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This is our interview with Joe Delaney aka Joey D aka Shred Bundy. Joe is a well known life/fitness YouTuber, he's also an original cast member of the hit MTV show EX On The Beach 4. It was great to meet someone so friendly and living life to the max. We hope you enjoy and…

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Kind: captions Language: en I think we're all in. Are you ready? Yeah. Hi guys. Uh, as you may notice, Enjoy Crew is off to get a lot more handsome. Uh, today we're bringing in Joey D aka Shre Bundy. How's it going? Uh, Joe's fulltime vlogger, fitness extraordinaire, and you can catch him this season on X in the Beach. Yeah. So, Joe, with all that stuff going on, where did you where did it all begin? Ah um so this is like something I get asked quite a lot actually and I kind of learned to condense it down to a manageable uh like story otherwise it just ends up as my life story. Yeah. So after uni, I went and traveled for a while. Um did that thing where you don't really, you know, I don't know what the [ __ ] I'm going to do. So am I cool with Yeah. Yeah. You do whatever you want. Um, and so I'm just going to put it all off by going traveling and, you know, under the under under the facade of find oneself, you know, really just [ __ ] about in Thailand and, you know, but um, I got back, I was literally at square one. I had nothing. I owed my parents about a grand, no money. I had the four walls between, you know, in one room in my house. In my parents house. Yeah. So, I got a job uh working at a bank or for a bank. Um literally just to try and save some money and you know and I spent like 14 months working for this bank like this this it was a soul destroying thing man. I was a proper spreadsheet monkey like you know just a just a keyboard mercenary like and uh as I was doing that I got into quite a good routine with the gym because that kind of structured life gives you the you know it gives you the opportunity to get into a solid structured like routine and that's you know when you're going to focus on anything routine is such a help like um and familiarity and and uh so I started really like I'd always gone to the gym but started really hammering it in that time and uh my brother has always been pretty into it as well. We started um kind of following a few online fitness personas, you know. Um anyone in particular? Nah, not really. I mean, we were part of like the Ziz wave kind of thing, but at the same time very aware of the whole like maybe the whole kind of cult thing and how it's not that beneficial. You know, you have to take you have to take the good bits from everything and everyone, don't you? Yeah. And you don't just you can't just I think a lot of people don't really do that with the whole kind of movement. Yeah. Um but we got into that kind of fitness stuff. Yeah. And we so we started throwing out videos um just piss ones because we've always been quite ironic in our sense of humor is quite kind of um you know you notice something that happens a lot and it's kind of easy to make jokes out of that and just be kind of Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, and so we started just throwing videos together just literally out of enjoyment because we we thought we just thought we were funny and thought other people might find us funny and some did and some thought we were dicks, but that's sweet. Uh, and so that that just kind of snowballed, but it was always kind of me um, you know, pushing it and me going, "Oh, mate, let's do this." And he I think he enjoyed more of like a backseat role to it, but that kind of is what got us into the whole making videos thing. And I realized that I actually enjoy putting videos together. Not just from the sense of like making something kind of look good when I'll put like bits of like training footage together, make a little montage or something, but also like just thinking about like the actual content and what I'm going to put in there and just like being on camera, I kind of enjoyed it because felt like I was kind of when I started really [ __ ] at it. But I think I picked it up quite fast and became if if I watched like my first videos now to my most recent ones, it just looks like a different, you know, if you went on to my channel, just look like the most recent ones, you'd think, oh yeah, you know, it's all right. This, you can do it. Um, but then I have comments on my first video saying, "You should not YouTube." So yeah, so we we just started making videos that way and then he kind of went off, did his own thing, dropped off, and I thought, well, I'm still going to do it. still get enjoyment out of it. Um, but by this time I was making no money out of it, but kind of started building up a bit of a following where that's how social media works, isn't it? You build up a following and then that's your free marketing to everyone. Now you can access all these people. Did you sort of take your following from Well, that's how it gather more. Not really. I doubt there's even that many who are still following me from the early days from that original thing. But um I certainly like learned a lot about social media that way. Um and then so I after I left the bank, I went traveled again, spent a lot of time sitting on beaches and thought, you know what, I like sitting on bit on beaches. I like sitting on beaches. Uh, and I wanted I kind of decided that I wanted to do something where I had the the opportunity to travel, you know, um, and kind of have my own schedule and anything internetbased is going to give you that opportunity. And so I kind of put that and fitness together and thought maybe I can get this. It's brilliant you can do it from like every country you're in as well. Yeah, that's the thing, man. That's like the beauty of it. again, you know, not just like some people, you know, like the the 9 to5 and that gets a bad rap and it's it's it's kind of a stereotype now that everyone in a 9 to5 must [ __ ] hate it and must be