanding from your point of view, mate, this podcast is about reaching out to the no-namers.
such as ourselves, the small channels and just having the arm and how it all works for them and all the rest of it. The reality is, yeah, none of us know what we're doing. It's a learning curve for everyone and we're sort of realizing that people probably don't like the quads as much as we enjoy riding them and getting out there and doing it and I don't know whether that's a new
People just simply don't like watching quads. But again, we're just going to keep putting quads on our channel because we're absolutely... Mate, I would just... we can't get enough of a windfain or a wave, especially when we do the quad trips where it's just the two quads. Yeah, we just can't get enough... we don't want to get off them. You know, like it's actually... we just want to be on them all day. And again, if people don't want to watch that, that's... you know, that's their prerogative and their choice. And I'll be interested to know...
Jayden (17:48)
Yeah.
Brad (18:00)
how different, you know, would people want to watch us more? You know, obviously we've got a big trip coming up in our new 79. And are people more interested in that? Because it's 79, there's that cold following, people love it, and we're gonna be going to different destinations that we haven't been to before. Are people more interested in that? I'm not sure, mate. Like, I just, again, that comes back to like I was saying, we follow people and watch people for the people. And obviously their content, mate, if they put out rubbish content, yeah.
just see ya, I'm done with it. But yeah, I just, I love the people. I just, and we've met some really good people through social media and definitely people that give us a bit of a, a bit of support and ideas and feedback and we really respect that. And those people, and I'll be doing no name dropping today, but the reality is those people know who they are. And yeah, we respect them. And...
and we certainly support them in return just because of that. Like just genuine good people helping other people out through their journey of YouTube, mate, to be honest.
Jayden (19:12)
Yeah, I understand. I think there's a few topics in there that we'll... Like we said, we're gonna go off topic all of this podcast, but... Yeah, no, I understand. I agree with you. We'll get back on track for a little bit. So we're about to use bass now.
Brad (19:19)
Uh huh.
So we're in Port Hazlum or South Hazlum. So yeah, up in the Pilbara in Western Australia. Been here, this is our eighth year here. So time flies, we came here from Mackay with a three year plan. And we sort of said three to five year plan. And yeah, we bought a house just on three years ago now. Don't look like moving anytime soon, but anything can change, you know. Tomorrow could all be a whole new ball game, but yeah, we've been here.
going into our eighth year and absolutely love it here mate. We love the concept of just even the quads, my b-number ride, our quads here that it's not police like down south. The fishing, I mean the fall driving up here, it's not really a mad mecca fall driving area up here, it's predominantly touring, water holes, beautiful country, free camping, all the stuff we love because I mean our days.
Jayden (20:09)
Yeah.
Brad (20:29)
of doing the real tough trucks essentially are over. In saying that, yeah, we've got a trip that we want to do in the next sort of few years. I mean, we've been planning this trip. I'm not going to drop that note because then it just sort of, yeah, at the end of the day if we don't ever do it we're going to look like tosses. But we've got a big trip that will be epic four wheel driving. And yeah, look, I love it. I still sort of froth that real...
Jayden (20:51)
Yeah.
Brad (20:58)
hard going four wheel driving, but we don't do a lot of it anymore. It's predominantly touring and stuff. So, Port Hedland for us, mate. Love it here. Yeah, like I said, came here for three to five years, now years later we're still here and going strong.
Jayden (21:12)
Yeah, so is that, did you move over, was that for, if you know what I mean, I asked him, was that for work or is it more the landscape or?
Brad (21:21)
No, so essentially, mate, our stories are basically been in mining and construction for over 20 years. I spent a long time, sort of that roughly 12 to 13 odd years doing drive-in drive-out out of Laudanakai and Mount Isa. We spent five odd years out in Mount Isa and five odd years in McCoy.
couple years before that on the Sunshine Coast. And I basically didn't see any kids grow up. I was basically working all the time, free raise the kids on our own essentially. And we're a part of a bit of a full drive club over there. It was when Ruthie had set up the, what was it called back then? I can't think of the planning name off the top of my head, but Ruthie had a bit of a movement back in the day.
Unlock Australia or whatever it was called. So some friends over in Macay had a bit, sort of started up a bit of a chapter, I guess you'd call it, where we sort of got a group of us together to raise money for Unlock Australia and yeah, it was sort of become, I guess, like a little mini four-wheel drive club and we met some fantastic people through there and one couple we met,
become just really close friends with them and then Dallas had moved back to Tasmania and became the manager of PURTEC in Port Headland here and just you know like when you're away and you know you're on the piss camping and I was just yawning at different times so I'm over being away working or just you know I love the money but it's just I'm over just not watching the kids grow up and not spending time with the missle and it's just yeah it's pretty shit lifestyle really and
Jayden (23:10)
Thank you.
