Why Does Boy Racer Ben Race? A Diecast Discussion

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I've got some goofy Australian car questions I want to
throw at you on the fly.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
I think in a one of the emails, I'm David
that you like Oswell's obviously obviously being Australian, I love Myleswell.
So I definitely want to cover off on some Osweel's
and have a chat about that.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
You got the chase as well, the Royal Chase.

Speaker 4 (00:22):
Got the Royal Chase, man, I don't even know how
much it's worth, Like I know, I'm never getting rid
of it.

Speaker 5 (00:27):
But yeah, there are people that fly over from Australia
and kill you and take that, David, just for fun.

Speaker 6 (00:39):
I look forward to that.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
Focus there you go.

Speaker 5 (00:44):
Yeah, got to retreat it.

Speaker 7 (00:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Good?

Speaker 3 (00:46):
A new camera?

Speaker 1 (00:47):
What is that? Do you get that on Tiamo Sian?
What is going on?

Speaker 5 (00:58):
Just give it a second? All right? So I am
two days away from getting my voice back, So this
will sound great in two days when we're not recording.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
Well, just do you want to record the intro maybe
later and just just hit the questions.

Speaker 5 (01:21):
That might be a good that's a good idea. Let's
do that because I do not have a Hey there, folks,
check here in me.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
All right, we're going on the flow tonight, so.

Speaker 5 (01:34):
All counts and all counts, so all right, and oh boy,
that sounds bad. All right, all right?

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Now.

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Speaker 5 (03:42):
All right, on with the show. All right, Well, we
are here with boy Racer Ben. You might have heard
of him. He's been pretty popular around those little social
media things that all the kids are talking about these days.
We know him as Ben, but you know him as
the boy race The boy wonder the man that sets

(04:02):
his cars on fire and drives them across his track
that's also on fire. It's wild stuff. But Ben, thank
you so much for being on the show with us today.

Speaker 6 (04:11):
No worries, thanks for having us.

Speaker 5 (04:14):
Sure. So for those who have been living under a rack,
tell us what boy reeser Ben is? Where all that
came from?

Speaker 6 (04:26):
Okay, boy races Ben. It's a tough one.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
It started probably not too long ago, to tell you
the truth, it was probably coming almost three years ago,
two and a half, three years ago. So essentially I
started my whole social media video journey soon after my
son was born, probably when my son was about one
one and a half years old, So started out by

(04:52):
just buying him a few hot wheels cars. To tell
you the truth, hot wheels cars, die cast cars, completely
off the radar. I've been in my early thirties, you know,
not having a probably a matchbox car since I was
probably about seven years old. Not on the radar. Never
thought it would be on the radar, but after buying

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some I think it was a fast and furious five pack,
just a mainline five pack for my son and setting
up a track for him in the garage and sort
of seeing the enjoyment that he got out of watching
the cars race along the track. That's essentially where it started.
So after my son was born as well, I had
a few weekend actual real hobby cars as well. And

(05:34):
as he was after he was born, I wasn't really
driving them around, they were just sitting in the garage.
Started selling those off, so almost didn't have a hobby,
and my son he.

Speaker 6 (05:45):
Was sort of enjoying.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
We were watching a few YouTube videos together, watching cars
sort of you know, the three D Bop three D
Bop Maker, the races and all that sort of thing.
And yeah, it just all sort of came from there.
Decided ort of it.

Speaker 6 (06:00):
You know.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
It looked like a bit of a fun something, something
fun to do, a bit of a hobby I think
I'd enjoy and started posting a few videos on TikTok,
you know, very poor quality videos.

Speaker 6 (06:13):
As as it started out.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
I think I think everyone's the same. It's part of
the journey, isn't it. And started started sort of expanding
my content just from races at the start to early on,
I did a few sort of backyard rally tracks, so
I sort of built a bit of a track through

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the Garden and that got quite a bit of momentum,
and then took it even further started doing my Fast
and the Furious Scene recreations, I suppose, and I think
it was probably from there on TikTok that's where it
all started to blow up. From my Fast and the
Furious Scene recreations in particular of the Dodge Charger super

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video that probably is one of my most viewed videos
that I've ever made, and I've done that scene a
few times now. Yeah, and then from there sort of
even started to dabble in I think a few customs
and that sort of thing earlier on, which I don't
do as much these days, but I think the thing
that got me quite a bit of momentum was probably

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I did quite a bit of a variety of everything,
so a few customs, seen recreations, racing, backyard rallies, and
the momentum sort of grew quite quickly. Definitely my diecast racing,
that's sort of I think the main point to my videos,
especially earlier on, that got me the most momentum. But yeah,

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essentially that's where it all started, and then sort of
moved to Instagram and then went onto YouTube eventually as well.
Probably wasted a good probably six months to a year
at the start not posting on any other platform rather
than TikTok, And in the end it sort of turns
out that I actually enjoy Instagram as a platform most

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and then YouTube as well.

Speaker 6 (08:02):
So definitely.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
I'm looking to sort of move into a little bit
more longer content as time goes on.

Speaker 6 (08:10):
I've always been sort of a short form creator, but.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
Definitely looking to move into a little bit more YouTube,
longer content as time moves on. But that's sort of,
you know, a bit of a recap on sort of
my journey and how I got into it.

Speaker 5 (08:24):
I suppose, Now, did you do content creation before this
or was this your first time really kind of diving
in there?

Speaker 6 (08:32):
Not at all? Yeah, just I mean, I suppose sort
of my work career, you.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
Know, when I left school, I had about I had
a gap year, and I was in the military, so
you know, and then I've moved into a few other industries,
but I work in mining at the moment, so sort
of tech and tech and you know, video editing, you know,
was not something I've ever really dabbled into much at all,

(08:59):
and it's I'm definitely not a tech guy. I definitely
have no idea you know, how to work my way
around a computer more than the average joe.

Speaker 6 (09:07):
So it's all sort of just been a learning process.
And in all honesty, it's it's not that hard editing.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
It's all you know up to the app, isn't it,
and how good your app is, and you know how
easy it is to use and what you choose to use.

Speaker 6 (09:21):
So but yeah, not at all.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
Videos and editing and tech it's never really been my thing.
So sort of just shows that anyone can do it.

Speaker 9 (09:31):
Yeah, Yeah, that's encouraging for people that are on the
fence about it, you know, like I can't do that
because I think we've all been there, you know, some
of us. We all have different backgrounds and I didn't
have any in that kind of stuff. But it's it's
like you said, it's not that hard. It's just getting
in there and putting things together, adding some music, snipping

(09:53):
it and you know, it's kind of fun to do.
But it takes at least one hundred bad videos to
make a good video in LA it seems to be
the case.

Speaker 4 (10:02):
So Ben, you get some strong follower counts on your platforms,
so I'm curious if someone like Mark is talking about
would like to get started making videos, can you just
briefly describe maybe the type of audience that you found

(10:23):
in TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, how they differentiate across those platforms,
and maybe if someone is going for a specific target audience,
where they might you know, start out.

Speaker 6 (10:38):
All three platforms. I found they're very different, but in
the same sense.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
When it comes to sort of gaining followers and you know, algorithms,
they are all the same. It's I mean, when it
comes to making videos and posting, it's definitely all about consistency,
and I mean it's a whole nother ball game. I
think when you're making videos and trying to work the algorithms,
you know, it's it's you know, posting every day.

Speaker 6 (11:04):
It's right down to replying.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
To every comment, liking every comment, been super interactive, and
also you know, trying to be more creative every time
you make a video and always trying to improve your videos.

