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- Welcome to Lofoten, Norway.
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♪ We were never meant to be ♪
♪ So we act as if we just don't care ♪
♪ And oh, we were never meant to see ♪
♪ That we're running right up there ♪
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So yesterday, I traveled from Toronto to Copenhagen
to Oslo, and then we flew from there to Norwich,
and then we drove another like four hours, five hours.
Took a little bit longer because
we're taking photos and stuff like that.
Super long travel day, but then we ended up here in Bolstad.
We're sitting at this cool place
called the (speaks in foreign language),
I think that's how you say it, I'm not sure.
It even comes with a viking ship.
True vikings over here.
We got here at, like, 1:00 a.m.,
we ate some food, and instead of being normal humans
and just going to bed at 1:00 a.m., we thought,
"Hey, why don't we go for a sunset-sunrise hike mission,"
because, if you don't know, at this time of year here,
the sun doesn't really go away.
It kind of just, like, dips down for a second
and comes right back up, that's why I say sunset-sunrise
because it literally sets and then rises again
like pretty much right after.
So this was our mission last night,
and you can judge for yourself
whether it was worth it or not.
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It is currently 1:46, I don't know if you can see that.
It is 1:46 a.m., I have traveled all day long,
I don't even know how many hours now, a long time,
and it's, actually, I think 24 hours now,
and you know, we just had some
midnight evening 1:00 a.m. dinner,
and we decided why not go on a hike, a little mission,
a little sunset-sunrise mission?
I don't know which this is, but mission.
Marcus, it's good to see you, man.
- Good to see you, too.
- [Narrator] Um, you're leading the mission.
- I am, but I'm regretting now (laughs)
because the trail ends here, we're going up there.
- [Narrator] How do we get up there?
- Straight line.
- [Narrator] Straight line.
Is that the best course of action?
- That's Norwegian style.
- Man, I haven't seen you since
Epidemic Sound trip right, Sweden?
- Yeah, when was that, January or something?
- I feel like it's been a while,
but it also doesn't feel like it was that long ago.
- That's true, actually, I agree.
- The funny thing is, as soon as that trip ended,
we've been talking about we should do a trip together.
- Yeah, a new one, yeah, for sure.
- And now we're finally doing one.
- We are. - So it's a mission trip.
- Yep, in Norway. - Lofoten, heck yeah.
- Heck yeah.
- If you don't know what Epidemic Sound is,
it's the music licensing company that I used
and I've done some stuff with, they're really great.
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This way or that way, which way?
- Straight.
- These guys are saying...
You keep saying straight,
but straight could be this way or that way.
- Straight that way.
- [Narrator] Straight, okay, all right, thank you.
I'm also realizing I don't think
I've been working out enough.
This mission just started, and I'm already out of breath.
Or maybe it's just my heavy pack here.
I feel like the loads aren't quite
evenly distributed right now.
I've got this massive pack, and look at my brother.
He's got nothing, just a camera.
Unfair, unfair.
Also, how do you guys like my jimmy-rig
backpack drawn holder thingamabob?
Marcus, show them my backpack thing.
I used the charging cord to stick it on there.
- [Marcus] Best design I've ever seen.
- It works great.
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- [Brother] My brother's convinced
he could sleep on this moss-covered rock.
- It's so soft, it's like a bed.
- [Brother] You do not look comfortable at all. (laughs)
- No, I know, it's actually nice, come try it.
- [Brother] Marcus, you up for it?
- I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine.
- Give it a try, I swear,
it feels like you're on a-- (yells)
(group laughing)
(laughs) That was bad.
- [Brother] Caught on camera. (laughs)
- First little old look at a view.
We're not even close to being done,
but this is why Norway's so great,
it's pretty much 24 hours, seven sunlight.
Yeah, shoot any time of day.
Also, we found the path.
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I think we're there, I think we made it.
This has to be the peak, this has to be the view.
It's so close, so close.
You guys ready for the views?
- Yeah.
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- So we made it, after what was supposed to be
maybe like a half an hour hike,
was clearly longer, maybe an hour,
but totally worth it, totally worth it.
And also I love that everybody's kind of doing their thing,
Marcus is flying a drone,
Kim and (mumbles) are taking photos and video,
everybody's just swarming the spot because it's just insane.