Brad (23:19)
Yeah, he moved away and just randomly I think was it approximately a year or so later Just rang me one day and said mate. I've got a job offer for you move to the Pilbara Port headland and drive a service truck doing hydraulics for me and I was just like I don't know anything about hydraulics, mate You know, I'm a scrap holder. He's like I'll teach up do it So and I thought that obviously everyone knows the Kimberly didn't I've heard the name the Pilbara But I didn't really know anything about the Pilbara to be honest with you
Jayden (23:36)
Thank you.
Brad (23:48)
And I said, look, mate, just throw an offer on the table. I'll go home, I'll yarn the fee, and we'll check it out. So he pretty much had an offer on the table that afternoon. And I was actually away working at the time, and I sent it all through to Fee and said, what's your thoughts? And she said, oh, we've always talked about going to Western Australia. And I think, mate, I pretty much, well, it would have been two weeks later, I gave notice to one of the best jobs I've ever had in my life.
I'm working with the best bunch of people. The company I worked for was sick. Still best mates with the owners and all the boys. Yeah, loved it. And yeah, two weeks later I gave notice. And I think, I don't know, mate, within three months, why not have it been three months? I think it was like two months later we were in Port Adla. And yeah, we haven't looked back. So essentially it was, what the offer was, mate, was...
Jayden (24:30)
Thank you.
Brad (24:47)
due morning, something that I loved and the money was still going to be there. But I had the opportunity to be home every night and watching the kids grow up. And that was key. So we moved over here and I was basically outside of the Covid period. I spent a lot of time inland in the Pilbara during the Covid period because we lost a lot of work here during that period. But essentially, my life, I've worked and come home every night. I do 12, 14 hour shifts and I come home and I
I'm here with my family and yeah, it's sick. Like I wouldn't do it any other way now. I definitely wouldn't do five-o, driving, drive out or anything. That's just, yeah, to be able to do what I know and what I love, earn the coin for it and be home with your family and be like, yeah. So when we got to the Pilbara, it was, wow, this is actually more beautiful than what we thought. Mate, it's hot, like don't get me wrong, the Pilbara's hot and it's not for everyone. It's definitely a...
Jayden (25:43)
Thank you.
Brad (25:45)
I say to people all the time, mate, living in the Pilbara and, you know, where we are, it's not one of those places where you'd say, yeah, it's not bad. It's like you either love it or you hate it. Like, in my opinion, that's just my opinion. And we love it. Like, the heat gets old sometimes. And I think I've said to you before, mate, like, I love having those days off and being able to just get out there and work on the car or the garden or whatever, but you tend to do a fair bit of, um...
Jayden (25:57)
Thank you.
Brad (26:14)
Yeah, a fair bit of sweating during the day and then you sort of wait until the bit in the afternoon and then really crank it up and then all of a sudden you find yourself at 10, 11 o'clock at 9. You're balls deep in your jobs because it's cool and it's the perfect temperature to be doing work. So yeah, it's a different lifestyle, mate. It's harsh. It can be tough, I reckon. And again, some people sort of don't see it as being that hot. Some people reckon it's ridiculous. And yeah, we love it.
We love it. We don't like the cold, man. We've gone back to Melbourne a couple of times to see family. And outside of just sort of going to miss the family when we leave, we can't wait to get out of there. Hate it.
Jayden (26:58)
Yeah, like I said about the pilgrots, you get the beauty of it. I've only flown up there for work a few times and then also I have done a little bit of traveling up there. Very minimal, very quick. But yeah, it's sort of like you get the beauty but you might have to put up with a few things like the heat and the flies and stuff like that. But like I say, it's you know.
bit of give and take and you know, that's what people are like. But, um, next question sort of follows onto that is you've moved up to the Pilgrim and where did Red Dust Adventures start? Is that, was that before the move or was that during the move and how did you sort of transition into YouTube? Obviously already doing the traveling and so that sort of stuff. So
Brad (27:27)
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
So a bit of a story behind the Red Dust Adventures. So I think it was in about 2006. So back those days there was your Alcool forums which was your land cruiser, online sort of forums where anything land cruiser you could just get on that forum and just forums were big back then like social media you know like your Instagrams and Facebook. I know they might have been around I certainly didn't know anything about.
social media back then but I knew about forums and back then there was fall drive, I don't know whether it was fall drive month, it might have been fall drive action forums and all these different forums so I started we were building our old Hilux that I use for work now planning a trip to go to Cape York and had our old Hilux and I jumped on the HALCOOL forum
and you need an avatar or name or whatever they call it. And I just said to Fee one night, like, what do I bloody call myself? Like, you know, all these people have got these strange and weird names. And I don't know, we obviously, we'd spoken so many times about living in Mount Isa how much we loved the red dust. And Fee just said, why don't you just call yourself Red Dust? And I said, oh, I could just call myself Red Dust Lux. And she goes, yeah, sick. So I did, I got on. So I think, like I said, that was about.
2006 or 2008 around that period. And then, so I called myself Red Dust Luxe. And then about two months later, we actually decided to buy our first ever 105 series. And then I'll become Red Dust Landy on that same forum. And then we bought a Stace boat and I'll become Red Dust Stace. And it just stuck, we just become Red Dust. And then, I guess we discovered Facebook and...