Speaker 6 (11:16):
But as far as audiences on the platform.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
I think TikTok, I think everyone knows TikTok for being
sort of I suppose a younger, a younger sort of
audience more. I mean, I think you are supposed to
be over eighteen to be on TikTok, but we all
know that, you know, probably fifty fifty percent of the
TikTok audiences fifteen under eighteen, so it's quite a young

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audience on TikTok.

Speaker 6 (11:46):
I mean Instagram is the same as well in a
real sense, but TikTok's very in your face. It's boom
boom boom. You know, no attention spans these days.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
That's just the way that we're we've moved with social
media and you know, interactive things.

Speaker 6 (12:00):
It's just in your face. But next video, next video quick.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
You know, you want to get a cook on your
video straight away, so you want to make it interesting
so people are seeing it straight from the very start,
because if you start off slow, then everyone's just flicking
straight past your video.

Speaker 3 (12:14):
Fire and explosions and every video is a must.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
Absolutely and trying to put yeah, yeah, yeah, a little
sneak peek at the start, Yeah what's what's going to happen?
But yeah, I started on TikTok and then moved to Instagram,
where I find Instagram's probably a little bit better as
a community, easier to chat to, people, And yeah, I

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almost say it more of a professional platform sort of,
there's more sort of you know, that's where I suppose,
especially in the die cast that's you know, where the
actual die cast companies tend to hang out a little
bit more as well. And then YouTube, I suppose YouTube's
just a whole different ballgame, isn't it. With the long content,
You've still got your short content, which I find the

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short con on YouTube is the best for gaining followers.
So if you're looking for followers, you definitely want to
be smashing out the short content on YouTube, Whereas then
the monetarization side of things, you definitely want to be
pumping out the long videos on YouTube for that. So, yeah,
YouTube's just a whole different ballgame, But I think YouTube

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sort of still has that sort of professional credibility about
it as well.

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Speaker 5 (14:21):
So yeah, I'm curious, Ben, at what point did you
really kind of think, oh, this is taking off? Because
you've got this video and I love this video that
it's like your past self and your future self and
your future self rates don't give up on a Dolorean

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and sends it back in time to your past self.
So you know, how autobiographical is that in it? What
point did you think, oh, this is really going to
take off.

Speaker 2 (14:51):
I mean, that's another one I did in the early days,
especially on TikTok. I was doing a few little skits
as well, which I quite enjoyed.

Speaker 6 (14:57):
I promish it on.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
Look at getting back into that bear, the that I
sort of you know, sort of takes creativity in the
next level. It's hard to sort of a bit harder
to sort of plan those ones and think those ones out.
But it was quite early on in TikTok. I think
I was only probably posting for maybe it had only
been maybe a month, maybe two months, and I started
just yeah, like I said, doing a little bit of

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a variation in my content. And I think I posted
in one weekend, I posted a backyard rally video with
a car driving through the backyard, and I think that
had something like I think within a week I had
over thirty million views. And this is sort of quite
early on when I think I still only had about
ten thousand.

Speaker 6 (15:38):
Following was on TikTok.

Speaker 2 (15:40):
And then I think that pumps me right up to
around fifty thousand followers. And then I think the maybe
two weekends, yeah, just like that, it almost happened overnight.
And then I think two weekends later again the same
I did another backyard rally.

Speaker 6 (15:52):
Gave it a bit of a break in another.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
Backyard rally, because it was quite a bit of work
setting those up. It would literally take me, you know, five, five, six, seven,
eight hours just to film it all and get the
car to go over jumps and land properly and that
sort of thing.

Speaker 6 (16:10):
So I did another one of those on the weekend.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
I posted that again lots of momentum, and then the
next night I think that's when I did my first
fast and the Furious Dodge charges super Recreation.

Speaker 6 (16:24):
And then that one blew up even more, and I
think overnight I.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
Had a few million views on that video, and I
think sort of within the next week I was up.
I think I was close to two hundred thousand followers
almost within a week.

Speaker 6 (16:36):
So this is all on TikTok.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
Yeah, so yeah, a lot of early momentum on TikTok,
and and then it was quite organic, sort of the
transfer to Instagram as well. I think I just started
posting daily all my old videos. I had quite a
lot of old videos just banked up, so I started
posting my old videos and then.

Speaker 6 (17:00):
Same thing Instagram. Took a little bit longer to get
a bit.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
Of traction, but it was just posting every day, and
I think it sort of showed in my content as well.
People wanted to watch it, and I think I think
that's half the battle, if you can make something that
people are interested in watching. And then you add consistency,
you sort of get ahead in and wind direction regardless.

Speaker 6 (17:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (17:23):
But the but the lesson is you made what you wanted,
what you were feeling, and you put your heart and
soul into it and did it as well as you could,
and people just naturally gravitate toward that. So I mean,
that's the lesson right here. Don't don't try and copy
stuff that's already out there. Do what you're you know,

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it's kind of like an author right about what you know.

Speaker 6 (17:47):
Yeah, one hundred percent.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
And I think early on, I even probably I think
I did get a few comments, not a lot of
it's actually been surprisingly doing surprising doing diecast, the amount
of positive comments that you get, you don't get too
many people sort of hating on you, which I actually
was surprised by. I expected to get a lot more.
Actually start posting on Facebook now as well, so it's
you know, when you post to Instagram, you can also

(18:10):
set it up to post to Facebook. So I actually
find Facebook is the worst platform of all of them
for negative laws are so, which which is fine because
I posted Instagram and I honestly I don't really look
at Facebook at all. But I got I think I
got a few comments early on when I was doing
my racing videos people, not not too many. Most of

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it was positivity, but a few comments, you know, oh
this is you know three D three D bot Maker,
You're copying three D bt Maker, And I suppose in
a way, I mean, I'm doing the same thing. I'm racing,
you know die cast, But is that is that really copying?
You know three to butt Maker was definitely the pioneer
of you know, die cast racing. But I think my

(18:58):
content's probably completely I mean one it's more sort of
short short form content, which is completely different, different sort
of racing as well.

Speaker 6 (19:07):
You know, mine's always been based around.

Speaker 2 (19:08):
Sort of I suppose illegal, illegal street racing as well.
And I think one thing that I've done differently in
my die cast racing.

Speaker 6 (19:17):
Is I started out I think it was when I
introduced the sort of my open end.

Speaker 2 (19:24):
Finish racetrack, so you can't race down the track and
then they race into the you know, into the open
straight and you know there's quite a bit of carnage
that happens, which which again there.

Speaker 6 (19:36):
Are a lot of people that you know, I get,
I get a lot of negative.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
Comments at times, you know, on that cushion of won
you know, because you know, because it's hit, it's hit
a ramp and it's done a flip and then the
other cars driven past.

Speaker 6 (19:47):
But my content was never a riginally.

Speaker 2 (19:51):
Rule street racing, I mean, and I sort of playoff.
I play off those comments as well, and you know,
it's all about having fun, isn't it. And you know, yeah,
one thing I do when I'm making my videos is
I try and keep in mind that my videos are
trying I'm trying to represent what you know, the you know,
the five six seven year old is thinking as they're

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driving their cars around, sort of like trying to recreate
the imagination and trying to bring it to laugh I suppost.
So it's never never really been about my diecast racing
which car is fastest.

Speaker 6 (20:22):
It's been just about a bit of fun. You know.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
People do get right into the races as well and
get annoyed when one car crashes, but at the end
of the day, it just I think it adds to
the charm of the videos.