like, "Oh, you know, you're a [ __ ] loser if you got a n some people have really good 9 to5 jobs and [ __ ] like them." That's, you know, if you just Easter. Yeah. Yeah. It depends on what your sort of career aspects are and like if like obviously you're enjoying doing the vlogging, you're enjoying doing the travel with the vlogging and you're enjoying going to the gym, so you might as well keep what you're doing. So yeah, I mean it in a sense as well, I find that it's a kind of um they both kind of uh perpetuate each other. Like I'll I'll make videos and whatever. I'll if I'm doing something decent, I'll put something decent in the I'll think, "Yeah, [ __ ] I'm going to film this and put on YouTube cuz it'll be fun. It's just a you know, anything that just puts forward any kind of positive emotion, people are going to watch it." Yeah. Um and then the other sorry in the other side of the coin, like sometimes vlogging encourages me to do [ __ ] Yeah, I guess. I think that like I look at something I think it'd be sick to vlog that, you know, and so it's kind of a a snowball. It's it's good. Like at what stage was the point where uh you actually like it just grew like everyone has that like sort of step where you notice where it just got a bit bigger? Like was there a certain time when uh that happened for you? I don't know actually. Um, I mean, when I first started like online personal training and I was YouTubing my YouTube, I was really inconsistent with my YouTube, but um, I don't know. I just never had it. I never really got to the point of consistency where I am now. Um, I think you have to stick at something long enough to really get that enjoyment from it and really see the benefit from it. Yeah. Um, probably when actually I uh I was turning 25 last summer and just by chance I'd been on YouTube about a year. Yeah. I thought, you know what, I'm going to take all the best bits from all the videos and put a little montage together. Yeah, I saw that one. That was cool. And uh I put it together and I spent a I spent, you know, my average video probably takes me a few hours because I don't I'm not overly, you know, I don't edit them that much really. um you know because I like the kind of raw feel to it and the kind of amateur. I think that's makes it a lot more relatable than if you have this like professional intro and you know. Yeah. Um, but I spent a lot of time this video. I spent I was sat there like really concentrating. I think anytime you actually do that, you reap the rewards so much. Like even just watching it myself, even if I never uploaded that to YouTube, it brought me so much like satisfaction just to watch it and think, [ __ ] you know, I've actually done a fair amount of [ __ ] here. Like even if it's not, you know, it's not a lot of it is it's just it's just simply having fun. Having fun is an achievement. I think a lot of people don't do that. You have fun and show it and people Yeah. And it's not it's not all about the gym all the time and it's not all like it's not completely one thing. Obviously, you get your gym tips in there and you know, I mean, like you get a bit of travel in, but like people see you're enjoying it while you're doing it. I think that's like I think that gives you a lot of advantage over people who are just like if you don't do this many sets then don't bother throw up that sort of thing. You know what I mean? Yeah. You're trying to influence the gym and like a healthy lifestyle having fun. I don't know. I I think in a way it might be detrimental as well to me because you know because keeping it broad like one day I'll do a video that's something like fitness related you know and then I'll be doing a [ __ ] Tinder video. Yeah, you know, and and then I'll be and then I'll be doing a, you know, video something completely random and and not putting myself in a in a niche like that um in a sense kind of, you know, cuz I'm not the someone wants fitness advice, they don't come to me. There's people who do who cover that better than me, right? you know in terms of like informative videos because the people who solely do informative videos and they are really good and so if I skim the service and touch on all different aspects then I'm never really I'm never really excelling on any of them individually but it means that instead of being bought into the content people are more bought into me as a person because it's it's it's this guy who does all these different bits rather than the different bits It's that someone Yes. Do you know she prefer that? Yeah, I do prefer that. Yeah. Yeah. Because I don't I don't want to be, you know, Mr. P. Yeah. I Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You be profound with it like Yeah. I I don't know. I just try and get like I just try and be natural. try and get across that comes across what I'm about to be honest because and I don't want to I don't ever try and overplay it and I'm trying I just try and keep it real basically and not be I think that's how you build to like similar and so how did the X on the beach come along then um that was actually just it was just kind of came up and hit me in the face like I don't watch reality TV I don't even watch [ __ ] TV to be honest like literally hardly ever unless it's like David Ar [ __ ] or you know like like I've got the the odd guilty pleasure like but you know if it's QI or David I'm in and anything else I don't give a [ __ ] I'm more of a more of a movie kind of guy you know. Um and and I was basically walking around Liverpool one night. Um this girl comes up to us. She's like oh we're like looking for people for this rally TV show. They won't tell you what it is until you turn on the beach. just a reality TV show. Um, you should apply for it and we looked at the dates and I was going IA and then I had New York booked a bit later on and we looked at the dates. We didn't really know what you know because she couldn't give us certain confirmed dates so I just left it. I thought no I'm just I'm going to leave it and she had me on Facebook