We thought, oh, you know, how cool would it be? YouTube was never a thing back then for us. Like it was just not something we thought about. And then we just discussed one day about all our family living in Melbourne. They all wanted to know what we were doing because we're so far away from everyone. And we were just, you know, we'd speak to Faye's mum on the phone. We'll say, we're off doing this and we're doing that. And, you know, she just said one day, like, I'd love to see what you're doing. And I saw it, you know, yourself trying to.
send little videos through on the phone and all that. It just wasn't happening. So we decided to make a Facebook page where we could just put little videos on there so our family all down in Melbourne could watch them and see what we're doing, all over different parts of Australia. And we came up with the name Red Dust Family Adventures. And we were Red Dust Family Adventures for years on Facebook.
and you know we had fishing shirts made up back then and just different stuff like and you know stickers exactly what we're doing now but it was Red Dust Family Adventures done that for quite a few years but we weren't I don't know it was it was pretty low key and it was essentially all about our family in Victoria being able to watch our adventures and then it's only just recently uh I don't know maybe two years ago three years ago whatever maybe even longer the
They were teenagers now, mum and dad were too old and weren't cool anymore to go camping with. They wanted to just hang with their mates. So Fian and I just started doing a bit more, you know, adventures on our own. Took the backseat out of there on New 105 and it became just Fian and I on our own. And we wanted to streamline the name, I guess, to a certain extent to make it not so much of a mouthful. And so we just turned ourselves into Red Dust Adventures.
Jayden (31:13)
Thank you.
Mm-hmm.
Brad (31:36)
It'll always essentially be Red Dust Family Adventures because I mean our kids now, we just did a trip on the other weekend with our kids and god it was good to hang out with them again. So it'll always in the background be Red Dust Family Adventures. Our kids are everything to us. Family First is one of our biggest mottos in life. And but yeah, again, that's where Red Dust Adventures come from. We needed a name and yeah, that's what we come up with.
And so, sorry mate.
Jayden (32:07)
So was that like the... No, you're right. Yeah, I think the brand Red Dust Adventures for anyone now as well, that's family. It's a very family, feels like a very family channel. So was that, did the Facebook sort of videos just transition into filming YouTube? Because obviously it's a lot more work than just the odd phone video, you know?
Brad (32:17)
Yes.
Yeah, so again, that was a two part question and I've only just answered one part, haven't I? Alright, I'll get back to it. So yeah, look, so the YouTube thing was, I guess, I discovered YouTube and I watched it and I was watching people and I just loved it. I remember saying to Faye, I don't know, maybe five, eight years ago, what I think, probably when we moved over here.
Jayden (32:35)
Now you're on.
Brad (33:01)
and hit the Pilbara. I just remember saying to Fee one day, I'm gonna start a YouTube channel one day, and she's like, yeah, bugger that. I don't really wanna be on camera and all that. A lot of the time, mate, right from the start, Fee never wanted to be on camera. Fee was always happy to, I guess, just do the filming. And I mean, people who know me well enough know that, I probably love the sound of my own voice sometimes. So for me, it wasn't.
wasn't a big thing to jump in front of the camera and just talk shit. So I loved it and I guess, I don't know whether I'm a strange character or I'm probably just too honest sometimes but I don't mind. I actually enjoy watching myself on videos and just watching how I go about it and I guess it's a bit of a learning thing for me. And just the adventures that I have with my family and friends.
that I'm a part of that. So it was like, I just want to do a channel. I just, I don't know whether it was all about watching myself and just, I don't want to watch any other channels. I just want to watch me. It was about, I just, I love watching other people do their thing. And it's so cool to, to watch them just out there doing it. And it was people like, and again, plenty of other people would say the same thing as me. It was, you know, back in the day watching Malcolm Douglas, Jack Absalom, you know,
Jayden (34:07)
Yeah.
I'm sorry.
Brad (34:27)
Bush Tucker man, you know, Liz Haddon or Hidden, sorry. And then even just later on in life watching Steve Irwin, because the kids just loved Steve Irwin and Bindi Winch was a kid and watching that raw just get out there and I loved it. Look, I just and I just thought, I just want to do that. And look, there was a bit of a draw over and on.
probably unnoticed sort of a bit of a push or a drive from my moment stepdad. I remember saying at one stage in my life, you know, in the last 10 years, I'd love to get out of mine. I just wish I'd win Tatsalato, like everyone says. And, you know, what would I do with me time? And then my parents have always said, you're just a natural talker. Like, you know, I wish you'd had a got into like tour guide work or something when you were younger, because you would just
you know, people would just be in awe because you just flat out talk and you just, you're full on and you love it and you're that passionate. And I mean, a lot of people have known me, one of the words that they use for me is passion and because I am, I'm passionate. Like once I sort of chew into something, I have a good tour of it. Like I really get passionate and get involved in it. And yeah, so I think they sort of drove that into me a little bit. Like I'm never going to be a tour guide, but just maybe.
get on camera, you know, spin a yarn, show people what, you know, where we are and what we're doing, I guess, then it turned into, let's just showcase the Pilbara, let's do a YouTube channel and see where it goes. So, it predominantly started just trying to feed our adventures back to our family and our friends. And then just, I don't know, I guess it grows, my life, most people it grows to where, this is good fun and...