Speaker 5 (20:35):
So yeah, yeah, I'd agree. I think, Yeah, it's funny
you brought up through d Butt Meeker because I was
going to say, you're you're almost like the the like
the top year to watching an F one circuit rease
like and F one circuit reas is going to be
very technical, and then you're going to have all the
hay tech stuff and you're over here doing stuff that's

(20:55):
very creative and it's got like ramps and flips expected stuff,
and you know, it's more about the spectacle and the
joy of the racing rather than about, you know, whether
somebody has something that is technically the fastest. And I

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think that's a very entertaining way to do that. And
I love the you know, the Thomas the train engine
chugging through and there's all the little obstacles and the
trees and the ramps and the market stands and all
that stuff, and it's it's great. So I and again
I think anybody who says, oh, well three D. Bout
Maker did it first, just like no, three D. Bout

(21:37):
Maker just added color commentary to Pinewood Derby racing, and
you know, did it really really well. He just elevated
something that already existed. So it's not really fair to
say somebody who's also doing downhill racing is also you know,
imity and there's there's dozens of channels that do that,
and I think there are a lot of really great ones.

(21:58):
There's a lot of Australian based ones that are really cool.
But is that Chaos Canyon the Australian I can't remember.
New Zealand, Yeah, New Zealand. Sorry, it's funny that you
mentioned mining because one of our strongest supporters, Christian Stanaland,

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is a customizer from New Zealand, who was who worked
in the mining industry in Australia and is now in
New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
Okay, yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if I living on
Perth sort of Western Australia. It's a very sort of
mining heavy sort of citys. We get a lot of
New Zealander's actually come to Perth and work out here.

Speaker 6 (22:38):
It's it's very common.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
Yeah, you can move for tween Australia and New Zealand
and work.

Speaker 9 (22:44):
There's a lot of mining for vegemite there or is
that something that's not they grow out.

Speaker 5 (22:49):
Of which is just like a song.

Speaker 4 (22:52):
Yeah, So Ben, you're are you are a proud rcy
Car fan and die cast collector. Just remind people that
don't know, briefly how mad how crazy are Arsi's over

(23:13):
cars and customizing, And then I want you to talk
a little bit about some of the die cast brands
that are doing arcy cars that you're you know, pretty
excited about.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
Yep, absolutely, I suppose it's probably a good point just
to say that I did start with my die cast
racing and sort of scene recreations and in hot wheels,
but it's probably probably a good point in something we
can get into later, as well as just my transition
from being a die cast racer now to a collector,
probably to the point now that I actually almost enjoy
collecting die cast more than I enjoy racing.

Speaker 4 (23:48):
Well, welcome to the dark side.

Speaker 2 (23:51):
So yeah, I think, you know, journey wise, everyone starts
with hot wheels, and I was heavy, heavy hot wheels
when I started.

Speaker 6 (23:57):
It was even to the point that I was like, ah,
hot wheels, Why would.

Speaker 2 (24:01):
I collect anything else? I don't I don't want anything else.
I'm just going to collect hot wheels. And then yeah, slowly,
you know, I can't remember what it was I bought,
and now it's kind of like I don't really want
hot wheels anymore. It's I want the high end die
cast pieces. So and that as well has transferred into
I suppose Australian die Cast as well.

Speaker 6 (24:22):
So we've got the brand that.

Speaker 2 (24:25):
You guys know of and not everyone knows of unless
you're in Australia and a die cast collector. But Oswell's
and they have been around for just over a year
now and they've come quite a long way, and that's
probably been one of my passions.

Speaker 6 (24:39):
We've got one there.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
The that's a raw chase, but yeah, it's one of
those ones where do you even start with those wiels? They've,
like I said, been around for a year and the
company's just grown so much in the one year, and
the craze behind Osweel's in Australia has it's a tough one.
I wouldn't say that it's taken hot wheels, but it's

(25:04):
probably on par with hot wheels. So Osweels has become
that big in Australia that it's probably on par with
hot Wheels. I don't know as in figures how many
are selling of each, but sort of you know, people
people scalping them, you know, just the absolute craze behind them,
you know, the fomo behind it.

Speaker 6 (25:22):
One thing to.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
Note with Osweels is the reselling price with those chases
much bigger than hot Wheels. So yeah, Osweels has done
absolutely bonkers here in Australia.

Speaker 4 (25:37):
Well, I mean it's because you know, we had Jesse
on the Creator and they're doing like really historically important cars.
To ossis like I don't remember, I don't remember this
specific when it's a very famous driver, it's a very
famous vehicle. But like talk about the legacy of the

(26:01):
car culture in Australia, it's like to somebody in the
States or Europe that doesn't know, it's really big.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
Yeah, I mean, so the car culture in Australia, So,
I mean we've got JDM, which is still jdm's huge everywhere,
isn't it.

Speaker 6 (26:19):
So we've definitely got the JDM scene over here.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
But the Australian car culture, Australian cars in general, i'd
probably say outweighs JDM over here.

Speaker 6 (26:28):
So we for you know, our the Australian.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
Population at the moment, I think we're close to thirty
around thirty million at the moment. You know, we started
making cars, Australian made cars in the sixties through the
seventies probably you know, through the seventies right through.

Speaker 6 (26:43):
To the two thousands.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
I don't know what the population was back in the seventies,
but you know, we're making sort of millions, millions of our.

Speaker 6 (26:52):
Own cars and that's what everyone was driving back then.

Speaker 4 (26:56):
At look at this old Holden. I don't mean to
cut you up, but yeah, it's not it's not a
new thing.

Speaker 1 (27:01):
It is.

Speaker 4 (27:02):
It's been decades.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
It has been, yeah, absolutely, and it's only been just
recently sort of two thousand and fourteen. I think it's
when Oldham was shut down and Ford was shut down
as well, So there's no more Australian cars anymore. And
I think that's just elevated the car culture and trying
to keep it alive here in Australia because when we
no longer have those cars anymore. So, but yeah, as

(27:30):
far as sort of the cars that we created, you know,
super iconic cars, like we sort of have our own
muscle car scene.

Speaker 6 (27:39):
You know V eight's huge on the V eights.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
You know, even our own our own racing history like
you said that, you know, we have quite a prestigious
sort of racing history where it was always Forward versus
Holden and you know, one of the sort of Australia's
greatest rivalry and racing, and I think racing has definitely
died off since you know the depth of Australia and Fords.

Speaker 6 (28:00):
And Holdens, because that rivalry is no longer there.

Speaker 2 (28:03):
But yeah, it's sort of I mean, it's it's one
of those ones where do you even start with it.
It's just it's, yeah, it's it's massive. Even myself, I
used to own a couple of holdings as well. I've
just recently I sold them all when my son was born.
I've just bought another one so I'm sort of back
into the scene again at the moment. So but yeah,

(28:26):
Oswell's themselves are just yeah, they're sort of bringing it
back to life. And I'd almost say that even if
you're not a die cast collector, there's it's bringing more
people sort of into collecting the Osweels just because it's
cars that bring back memories and that sort of thing,
Cars that they used to drive, cars that they might own.
They want to get the one six y four version
of it. So I think that's obviously a reason why

(28:47):
Oswell's has been so successful, as just the the.

Speaker 6 (28:50):
Memories that it brings when you pick up your Osweel's car.
I've actually got one of these.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
X y gt felkn No, no, those this guy for
you know, if you want yeah, it depends which what
the model is. But if you want an original one, yeah, anyway,
from a couple of hundred thousand to you know, for
the rare ones, yeah, up to probably a million dollars.

Speaker 3 (29:12):
Yeah, that's marks a lot of money.

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Speaker 3 (30:01):
So is it Ben?

Speaker 9 (30:02):
Is it Nissan or Nissan? And is it g t
R or g d R For anyone wondering.

Speaker 2 (30:11):
It's definitely j t R j j t R j
t R. But yeah, it's definitely not a Nissan. It's
a it's a Nissan, yeah for sure.