and she says oh just fill in this application for you know you might as well do it. I thought [ __ ] it I'll just do it. I don't know the date, so I don't know if I can do it, but I'll just do it for the sake of the application process because because I can then learn from because I've not been to a job interview for as long as I can [ __ ] remember, you know. Um, yeah. And I thought and after this uh application form I had to fill in it was a phone call and it was a few like interviewy audition type things and I thought I should go to this because it's a good experience for me to I basically just have to turn up be you know speak well be confident and you know be yourself. Yeah. and and I'm and I'm massively into the whole kind of um I just think it's important to have good social skills like really to the next [ __ ] level because I think it's something that is quite lacking in general the average person you find it's quite different from country to country but I think you know if you go out and speak to a [ __ ] stranger on the on the street he thinks you're weird or she thinks you're weird weird something and that's why you can't that's why it's so hard to approach approach girls, you know, if a [ __ ] a nice girl walks past you, you have to get get over you can't just stop her and be like and just start a conversation cuz then you're a crazy person and really you're just [ __ ] being socialable, you know? True. And you have to really get over that and work that into your approach. And so I think social skills are something that are really lacking. And I think it's [ __ ] massively massively advantageous to spend time working on those. And so that's why I kind of went through the whole, you know, I'll go to this interview type thing because I'm getting filmed and people asking me questions and, you know, I have to just be it's just good practice. You're doing you're doing it anyway. So Exactly. Exactly. And and I thought to myself going through this application process with YouTubing and stuff, I thought the last year kind of been preparing me, not in a kind of zeni, you know, oh, the world prepares you for what you're dealing with right now. That's [ __ ] all that stuff. But um but yeah, I thought like this good practice and then so I think because I went through it not really caring about the outcome so much. I wasn't like, "Oh, I need this, you know, I need to get on this cuz it's going to put me on and I'm going to make it, you know." Um I went through it for the experience. I was so laidback that it kind of worked in my favor. And I remember I remember in the final kind of interview type thing, one of the one of the women from the production company made made it I walked in. It was literally a couple of minutes later and she was like, "You don't seem nervous." And I was like, "I'm not nervous." You know, because I don't I don't have that needy sense of please put me on, please put me on a stage. Do you know what I mean? Because I'm pretty You have your own platform anyway. So like, you know what I mean? The people who are watching it are watching already. Like you're used to it. Yeah. Well, you just and and any kind any kind of neediness that you feel, pretty much any emotion you feel going into that social interaction, they're going to feel it as well because subconsciously you just put that off, don't you? Just, you know, if someone's nervous, you can tell they're nervous. And in any, you know, and after like going through the show, how long was it? Um, it's filmed over two weeks. So, after going through the show and then coming out after, like, how did Were you happy you did it overall? Oh yeah, definitely definitely. Did you do you make any like connections over there? Like do you have like do you make new mates over there? Um yeah, you know much you can say about it but well I thought honestly because I'd never really I never watched reality TV since like the first couple of big brothers, you know, when they when that's really what kicked reality TV off, isn't it? Yeah, it is. Um but I think then it was more of a social experiment rather than let's just get people who going to [ __ ] fight. throw them in a [ __ ] occasion. It's more like a zoom. Um, and so I I kind of had a bit of uh I was apprehensive in the sense of like I didn't think that I'd go on there and really connect with people that much, you know, but I thought I'm going to [ __ ] do this for the experience. And I actually was surprised that I got on with a lot of the people, especially the lads that were on it. I really [ __ ] connected with them quite well, you know, because you don't have to always have that much common ground with someone to get on with them, you know? You can just be nice. Yeah. Yeah. And if someone's like just a well-natured person, then whatever your views on things, you can get on and I really did, you know, and I was I was actually surprised like that um that I did. But I'm sure of Oh, you're still in contact with them. Yeah. Yeah, we speak to we speak quite a lot and everyone goes I'm going to be going to the gym with a few of them this week. So vlogging that and stuff and good for the vlogs, you know, as well. Yeah. Yeah. So like so far the year has gone well for you, isn't it? Yeah, I suppose it is. Yeah. What's you know, what are we on halfway start of February? Yeah. January all right. January is good, mate. In terms of uh like business as well, January's when you're January, you smash it, don't you? Yeah. Um but then you got to squirrel it away for for February, March and it dies down and then it's seasonal then everyone's going all in summer so they coming back for May. And then uh just moving on would you do you set like a a yearly goal or would you go monthly or even weekly? You know the thing is I'm not I've never been really I'm a big list writer. You know, I'll set my menial tasks for the day and try and prioritize them in an order of what's going to take most mental energy. Yeah. You know, because a long time I [ __ ] that up and I I did, you