Jayden (36:17)
and
Brad (36:17)
everyone else is doing YouTube and we're loving watching it, why wouldn't we be a part of it and have a crack? And if it gets to the point where we stop having fun and it's hard work, we pull the pin on and we just keep going and having fun. But right now, absolutely loving YouTube. Again, I did say to you the other week, mate, when we were yarning on one of our big yarns, I was fucking real close to just saying I can't do this a month ago.
Jayden (36:46)
I think. Yeah.
Brad (36:48)
Because the whole social media, the whole YouTube, we do big hours, we get limited time off. And then, like Fianna, we recently did the Kimberley trip and had to come back and then it takes like nine years to edit it for us. We come home after a 14 hour shift, and the last thing I wanna do is get on the computer. And because we're only learning, we're not streamlining how we do our editing and stuff. Everything's, we're working too hard.
and we're doing everything the hard way. So then you come home, we might edit for 15 minutes and just go, I'm done. Like I'm not doing it tonight. So yeah, I was, I'm not telling mine to quit. I'm certainly not gonna quit, but I was, and I think, and I think we'll probably talk about that as we go forward, but the whole, the fakeness.
Jayden (37:27)
Yeah.
Brad (37:46)
the disloyal people within the industry. Yeah, I just started to get a bit over it.
Jayden (37:48)
Hmm. Well that rolls on pet. Yeah, that rolls on pet leads to a...
Hmm. Yeah, that sort of like with the, um, yeah, the delay, I keep talking over, talking over you. Yeah, that sort of guy is perfectly in the next question. Um, I think it's really cool is I was actually watching that. Oh, you recommended to watch every day. I've got their names, Sarah and someone. Um, what's the names? Do the Caribbean. Yeah. So one day, um, they said they were on that video. They were saying about that's how they started. Just trying to share their, um, memories and all that sort of stuff. And I think it's
Brad (37:58)
Yeah, go on, mate.
Sarah and Caleb, yeah. Yes, there.
Jayden (38:24)
But yeah, definitely with YouTube, it's... I honestly pat you on the back for how you do all that work after work. Because when I'm working, I can't edit. I can't get in the space to edit after work. I have to sit there for a whole day and sort of... That's one thing I really struggle with. Like I didn't have the roster I sort of do. I'd really struggle, I think. So it's a big cut on the back for you. But yeah, it sort of goes straight into what I want to talk about next is sort of like...
YouTube as a whole, it's, I don't know, it's a fucking, it's an aggressive industry. Like, if you're like, have your head in the right spot and not being the same lately, sort of like, I've been talking about views and you know, you bust your ass, you fucking, you spend hours, you know, you ruin, sometimes potentially ruin your trick compared to how much you would enjoy it. And...
Brad (39:00)
Yeah.
Yeah. Absolutely.
Jayden (39:16)
to film and you know, so I like to try and get up at like four or five in the morning sometimes to get a sunrise shot that you might not even use and whatever it is, you know, you guys like use, wanna fish, you could just be fishing but you're setting up cameras and mics and um, so you put a lot of fucking effort into it as anyone would know that does YouTube and then yeah, like you don't get the views or you get someone that messages you and or comments you know, this is shit or whatever it is and um, sort of like what's your
Brad (39:24)
Thank you.
Yep.
Jayden (39:45)
What's your take on YouTube now? Obviously it's evolved a lot from when it started, but I don't know, I feel like it's like, the whole thing sponsors the fakeness of people. I mean, I don't wanna say YouTube's a terrible thing, but there's obviously the big terrible side to it of, you know, all the bullshit that comes with it, and then for the effort that you put into it.
Brad (40:10)
So again, just a bit of a disclaimer on that, that to be honest with you mate, I only just share my, this is just my opinion and just how I, my take on it. And I just, I'm not, we're not professionals, we're a baby channel, we're growing really slow, so I don't really have, I guess the qualifications to say too much.
Jayden (40:22)
Hmm.
Brad (40:39)
apart from just our experience. And what I'd say is we love the concept. It's a very flooded market. I think everyone's trying to achieve videos, having fun, all the rest of it. And I know I've said this a thousand times, mate. We've had plenty of people say to us, if you're watching it, the views and subs and likes.
you're doing it for the wrong reason. It should be just fun. You're having fun. Do your videos. And if you're if you're not, if that's not enough for you, give it up because you're doing for the wrong reason. And I tend to I tend to disagree with that, because I because why I say that is. You put the effort in. Yeah, ultimately, you start a YouTube channel to make videos and have fun. And I guess.
put a timeline back on YouTube that your kids and their kids and the rest of the world can watch forever. That's the ultimate goal. Don't be able to look back on it later on and sit down with the kids when we're 80 and go, oh yeah, we'll work back in the day, this is what we did. That's the ultimate goal. But the reality is, I'll be surprised if I'm not the same as everyone else that...