Speaker 9 (30:19):
Okay, So tell us about a little bit because I'm
the JDM guy of the group here. You know, these guys,
they appreciate them, but not nearly as much as I do.
So I've noticed that you like the like one undred
other one ad SX a lot, and of course skylines
and stuff like that. Tell us a little bit about
your passion for the j d M stuff and maybe,

(30:42):
I don't know, rotaries. I don't know if you're into.
I know Australians in general are big into the rotaries
and burnouts and horsepower drag racing and I'm drifting and
all that fun stuff.

Speaker 2 (30:51):
So yeah, I mean when it comes to the burnouts,
the Australian sort of saying burnouts is huge in Australia,
so osboo. That's something Oswalds have sort of gone into
and that's what they're recreating a few of the latest models,
which I don't think you had one of those there, David,
Did you with a big blower out of the hood.

Speaker 9 (31:08):
No, I don't think anybody does burnouts like Australia. I
mean they can try, but they don't have like sixteen
stacked blowers on their like.

Speaker 4 (31:18):
It's down on it's down on my shelf in my office.

Speaker 2 (31:21):
I didn't bring it, yeah, I mean, And that's that's
what OSWELLD was recreating at the moment.

Speaker 6 (31:26):
There. They've actually recreated a couple of not so much
this one. This one wasn't.

Speaker 2 (31:31):
Actually designed as a burnout car.

Speaker 6 (31:36):
This is more of a more of a show car.

Speaker 2 (31:38):
I think probably it'll probably start doing burnouts, i'd say,
but this is actually a recreation of a real Australian car.
This is actually called to hold them, to hold Them, Tarana.

Speaker 6 (31:51):
That's the thing.

Speaker 2 (31:53):
There's so many We made so many different cars, and
that's a good thing about Oswell's.

Speaker 6 (32:00):
It's just you know, it's going to take them years.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
To recreate, recreate all of the cars, all the Australian
forwards and holdings that have been made over the years.

Speaker 6 (32:09):
There's so many to do.

Speaker 2 (32:10):
And that's one comment that you keep seeing on all
their social media pages is like when are you going
to make this car?

Speaker 6 (32:15):
When are you going to make this car?

Speaker 2 (32:16):
Like, oh, you know, when are you going to People
complaining about it? But you don't realize how many Australian
cars are it's going to going to take that. They
will make them all, but it's going to take them
years to get to it get to it all.

Speaker 9 (32:26):
So yeah, there's probably a pretty high demand that they're
having to keep up with. You know, they're not they're
not hot wheels, they're not motel, so they're not able
to pump.

Speaker 3 (32:35):
Out of your stuff, you know, of course.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
But but myself, I've always been sort of on the
hold inside of things as a post because we have
your hold in which is sort of comes under the
GM General Modus banner sort of you know, you know,
a company under them, and then we had Forward Australian
Forwards as well. I've always been on the hold inside,
but I have always had the passion for jdms as well.

(33:00):
I've only ever owned one JDM before and it's all
been Holden as a part of that. But there is
probably one other thing to mate the car that I've
got at the moment is a Holden Commodore.

Speaker 6 (33:10):
So I actually got the best of both worlds with
this one.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
So this is one that Oswill's has created. This is
a it's called a VL Holden Commodore. And one thing
that people won't know and I don't think you guys
would know about it, but this is actually this is
a nineteen eighty seven Holden and this is the best
of both worlds. So it's a GM Holden, but it's
actually got the Nissan RB thirty motor and it came

(33:37):
start for the factory with the Nissan RB thirty. So
this sort of takes it down in between JDM and
Australian and massive scene with these cars as well. You know,
they came stock with turbos as well, and it's just
one that you know, people turbo you know, put turbos.

Speaker 9 (33:54):
On and yeah, heavily st after engine a lot of people,
you know, you get thereby twenty five, twenty six, and
then the RB thirties or the bigger boor and everything,
so everybody wants those or the they came in some
trucks and stuff like that, or maybe the what is
that the patrollers or yeah, something like that.

Speaker 2 (34:11):
That's one that I've actually I've put I haven't put
it on my socials or anything, but I've actually just
recently bought myself like the one to one version of
that car, non turbo, not not turbo chide, so just
the naturally naturally aspired RB thirty in it, so.

Speaker 3 (34:27):
Time to do a turbo and you know, some burnouts.

Speaker 6 (34:31):
But yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (34:35):
Ye for those that for those of that don't know
these cars, man, it really is sad that we're not
going to see new holding some new Ossi forwards in
the future because they were some of the coolest cars every.

Speaker 6 (34:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:50):
Absolutely, I suppose one of the iconic things about Australian
cars as well as the the pickups or utes. I mean,
we've got the mutes over here, but yeah, the pick
the sports the sports utes that we.

Speaker 6 (35:02):
Have, and that's one that Osweils is actually bringing out.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
They're bringing out a just about to release in the
next series that comes out as one of the sort
of high end sports utes, which is actually a bit
of a shame that we never imported those to the
US because I reckon they would have absolutely gone off
over there.

Speaker 5 (35:20):
I know somebody who has a I think it's a
sixty five Valiant Ute, and I have a sixty four
Valiant US version that I've had since I was fifteen.
There was a there was a version of that car
over in Australia had a different back end to it,
and they were called Chrysler Valiance instead of Plymouth Valiance.

(35:42):
But yeah, there's a guy over here that imported a
Valiant ute and it's the same color as mine, which
is a bright blue. It's really cool. And I actually
got to park next to an Australian Valiance, I want
to say, TC something like that had the two forty
five in line slant six. They have a straight six
down there, and we had the slant six here in

(36:04):
the US and yours was actually really good. Ours was
indestructible but very slow, and so it was very cool.
There was a gentleman named Grant Musker that had a
He had immigrated here from Australia and brought his Valiant
with him when he moved over. And it was very
cool to park a US Valuet next to Australia and
they were they're the also ran of Australian car companies.

(36:27):
Like everybody's holding their ford and then Christmas over here
like we are also here, yeah, and nobody cares about them. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
Even in Australia with the crossles, they didn't really go
off lock the holdings and the foods.

Speaker 5 (36:41):
Well, what's funny is now all the people that are
souping up theirs, their Valiants and slant six is over here.
We get all our performance parts from Australia because that's
where people are developing the parts for it. Like there's
actual interesting developing the six cylinders because everybody over here
does V eights, So if you want something done with

(37:02):
a six cylinder, you're getting it from Australia. In fact,
the trimm rings I'm the headlights of my car are
from Australia because there's only the only people that make
the replacement headlight trimm rings for my car are in
Australia because they were the same in Australia as they
were here.

Speaker 6 (37:17):
Yeah, so even make there's there's even a Ford, a
Ford engine.

Speaker 2 (37:21):
I don't know if you've heard of it at the bar,
but it's a it's a straight six turbo turbo charge
straight six, and there's people have been importing them from
Australia and putting them in Mustangs over there.

Speaker 6 (37:32):
Yeah, super super awesome engines made here.

Speaker 4 (37:35):
So Ben, you you mentioned a super high performance ut
and I want you to hold that thought. I've got
prepared a couple of pictures of some really awesome ausy
stuff I want to see if you can guess by
the picture, and then I want to I want you
to kind of educate a little bit on maybe the
vehicle that we're holding up. So do you know this

(37:59):
high perform it's ute and this was a hard this
is my hardest one. I had to dig around a
little for it. Does that look familiar to you?

Speaker 2 (38:10):
Yeah, So that's actually the model that Oswill's is going
to create in one six four.

Speaker 6 (38:15):
So that's the v f HSV MLU.

Speaker 4 (38:21):
That's right, you nailed it.

Speaker 6 (38:23):
Probably a GTS I I'd say, by the look of it.

