(sighs)
- This video is a little bit of an accident,
that you're about to see,
and it doesn't involve a toaster.
Like what I did there?
- Yes. - Thank you.
There's this thing going on
in the world right now called COVID-19,
you've probably heard of it,
and it is the sole reason mainly
why you have not seen this already
and it was kind of, left in the vault,
to wait until hopefully things get better.
As you know,
I did a successful kitchen gadget crowdfund recently,
and I was just sending out, literally yesterday
I was here sending out
and wrapping the last ones to go off around the world,
which has been an amazing experience.
And I was intending to launch
my next kitchen gadget crowdfund very soon.
- Well done. - Thanks mate.
Whilst I was doing that Chloe was like,
"Daddy I need to use the computer."
And I showed her whilst I was there on the other tab,
the kitchen gadget to make sure I had the right addresses
to send them out.
But also had,
I've talked about this for a long time,
a pizzeria, a wood fired pizzeria in my hometown
and online cooking school one drafted that I'm so proud of,
but I put it on hold because of COVID-19.
So, I'm carrying on wrapping.
You're doing on the computer, and life is good,
and then I look at my phone
about probably three hours later,
and I see that I've got some tweets.
So I just looked to my Twitter
of people that had actually like backed the campaign.
(dramatic music)
- And I'm like,
did you press a button that you shouldn't have?
- Maybe.
- So, yeah,
the video you're about to see was filmed over a year ago
and I wanted to cancel it.
I took a step back and took an hour or two
and I could see that people were backing it,
and I hadn't even told anyone really about it.
And it's like, this is awesome.
And you guys are probably like,
what is this serious and genuine?
And I thought, well, the good thing with Kickstarter,
crowd funding campaigns in general,
is if they don't fund it won't happen anyway.
And maybe I'll never ever know, right.
And the thing with COVID is if we do do it,
I can launch fairly slowly and take my time with it.
And maybe Chloe, it might have been fate, right?
- Yeah
- Or an accident, what do you think?
- I think it was an accident.
- Yes, I'm not mad mate.
- I know if I was like nine,
it would be completely different,
and this wouldn't of happened.
- No (laughs)
You'd have a bit more IT knowledge would you?
- Yeah. - But the thing I didn't get,
I didn't get a confirmation email from them to say, wow,
your product's been launched.
And the people that have backed me so far,
thank you so much,
it's not even emailed me about that, that's so weird
how you can literally just done that.
- Thank you for supporting him.
- No, well, yeah, the people that have backed me already,
but I can now confirm officially,
we're gonna just go for it okay.
We're gonna launch it 'cause I don't want to launch it
and then unlaunch it and launch it again.
It's out there now.
So if you would like to back the campaign,
it is a wood fired pizzeria in my hometown
that hopefully you can come and visit someday.
I wanted to plan and re-shoot the video because it's old,
it's an old video on there.
It's like different house and stuff.
It doesn't matter.
But there's an online cooking school element to it as well.
So anyone around the world can get involved,
very exciting indeed, I'm massively passionate about it.
It just wasn't meant to be this way.
(laughs)
It's a typical Barry crowdfund. Isn't it?
It's just, yeah.
So please check the video out.
Anything you want to add?
- Bye - Bye (chuckles)
Check it out and if you can support it,
it would be massively appreciated, cheers guys.
- Bye.
(dramatic music)
- Hello, everybody.
Hope you're doing well, today is not a normal video.
It's an interesting day.
Let me show you something.
See that building over there.
I'm gonna try and turn that into my own
wood-fired pizzeria and cooking school.
I know what you're thinking, you're going what?
Barry you've gone mad!
Don't worry, just hear me out.
If you didn't know I live in Weston Super Mare,
which is a seaside town near Bristol.
In fact, I'm by the sea right now.
This is amazing.
Although sometimes people refer to it as Western Super Mud
because we don't really get much sea.
In fact, if I leave my car here too long,
I will get stuck in the mud.
A lot of tourists come down here,
it's very popular in the summer.
People wander out to the sea and get stuck in the mud.
But regardless of that,
I want to create and bring to my hometown,
something back where it all started.
An artisan pizzeria,
that doubles up as an online cooking school.
It sounds completely bonkers, but I wanna do it.
You see here in my hometown,
we are filled with loads of commercial
pizza delivery places.
(doorbell ringing) (dogs barking)
I'll get the door a minute.
- Hello sir, did you order a multinational corporate pizza?
- I wanna bring authentic, wood-fired artisan pizza,
decent pizza, homemade dough from scratch.
The most funky cosy layout.
This is a passion project of mine that I've had
simmering away for over 18 months.
I haven't rushed and looked at other buildings
and been like, oh, this will do.
- Yeah. I mean, it's perfect, isn't it really is.
- [Barry] Yeah, would you come
all the way from Norwich for this?
- Frequently, at least twice a day.
- The building is perfect.
It's gonna be awesome. I massively believe in it.
Of course there is some risk element to it,
but I have a dream and a goal that I wanna hit.
So today to finally make this reality,
literally just gone live a couple of moments ago
is my Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign
called The People's Pizzeria and Cooking School.
(screams excitedly)
Why is it called the people's pizzeria?
Well, this is my favourite part.
Basically by supporting the Kickstarter campaign,
you can submit your ideas and then you will vote
to determine things like the pizzerias name,
the logo, the uniforms we wear, the things on the wall.
Maybe you want to say, I'll go for some Banksy art
or put like bananas on,
I dunno, it's completely in your hands.