If you make a video and you make a good video and you spend all that time running cameras, like you said, lose a bit of the joy of just going away and camping and just having time out, because it certainly doesn't become time out sometimes, it becomes fucking hard work. So to lose that and then come home, do it all, put up a great video and you look at it and you watch it back and you think...
Jayden (42:21)
I'm going to go to bed.
Brad (42:31)
fucking love it. It's sick. I just, I really enjoyed watching that myself. And then no one likes it or you get negative feedback from it. Yeah, mate, it's, it's actually hurtful. And I, and I, to be honest with you, if we get it, we put up a video and we see people liking it and see people interacting with it and see people commenting, mate, I think, I speak for myself. I fucking love it.
It's such an endorphin filler, I don't know what you call it. Like it's a bit of a rush, mate. I actually do, you know, I do, I love it. I'm proud of myself. I'm proud of my wife. I'm proud of what we've put together. And if other people are enjoying that, yeah, that does it. It feels a bit of a bit of avoiding, you know, where you think, oh, fuck, that's cool. So if other people aren't feeling that, yeah, I don't know. Maybe I'm strange, mate. Maybe I'm one of the only person. And again,
I don't sit there and think, oh God, we've only got that many views, we must be shit or whatever. You have your moments and I think everyone does. But the reality is, if you're doing YouTube and you're spending all that time running videos and making sure your audio is right and you're running back and forwards and all the rest of it, and no one's watching it, no one likes it, it's only for yourself, I think you're fucking lying to yourself. But that's my opinion. And I'll get, we will.
potentially get shot down on me.
Jayden (43:59)
I think you're dead on with that. It's like, that statement is true to an extent. If you're only doing it for views is in, I think, I personally interpret that as, if you're doing that to be famous, if you're doing YouTube to be famous and get rich and all that sort of shit, well, fucking stiff luck. You know, it's not gonna happen. That's, people say right through it, as we've seen with so many different channels before. It's...
Brad (44:19)
Yeah.
Jayden (44:26)
But it's, yeah, it's that all that effort you put in. I know I've totally agree with you as well, like that effort you put in and then, how do you explain it? Like, yes, you wanna be growing as a channel. You wanna be sharing your story. You want to reach people. You wanna reach your niche of people. Like you said before, you do the quad bikes. It's different. You're not a four-wheel drive action niche, you know. It's...
You know, and I'm old cars, it's not, you know, 79 series owners aren't going to watch an old car trying to putt up this hill, you know, it's totally different. And each, I think that's the big thing with channels is trying to, trying to get your niche. What are you? What is your channel? You know, and, um, like me personally, it's, I want to inspire people to get out there with whatever car you got. You don't need fancy gear. A lot of the channels are flooded with, oh, you need to have a brand new car, you have a brand new caravan, you know.
You know, you need a five hundred grand set up to be able to go traveling. It's like bullshit, you know, and that niche has their place. Like, you know, there's more some channels that do it. And if you're in the position to do that, that is perfect. Well, there's nothing against me saying like people doing that. But I guess it's these people that sit there. Oh, I can't go to the beach until I've got this big lift kit from such and such. And there are, but yeah, go back to that. Yeah. You, you bust so much time into.
doing it and it's, yeah, like I said, it's not, it's not, it's not about the phone thing at all. It's about, you know, am I doing the right thing? Trying to, have I edited it right? Have I done the videos right? Is it, you know, like I'm just wasting my fucking time or it's um, oh, it's fine. When I was the other way, I was the same. I was like, you know, put a really good video and I guess I'll do it every time too. I'll put out a video, I think it's decent and then I always look back on it like a month later. I'm like, I could've done that better. I could have done that better.
Brad (46:02)
Yeah, yeah.
Jayden (46:16)
It's the whole journey of learning. I think too is, um, it's, you know, you might, you might think you're good at the time and each video I've said it before is each video trying to improve something. And you just naturally get better without even realizing it, you know, all the experience and, um, but yeah, like I said, the other week I was just like, why am I doing this? Why am I bothering it? And then, you know, I just started a podcast as well to top it off, you know, but.
Brad (46:17)
I'm upset.
Yeah.
Yeah, why wouldn't you? Yeah, why wouldn't you, mate? 100%. And I think that's the thing, though, is, again, you definitely, I guess probably our biggest driving force is, one, getting our adventures to our family. But I think, two, we have a lot of people, I guess, I don't know, we've had a couple of cheeky comments.
Jayden (46:46)
Ha ha.