Holy crap, first day here, and it is already bopping.
They're all over there, still taking photos.
So I had a bit of an epiphany today.
So about 24 hours ago now, we were flying
with my kid, my wife, and it was just a really hard flight.
My son was just not having it, he was crying,
and me and my wife were tired, we just wanted to sleep,
and we couldn't because he was staying up,
so it was a really tough flight,
and both of us, me and my wife,
we looked at each other, and we're like,
"We're not doing this again, this is the last time,
"we're not doing this," but then by the end of the flight,
we survived it, we pushed through,
and we were already feeling better
because we knew what was coming,
and I mean, I didn't know exactly what was coming,
but I knew that it was gonna be worth it.
And I made a little insta-story about this,
sometimes you have to go through crappy things,
you have to push through those hard, crappy things
in order to get the real payoffs.
We could be sleeping right now,
it's like, let me check what time it is actually.
It is, right now, 3:00 a.m., it is 3:00 a.m. out here,
and we're watching the sunrise,
and we could be in bed, we could be in bed right now,
but we would have missed this whole craziness,
and most people, after traveling for 24 hours,
would just, you know, call it a day, "We'll film tomorrow,"
but we decided to mission this thing,
and yeah, totally worth it.
So next time you're going through some hard stuff
and you're trying to get to somewhere,
just keep going, it's worth it.
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So that was day one here in Norway,
and you know, day one was supposed to be
kind of just a throw-away day, you know?
We're so tired from traveling, jetlagged,
it took me like 24 hours to get to here,
one of the guys, Kim, I'll introduce him more,
Kim actually traveled from Bangladesh to Oslo,
and then he didn't even go home,
straight from the airport, came here to Norwich,
and then we just kept traveling.
We were tired, but we were all talking
after we did the sunset mission thing.
This is how you make memories.
This is how you just decide to do something,
and this is how you make memories
that you'll never, ever forget.
At the end of the night, I was like,
"Man, this was a huge success.
"Not only did we get really cool videos and photos
"and just, you know, content, but we made
"a really cool memory that we'll never forget."
And I realized, I think a lot of people
say they wanna do things, they wanna go out there,
do it, big things, capture those cool photos and videos,
but then when it comes down to it,
they're not actually willing to go above and beyond
to keep pushing through when you're just,
you're tired, and you don't necessarily feel like it.
I realized that a lot of people aren't willing
to make those kinds of decisions.
Even when you're tired, after a long day of travel,
instead of just going to your comfortable bed,
going to sleep, getting rested,
going out on a 2:00 a.m. sunset mission
and getting back at like 4:00-5:00 a.m.,
a lot of people aren't willing to go that extra distance,
to push through that crappy feeling
and make those memories, and also capture those memories,
get those epic photos and those epic videos.
Even in the hike, we could have stopped
at one of the lower peaks and been like,
"Ah, this is cool enough, we'll just get some stuff here
"and let's call it a night, go to bed."
But no, we kept going because we knew
that the payoff was gonna be worth it,
we were gonna get such epic photos,
the light was just perfect, and it was nice and warm.
This isn't a typical, even this day,
which is now the next day,
this isn't a typical day in Lofoten,
so we wanted to make the most of that day
instead of just going to sleep
because we can sleep later.
So next time you have an amazing opportunity
or a friend asks you to go out on a 2:00 a.m. mission
or just go travel or whatever,
take that opportunity, go the extra distance,
even if you're not feeling like it, just do it.
Prove it to yourself that you actually want it bad enough
because I don't think a lot of you want it bad enough.
A lot of people, they say they wanna be a filmmaker,
they wanna be a photographer,
they wanna do Youtube, whatever,
but then they don't even get it started.
They don't put the videos out, they don't put in the work,
they don't go the extra distance.
Prove it to yourself that you actually want it bad enough
and make those memories, that's what this trip is all about.
Just a couple of guys hanging out,
getting cool content, just hanging out, making memories.
Uh, yeah, also, we've decided
to switch our routine completely.
We're gonna sleep during the day
when the light isn't as good.
It's okay, but it's not as good.
And then we're just gonna do more of these
middle of the night, 2:00 a.m., 1:00 a.m.
hike missions, whatever we end up doing.
So yeah, we've reversed the day.
Memories.
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