Speaker 4 (38:27):
So I am so glad that you said Oswill's is
going to do this vehicle. This guys, Chuck Mark, this
is six point two leaders of Zeros sixty four point four.
I mean, this is absolutely insane.

Speaker 6 (38:45):
Yeah, I'm not I'm not sure. I believe that might be.

Speaker 2 (38:47):
The ls l S A Y supercharged l s A
or l S x ye.

Speaker 4 (38:55):
What year is l S A V eight. I don't
know when this would have been.

Speaker 2 (39:06):
Two thousand and hard to say, maybe sixteen sixteen.

Speaker 4 (39:14):
All right, Well, you nailed it. It's a malu, and
you know what, I like it. I don't know how
arsies feel about this on so many cars pay homage
with Aboriginal names, you know, is like, what's still there?
Is that just respect or why is that?

Speaker 6 (39:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (39:33):
I think it's I mean obviously, you know, Australia was
colonized in eighteen whenever, only a few hundred years ago,
so I mean Aboriginal history, you know, goes back, you know,
hundreds of thousands of years. So I think it's only
you know, the right thing to do, isn't it to
sort of pay pay that respect to, you know, the

(39:54):
people that have been here for so much longer than us.
So not just cars, just everything in general. Street names,
it might be schools, you know, buildings will be named,
you know, with Aboriginal names. So I mean all right, yeah,
I mean that's a whole other you know that later.

Speaker 5 (40:13):
Yeah, it's kind of like kind of like how Jeep
has their comanchees and their Cherokee.

Speaker 6 (40:19):
Absolutely, yeah, all right.

Speaker 4 (40:22):
Number two guys, we've talked about it. We've even looked
at one already. Ben tell us exactly what this car
is and maybe, uh, this is this is one of
the bucket list ones for a true Ossy car fan,
right it is.

Speaker 2 (40:39):
I mean, if you're a Ford guy, you'd probably have
to just slide it slightly across so I can see
it see the bonnet. Yeah, yeah, that's yeah, so we did.

Speaker 6 (40:46):
We did took that.

Speaker 2 (40:46):
Yeah, you can always tell by the bonnet it's got
They call it a shaker. It sits out of a
bonet and you know, as the engine's going at shake,
so that's why they call it a shaker. The air intake.
But yeah, that's the x y GT Falcon.

Speaker 4 (41:00):
And is that this one that we looked at earlier?

Speaker 2 (41:03):
That is that one, And that's that's actually the first one,
first die cast car that Oswell's released that they call
it the FSD range, which is probably a pretty Australian.

Speaker 6 (41:13):
Thing to do. It's called the.

Speaker 2 (41:14):
FSD sound stands for fully fully sick detail.

Speaker 5 (41:22):
Nice.

Speaker 2 (41:22):
So yeah, and that's the first one that Oswell's actually
created with an interior. So early on all the Oswell's,
including this VL Commodore, they all have black blacked out windows.

Speaker 6 (41:38):
Which I don't mind the blackedout windows.

Speaker 2 (41:40):
I still love them and collect them.

Speaker 6 (41:42):
But I think, you.

Speaker 2 (41:44):
Know, die cast people in general, I think people prefer
an interior. So they've essentially just given the people what
they want and starting to bring out. Yeah, they're fully
sick detail range, which includes the full full interior, which
you pay a little bit more for. But I mean myself,
I prefer the interior, and I'm happy to pay that
little bit more for the interior as well.

Speaker 5 (42:06):
Sure. Yeah, you did a really cool Advent calendar video
with your son, So tell us a little bit about
that because that kind of tays into this.

Speaker 2 (42:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (42:19):
Absolutely, So that was one thing.

Speaker 2 (42:20):
One thing that Oswell's created for their sort of Christmas
sort of leading up to Christmas, they created an Advent
calendar and it was pretty much a car a day,
so you opened a car a day and I ended
up getting one for my son as well, so we
could sort of open it up day today, which was
quite fun.

Speaker 6 (42:39):
He's only four years old, so he absolutely loved every day.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
That was sort of part of our morning ritual, get
up and open our car, open our cars up, and
that was good fun. And it was also the start
of another creation of oswell So's. They're bringing out another
range which is sort of more based, sort of lines
up as you've got your premium range and your main
line range. That sort of lines up as a main

(43:03):
main line range and again another Ozzie name they're calling them.

Speaker 6 (43:07):
The name for it is the.

Speaker 2 (43:08):
Red Bellies, which is named after the red belly black snake,
you know, a poisonous snake here in Australia. And yeah,
they're all going to have sort of red bellies underneath,
so the base base is going to be.

Speaker 6 (43:24):
Red.

Speaker 2 (43:25):
And that's something that they're just releasing at the moment,
actually in blind boxes, so you won't actually know what
the car is until you open it, but sort of
four collectors. Collectors are still going to buy them, but
I think they're more aimed towards the kids. Something for
the kids to play with and smash around as well.

Speaker 4 (43:41):
So well, we've I had one other one, but you've
already hit it. It was the Commodore with the uh so,
no sense in asking you to name that one. I
have one last one, Ben, There was a bonus and
I'm going to I'm going to offer a million dollars

(44:03):
to Chuck or Mark if they can identify this beauty
right here. This is from one of my favorite TV shows,
Kath and Kim Out of Australia.

Speaker 3 (44:19):
It's one of your favorite TV shows, David.

Speaker 5 (44:21):
It is, Well, it wasn't blue Ey, so I haven't
seen it.

Speaker 1 (44:25):
Before, any.

Speaker 3 (44:29):
Any ideas what this is?

Speaker 5 (44:32):
Is this good?

Speaker 2 (44:34):
It's definitely not a car that's It's definitely not a
car that sort of goes down in history as like
an Australian classic, that's for sure. I can't say what
the European variant is that because it came out in Europe.
It was probably like a Reynold or something. I don't
know what it is, an open but it looks like

(44:54):
it looks like the holden.

Speaker 4 (44:56):
Burner nailed it. Oh my guys holding Marina swing from
Kath and Kim. That's what they drove around in the
show in I need to go check this show out. Hilarious.

Speaker 3 (45:11):
I don't want to anymore.

Speaker 4 (45:13):
Well, then you'll just miss out. You'll just miss out
and fine on the show, David, No, they were not.

Speaker 5 (45:21):
Actually you're about the show without cars, isn't it? Or
cool cars?

Speaker 4 (45:25):
Yeah, I guess I'm in trouble now.

Speaker 5 (45:30):
So Ben, we've we've talked about jumping you. You've kind
of moved around platforms a lot, and I knew you
from you know, a year plus ago when you were
posting more long form stuff on YouTube and then you
kind of but that wasn't when you started. Obviously you
kind of moved around a lot. So where do you

(45:51):
kind of see the the future of boy Racer been going? Like,
where do you see it, you know, spending the most time.
Where's going to be the natural home for it?

Speaker 2 (46:02):
I mean I do like Instagram, like the community around Instagram,
the friends, you know, the connections I've made on Instagram
probably the most. Like I said, YouTube's a hard one
because you can't you know, it doesn't have that direct
sort of message app and that sort of thing like
harder to you know, you put a comment on someone's
video and then I never they never see it. You

(46:23):
don't really get the notification. There's no sort of you know,
it's hard to go in and pull up a list
of all the comments and that sort of thing. It's
hard to get that back and forwards banter on YouTube.
So Instagram is definitely my sort of you know what
I think diecast is about, and it's sort of that
sort of community and making friends and sort of sharing it.
I suppose that's probably what I enjoy the most. Sorry, yeah,

(46:46):
on Instagram, but I think YouTube definitely, I definitely want
to look at going into a little bit more sort
of long content on YouTube, and I think obviously YouTube's
the only place and the best place to be doing
long form content. So I definitely see myself sort of
varying between a little bit of long long form content

(47:09):
on YouTube and still my short form content on YouTube,
but also on Instagram, but sort of you know, basing
those connections and you know.

