Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles - Hi, we're Joel and Lia. - And welcome back to our channel. This video is all about how we've sort of let our subscribers plan our Texas trip. (upbeat vocal music) - Basically, this is what happened. We'd been planning during the day a few days ago that we wanted to go to Texas. We'd been thinking about it a while. We were looking at flights, and we filmed a video, and mentioned, "Do you know what? "We're about 95% sure we're gonna go to Texas." - Then we put that video online, and forgot about it, and then, later that day, maybe an hour or two later, we just booked the flights to Texas. Then we were like, "Oh, we should probably let them know "that we actually did that." - We actually did do it. We should've just booked it there and then. - Then made the video. - Then made the video, but we didn't. This, I guess, is the official announcement, we are going to Texas. - We're going to Texas. Austin, Texas. - Austin, Texas from the 24th of Jan. - 'Til the 31st of Jan, but we don't land back in the UK until the first of Feb. - The first of Feb, yeah. - Fine, those are our dates, and we've kind of been sent loads of ideas of places to go, things we must see, things we must do, and we wanted to, firstly, thank everyone for their amazing emails, and offers of places to stay. People have offered us their homes. It's been crazy. - It's been incredible, the amount-- Texas is our second most-viewed state, first California, and then Texas right behind it, so we knew lots of you guys are from Texas, but the amount of messages, YouTube comments, Instagram DMs, Twitter messages, emails. - It's been pretty amazing. - List of things to do. - Yeah, and we kind of feel a little bit overwhelmed by it, but we are really, really grateful for all of the suggestions, and we're trying to read through everything, but we're also trying to plan the trip without, say, because we haven't got a car, we're probably not gonna get a car, so we're just making our way through them, and I guess opening up to you guys about it because you guys know best, for helping us plan. - Not only are some of you guys from there or from Texas, but you're used to the American culture or way of life, but also, this trip is for you guys. We're not just going to have a nice holiday in Texas. We're going to create videos that, hopefully, you guys will enjoy, so we want you guys to choose what we do, because we want you to watch the videos. - Yeah, so there's a few things that we thought that would work really well. One thing we thought would be great would be to go to a rodeo. I think someone said that there's definitely one in San Antonio on the weekend that we're there. The weekend is the last weekend of January, so if anyone knows of one in the last weekend of January that we can go to, that we can use trains, and find a way to a rodeo. One thing we want to do is sort of dress up day where we go and-- - Love that. - Get some traditional clothing on. - Be Texas-ified. - Texas-ified, and film all of that. These are things we want to check off. We also mentioned, someone sent an email about learning how to fire a gun. Uh-oh, makeup or food? - Lipstick, yeah. - Oh, the whole time? - Yeah, just tiny on the tip, so they wouldn't have noticed. - Okay. - What are friends for? - What are friends for? - The gun firing. - The gun firing. We want to go and fire guns at a gun range. (Lia laughs) - It sounds so weird saying that, 'cause it's not something we've done here. - 'Cause guns trigger us. You know that guns trigger Brits. We're not a fan of guns, but we want to give it a go, and you guys have told us that we should go to a gun firing range, so we're gonna go (imitates gun) Bang, bang. - Bang, bang. - Bang. - Bang. - Pow, pow. - I'm from Texas, yeah. That's gonna be really fun, so we need some advice on where the gun ranges are. Is it quite popular? Obviously, we don't have gun firing ranges in the UK, so I'm like, "There's probably one "in the entire of America," but there's probably loads. Is there loads? I don't know, where do we go? - The only thing you can do over here is clay pigeon shooting, and that's boring. - It's, like, little pellets, really. - Yeah, firing at little bits of clay. - Yeah, and that's it. - It's really boring. - Really boring. I'm not good at it, and it's a proper massive gun that you put on your shoulder. You go (imitates gun) and it hurts your shoulder. It'd be nice to have a handgun. You're just like (imitates gun) - Is that what we're gonna learn with? - Yeah. - Oh, okay, yeah, let's do it. - Like a spy, and we shoot people, but on a paper. - Oh, that's gonna be amazing, like in the films. - Yeah, and we'll probably wear the earphones and the glasses. - Yeah, we want to film all of that. - Also, one thing that I haven't said, but I really want to go to something called a rage room. - What's that? - It's things that, I think, started in America, which is actually a really good form of therapy, I've heard, for people with anger issues. Sorry, don't know why I'm laughing. It's basically a room filled with old furniture like a chair, loads of plates, a television, and in there, there's a golf club, there's a baseball bat, and you just go in there, and you start whacking and smashing things up. - You can do that on your own, Joel. (Joel laughs) - I really want to do it, not that I'm an angry person, but I just want to smash a TV. - You've definitely got, sorry, that's so you. - But it's so funny. - That is so the inner Joel that no one sees 'cause he's so polite, but you can go and smash up that room. I'll film it from a door. Just don't get anything near me. I don't like chaos. - You don't like chaos. You'd love it. You say that your daydream is that, one day, to beat someone up, or at least be in a film where you-- - Beat someone up? - That's what your dream is, to be like a spy that's kicking ass and stuff like that. - Yeah, I mean, I'd hate to actually hurt someone or anything, but I do want to be a spy ninja in a film that's extremely, basically like female Jackie Chan. It would be the dream. - Then this is your chance to do it in a rage room and not hurt anyone. - I don't want to smash up plates, or do riot club. - But you're not hurting anyone. - It's more about me being, like, really tactile and really, like (breathes) Karate vibes, that's more, I'd like to be able to be that. - Anyway, do they have rage rooms in Texas, in Austin? 