Brad (47:14)
I know some people throw a bit of flak our way and it's all in jest and that, but we've had a few comments or like private messages and stuff from people I guess suggesting that we're too old to be riding around on quad bikes and enjoying life like 21 year olds and I was just like what the fuck, like we're 50 years of age mate, we're not 80 like, I just don't so for me it's that's almost, that's a bit of a
I don't know, it inspires us a little bit more just to say, well, do you know what, to all you 50 year olds out there, and we'd love to know that when we're 70, we're still doing this, but all you 50 year old people, like fucking old at 50, holy shit, man, we've got another 20 years to work, so I hope I'm not too old. We just sort of want to say to people, like, you're never too old to get out there, and mate, we're just a couple of old dinosaurs, husband and wife, best mates.
Jayden (48:05)
Mmm.
Brad (48:13)
Just love and life, doing what we love, we live and breathe, and we're putting it on camera for people to see. Yeah, but the driving force is making good videos and we want people to watch it. And so I guess as time's grown, mate, and when I go back to like, you know, your Malcolm Douglas and that, Malcolm Douglas wasn't making videos for his family. He was making them as an educational video.
we're not necessarily ever going to be an educational video but if there's something you can take out of our videos well perfect example how not to throw a car snap watch our videos mate i'll show you how not to throw a car snap um just all simple shit like that like if you want to catch barra just watch my channel and do everything opposite to me and you'll probably catch one but that's there's something to come out of our do you know what i mean
Jayden (48:54)
Thank you.
Oh, I love that video so much too. It's like, it's so like, I've listened to podcasts and videos before and now they edit everything out and, um, fuck bro. It's just so real. What's in your channel? It's just like, here's my fuck up. This is us. This is our adventures. This is what really fucking happens. I'm not throwing your fucking car, snapping the water in your trunk, but it was just like, and.
I'm sort of like you guys with the swearing of the YouTube as well. It's you guys just want to roar. It's fucking news. Like it's, and I love it about it. You know, you guys might not necessarily spend fucking, you know, all this time doing a fancy production and fancy this and fancy that. And it's just fucking news. I love it. How, um, the style and I think it's the rubbish truck in the background for a minute. Um, but yeah, it's just, I really, I really dig that. Like it, and then like we said with the. Well, like.
Brad (49:43)
Yeah.
Yeah.
Jayden (50:03)
people calling you old and all that sort of stuff. And I was like, well, there's probably fucking how many people out there doing the same thing. They just might not have a camera in their hands. I mean, there's plenty of, you look at how many people are traveling these days and the majority might have just a caravan, but there's fucking a lot of them you see with motorbikes and bits and pieces on the back. And they're fucking enjoying their life. And so you should, you live once, don't you? And with the hateful stuff too, I've...
Brad (50:13)
Yeah.
Thanks.
Yeah, yeah.
Jayden (50:31)
Lately I've been struggling with it. I always thought I wouldn't care with, you know, especially when you have like family members talk shit about you and I've been like, oh, you know, why are you bothering? You're never gonna be famous. And I was like, well, first I'm not born to be fucking famous. I just enjoy doing it. But it's just like, I don't know, lately I've just been like feeding off it. Like I want people to give me hateful comments because it's like, fuck you. I'm gonna do it just to prove you wrong. Cause I'll bust my hole just to put it in funny. You'd be like, see.
Brad (50:49)
Yeah.
Jayden (51:01)
Fuck you. I dunno, it's just personally me, but yeah.
Brad (51:04)
Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. And look, mate, I just was, I've just pulled the back seat out of the 79 and I'm putting a false floor in and yesterday I just had my headphones on, I get in my own zone and I was listening to Wake Up Pete from Wake Up, he's just Everyman Chats podcast that he's done with his brother. I actually got emotional a couple of times, mate. By nature, mate, I'm a bit of a fucking sook, like.
I sort of rate myself as I can handle myself a bit of a tough bloke on that But yeah when it sort of push comes to shove Yeah, man, I'll get emotional over shit pretty quick, but it's sort of personal and yeah, just to watch some of the memories that him and his brother were talking about and different things and yeah, I just sort of I watched that and There's a couple of topics that they bring up and Yeah, it does resonate that
It's not about keeping people happy. You're not gonna keep everyone happy. And Pete, for example, said about, he got given the same spiel, what are you fucking doing it for, mate? You're not gonna be far, you're never gonna be rich out of it. And the brother that he was interviewing on the podcast was his biggest supporter. He said, fucking do it, mate, love it. And it was a massive support network for him. And at the end of the video, mate,
you know, he basically says, oh, fuck, I'm going to get emotional again now. Like, you just pretty much just keep going, mate. Like, look where you've come from. You know, like you're just doing a few videos and pretty much a lot of people around him were just saying, like, what a fucking flog. Like, look at you out there with a camera running around, like, what do you fucking hope for, mate? You're going to be a millionaire out of it. And I don't think it was ever like that for any of us. I don't think anyone gets into it thinking you're going to be a millionaire. And if you do, I mean, I remember watching
Jayden (52:46)
Hehehe
Brad (52:58)
Again, you know, work his podcast with, um, Matty Field from Field Days. And that made, he went into it not to be a millionaire, but he, on that podcast, he says, I wanted a million subscribers and I wasn't going to stop until I had it and he's done it. And he's ultimately, his goal was to do what he loved to do, but make it a living, never have to work for a boss ever again and never have to go and do shit work just to pay his bills.