Speaker 6 (47:18):
That banter on Instagram.

Speaker 5 (47:21):
I suppose, Yeah, so working a long form content or
you're thinking more like long form races.

Speaker 6 (47:28):
In all honesty, I don't. I don't like doing the
long form races.

Speaker 2 (47:31):
So, as I was sort of alluding to before, just
collecting in general has become a little bit more of
a passion for me sort of as time's gone on.
So I'd like to do a little bit more long
form just about collecting. And I mean, I suppose I
can go into it because I'm not someone that you know,

(47:56):
you sort of at times you sort of get the
idea that people like to keep the ideas to themselves
and that sort of thing. And you know, I've had
people message me and say, you know, I want to
start die cast racing, and you know, I've even had
people say, oh, I love what you do I'd love
to do exactly the same, and I sort of say
to them, well, why.

Speaker 6 (48:12):
Don't you, why don't you do it?

Speaker 2 (48:13):
It's it's a lot of fun, it's a good community,
and you know, I've even had a few people say, oh,
I don't want to copy you, and I said, it's
not copying you, just you know, it's.

Speaker 6 (48:21):
About having fun. So that sort of thing has never
bothered me.

Speaker 2 (48:25):
So probably one area i've sort of I don't know
if you guys agree, because you guys probably spend a
bit of time on YouTube. You are on YouTube, But
one area that is missing on YouTube is almost like.

Speaker 6 (48:38):
A long form.

Speaker 2 (48:40):
I mean, I don't want to do anything too long,
but maybe around that sort of ten minute mark. And
it's just a bit of an idea, to tell you
the truth. Time is my big constraint at the moment,
which is why short form works for me, you know,
being a full time worker, having you know, a young
family still and everything else that goes on in life.

Speaker 6 (48:59):
But I'd like to work towards feeling.

Speaker 2 (49:02):
What I think is a bit of a gap on
YouTube at the moment is essentially like a die cass,
almost like a quick news a news program sort of
a new entertainment a die cast entertainment news that sort
of covers all the latest releases that are coming out,
doesn't sort of specialize in just Hot Wheels or you.

Speaker 6 (49:21):
Know, just certain brands that covers it all.

Speaker 2 (49:24):
There are a few people doing it, but I kind
of feel like there's no one doing it really well
at the moment. I don't know how you guys feel
about that. Maybe there is someone and I just haven't
found them yet.

Speaker 6 (49:33):
Like it took me a while.

Speaker 2 (49:34):
I think I first found your channel when you actually
did that os Wheel's video with Jesse sort of popped
up on my feet and that's sort of when I
discovered you. And that's the good thing about YouTube is
you're always kind of discovering new people and you're like, oh,
who's that and I start following them and that sort
of thing.

Speaker 4 (49:50):
Well, I could tell you right off the bat. The
stuff comes out so often in our community, like it
would be in enormous dedication of time to number one,
track it all down online and then and then to
put it out there and keep it current. I mean,
you're enjoying.

Speaker 9 (50:10):
On it, you know a lot of times because people
want to see it, you know, so you go.

Speaker 4 (50:13):
Yeah, and you're going to be you know, you're just
going to be snatching. I think the idea definitely has value.
I don't know what you think, Chuck, but if you're
already crunched for time, it's not going to get any
better if you try and do current I guess news.

Speaker 9 (50:34):
Yeah, if we try to keep up with it, it's
tough for us to keep.

Speaker 3 (50:38):
Up with it.

Speaker 2 (50:39):
Yeah, I mean, it's definitely something that I mean, it's
it's like the same as anything, and to be an evolution,
like you know, your first views would be raw and
hopefully it would evolve into something. But that is one
thing I've always been worried about is time and you know,
you put a video out and the amount of editing it.
It'd almost be one that I potentially look at outsourcing
editing as well.

Speaker 5 (50:59):
Sure, yeah, I think you know, when I started exploring
how we would handle news on this show, I you know,
to go back to top Gear. I liked how they
handled the news because those shows were always the news

(51:20):
was way late by the time they got out because
those shows took, you know, months to product the show,
so instead of focusing so much on being like the
latest to break the news. It was more about you know,
what's our take on it, what's our commentary on this
new thing? You know, do we like it? Do we
not like it? Is this something that we think is

(51:40):
going to be impactful or not? Because you know, there's
the the the guys that do the news covers, they're
going to be each of the punch every time, and
they've got their groundwork laid and they've got you know,
the brands are leaking them stuff before it even comes out,
and they've even leaked a few things to us before
they've come out, which has been very coin to them.

(52:01):
But you know, if you're going to do that route,
you've got to really work on building your connections, if
you if you want to be like the one that's
known as the first to break something.

Speaker 2 (52:14):
You know, Yeah, I don't think I don't think it
was ever ever so much the thought of doing it
is more a bit of an entertainment show, just to
shure a bit of a bit of awareness of like
different models, Like I'd been looking at it, covering different
models that people don't even know about, Like you know,
there's there's sort of you know, that's one thing I
sort of have been trying to do is crack down
die cast at the moment that is, and it's probably

(52:36):
something I concentrate on collecting now.

Speaker 6 (52:37):
It's just more than unique pieces that I like, something
that's a bit different. Like I posted a.

Speaker 2 (52:41):
Video I think two days ago with a die cast
piece from X Car Toys and it was a cabbage
Cabbage truck.

Speaker 6 (52:51):
I don't know if you probably haven't seen it, but it's.

Speaker 5 (52:53):
Just your cabbage truck video. That's a really cool looking truck.

Speaker 2 (52:57):
Actually, yeah, yeah, absolutely, And they're the kind of you know,
that's sort of the way my collecting is headed, sort
of trying to I mean, obviously I love my OS wheels,
and you know there's a lot of j DM.

Speaker 6 (53:07):
Cars that I love that are out there.

Speaker 2 (53:09):
I'm always going to collect those, but then also trying
to track down those unique pieces that and to tell
you the truth, a lot of them, a lot of
them are unlicensed, unlicensed Chinese pieces you know that tuck deep.

Speaker 6 (53:25):
Deep in the depths of Alley Express that.

Speaker 2 (53:27):
I find them, which you know, it doesn't bother me
because you know, a lot of the mass super unique
pieces that just look awesome. So yeah, that's sort of
a direction that I've sort of started collecting from it
now as well.

Speaker 4 (53:42):
Yeah, you're you're in the blade.

Speaker 2 (53:43):
Which is probably which is yeah, which is probably controversial
for a lot of people.

Speaker 6 (53:47):
You know, I know a lot of collectors don't like
unlicensed pieces.

Speaker 3 (53:51):
But yeah, yeah, we've talked about it before.

Speaker 9 (53:54):
But you know, to each to each their own and whoever,
you know, whatever you want to deal you.

Speaker 3 (54:00):
You know, it's much cheaper that way if you like them,
then you know.

Speaker 4 (54:05):
Yeah, And I would say, I was saying, Ben, you're
you're in the black hole with me, because I that's
I live on Ali Express. I'm getting x X car
Toys has nineteen sixties Soviet Chinese military truck like getting that.

Speaker 6 (54:24):
I've been eyeing off that.

Speaker 2 (54:25):
I think it must be like some sort of Chinese
military not conscription, but you know, sign up to the
military truck pace I've been looking at. So yeah, the
real sort of strange paces like that, but you know,
pretty cool.

