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Speaker 2: Yeah, everyone welcome. It's Andy Pitcher on a fine Monday evening,
Speaker 2: a bit snowy here in the Highlands, but we're here
Speaker 2: tonight with the MacMaster, who normally goes to sunny places.
Speaker 2: He's Lee from the MacMaster doc co dot UK. He's
Speaker 2: on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook. Top of my head, I think
Speaker 2: he's got thirty two thousand followers on YouTube, but that
Speaker 2: was the last time I looked anyway. So he's an
Speaker 2: online traveling tech series. He's film, he films, is hosted
Speaker 2: and he's it's all edited by Lee the MacMaster. In
Speaker 2: today's world informationous crucial, especial. She went traving to a
Speaker 2: new destination. Also that also Lee also does food sort
Speaker 2: of you know, taste food and all that from different places.
Speaker 2: I think that's also important to know a bit about
Speaker 2: a place before you go and eat there or travel
Speaker 2: there or whatever. So his channel provides viewers with process information,
Speaker 2: the raises awareness to destinations around the world, while at
Speaker 2: the same time sharing his experiences, journey and fun along
Speaker 2: the way. And I'd love to say whose thank you
Speaker 2: to Lead for joining us, but a million thank yous
Speaker 2: to over one hundred people earlier that sent in questions.
Speaker 2: And I've done a little bit of a survey and
Speaker 2: sort of lead one lately. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 3: Hello there, How are you nice to be on the show?
Speaker 3: Thank you for inviting me.
Speaker 2: You'll be happy to know though it's not waste because
Speaker 2: it's on Google, Apple, every good podcast you can ever know,
Speaker 2: think cub So it's quite a good setup we've got now, Yes,
Speaker 2: So let's start with you. Then, what did you do
Speaker 2: before you've done the travel blogs? And then while going
Speaker 2: to travel blogs?
Speaker 3: What did I do right? Well? My trade is I
Speaker 3: am a graphic designer, graphic artist. I worked in the
Speaker 3: newspaper industry, which I still do or kind of I
Speaker 3: did before the before the current situation. I contract to
Speaker 3: the newspaper industry to do corporate videos. Most of the
Speaker 3: corporate videos that I did for the Food and Drink Awards,
Speaker 3: the business Woman of the Year awards for the Birmingham Lester,
Speaker 3: Nottingham Derby around the Midlands that stopped because of the
Speaker 3: current situation, and I decided to take my sort of
Speaker 3: like hot be as it was then the YouTube videos,
Speaker 3: to the next level and start doing that as a
Speaker 3: as a full time job, kind of saying. I figured
Speaker 3: on doing that literally just prior to the pandemic, were
Speaker 3: going to do it, and then it hit. But the
Speaker 3: pandemic kind of a lot. I gained a lot more
Speaker 3: subscribers for it because because it was travel and people
Speaker 3: couldn't travel. I was showing people, you know, mainly Tenerife
Speaker 3: at the time, and they couldn't travel, so it was
Speaker 3: bringing them a little bit of positivity in a world
Speaker 3: that was a little cloudy at the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when I actually first looked at your travel blog
Speaker 2: early last year, there's no indication that you only did
Speaker 2: it because of the pandemic. It was more, you know,
Speaker 2: you've been doing it for years and you just love
Speaker 2: doing it, that kind of thing. That's the impression I got.
Speaker 3: I did. I loved, Don't get me wrong, I loved
Speaker 3: I love vogging, and I've always loved doing making movies
Speaker 3: and editing videos. And I started doing my travel vlog
Speaker 3: way before the pandemic when I lived over in the
Speaker 3: United States, so I was in Hoboken in New Jersey,
Speaker 3: and if you look back at my very very first flog,
Speaker 3: they were American based. And then I came back to
Speaker 3: the UK and did some vlogs here, and then I
Speaker 3: went over to Tenerif and kind of hit on a
Speaker 3: niche with Tenorief. It was easy to do vlogs there.
Speaker 3: I knew it pretty well. The weather was amazing, which
Speaker 3: makes filming a lot better and a lot easier. And
Speaker 3: there was a lot of places to eat that I
Speaker 3: could go eat in places and show people what to
Speaker 3: do on the island of tener Reef. And I kind
Speaker 3: of kept going back there and built up a kind
Speaker 3: of a following through Tenerief really, and I've did Grand
Speaker 3: Canario after that, and I got into the market of Tenerif.
Speaker 3: And I think a lot of people think I just
Speaker 3: film Tenerief, but I will be moving. I'll be going
Speaker 3: back after the lockdown to Tenerief, but I am going
Speaker 3: to plan on traveling around a lot further Afield as well,
Speaker 3: the United States, Australia and the Four Eef, so everywhere
Speaker 3: I possibly can and show people what a wonderful world
Speaker 3: it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm guessing you know from you know everything I
Speaker 2: say is based on me my opinion that these travel
Speaker 2: videos are really just an extension of what you actually
Speaker 2: love doing the video and in the meeting the people
Speaker 2: and you know, just having the fun as you would.