'Cause I want to do that. Also, we probably won't end up doing it because we'll wuss out, but we thought about going camping. - No, we're not doing that. - You said yeah. - No, we said that we're not gonna go unless it's a camp, like an actual-- - Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, are there campsites in and around Austin? Are there safe places to camp? 'Cause it would be really cool, Joel and Lia go camping, trying to put up a tent, trying to make a campfire. It would be really funny. - That would be funny. (Joel laughs) What's he like? (both laugh) What are we looking for, Joel? What do we need help with? We basically need help with an agenda, so almost, like, day by day. Obviously, lots of this needs to be stuff that we can film. If anyone knows anyone that's able to help us get a few of these activities booked in the diary, that would be really helpful. - Are there traditional Texan activities? I don't know, if you come to London, you can do something where you go over the O2. The O2's a massive dome arena, and you can walk over the top of it, or there's just things that you can do, or, like, the London Eye, going around that huge-- Are there classic things to do in Austin that's like, "Oh, you've gotta do this," that's an experience that we can film? - Exactly, that's the questions we have, guys. We don't want it to just be wasted, 'cause we're only there for a short amount of time. Obviously, we'll probably go back at some point. We don't know when, but there's a few things that we need to tick off the list. - Some people said about a store HEB. I don't know if you just call it HEB, or if you just called it H-E-B. People have been like, "You've got to go there "and film your experience," so we've got some idea of stores that we want to go to. What were some other ideas? We wanted to dress up, we wanted to go to a rodeo, we thought about potentially camping. Food is obviously really good. - Food and drink, I think that would be-- - Like Tex Mex. People say you go to San Antonio for genuine, really good food, and margaritas, and stuff. - Okay, we can make that happen, but that feels far away from where we are. We can double that up with something when we go on a day trip one day. See, all of this? This is my least favorite part of any holiday, is the planning. - Yeah, I don't like the planning. That's why beach holidays are really easy, 'cause you're just like, "What am I gonna do? "Sunbathe, read." - Yeah, and then I'm gonna go upstairs, get showered, get ready, and go for dinner somewhere. - But this isn't a holiday. It's fun. - It's kind of a fun thing, but we're going there to get as much content as possible to release the Texas series on our channel, so it'll be like, Texas video, Texas video. If that's not what you're interested in, just mute the channel for a bit. - Yeah, it's fine. - It's fine. - But we do want to make our way around. - And then we'll do the next thing. - Yeah, we'll keep going 'round. We've got plans, we've got potential work plans in both Florida and California hopefully coming up, so there might be similar things we do there. - What months are they? - I think March and April. - Right, okay. - I think Florida in March, and California in April, I think, but obviously, we want to go to other states as well. We would like to go to middle America. I don't know what that is, but I've heard a lot about it. I think it's Wisconsin, Minnesota, Wyoming. - We did accent-- No, what did we do? We chatted about that before. Yeah, we're ready to explore that. - We'd like to, but yeah, so we've got grand plans, lots of plans. - But we need some help, so if anyone's able to help, that would be amazing. - Yeah, in fact, those of you that have already emailed us, we will get back to you, and we will be, not just email, but commented and sent us messages, we will get back to you. If we don't get back to you, we have read it, and we're taking it into consideration. (Lia mumbles) (both mumble) (Lia mumbles) - Really appreciate it when people are like, "I guess you probably think I'm probably a stranger," but then they send their LinkedIn page, and it's really sweet 'cause you're like, I believe you, that you're a real person. I believe that you're one of the legends, and you're not some crazy person that wants to hurt us. A few people asking about meet and greet, which is, I guess, another story. We've not made a decision on that. Obviously, the main purpose of going there is to film videos, so we don't really want to do a whole day of meet and greet, but I'm sure we'll probably see people there. We're gonna be going 'round. - Definitely, I'm sure we'll bump into people, and we might organize something small, but we'll just work it out. Because, just to be completely transparent, it's just security issues. We've got both of our parents saying to us, "Don't tell anyone where you're going. "Don't reveal your location. "Don't meet up with strangers." We're trying to be like, "No," but we feel really close to you guys, but then, on the other hand, we have to remember that anyone could be watching this video, as we know from hate mail, guys. - Not everyone in the world is a nice person, obviously. 