Speaker 4 (54:37):
Say, and that's that's how cool our Our our hobby
is right now is like if you if it has
wheels and an engine, somebody is probably making it in
die cast and that's that's why it's uh, you know,
an awesome time to be a collector.

Speaker 9 (54:56):
Yeah, I think it's I think the biggest thing for
all of us, all four of us in our journey
of hot wheels, is going through those different stages of
you know, like you've been. I started making a lot
of skip videos and funny videos and stuff like that,
and then you know, reviews, hunting videos of hunting, and
then you know, now I don't have time for that

(55:16):
stuff anymore. I have a one year old daughter, so
you know, and then I work full time and then
some so but it's just that kind of journey where
you can kind of go wherever you want, you know.
Then you get into racing, like then you have a
kid and they like to run the cars down the track,
and then you start doing it, and then all of
a sudden you're making I'm sure that probably had something
to do with your videos, you know, when you started

(55:39):
making the racing videos, because you're buying that stuff for
to play with with your kid and stuff like that.
So it's there's all these different journeys that we go down,
and it's it's endless because there's so much out there.
But yeah, it sounds like you're kind of going on
your journey right now back into you know, into collecting
more so than racing. So do you do you foresee

(56:02):
yourself going, you know, sticking with the racing aspect of it,
or kind of just kind of leaving it behind a
little bit.

Speaker 6 (56:10):
No, I'm definitely going to stick stick with the racing.

Speaker 2 (56:13):
It might be sort of a case of me running
a tournament and then the tournament ends and then I'll
sort of have a bit of a break more collecting
sort of things. Another long sort of not too long,
but doing a sort of a long format video on YouTube.
I'm trying to sort of piece it together at the moment.
I'm looking at doing sort of a little bit of

(56:33):
a racing series, but it's just going to be sort
of one street race. It'll be sort of a shorter video,
maybe two three minutes. But I'm trying to create like
a story around.

Speaker 6 (56:42):
The race as well. The biggest issue I'm having at
the moment is.

Speaker 2 (56:48):
Trying to so I'm using the minifigures as characters and
I want to sort of, you know, have a story
behind it, like each character has has something going on.
But the biggest issue I'm having at the moment is
the voices for the characters, but you.

Speaker 3 (57:02):
Know, hit us up and we'll try.

Speaker 9 (57:05):
To help with voices, you know, yeah, yeah, female characters.

Speaker 5 (57:12):
Wow voices when when my voice comes back.

Speaker 2 (57:18):
You know, because there's nothing, nothing like that's been done before.
So I was sort of thinking, if I can build
sort of like a bit of a story, I do
the race, and then I build the story around the race,
you know, bringing in references from like initial D like.

Speaker 6 (57:31):
Fast and the Furious from other movies, just.

Speaker 2 (57:34):
Trying to make it fun, but also trying to keep
it short and sharp, because you know, you don't want
you know, you've got little mini figures that don't move,
so you don't want to be wasting too much time
on a story. But you know, putting a few little
sort of dark humor pieces into it as well. But
the biggest constraint I'm having at the moment, Yeah, like
I said, is trying to is trying to have different

(57:56):
character voices, some sort of looking at voice change changes
and all sorts of things and AI voices, but yeah,
there's sort of nothing that's really yeah your face, So
that I mean, that's something i'd like to bring to life.
How soon it happens, I'm not sure but I'd like

(58:16):
to sort of have like maybe two episodes a week
come out around this story and see how it goes.

Speaker 6 (58:23):
So we'll see how what happens.

Speaker 2 (58:26):
It could be Yeah, yeah, I think we could get.

Speaker 9 (58:30):
Maybe get Chad or Chad Limberg to do some voice.

Speaker 3 (58:36):
You don't get all the Noel gee.

Speaker 6 (58:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (58:40):
Yeah, that's another reason you got to come out to Vegas. Man,
they're all out there.

Speaker 6 (58:47):
Absolutely. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (58:50):
They're great guys too. I mean all the people like they're.

Speaker 5 (58:53):
Very easy to easy to talk to, talk to, and we've.

Speaker 3 (58:57):
Got a relationship with with Chad.

Speaker 5 (59:00):
Yeah. So, so Ben, we touched on this a little bit.
Are you doing this full time now or do you
still have a d job? No?

Speaker 2 (59:08):
No, this is this is my This is my hobby,
and I mean it'd probably be nice to do it
full time, but at the same time, it is a
hobby and it's probably something I haven't touched on, and
you know, I think that's why I've been able to
stick with it and make videos continuously because it is
fun and I enjoy doing it. And you know, there

(59:29):
has been a time that I probably have burnt out
a little bit trying to, you know, put pressure on
myself to put content out and it's something I've sort
of stepped away from now kind of just sort of
try and keep it as a hobby and something I enjoy.
So no, it's definitely, it's just it's just part time
at the moment, you know, in my spare time. Like
I said, I'm working full time luckily been in the

(59:52):
mining industry, I sort.

Speaker 6 (59:53):
Of I work for a week pretty hard for a.

Speaker 2 (59:56):
Week, no spare time, and then I have the next
week off, so I pretty much do two of work
in one week and have the full week off. So
that week off gives me time in between my son,
you know, going to kindergarten. You know, when he's home,
it's hard to get anything done. But yeah, yeah, it's
it is tough trying to juggle work, family and this

(01:00:17):
at the same time. And you just trying to the
day for sure, definitely true. Trying to remind myself that,
you know, even so sleep is pretty important because I noticed, sure,
you know, you start missing out and sleep and then
you don't have no motivation to actually do it. So
it's trying to find that balance and just making sure
that it doesn't become a chore and it stays a hobby,

(01:00:40):
which I think at the moment I'm doing really well with.

Speaker 3 (01:00:43):
Sounds like you've got the sweet spots and stick with it.

Speaker 6 (01:00:48):
Yeah, trying to work on it. Yeah, you can always improve,
but trying to work on it.

Speaker 5 (01:00:52):
I think that's a very popular misconception with a lot
of people that are creating content on YouTube that you know.
I ask because I'm genuinely curious how many people in
this hobby have been able to make a living doing
just content creation about tiny cars on social media, and

(01:01:14):
right now, I think I've identified maybe three people who
have been able to do it. And you know, it's
like Jakari Dikast project Peak Racing, Peak Time Peak Time Racing,
and he even even he says the channel itself is
not enough, he does other content creation three and three

(01:01:37):
D bot Maker. I think three D bot Maker does
it full time, but I'm pretty sure that nobody else
is really doing it full time, you know, And I
think that's something important for people to keep in perspective,
because I think there are a lot of people out
there that have this idea that they're going to go
out and become full time Hot Wheels content creators, and

(01:01:58):
it's like probably not, you know, it's fun. Yeah, exactly. Well,
that's the thing is, like, you know, even just we
did a brand deal and just having to do the
you know, keep up with that and you know, are
we fulfilling our obligations, And it was just like, oh boy,

(01:02:18):
now this is a job, you know, and you know,
I love I love that we had that opportunity and
it was super cool and we look forward to doing
more of those. But you know, it's like it's something
that I like to bring up when we have creators
on because it's it's a little bit of reality check
too that it's like, yeah, you know, boy, racer Men
does very very well. He's got, you know, one of

(01:02:40):
the most popular channels out there on just about any
platform you can think of, and he still has a
day job. So you know, we all have day jobs.
So where we have no illusions of this being a
full time career. We just do it because we love
the hobby and we love talking to people, and people
seem to be willing to show on shell so we

(01:03:01):
keep doing it.

Speaker 2 (01:03:02):
So yeah, I mean, I mean that is a good point.
I think it is. I think it is possible to
do it full time.

Speaker 6 (01:03:07):
But I think.