I'm so admirable, like if I'd love to do it too, mate, but I don't have, I don't, I don't, I'm not in a position where I can just say, fuck it, I'm just going to go full bottle of this. Um, mate, we've got a mortgage, we've got bills, um, like everyone else and now we've just got a second mortgage, because we just bought a fucking 79, the most overpriced vehicle in the world's history. So at the end of the day, we would have loved to have done that when we were young and had a crack, but we didn't.
and you know, our life is what it is now. But I admire people, whether it be, you know, people that say I want a million subscribers or people that just say I want a little channel and it grows naturally and organically, fuck all I tell me, head off to him. And where, you know, from where Wacka's gone from a couple of little videos and then he's quite successful through YouTube and his podcast is fucking killing it. And man, I just, again, you know, he's raising a family, he's got his own business.
you know with his dad and man it's mint like I just again it's not for everyone and we're not all in it for the same thing um but we are we're all sort of on a similar path and I guess that comes down to when we were talking about before uh you know people not being loyal and people being full of shit like that's getting old real quick for me um because on loyalty and
Jayden (54:40)
Mm.
Brad (54:56)
I'm not a fan of people, because we've had a couple of people I guess mate, and again you know I'm not here to drop names and shit, they would know who they are, and if they don't, you know, it proves the fact that they are, you know, not genuine people, I could say something else, yeah I won't, but the reality is, we've had a few people that have sort of reached out to us, I guess I don't know, we've sort of been a bit like,
Jayden (54:56)
Hmm.
Brad (55:25)
why would you want to team up with us? Because we're fucking nobodies. We're just a couple of old dinosaurs just having a bit of a crap. But then I think we've done a little bit of, I'll scratch your back, you scratch my back sort of thing. And then they've realized that we are fucking nobodies. And they're like, fuck, fuck. So you're nobodies. And then you watch those same people jump onto the next channel or the next Insta page and they're all of a sudden they're teaming up with them and then they're teaming up with them. And it's like, fucking seriously.
Jayden (55:43)
So.
Brad (55:55)
Like, you can see their driving force is very different to ours. Like, yeah, it's not about enjoying life. It's not about sharing your experiences. It's about, I'm going to fucking go for the jugular in every situation, and I'm going to rape and pillage this industry until there is nothing left to rape and pillage. If I get famous out of it, I'll get famous out of it, but that's my goal. And I think they're...
Jayden (55:56)
Hmm.
Brad (56:23)
They're the people I personally think are in it for the wrong reasons. And I've said this time and time again, we know, we're confident that we will never be famous, we'll never be making a living out of it. If tomorrow, I don't know, someone big came in and approached us and said, we've got this idea, we just love you two dinosaurs, let's just go big.
Jayden (56:27)
Mm.
Brad (56:53)
we're gonna back you 100%. Fuck, I am going to have a crack at that. I would have said six, 12 months ago, I wouldn't. Not interested, but if we could make this a living, would we do it? In a fucking heartbeat, in absolute heartbeat. Would I drive around in my 79 series in the Kimberly, towing two quad bikes and fishing for Barra for a living? Fuck, 100%, a million percent. And I'd be lying if I said that.
Jayden (56:56)
green.
Mmm.
I'm sorry.
Brad (57:22)
Nah mate, it's not, nah, we're just doing it for fun. Fuck mate, if I could do it for a living, I would sign me up, sign me up tomorrow. I'm done, I'm there, where do you want me? Could, mate, cause isn't that everyone's dream? Isn't, you know, we talk about it all the time with young fellas at work or just having to own children. You know, it's not about money, it's not about fame, it's not about anything. Just get a job that you enjoy to go to. If you can earn 50 grand and go and enjoy your job every day.
Jayden (57:28)
Bye.
Brad (57:49)
or go and earn a hundred grand and I mean money's important in life, make no mistake about it, that's a driving force in everyone's life. But to go to work and hate it and come home just shattered with your own what life? Fuck that, you know, like just get a job that you love. So riding quad bikes, fishing for barra and that's no catching, just fishing and driving full drives in the beautiful country that we're living.
Jayden (57:54)
Yeah.
All right.
Brad (58:19)
100% my that's what I love that's what the wife loves and if we could do it for a living would 100% off a living I think I'll go off track again, but that's what I do, but that's the reality might That's um
Jayden (58:30)
Yeah, no, it's spot on.
Brad (58:35)
Yeah, so, there was something else I was going to add there that I can't remember. But yeah, I look at me and ultimately learning off other people and watching other people grow is also exciting too, mate. I love to watch other people grow. But I want, again, I know just recently watching some stuff unfold with people buying subs and...
the controversy behind it. I don't get it, I just, I don't get it. Fe and I have discussed, you know, is there different ways that you can grow the channel organically, but you know, whether it be just, you know, buying an app that, you know, teaches you stuff rather than just doing everything the hard way. Is that cheating? I don't think so, mate. Like, if there's apps out there that can, I guess teach a, you know,
Jayden (59:09)
Yeah.