Speaker 3: I absolutely love it, and I have to say meeting
Speaker 3: people along the way is a great thing about the
Speaker 3: about being a vlogger. You meet so many different people
Speaker 3: along the way, along the journey, and I always say
Speaker 3: the I mean a lot of the viewers, and I
Speaker 3: call them I don't like to call them fans. I
Speaker 3: really disliked the word fans, So I call them friends
Speaker 3: of the channel. And I meet them along the way,
Speaker 3: and it's just great. You meet so many people, and
Speaker 3: it's it's a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful thing about being a YouTuber.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got addicted a little bit of other YouTuber channels,
Speaker 2: but I certainly look at yours because I think the
Speaker 2: other reason we got into your channel was we wanted
Speaker 2: that bit of hope, you know, while behind lockdown. But
Speaker 2: obviously we thought you'd been doing it for years. But
Speaker 2: what was on Lockdown last April May? We thought, wouldn't
Speaker 2: it be nice to go somewhere? And your channel said
Speaker 2: ten of Reef and when already booked a holiday to Vietnam,
Speaker 2: and we thought, well, we're not going to go there
Speaker 2: this year and probably not next and it's still not
Speaker 2: any good even today. So we decided to do a
Speaker 2: month in Tennerie if that was around July, and then
Speaker 2: we've done another three weeks in food Ventura and that
Speaker 2: was in October time. So we've got the seven weeks
Speaker 2: all inclusive in tenne for the same as four weeks
Speaker 2: non all inclusive self Catherin in Vietnam. So we enjoyed it.
Speaker 2: But yeah, you gave us hope. And all the comments
Speaker 2: I've had emails about sorry about your videos, is that
Speaker 2: exactly what you do. In one sense you're giving people
Speaker 2: hope and the other sense you're actually explaining about a
Speaker 2: destination or about food. I've gone to fish and chips
Speaker 2: later because I've got a couple of questions on fish
Speaker 2: and chips.
Speaker 3: If I don't forget, I can remind you about fish
Speaker 3: and chips. I look like fish and chips soon if
Speaker 3: he's anymore.
Speaker 2: Oh, by the way, it has tick on me to
Speaker 2: call your sister Soko. But anyway, that's another one.
Speaker 3: That'scho sister I think everybody has to have some kind
Speaker 3: of nickname. I'm wondering whether you're actually going to ask
Speaker 3: me where I got the name Mac Master in one
Speaker 3: of your questions.
Speaker 2: Well, I guess only because you're a video person, and
Speaker 2: obviously it's not Windows. It's a Mac. You probably use
Speaker 2: that's and the master bit. I'm not sure, but I
Speaker 2: guess you've learned to use it very well.
Speaker 3: Since nineteen eighty six, March the seventeenth, nineteen eighty six
Speaker 3: at the Chad newspaper, and I know them inside out,
Speaker 3: so I've gained the name of the Mac Master. So
Speaker 3: it continued on and it sounds like some kind of
Speaker 3: souper heroo, isn't it. So I'm sticking with it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I'm just thinking about Mac in particular.
Speaker 2: I'm not actually ever used a Mac. What is the
Speaker 2: difference between a Windows where all these pop ups happen
Speaker 2: all the time, and and the MacBook.
Speaker 3: You can't talk to me about Windows. It's my kryptonite, Okay,
Speaker 3: I just I can't do Windows. It's Max just better.
Speaker 3: I think it's more more, more for the creative person,
Speaker 3: more for the artistic type. I think, uh, you know,
Speaker 3: designers and video people.
Speaker 2: So do you still get I mean anyway, Yeah, I
Speaker 2: was going to say, do you still get? Can you
Speaker 2: open more than one page on the Mac? That's all
Speaker 2: I was curious about.
Speaker 3: You didn't used to be a two years ago. They're
Speaker 3: pretty much the same now. To be honest, I'm pretty
Speaker 3: much the same. But what I do So, what I
Speaker 3: do say is anybody who's got windows laptops out there,
Speaker 3: you shouldn't be allowed to sit in the window of Starbucks.
Speaker 3: You can only sit in the window of Starbucks if
Speaker 3: you've got a MacBook.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, And maybe they should also be wearing one of
Speaker 2: these merches from your store, which exactly I've attempted. I've
Speaker 2: attempted to try and buy one myself. But I think
Speaker 2: you need like a big person's size, because even to
Speaker 2: extra large, and some of them are not.
Speaker 3: You know, I think we go to five excel.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's not too bad. Then it's just a look
Speaker 2: at the hoodie, which.
