(peaceful music)
- Shh, Matty's about to do his intro.
- Shh.
- What should I say?
- Weren't you trying to make this a peaceful intro?
Matty's like, I'm gonna make this a really peaceful intro
and this guy starts his generator.
- Lawnmower.
- [Man With Long hair] There's two of them now.
Two of them. - Alright, perfect.
Let's go.
- That's actually the best thing that's ever happened.
Welcome to the vlog.
(chill music)
Hot air balloons.
It's gonna be great.
Sunset, falcons, and colors.
So excited.
Hard to do that while vlogging, not gonna lie.
(flame shooting)
- We're up.
Wow.
- Dude, that lifts up a lot faster
than I thought it would. - Me too.
- You're just on the ground.
You're on the ground then you're not.
You don't even know.
You guys ever heard of a W Tuber named Andreas Hem?
Oh, fancy seeing you here.
- Wow, wow.
- He's a great vlogger.
- One vlog each year.
- But they're great vlogs every year.
Do you think this is a risky position for my camera?
- We're just chilling-- - No, one-handed.
One handing a RED over the edge of a hot air balloon.
Dude look at this view.
Look at it.
- It's crazy.
(flame shooting)
- That makes it fun for vlogging.
Mind you, it's very needed so.
They kinda keep us up in the air, so I can deal with it.
- Falcons are one of the fastest creatures on the planet.
The peregrine falcon, which is the fastest creature
on the planet, has been recorded stooping
at 389 (flame shooting).
With her, she's a big girl so a little more drag.
The whole idea is they get to a great height,
a kilometer, two kilometers above the ground
which is about 6,000 foot,
and then from there they fold up their wings and they dive
and they also use a big of G forces.
They don't just fall towards the ground,
they fly towards the ground.
- It's a fast bird.
(flame shooting)
Getting tired of that.
(upbeat music)
It's very, very bright out.
That sun is fully up.
What'd you say?
- I said it's not-- (flame shooting)
it's not the rainy season. (flame shooting)
- It's so hard to vlog.
- [Hot Air Balloon Pilot] Alright guys,
please be careful landing.
Don't use it in flight-- - Can I just watch your vlog.
I can't see.
- [Man With Long Hair] Alright man, get out, get out.
- Alright, alright. - Go, go, go.
- Hold your horses.
- Alright, we can get out of here now.
That was a fun little experience.
Good to have two feet back on the ground.
- Yeah, it feels good. - Always feels good, right?
- Yeah. - What did you think?
- Almost dropped my RED camera.
- [Man With Long Hair] Almost.
- That was amazing.
- Okay, I am back at the hotel.
That was a really long car ride all the way back here.
I didn't feel like filming the whole thing
because most of the people in the car were sleeping.
And then we just got breakfast and now we have to pack.
(chill music)
We have to pack because we are headed three hours,
three hours in the car right now
to somewhere in Abu Dhabi where the dunes are supposed to be
just mammoth, massive,
and we're gonna go ride quads.
That's a busy day.
You're up at four, you're in a hot air balloon for sunrise,
you have breakfast, you drive all the way back here,
you pack, three hours to dunes to ride quads,
and then I think I'm just gonna fall asleep
for the rest of time.
(chill music)
I'm not a real big fan of long car rides
because I don't sleep very well in cars.
It's just like it's three hours of me sitting there
looking out the window, just like.
I like to do backseat B roll, you guys know that.
And I have a good time doing it
but, I mean, three hours of backseat B roll
would just be no fun for me
and it would be no fun for you
after like a good 30 seconds of watching that.
I think I might just try to sleep
because I don't know, what else is there to really do?
(chill music)
Also, the amount of sand on all of this stuff,
like all through the weather seal here.
I'm a little worried about all of my equipment.
I think I'm gonna have to take it back
and get it properly cleaned, like in the lab cleaned,
when I get home because every time
you put the back cap on and you just twist,
you can hear sand, you can hear the sand grinding
and it's cringey and it's awful.
(chill music)
I also had to switch to my backup pair of sunglasses
because I lost mine in the dunes yesterday.
So that makes both Matty losing his in the Persian Gulf,
isn't that true?
- [Matty] Yep.
- And me losing mine in the dunes
so I'm on to my backup pair.
So is Matty.
Thank you.
- It's three hours?
- [Man With Long Hair] This is home for three hours.
- Is that how long it is?
- [Man With Long Hair] Is it actually three hours?
- Wow.
- Sleep. - Get wrecked.
How long is the drive?
- [Driver] Three hours.
- Three hours.
Bummer.
- Sometimes it hurts to get the good stuff.
- Wisdom.
Wisdom.
Backseat B roll for three hours, here we go.
This is gonna be a long vlog.
(chill music)
Well, that was a three hour drive, done.
Where are we going?
So this is the hotel we're staying at.
It's this crazy, crazy just resort
in the middle of the desert.