Brad (59:34)
how to do a thumbnail that's actually gonna be catchy and help your channel grow. But I think that's cheating. I think that's smart. I know that's what business is, you know? Like you surround yourself with good people, smart people, and you grow. If you think you know it all and you keep, there's a saying, mate, where if you're doing something repetitively and it's going pear-shaped.
Jayden (59:40)
No.
Brad (1:00:01)
thinking you're going to keep doing it and get another result. OK, there's a particular sign, but if you keep doing the same thing, you're going to keep getting the same result. So if you're if you're making videos and I guess you're not enjoying watching it, and you just made a point before, you can look back on your videos a month later and go, fuck, I could have done that better. I could have done that better. Again, you know, watching Sarah and Keelan's video the other day last week or whatever it was.
Jayden (1:00:23)
Come on.
Brad (1:00:30)
where they spoke about the whole YouTube journey. And they said like, you know, they look back on the videos they were first making. And I think Keele said, they're fucking cringe-worthy, like, they're rubbish. So you do, you grow. I mean, and we're still at that point. I wouldn't say our videos are complete rubbish, but they're certainly a long way off where we would like to have them. And I guess we're still, like everyone, mate, we're still learning. I don't even know.
Jayden (1:00:41)
I'm going to go to bed.
Mmm.
Hmm.
Brad (1:01:01)
I think I said to you on our last chat, the other night about, there's a part of, you know, trying to build a style and what is our style and how do you build a style and how do you know what your style is. To a certain extent, there's a part of our videos when the camera's just sitting there and we're just down there fishing. I watched it the other night and, you know, before we uploaded it and I said the thing,
I like watching one of those old VHS videos, an old home video that you've watched when you were kids, of your parents when they were kids. But there's a part of that to me that's not new age, it's not up to where probably a lot of people would want their videos to be, but there's something about it that just resonates with me and I absolutely love it. Other people might look at it and use the word
Jayden (1:01:33)
I'm going to go to bed.
Um.
Brad (1:01:58)
But have a look at this, these dinosaurs are putting out dinosaur videos. And maybe we are mate, but I don't know, there's a part of it that I enjoy watching that style from other people where it's, I guess just the cameras rolling and people just going about their business. I like it. So I'm not sure yet what our style is or what it's going to turn out to be. And yeah, look.
Jayden (1:02:11)
Please.
Hmm.
Brad (1:02:26)
And again, there was something else that's what I was going to touch on and maybe that's one of your questions. I don't know. So I know you should wait. But I was sort of going to mention, you know, like, I said a target for myself and someone said this to me the other day and I agreed with them. And so it was never about being famous, no matter what we do. But I sort of said that when I started Facebook, I just said, I want I want a thousand followers.
Jayden (1:02:49)
I'm sorry.
Brad (1:02:57)
And I do that personally for me, not for any other reason than it keeps me, I guess, stimulated, motivated, just to keep, I guess, you know, not being lazy. And Facebook, again, like I'm sort of off Facebook, it's just a personal thing now to get on a few sites or whatever. Instagram, I love putting photos up and it generates other like-minded people to put their photos up and...
Jayden (1:03:00)
Mmm.
Brad (1:03:26)
their little videos or whatever and man I love seeing what other people are doing and how their setups are and you know how they're going just watching other people be happy it's fucking really cool to be honest so I sort of set that target of a thousand followers I don't know what that is man I don't know I don't know why it's in my head to do that but that's essentially with the YouTube channel that's essentially what I've done
Jayden (1:03:38)
Thank you.
Brad (1:03:52)
If we never get to a thousand followers, we're gonna just we're gonna keep making videos until we've had enough. And whether that be a year, five years, or when we're 70, if we're still out there making videos, I'll be pretty fucking proud of myself to be honest, and me wife. But it's that whole, we just hit ourselves a let's try for 1000 subscribers. Just as a target to keep us motivated. So those days when we come home after a 14 hour shift and that's like
Jayden (1:03:53)
Hmm.
Thank you.
Okay.
Brad (1:04:21)
Oh, you know, algorithms, algorithm, they fuck the words over and are to say, let know, try and process and understand. But it's, you know, some days I don't want to do videos, I just can't be bothered. But there's part of that, you know, and you want to talk about this, you know, on my wall and I think some other people would do it. You know, I've got me whiteboard there with all me little motivational speeches that I give myself or just, yeah, things that sort of drive me so.
Jayden (1:04:26)
I'm sorry.
Brad (1:04:49)
If I'm having a shit down, I come home and I can't be bothered. And please don't, I'm not talking here like I'm fucking big time, we're not. But you don't get big time without just that consistency and just working hard at it and growing. So like one of the words that I use up there, or one of the sayings is just stay consistent. And when I come home, I know that algorithm needs me to be putting videos out more and we don't.
Jayden (1:04:55)
Mmm.