Speaker 3: Is I'll need about ten X. I'll ever eat any
Speaker 3: more fish and chips?
Speaker 2: Well, let's get fish and chips out the way. You've
Speaker 2: done thousands of reviews on fishing chips just trying to
Speaker 2: work out is a favorite one from just keep it simple.
Speaker 2: You can't underneath because if you've done one hundreds of them,
Speaker 2: i'd say, by now the chips and the fish taste
Speaker 2: it pretty similar.
Speaker 3: I have to say my favorite one in Tennerieve. Everybody
Speaker 3: who knows me and watches the channel, we'll know that
Speaker 3: it's the Palms. The Palms fish and chip shop in Tennerief.
Speaker 3: It's the Bits, just an amazing fish and chip shop.
Speaker 3: And Lorraine who owns it there, the owner is an
Speaker 3: absolutely amazing lady. She's brilliant lover of tibets. If she's
Speaker 3: listening high Lorraine said, pop over and support them when
Speaker 3: you get back to Tennerief. My favorite one in the UK,
Speaker 3: i'd probably say the Beard Sailor in Pudsey and Leeds.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, one of my favorite ones years ago, now
Speaker 2: well not years ago but ten years plus used to
Speaker 2: be in near cambys was in Cambyshire place called Wisbeach,
Speaker 2: march Eaily, that area and it was just bang on.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: The chips were soft inside but crispy on the out.
Speaker 2: The battle was crispy and when you put your something
Speaker 2: vine and ground them, you could just smell the you know,
Speaker 2: the goodness out of them. But now you know, we
Speaker 2: go to Yarmouth, SKay, Blackpool, we live in Scotland. You
Speaker 2: just can't find a decent fish and chips anywhere, well,
Speaker 2: at least the place of weavers.
Speaker 3: It you need to come to Yorkshire, although I'm told
Speaker 3: that Scotland have some of the best as well. But
Speaker 3: I'm not from Yorkshire, but I do believe that Yorkshire
Speaker 3: is the best fish and chips. They're great. But the
Speaker 3: palms in ten I love it. And you've got the
Speaker 3: scenery as well. You've got the sea, you got the
Speaker 3: sea air, You've got the sunshine. Makes it all for
Speaker 3: the batter, doesn't it.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's the atmosphere, isn't it It is?
Speaker 3: It is? So moving on from fish and chips, What
Speaker 3: are the questions have you? I know you've got quite
Speaker 3: a few questions to your listeners have sent in there,
Speaker 3: so hit me with the questions.
Speaker 2: Yeah, then we'll do questions for well, I was going
Speaker 2: to ask you about the COVID nineteen passports and then
Speaker 2: move on to questions.
Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, let's go for it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, the reason I wanted tonight it was hoping
Speaker 2: that we could be celebrating some good news, but obviously
Speaker 2: Johnson tonight has said, you know it's in the air,
Speaker 2: but we're not going to confirm nothing until at least
Speaker 2: May seventeen. But your video the other day really some
Speaker 2: little in a nutshell, it's still going to be an
Speaker 2: unfair system where if you're in amber and it suddenly
Speaker 2: goes up to red or from green up to amber,
Speaker 2: you know people are just going to literally have to
Speaker 2: drop the suitcase, so pick up the suitcases and bunting
Speaker 2: the airport quickly, which is not very fair, is it.
Speaker 3: I don't think so.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: I mean it's funny because as I went out to
Speaker 3: film the that that episode and it was about the
Speaker 3: traffic light system sharing, my girlfriend said, you could be
Speaker 3: going to be an amber gambler basically. And I know
Speaker 3: the system is there to protect you in a way
Speaker 3: that if it's green when you go, it goes to
Speaker 3: amber first rather than going straight to red, but you know,
Speaker 3: you still could have a crossover where if you're there
Speaker 3: for two or three weeks, that you you've basically got
Speaker 3: a clamber to get back to the UK, So you
Speaker 3: could be left stranded because obviously we know the traffic
Speaker 3: lights changed as soon as you go through them, but
Speaker 3: it's going to be difficult. But at the same time,
Speaker 3: like I say, there is like at the end of
Speaker 3: the tunnel. Well, you know, the UK's very were advanced
Speaker 3: on the on the on the vaccine front, and there's
Speaker 3: a lot of countries that are you know, I don't
Speaker 3: think tenor e I don't know, but they get in there.
Speaker 3: I think in a few months by the let's look
Speaker 3: at next year. By next year, I think we're going
Speaker 3: to be back to some kind of normality because you know,
Speaker 3: the vaccine rollout is going to be a lot more advanced.
Speaker 3: So I think we're looking at it this way. A
Speaker 3: year ago we were we were nowhere near I like
Speaker 3: at the end of the tunnel. Now we get in there,
Speaker 3: so you know it's a positive we're on the way there.