know, what's the easiest to do first and then the hard thing just gets relegated, man. It just keeps going the next day and the next day. Um, but in terms of strict long-term goals that are measurable, I don't really [ __ ] set any. I don't I just don't. I just like I find that by the time I'm halfway there, it's probably changed. What I want to do is change. And I'm so um you know, I don't know if it's if it's um that as you go on, you you as you kind of progress or go through life, you you have a better idea of what you want and so your goals change. Or maybe you're just fickle and they change with your mood, you know, because it's easy to really succumb to your mood and think, you know, because your idea of what you want changes so often. I don't find I don't really set, you know, long-term measurable goals like that, you know? I just think I just work on it. I think what, you know, because I don't know what I want other than to [ __ ] enjoy my life. Like I don't know what I want. Like I know that I don't give that much of a [ __ ] about um like it sounds a bit I don't know I don't give that much of a [ __ ] about like material [ __ ] I don't mean that from a sense of don't get me wrong I [ __ ] love a G Wagon you know and I bounce around I drive around in it thinking anabolics but at the same time I know that that's not doesn't equate to long-term happiness and satisfaction because you had like It's just a buzz. It's just a shiny thing. What does it do, man? It does [ __ ] all, you know, and I'd much rather, you know, when I think about say say you win the lottery. Yeah. Say all of a sudden money is no object. What are you going to do? You know, people going to say, "I'm going to buy this. I'm going to buy that." I' the first thing I'd do was throw the sickest [ __ ] party I could because that's what I'm going to make the most that literally I would like find a massive [ __ ] venue like get to write in a list of all the people I've ever known who I think are good [ __ ] people what I mean and get them all together and get them all together cuz that's what I'm going to enjoy the most like I think and half that [ __ ] half that [ __ ] you don't even need money for so like you're much more so life experience over um material objects every [ __ ] shows that that's really Yeah, I think I think people might know that if they follow you like you know I mean you're like constantly looking for like your next trip or your next adventure as opposed to you're not like waiting on the next iPhone to come out. I know man. I know. I mean, I think you can enjoy all the little You can enjoy those things. Definitely. And the thing is, you know, I'm not using this as as an excuse. Like people, some people say, "Oh, money won't make you happy." And then they'll walk around barefoot with [ __ ] you know, and like, you know, I'm pretty sure that it it won't make me happy, but that's not an excuse not to make it. Yeah. You should still be you should still try and [ __ ] get rich anyway if it doesn't detriment from your other like goals or take away from the things that you find important. Why the [ __ ] not? It's not it's not like oh well you know I'm going to drive around this shitty [ __ ] car that breaks down on me every 3 miles because money won't make me happy. Yeah the opposite way but you like broke people anyway because other people have. So, you know, don't use it as a [ __ ] excuse. Like, I still want to get [ __ ] mega rich, but then I probably just won't spend it on the same [ __ ] that people spend on fact. The way we were like running our our channel is to actually like to hopefully inspire people to improve their lives and actually live life happier. Yeah. And help others along the way. Yeah. If you if you like a message to people watching this, what what would be a good thing that you would like to say? Like what would your sort of life motto be? Yeah. Um That's difficult, man. It's difficult to I always, you know, I'm wary of trying to dish out life advice, man. Um, I suppose I suppose for me the most important things that have contributed to me having what I would say, see, I would call it a successful life. Yeah. Because hang on, I'm getting a phone. I I'll I'll finish this. Yeah. Because you know how the [ __ ] do you measure how the [ __ ] do you measure success? Like if you measure it in in financial terms then you know the Buddha probably ain't that successful because you know and if you measure it in terms of understanding then daming ain't that successful. If you measure it in terms of you know the type the the or let's say intellectual contribution then Einstein's [ __ ] successful but in terms of life experience you probably spent a lot of time locked up so how do you measure it man on your individual kind of scale and kind of overall happiness and I think that the main things that have contributed to me enjoying my [ __ ] life have I mean, being brought with kind of a just a really open mind and being kind of, you know, never too set in any ways and just really kind of having a deep-seated value for experience and for anything that kind of goes against what you already think. So any kind of, you know, any kind of situation you've never been in, any person you haven't met or just anything that's that's going to broaden your horizons really because that's the only way you can get um a good perspective. And without perspective, you can't enjoy anything, you know, because if you're hold up in one kind of narrow minded mentality, then you can't really, you know, you can't really fully appreciate the world, I don't think. Thanks very much. Um, do you want to let the guys know where they can find you on your Yeah, so my YouTube channel is uh aptly named Joe Delaney. Um, and Instagram, professionally named Shred Bundy. Uh, you can get me through there. Everything else will be linked up. So, yeah, we'll uh we'll definitely put tags on this as well. Yeah, we'll let people know where you're at. So, Joe, thanks a minute for a Joe. Thanks a minute for No worries. No worries.