- A good hour of the three hours was getting
from like the main road to here.
- This it?
Oh, down this little corridor.
That's fun.
What is this?
How is this even a thing?
Is that a room for coffee?
It's a coffee room.
Okay, hang on.
Before we go any further we need to do the B roll tour.
Let's roll it.
(chill music)
Look where we are.
- [Holiday] I wish I could give you
a scale of that dune.
- Yeah, it looks way bigger in real life.
Should we go find Matty's room?
Matty.
Matty's room is somewhere here.
Dude, this place is massive.
You ready to go ride quad bikes?
- I think.
- [Man With Long Hair] Quad bikes?
- Yeah, please.
- Quad bikes, I sold my quad bike
so this is like a reunion in the desert.
I'm pumped for this.
I don't think people fully understand
the scale of these things.
- That's the biggest pile of sand
I've ever seen in my life.
- [Man With Long Hair] Yeah, same.
Yo.
Here we are. - I'm ready.
- Holiday grew up in the desert.
Kind of, that's the desert.
Yeah, you grew up in the desert doing this stuff.
What are you doing, man?
- Just warming it up.
- Getting your workout on? - Just warming it up.
- [Man With Long Hair] What are you doing?
- You gotta know your bike before you get in there.
- So here's the plan.
Andreas is out here filming a project
for Epidemic Sound.
And the project includes Matty and myself as the subjects.
So he's down here in the dirt
with his RED camera just being a beast.
If you guys haven't seen his stuff,
I'll link it below.
He's absolutely incredible.
That'll be fun, looking forward to shooting with him.
That should be good.
You got this Matty.
Kick that sand.
Just kick the sand, Matty.
There that was a nice one.
I bet that looks money on this thing.
(peaceful guitar music)
♪ This is the hour ♪
♪ The darkest place ♪
♪ Dante's Inferno ♪
♪ The Devil's maze ♪
Alright, it's super windy out here.
I'm gonna pack this down and get the GoPro out.
(engines revving)
(upbeat electronic music)
That was actually,
that was terrifying quad riding.
Those dunes, did you see some of the inclines?
- He got fully, fully stuck. - I got fully stuck.
Here's a photo of how deep my wheel was.
It was like fully sank.
The guy had to like, he had to get it out for me
'cause I didn't trust myself going full back down the dune.
That was kinda scary.
- There was a few times where I was like,
oh, I might flip this right now.
I might die. - I saw both of you
go all four off.
Boom.
- Dude, you launched on one of these dunes
coming around the corner, just, boom.
Straight off.
Wow, like, I have never ridden a quad before.
Like the quad I had was like flat ground on the lake.
That's just not even fun.
That was real quad riding. - We went down this
right here, this spot.
- [Man With Long Hair] Yeah, we went straight down that.
Insane.
Alright, drone shots?
- Drone shots, get over there.
- I'll run back.
I swear, I don't go running, I don't go to the gym
but I do do a lot of exercise
in the weirdest places.
In the weirdest wardrobe.
Alright let's get this ridge.
Alright, there we are folks.
At the very top.
How is that for a view.
What?
(chill music)
Alright, and Matty just crashed his drone
so let's see if it's okay.
Alright I guess it's not that broken,
he's got it back up in the air.
We'll get the story after, let's continue the drone shots.
(chill music)
- Thank you. - You're welcome.
- It's a little sandy but uh--
- [Man With Long Hair] What happened?
- So, full send straight into the door.
- [Man With Long Hair] Just send it.
- Just gonna send it. (laughing)
I think the wind took it.
I saw it last second break
but it kinda like bounced off
and had a hard land into the sand.
- I just heard it go like,
I was just standing up there enjoying the view
and bam!
Bam!
Look over, drone down.
How's the door?
- Fine.
- [Man With Long Hair] What do you think?
- Epic.
- [Man With Long Hair] Look pretty great, eh?
- So beautiful. - You guys are pretty awesome
at organizing things to do.
Thank you.
- Boom.
- Oh I need to take a photo of this.
Please hold.
Hey Holiday, if you back flip off this dune
I'll give you 20 Canadian dollars.
You can do it.
- I can't even get off-- - I believe in you.
You're from Utah, you can do it.
There you go, perfect.
Send it.
Let's go man, full mob.
- Front flip or back flip?
- Let's go Utah. (intense music)
Look at that perfect angle.
Dude that was impressive.
I mean it was no Sam Kolder
but it was impressive.
- Get oughta here.
- [Man With Long Hair] It was pretty good, right?
Come on.
For a dude from Utah
just huckin' it off a ridge.
It was like a C plus.
A C plus. - I'll take it.
I didn't think I was gonna do it so I'm happy.
- [Man With Long Hair] Do we gotta go now?
- Let's find our way back, yes.
- [Man With Long Hair] How long until it's pitch dark,
like pitch black? - Another 20 minutes.
- Well, we better go.
(chill music)