Speaker 3: We're on the way now.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And I mean me personally, I was just thinking
Speaker 2: it would have been fair if they didn't do the
Speaker 2: traffic light system in one way, but then you kind
Speaker 2: of need both of it, both parts of the equation.
Speaker 2: You know, there's no good saying that if you've had
Speaker 2: your vaccine, or you've had a negative test, or you've
Speaker 2: had the antibodies you can travel because you need the
Speaker 2: other part of it. There's no good you going into
Speaker 2: a bad country a red because you're just going to
Speaker 2: bring the virus back. So I guess the only thing
Speaker 2: that will heal with that is time. So they might
Speaker 2: have a crazy system like that last year for the
Speaker 2: rest of this year, but then next year it will
Speaker 2: probably be a bit more clear.
Speaker 3: Like you said, I think next year it will be
Speaker 3: a lot clearer. And I think the problem, the problem
Speaker 3: or the issue that we had is a lot of
Speaker 3: us expected that you know, this year it was going
Speaker 3: to be the end of it, and I personally didn't.
Speaker 3: I think until the vaccine rollouts gone ahead. I think
Speaker 3: by the end of this year will be will be
Speaker 3: a lot further to the end of that tunnel. That's
Speaker 3: what I think next I think this year is going
Speaker 3: to be very difficult. If you're going to plan on
Speaker 3: going holiday this year, you've got to be prepared that
Speaker 3: it may change. You know that things may change while
Speaker 3: you're out there, whereas next year I think will be
Speaker 3: maybe not it's normal, but almost there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like I said last year, then I'll start asking
Speaker 2: these questions. We planned Vietnam and we're doing well. The
Speaker 2: backup plan was going anywhere. You can always go to
Speaker 2: tenor Reef, I said to myself, even though I've been
Speaker 2: to all the other islands before, but I've never been
Speaker 2: to tenner Reef. And I went to the North part
Speaker 2: as well. So we didn't have a backup plan, but
Speaker 2: in a way we did because we said, we don't
Speaker 2: matter where we go, we just go to Europe. Now
Speaker 2: this year, like a four, we actually planned to go.
Speaker 2: We've got some friends in Bali, so like a fore,
Speaker 2: we planned for August in Balley, but that weren't going
Speaker 2: to happen, so I thought, that's it. Let's do a
Speaker 2: winter holiday instead. So we're we're hoping for Christmas and
Speaker 2: New Year now in Turkey because they do lovely, cheap
Speaker 2: winter holidays, and if it don't happen, it'll be ten Reef.
Speaker 2: And if that don't happen, we just give up.
Speaker 3: Because my next series, I'm starting my next series in April,
Speaker 3: well as we're in April, but I'm doing the next
Speaker 3: series in the UK. And the reason being is, you know,
Speaker 3: there are loopholes now and I possibly could get over
Speaker 3: to Tenory jumping through loopholes because I'm doing it for work.
Speaker 3: But I figured a couple of reasons. I thought, lots
Speaker 3: of people are going to be holidaying in the UK.
Speaker 3: You're going to want to know fun things to do,
Speaker 3: places to go, cheap, places to eat, you know, because
Speaker 3: we want to we want a bargain when we go
Speaker 3: around or you do it, you do it for the orchshore,
Speaker 3: not TK, Sure, we want to. We want to bargain.
Speaker 3: And if you've got if you've got a family. So
Speaker 3: I'm going to be touring the UK for a couple
Speaker 3: of reasons, so that I can show people around. We've
Speaker 3: got a great We've got a wonderful country. We've got Scotland,
Speaker 3: you know, Scotland is such an amazing, amazing country within itself.
Speaker 3: And we've got whales, you know, We've got Northern Ireland,
Speaker 3: we've got England, Cornwall. So I want to travel the
Speaker 3: length of the rest of the UK showing people what
Speaker 3: we've got at home for the time being, and keep
Speaker 3: some of the keep some of the money in our
Speaker 3: own economy for the time being. And then once things
Speaker 3: get a little bit easier and things restrictions left, then
Speaker 3: I'll start traveling further afield. But I think also at
Speaker 3: the same time, it allows me to stay a little
Speaker 3: bit closer to my family who don't want to travel
Speaker 3: abroad at the moment.
Speaker 2: No, they're very sensible. I heard what you said. Families
Speaker 2: are different to couples. You know, we're just a couple,
Speaker 2: so we can take it or we can leave it,
Speaker 2: you know, but families you've got to be really careful
Speaker 2: with young children. Yeah, so the first question was actually
Speaker 2: a part of that thing you've just said, what places
Speaker 2: in the UK are going a visit? And to add
Speaker 2: on to that, if you're come into the Highlands in
Speaker 2: Verness North, there'll be a bit human fish and chips.