And I love that.
Also there'll be a percentage of the profits
donated to a charity of choice every year
and you guys can pick that too.
I always knew I was gonna do this crowdfunding campaign.
So I came up with some of the most
amazing perks and rewards I can,
no matter where you are in the world.
From signed cookbooks and unique merchandise,
in-house and online courses,
your name on a wall tile actually in the pizzeria,
you can have a pizza named after you.
There is absolutely loads. I'm so proud of them.
Some of my favourite YouTubers have vetted it and said, yes,
this is cool, I like this a lot.
Check out the Kickstarter page and have a little browse.
I'm sure you have some questions in your mind.
I've picked out the top ones that I could think of,
which I'll answer, now.
Hang on a sec are you still gonna be doing videos?
I will a hundred percent be doing videos.
I will not be running the pizzeria on a day to day basis.
There'll be other people doing that.
In fact, the pizzeria opens the opportunity
for me to make so much more content.
I can film in there, do special episodes in there.
Get guests in there, do podcasts in there.
I'm gonna be running courses in person there with myself
and some experts plus creating a whole batch
of digital online courses to.
Amy Just literally coughed.
You just threw up.
Why are you crowdfunding?
This is one that I hope is kind of like an obvious answer.
The thing I like about crowdfunding is
it's like a collaborative community thing
that can help people achieve their dreams.
I get super inspired by some of my friends
like Stewart Ashton, who's crowdfunded two movies.
Danlo Cubed who's crowdfunded a book
and Paul Rose, who did Digitizer, the web series.
Those guys to me, I mean,
they're close friends of mine anyway,
but I just look at that and it inspires me.
It really makes me feel like I wanna give this a go.
I'm scared, I'm scared, but I wanna give it a go.
But more importantly than that,
I think that maybe with this project as well,
the community aspect is even more,
not just the whole thing about yep,
we're gonna call it Pizza McPizza Face.
Don't worry. I won't let that happen.
But my point is that you guys can have such a say in it.
And that whole phrase of like is that even a phrase,
a billion minds are better than one, well they are.
They are, and you can come up with something
way better than me and help me make this thing so good.
It's gonna be awesome.
The dream is close and I'm excited to give this a go.
If you don't raise your target will it happen?
The thing I like about Kickstarter is they're like,
if you hit your goal or above it, yes,
you've achieved your goal, you can do that.
And I have done the maths, I've done the calculations.
The minimum amount I need is there.
I don't wanna put anything at risk.
My family, I'm not going to risk any of the YouTube channel
or anything like that.
This is purely what I need to make the cooking school
and pizzeria a reality, got it.
I live overseas, what's in it for me?
This is something I've touched on earlier,
I've concentrated to really make the perks
as international friendly as possible.
A lot of them will be emailed and sent to you.
But what's not to say that you might be taking a trip
to England someday.
You're gonna go to London and maybe Stonehenge,
which is quite close to where I live, but you're like,
"Hey, oh my gosh, I backed Barry in that crowdfund.
My name is on the wall.
I've got this voucher for a free pizza,
which is never gonna run out.
I'm gonna go there.
I'm gonna go and see Western Super Mud"
Crust me, I crust you to crust me.
This is an off the record pizza pun
that I wasn't meant to do,
and we can make something awesome.
Serious face.
Okay I get the pizzeria bit,
what about the cooking school part?
This is the cooking school,
which I'm equally as excited about,
and something I've wanted to do for so long too.
So both in house, in the pizzeria,
there's actually perks for that where you can actually buy
tickets to do that already,
classes where you can come, I'll host some of them,
I'll cohost some and some will be done by in house
and also external experts.
We will also produce and create our own
online downloadable content with E-recipe cards and books.
I've got two already in the bag.
I've got an Indian cookery school master class
with my friend, Binnie, who is phenomenal,
best curries I've ever tasted.
And a master chef UK winner to actually host something.
I'll be in the videos too. Don't worry.
I won't just be done going hello.
I'll be there going,
Oh my gosh, it's like, it's like food.
It actually sounds really cool,
I wanna go there myself.
Like I said, this really is the tip of the iceberg.
Now I completely get it, if you can't help me,
I've already teased this online.
And some people would have been messaging me going,
I've got tables, I've got glasses and things I can send you
and I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa,
we need to see if we can make this a thing.
If you could do me a favour and share this
with as many friends and family as you can,
and maybe open it up to people
that don't really know about me,
that would be really awesome.
And maybe they'll understand my story
and want to be part of it as much of it.
And perhaps just like you and me,
they can see that this isn't just a restaurant
or some crazy idea.
This is a project and something okay,
I'm getting emotional,
something special and inspiring and,
words.
Look, I know this is bonkers and completely out of the blue,
but it is a dream of mine.
I'm gonna give it my absolute all.
And if it fails, you know what?
We're just going to say, we did our absolute best.
If you can pledge any amount, it would be amazing.
I've come up with some amazing rewards
that are gonna keep me super busy,
but you deserve it as much as I do.
I'm gonna put so much effort into those.
Share like mad.
The campaign is live for 30 days.
In the words of Wayne's World 2,
"If you build it, they will come."
I think that is from Field of Dreams with Kevin Costner,
but I don't like that film as much.
I'm so excited guys, go to the Kickstarter campaign, now.
Take a look.
Thank you so much for this.
Oh my God, I'm getting emotional.
I just wanna do this so badly, ooh.
See yah soon.