90% of the people that watch these are real, honest, genuine people, but there are probably people that don't like us, so it's a bit of a risk to say we're gonna be in this place at this time to do a meet and greet. At the moment, without any security, our management aren't coming, we're just coming on our own, it's a bit risky, so if there was a way that that could be organized in a safe way, and if enough people were interested-- Obviously, we wouldn't do it if no one was to come. If enough people were interested, then we would organize some sort of ticketed event, but yeah, that's kind of where we're at at the moment. If anyone's got any genius ideas-- - Yeah, for all of us to stay safe, 'cause it's not just us, but if lots of people did turn up, we'd then probably get in trouble with the council or the police, to be like, "You can't do this here." It's safety for us, but also safety for everyone who potentially might turn up. Yeah, like Lia said, if any of you have got any solutions to that, let us know, 'cause we're still trying to work that out. Hopefully, we will just bump into lots of you downtown. I love saying downtown. - Downtown. - We don't have that word in the UK. Downtown London, we don't, we just say central London. - I know, but in the Midlands, we'd be like, "Where have you been? "Oh, you've been down town." - Yeah, but don't you say that, "Oh, I've been down town," but they call it downtown. - Yeah, we don't say that. - We don't say downtown. - I love that then. Downtown. - Downtown. - Downtown Austin. - I was in downtown Birmingham. (both laugh) I was in downtown Coventry. - Yeah, yeah. That's kind of it, really. We're going really, really soon, so we're keen to get this itinerary put together A.S.A.P. as money-efficiently as possible, is that a word? - Yes. - Basically, just not super, super expensive activities. I'm sure we can find a way. There's always a way, isn't there? - Where there's a will-- - [Both] There's a way. - Where there's a Joel and Lia-- - [Both] There's a way. - Also, another thing, because we want to make the most of our time out there, and to reach more wonderful people of Texas or Austin, we would love to do a radio show or something, like we did with Preston and Steve from Philadelphia. - In their Philadelphia radio show. - Do you guys know, from Austin, Texas, or even if you're not, do you know of any local radio stations that are based there, or anyone we could reach out to to be like, "Hey, we'd love to come "and chat about our YouTube channel"? - Yeah, we could do a little collab like what we did with Preston and Steve. If anyone's not aware of that, we'll link it down below. It was just a really great way of us cross-promoting our audiences with theirs, so that's something, we'd be up for doing a little bit of PR stuff if there's any going. - Yeah, so let us know. We just thought you guys are the best people to ask. That's why this video is happening. - Questions for Texas done. (both laugh) If you like this video, guys, please subscribe. I'm sure this is probably just for the loyal people watching, really. - I'm sure it is. Subscribe, we post videos-- - [Both] Thrice weekly. - If you're new here, we're Joel and Lia. We like to make videos. Go and watch something more put together. - Yeah, go do that. - Go and do that. - We'll see you soon. I can't believe we're going to Texas in, like, two and a bit weeks. - Oh my god. We need to choose our seat number. - Oh, yeah, have they sent us a link yet? - Not sure. - They need to. I have to have an aisle seat. - He needs that, he needs to sit in the aisle. - I will go mental if I don't. I get claustrophobic. - Yeah, well, it's a real thing. I shouldn't eye-roll. - You're full of eye rolls today. - I shouldn't eye-roll. It's just like, yeah, you need your space, don't you? - Yeah, people that don't get claustrophobic don't understand, but I can't sit in the middle seat. The middle seat is the worst. The window seat is not as bad because you've got a window, and you can see outside, but I have to be on the aisle seat. - I don't know if I'm claustrophobic. I'm just, if I'm in the middle, I'm like, "Oh, this sucks," but I'm not, like, "I'm a celeb, get me out of here." - I'm not, I just, literally, my heart rate starts beating faster, I start sweating, and I literally start having a panic attack, so I can't do it. - We'll get you in the aisle. - Yeah, I need to be in the aisle. - We'll get you in the aisle. If we get allocated, and it's, like, window, middle, you'll obviously have the window then. - Yeah, I'd probably prefer the window 'cause you can see out. - Yeah, of course. You can have the window, and you can face that way. - I can do a bit of a swap, and then, as soon as I start shaking, then I know I need to swap. - No, no, you can just stay by the window without the shakes. - There'd better be TVs this time. - No, probably won't be, budget airline. - No it's not, it's American Airline, British Airways. - BA. - [Both] BA. - I think it's BA fulfilled by American Airlines, I think. - There we go. - There'll be TV screens. Fantastic. - Fantastic. - Cheers. - Cheers to that. - Clink. - Clink. (Joel laughs) - Cheers. - See you soon, guys. - Bye. - Bye-bye. - Delicious.
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