Speaker 3: Wait you're on, I will definitely take you up on
Speaker 3: that one. I've got your phone number, house, We've regiving
Speaker 3: you a call. Scotland is on the cards. Cornwall is
Speaker 3: a place that I've never been to, but I've got
Speaker 3: friends down there and it's a beautiful part of the country.
Speaker 3: Wales as well as a zip wire that goes one
Speaker 3: hundred miles an hour or something that thing. So I've
Speaker 3: got to do that. I'm going to be doing the
Speaker 3: capital where London, I'm going to be doing all the
Speaker 3: seaside resorts and Wales everywhere. I've got a list of
Speaker 3: places around the UK and also where Northern Ireland as well.
Speaker 3: So I'm going to be doing lots of different things,
Speaker 3: but I'm going to be trying to do things that
Speaker 3: are suitable for families and couples, and also I'm going
Speaker 3: to try and do it so that it's on a
Speaker 3: bit of a shoe drink, because a lot of people
Speaker 3: have the vision that you know, England's expensive and we
Speaker 3: always rip off Britain and you get a few negative comments.
Speaker 3: I've had more positive comments I have to say about
Speaker 3: traveling in the UK. Get a few negative comments there
Speaker 3: and I rip off Britain blah blah blah. So I
Speaker 3: want to show the places that where you can get
Speaker 3: a bargain, where you can go to around the UK
Speaker 3: and it doesn't have to cost you a fortune. Because
Speaker 3: I'm okay when I'm traveling around doing videos because I'm
Speaker 3: getting paid by YouTube for them, But when I travel
Speaker 3: around with my family, I have to work to a budget.
Speaker 3: We have to work for a budget, and I want
Speaker 3: to I want to show that for couple and families.
Speaker 3: So I think that's the way to go.
Speaker 2: If you do your research. A lot of websites out
Speaker 2: there doing exactly that. And if you've got time and
Speaker 2: doing central Scotland, I recommend the full kirk Will. It's
Speaker 2: basically like you're on a narrow boat and they lift
Speaker 2: you up high and then it's like a tour. You
Speaker 2: actually get lifted on the public now about and then
Speaker 2: lifted down again. The folk Will is quite cheap and
Speaker 2: families love that. Yeah, okay, next question, then, what's your
Speaker 2: favorite place so far you've been to? Oh, dear, I'll
Speaker 2: guess in your old blogging loads, in your blogging life,
Speaker 2: in my.
Speaker 3: O vlogging life. I mean, I obviously I love Tenerif.
Speaker 3: I film, you know, I filmed many things in Tennerief.
Speaker 3: I lived in Hoboken, New Jersey for twelve years, and
Speaker 3: I love That's on a few my blogs. I love it,
Speaker 3: I have to say, and I hope to go back
Speaker 3: one day if I can persuade the family to move there.
Speaker 3: I'd play Tenerif and the United States days.
Speaker 2: I don't know why somebody asked this, but it was
Speaker 2: the person at home that you missed the most? I mean,
Speaker 2: I'd miss them all.
Speaker 3: Who's the person at home that I missed the most?
Speaker 3: Blimey that's difficult because I can't really say one. I
Speaker 3: mean I've got, you know, three daughters and a son,
Speaker 3: and obviously Sarah my family. I missed my family when
Speaker 3: I went on my way my family.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I couldn't.
Speaker 3: I couldn't marry it down to one person.
Speaker 2: Onto food again, I mean probably fishing gips. No, it's not.
Speaker 2: What has been the most interesting of food you've ever tasted?
Speaker 3: Oh that's a good question. Actually the most fish eyes.
Speaker 3: But I didn't taste it. I got down your to
Speaker 3: taste it. I couldn't manage it, not at all. I
Speaker 3: was the most interesting food that I've ever seen? Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's fish eyes. Give I'd give that one a mess.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Is there anything that you when you travel with
Speaker 2: something that you know, the item that you're taken with
Speaker 2: you is I don't know why people ask this question.
Speaker 2: It's essentially you know, is this something you couldn't do about?
Speaker 2: I mean, I was just thinking you couldn't do about
Speaker 2: your canber? But uh my, I guess on home comfort? Yeah,
Speaker 2: on home comforts. I think that's what they meant on.
Speaker 3: My home comforts? Oh amadin extra, Yeah, I get a
Speaker 3: lot about aches. It's the only thing that stops me
Speaker 3: getting headache.
Speaker 2: And back on the what's the way just think you've seen.
Speaker 3: The weirdest thing I've seen? Oh BlimE me, that's a
Speaker 3: good question. The weirdest thing. I'm not really, do you
Speaker 3: know what I'm not really, I'm not really sure the
Speaker 3: weirdest thing I've seen. I'll come back to that one.
Speaker 3: I have to come back to that one. I don't know,
Speaker 3: I don't off the top of my head.
Speaker 2: Probably seeing yourself a bit hungover and ten for the
Speaker 2: next morning on videos.
Speaker 3: Probably probably, yeah, probably watching look at myself in the
Speaker 3: mirror in the morning.
Speaker 2: What's your top travel tip for people?
Speaker 3: My top travel tip travel light?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean on that subject, on that subject, we
Speaker 2: always seem to be you know, we've only learned recently
Speaker 2: in the last year, especially tenn of me flunders a lot.
Speaker 2: We used to take like a big suitcase, a little
Speaker 2: one each and okay, it's expensive anyway, which you know
Speaker 2: we're bunkers for doing it. But actually this time in
Speaker 2: turn of reads, we took a small suitcase and the bag,
Speaker 2: you know, and do you know what, obviously it wasn't
Speaker 2: no money at all, I'm right now. But also you
Speaker 2: don't really need that much, especially if you've got an
Speaker 2: apartment near launderette, and if you really did need something,
Speaker 2: you just buy it and take it home.
Speaker 3: Exactly. I have a small case and I have my
Speaker 3: backpack with my mac in and my cameras. Travel a
Speaker 3: light because you can take a massive suitcase and I
Speaker 3: guarantee you you won't wear off the stuff that's in it,
Speaker 3: so it's pointless. You're just carrying stuff around and making
Speaker 3: it more difficult. Just travel light. What people say to me,
Speaker 3: You've only took seven shirts with you. I've got a
Speaker 3: washing machine.
Speaker 2: So this is an interesting question. What would you do
Speaker 2: for work if you didn't do them what you do now?
Speaker 2: What would be the alternative job?
Speaker 3: I could say, I go back to being a graphic designer.
Speaker 3: I'm said I go back to being a graphic artist
Speaker 3: because I'm good at being a graphic designer. However, I
Speaker 3: always wanted to be a policeman after my dad, like
Speaker 3: my dad, but he talked to me out of that, right.
Speaker 2: I'm just skipping some of these because a lot of
Speaker 2: them are very similar. Okay, well just have to talk
Speaker 2: a bit more about than probably the Yeah, the UK
Speaker 2: was it all to start then when's're gonna kick off.
Speaker 3: As soon as we're allowed to travel, which I believe
Speaker 3: is the twelfth of April, so I think we're allowed
Speaker 3: to travel around then and do overnight stays. So I'm
Speaker 3: going to start doing the filming for it after the
Speaker 3: twelfth of April. And what I want to do is
Speaker 3: do less. At the moment, I've been uploading daily doing donuts,
Speaker 3: fish and chips and anything really because people have said, yeah,
Speaker 3: I just do the raw and cut videos. What I
Speaker 3: want to do is maybe do one or two a week,
Speaker 3: but do a little bit more of a quality footage
Speaker 3: and get some really good footage, some drone shots and
Speaker 3: exciting things, and spend a little bit more time editing it.
Speaker 3: So I'll probably just drop one or two videos a
Speaker 3: week from around the UK, but they'll be the content
Speaker 3: in it will be a little bit better at the
Speaker 3: moment because at the moment, I mean, how many fish
Speaker 3: and chips can I eat?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 3: Do they want me to? How many fishing ships do
Speaker 3: you want to watch me eat? So it's going to
Speaker 3: be a little bit better. I'm going to do like
Speaker 3: zip wires, I'm going to try and do balloon flights,
Speaker 3: diving again in this in this country as well, speedboats
Speaker 3: anything really I'm to a bungee jump in maybe doing
Speaker 3: all sorts of different things boat trips and anything that
Speaker 3: I can think of that something a little bit different,
Speaker 3: but also that people can do on their travels around
Speaker 3: the UK.
Speaker 2: And maybe if you could, you could do both if
Speaker 2: you wanted to, if you had the time, you could say, well,
Speaker 2: I'm doing two quality videos like you've just mentioned. And
Speaker 2: then maybe you said at a hotel you particularly like,
Speaker 2: you could review the hotel, you could review the caravan
Speaker 2: park or the the train you went on, you know,
Speaker 2: just as an added extra something like that. And that
Speaker 2: was all top of my head.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, yeah, that was a good idea. Like
Speaker 3: few you know, little ones in there as well. I'm
Speaker 3: trying to do a few train journeys as well.
Speaker 2: I have a.
Speaker 3: Secret passion of steam trains and train journeys because I
Speaker 3: sit watching.
Speaker 2: You know what the one is in Scotland and don't
Speaker 2: you well there's a small one in Avymore. I see
Speaker 2: every more steam when that goes up about ten miles
Speaker 2: and back again. And that's very nice, it is.
Speaker 3: I watched it on television last night, so I'm going
Speaker 3: to do a few train journeys as well, and also
Speaker 3: along the way of going around the UK, I'm going
Speaker 3: to be putting on my YouTube community page of where
Speaker 3: are we going and if there are any viewers of
Speaker 3: the channel that want to meet up and it is
Speaker 3: the neck of the Woods, they might be able to
Speaker 3: show me around and appear on the vog as well.
Speaker 3: I want to try and incorporate and you know, get
Speaker 3: people involved, get the views involved as well, so they
Speaker 3: could be on the vlog.
Speaker 2: Well you can if you come to the Highlands. The
Speaker 2: best steam railway in Scotland I think is the Jacobite
Speaker 2: which is from Fort William to Mallaig or Mallag as
Speaker 2: they call it, and it's about about twenty thirty mile
Speaker 2: run and it goes both ways for the round trip
Speaker 2: and it's absolute sensational and it stops at a via
Speaker 2: up that Harry Potter was filmed out and it's it's
Speaker 2: really good. I don't think that's that expensive either. So
Speaker 2: the Jacobite steam train Fort William, which if you're going
Speaker 2: to do the NC five hundred road trip to Inverness
Speaker 2: North and then round you would see all these places
Speaker 2: I've just mentioned anyway.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm going to do. Actually, I'm going to
Speaker 3: do the NC five hundred. Somebody mentioned that so and
Speaker 3: I'm exchanged my car so I couldn't do it.
Speaker 2: You would actually lee, you would actually come within a
Speaker 2: fish and chip and a beer for me by doing it,
Speaker 2: because I'm one hundred miles north at a place called
Speaker 2: Thursday and you have to come there that way because
Speaker 2: it's one of the main stopping points on the NC
Speaker 2: five hundred. Oh that's it.
Speaker 3: Then we're on for a beer and fish and chips
Speaker 3: along the way. Sounds good.
Speaker 2: Oh wait, do you want to plug your websites and that?
Speaker 2: And I said it'll be a thirty minute chat and
Speaker 2: I want again. Thanks to the listeners of wroting, I mean,
Speaker 2: I must admit I haven't read all them out, but
Speaker 2: because very similar, I think they just wanted to hear
Speaker 2: your voice.
Speaker 3: To be fair, they can see me. I'm going to
Speaker 3: be traveling around the UK. So as I'm traveling around
Speaker 3: the UK, I will be letting people now on my
Speaker 3: YouTube community page where I'm going prior so if if
Speaker 3: they know, because if I'm going to visit a place
Speaker 3: and they live there, and they want to be on
Speaker 3: the vlog. They can show me around the place. They'll
Speaker 3: make the video, make the blog a lot easier and
Speaker 3: also a lot more interesting because they'll know things about
Speaker 3: where they live more so than I will do as well.
Speaker 3: So I should be letting people know where I'm going
Speaker 3: and I can meet her along the way, and I
Speaker 3: can plug on my website. I mean, you can find
Speaker 3: me on YouTube under the MacMaster. Mac Master is all
Speaker 3: one word n A C N A S T e R.
Speaker 3: Or you can go to I think it's MacMaster dot CA.
Speaker 3: That you care, I think it isn't there, but look,
Speaker 3: just look up the mac Master. Look up the mac
Speaker 3: Master on YouTube YouTube dot com, forward slash the MacMaster
Speaker 3: and hit the subscribe button and you can watch me
Speaker 3: traveling around.
Speaker 2: Also, just before we go, a tip, if you had
Speaker 2: a couple of trusted people, they could actually be your
Speaker 2: social media admin. Where the idea being, because I've done
Speaker 2: this before for other people. Because you're traveling in different places,
Speaker 2: they could be on the computer a few hours a
Speaker 2: day trying. It's a bit like you know, the celebrities
Speaker 2: coming to town. I know you're not quite like that,
Speaker 2: but it sort of complements what you're doing. People know
Speaker 2: you're coming, not just by getting them to come to
Speaker 2: your page. You need other people, I think, to help you,
Speaker 2: and it would also then help them in the content
Speaker 2: that you provide. But yeah, who's got a few hours
Speaker 2: to spare every day for free? Not many, but just
Speaker 2: an idea.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a good idea. It's a good idea to
Speaker 3: be honest. I can't wait to travel the UK. We
Speaker 3: live in such a wonderful, beautiful country and I want to.
Speaker 3: I really do want to keep the economy going here
Speaker 3: in the UK and put some money back into our
Speaker 3: own economy as well. I know we're all desperate to
Speaker 3: go abroad and get some sunshine, but you know, I
Speaker 3: think we've got a good summer coming up, got some
Speaker 3: good weather coming up, and some great places to see,
Speaker 3: and I want to. I want to show people the
Speaker 3: beauty of our own country and try and keep it
Speaker 3: on a shoe string, like I say, because you know,
Speaker 3: we don't want to be spending as fortune as we
Speaker 3: go around, especially if we've got families like myself. So
Speaker 3: I'm going to try and do it on a shoe string,
Speaker 3: the UK on a shoe string.
Speaker 2: Well at the moment, the caravan parks in the country
Speaker 2: and the legs of the premier inn and travel large
Speaker 2: twenty five pounds a night. You can't beat that. Scotland's
Speaker 2: opening on the twenty six of April, the same as England,
Speaker 2: so in fact Scotland's hairdressers are open earlier. But I
Speaker 2: think by the end of April everywhere in Scotland, England,
Speaker 2: Ireland and Wales it will be open for you Lee.
Speaker 3: They were. I think it'll be open for business. The
Speaker 3: UK is open for business, and I want to if
Speaker 3: anyone's got any ideas. I mean, I've had lots of
Speaker 3: ideas I've been sent to me as well. One of
Speaker 3: them I think that people want me to do things
Speaker 3: that are a bit risky, and one of somebody sent
Speaker 3: me the idea of a zip wire in Wales somewhere,
Speaker 3: and so I want to do I'm going to do that.
Speaker 3: I think it's one hundred mile an hour and it's
Speaker 3: so many feet up and if I can get it
Speaker 3: on camera and get the GoPro on, I'd love to
Speaker 3: do it. And while to be scared a little bit
Speaker 3: and I'll probably be screaming, but it makes for good viewing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and also maybe you could team up with It's
Speaker 2: called theme Park Worldwide. He's a young guy. He's got
Speaker 2: a good radio voice, and he may take you on
Speaker 2: a few roller coasters around the country because he's doing
Speaker 2: exactly what you're doing, but in a roller coaster kind
Speaker 2: of way. Just to show people that, yeah, just to
Speaker 2: show the people in the UK. And I'm just thinking
Speaker 2: what his name was. He's got two hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: two thousand subscribers, so.
Speaker 3: Wow, he's doing good. He's doing good.
Speaker 2: I'll send you the link like most people could, you know,
Speaker 2: we'll send you the link just in case it may
Speaker 2: be something you're interested in. Won't bother you with big emails,
Speaker 2: but I'll put about twenty or thirty ideas you know,
Speaker 2: people or places in Scotland and yeah, oh.
Speaker 3: Wait a bit at Scotland to be honest, beautiful, beautiful place.
Speaker 3: So long as I don't have to listen to any bagpipe, bagpipes.
Speaker 3: That's my pet hate is bagpipes. I can't do.
Speaker 2: Well. The tradition for one night is probably to go
Speaker 2: to one of these pubs, have some tweet listen to
Speaker 2: the bagpipe and the kailey. But I mean that doesn't
Speaker 2: mean you have to. But it is a tradition. And
Speaker 2: I'm not saying you have to wear the kilt. You
Speaker 2: don't have to wear the kilt.
Speaker 3: Maybe I should wear a kilt. It would make for
Speaker 3: more fun on the video.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true. That's another another idea. Hang, and I've
Speaker 2: got somebody in chats now asking the question, can you
Speaker 2: ask the master if you can get a ride in
Speaker 2: your Porsche? Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it won't be the it won't be the same
Speaker 3: Porsche though. That Porsche is going back. It's it seems
Speaker 3: to be getting lower, although I think it's me that's
Speaker 3: getting older. So if that one's going back, and I've
Speaker 3: got a one with a different one, you'll see on
Speaker 3: the vlog which one is. I think it's a different
Speaker 3: it's a what do you call it?
Speaker 2: An s UV?
Speaker 3: Come in so I can travel the country a little
Speaker 3: bit easier and get out of it easier as well.
Speaker 3: But yeah, by all means I will meet it with them.
Speaker 2: This guy's a cow enthusiasts.
Speaker 3: So, oh, I know which one is. It's the Porsche
Speaker 3: McCann Turbo. So I've ordered that one. It's the leases
Speaker 3: upon this one. So and I've got a more seats
Speaker 3: in it to put my children. Two seats doesn't really
Speaker 3: work when you've got two children and a girlfriend. Doesn't
Speaker 3: doesn't work. I didn't do the maths properly.
Speaker 2: Well. When you come up here, at least five or
Speaker 2: six people want to meet you in this little town
Speaker 2: so or the Besley And thanks for coming on Horizon
Speaker 2: talk with you tonight.
Speaker 3: Thank you for having me. And can I just say
Speaker 3: to everybody that watches me, I want to say big hello,
Speaker 3: thank you for thank you for listening to me, thank
Speaker 3: you for watching. And when I'm around about the UK,
Speaker 3: please keep an eye out where I am and come.
Speaker 2: Say hi, and remember let's go, let's.
Speaker 3: Go, stay safe, stay positive, and I'll see you guys
Speaker 3: in the next one. All right, Bye bye
Speaker 2: Tall Bye bye bye, take care bye