Speaker 2 (01:03:10):
I mean, for myself, I'm at a disadvantage being in Australia.
You know, we can't get paid by Instagram, we can't
get paid by TikTok, which is fine I think, and
even Facebook as well.

Speaker 5 (01:03:20):
I can't.

Speaker 6 (01:03:20):
I can't get paid from Facebook at the moment either.
It's crazy, but I think.

Speaker 2 (01:03:28):
I think to take it full time would definitely risk
taking the enjoyment out of it. I think to take
it full time, I'd be pumping out a lot more content,
a lot more long form content, and it would just
take the fun out of it.

Speaker 6 (01:03:40):
And you take the fun out of it. Are you
going to enjoy your.

Speaker 3 (01:03:43):
Job creativity properly?

Speaker 4 (01:03:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:03:46):
Absolutely absolutely, So.

Speaker 2 (01:03:49):
You know it's I mean, like I said, I'd like
to sort of that little sort of racing idea, creating
a story around. It's definitely something I want to sort
of explor a little bit more see how it goes.
But yeah, I don't think this is something I'll ever
be doing full time unless I had other avenues, you know,

(01:04:09):
I open a die carshop or something like that, which
I'm not interested in doing.

Speaker 4 (01:04:12):
So, Hey, Ben, you you talked about the warm reception
that you had from the die cast community when you started,
you're building your channels, and the positivity that you've experienced,
I'm curious, is there something that you hope your fans

(01:04:34):
get from your content? Is there like a mission statement
in your head when you are building your brand? What
do you want to give the community?

Speaker 2 (01:04:45):
I touched on it before, and that's another comment that
I used to get a lot as well. It's kind
of like, you know, definitely my content, especially the racing
and when I try and sort of recreate scenes, it's
you know, bringing out I suppose the inner child. I suppose,
so you know, reminding you know, probably reminding people not

(01:05:05):
to take life too seriously. You know, I've been in
the military, I've been on deployments. You know, I've had
quite serious times in my life where I've had to
be serious. But you know, in all honesty, that's you know,
if you can enjoy life, I don't think.

Speaker 6 (01:05:20):
You should be taking life that seriously.

Speaker 2 (01:05:21):
You should be enjoying it, doing something that you're passionate about.
But yeah, it's just trying to bring out that in
a child and trying to trying to recreate the imagination.

Speaker 6 (01:05:31):
I suppose. So, like I said before, something that you know,
when when you've.

Speaker 2 (01:05:36):
Got a you know, my four year old son and
he's pushing a car around a little imagining that it's
a road, sort of trying to recreate what he's thinking in.

Speaker 6 (01:05:43):
His head in sort of in one six four scale,
I suppose, And yeah, that's what it's all about for me.

Speaker 4 (01:05:51):
Yeah, well said, Well said, Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:05:53):
I think you're doing a really good job at that
because I mean just watching the you know, the fast
and furious videos and just kind of brings you back
to the childhood days of just ramping cars off of
things and your imagination. And you know, I'm looking forward
to my daughter being one years old, she's starting to
play with cars.

Speaker 3 (01:06:10):
I'm giving her some bigger stuff.

Speaker 9 (01:06:11):
But I'm looking forward to, you know, getting the tracks
set up and doing that. And you know, I don't
know what avenue that'll bring me down. You know, maybe
I'll start doing some racing videos too, who knows, But yeah,
it's really fun watching the videos. It brings you back
to I think everybody wants a little bit of that nostalgia,
you know, the times when you were young and had

(01:06:33):
the imagination and it was kind of a care free time,
you know, kind.

Speaker 2 (01:06:36):
Of yeah, escape a little bit, Yeah, yeah, definitely.

Speaker 3 (01:06:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:06:44):
So Ben, you're best known for, you know, racing hot wheels,
and you've touched on Ozwheel some. But I understand you
have quite a few other Diecast brands in your collection.
What are some of the ones that you like the
best and what are some of the ones that you've
really been grabbing eating towards lately as you're relatively new
to the collecting the Harvey.

Speaker 2 (01:07:04):
Yeah, so obviously you said Oswell's gravitated a lot towards that.

Speaker 6 (01:07:08):
But outside the.

Speaker 2 (01:07:09):
Australian sort of car scene and Australian die cast pretty much,
I do have my favorite brands, but when it comes
down to it, if I like a piece of die Cast,
I buy it. So I wouldn't say there's any major brands.
Probably brands that I have gravitated towards lately would be

(01:07:29):
pop Raised. So obviously I've been to a few events lately.
I was out in Japan with Lee and Drifter as well.

Speaker 6 (01:07:35):
Out there, so pop Rais has been one.

Speaker 2 (01:07:40):
I like what they're doing, the die cast that they're making,
the tooling that they're using, and just everything. One for
me obviously doing racing it doesn't really apply when it
comes to premius.

Speaker 6 (01:07:51):
But I just I really I.

Speaker 2 (01:07:53):
Like something that's got a bit of weight to it,
but something that also rolls as well.

Speaker 6 (01:07:56):
But when it.

Speaker 2 (01:07:57):
Comes down to it, I wouldn't have favorites, you know.
I collect Cato House. Pato House is one. I've got
a lot of pot Race.

Speaker 6 (01:08:06):
I've got a lot of There's a few other brands
out there, like micro Turbo. I quite like micro Turbo.

Speaker 2 (01:08:14):
There's there's two that sounds similar as micro Turbo, and
then there's what's the other one, the non licensed one,
Turbo My there's Turbo, Micro and micro Turbo anyway.

Speaker 3 (01:08:25):
Them.

Speaker 6 (01:08:26):
Yeah, yeah, another one.

Speaker 2 (01:08:29):
Lately, I've brought a few Hobby Japan's as well, actually
got a few Hobby Japan and yeah, I really like
Hobby Japan as well.

Speaker 6 (01:08:35):
I've just sort of discovered Hobby Japan and I'm stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:08:39):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely getting up on the premium level.
What about Mini GT. You talk about a weighty car
that rolls well, Mini GT's yeah, pretty good one.

Speaker 2 (01:08:50):
I mean, like I said, I've gone for the Cato House.
I've got quite a bit of Cato House, that's right.

Speaker 9 (01:08:57):
I don't slippery slope right there. There's a lot of
stuff coming up to them.

Speaker 6 (01:09:01):
So it is yeah, absolutely, I mean Cato House some
of the scales.

Speaker 2 (01:09:09):
I don't enjoy the scales. But at the same point,
I know Cato House has said that they're not creating
on six four scales, They're you know, just creating die
cast pieces.

Speaker 6 (01:09:19):
So I appreciate Cato House for what it is I do.

Speaker 2 (01:09:23):
It does kind of annoy me sometimes if I line
them up in a video and I've got a Honda
Civic that's you know, yeah, kind of gets to me
a little bit. At the same time, you know what
Cato House do with their cars and the detail they
put in them, you know, you shrink that down to
you know, take thirty percent off the size, it's going
to be a lot harder to get.

Speaker 6 (01:09:42):
That detail, and even looking at it, it's going to
be like huh.

Speaker 2 (01:09:45):
So I kind of understand why they do it, but yeah,
just Mini GT in general, same thing. I find sometimes
their scale can be off. I do like Mini GT.
It's just quite a bit more selective in what I'll
pick up from them. But that's the same with any
die cast brand. I'm very selective on what I'll pick up,

(01:10:06):
so even Pop Race, if I don't like a casting,
I won't pick it up as well, just so happens.
Probably Pop Race make a few of my favorite castings,
which is the I'm probably safe to say most of
us probably have a Haka Suka in their collection. She
was probably one of my favorites, and obviously going to

(01:10:26):
Japan probably my favorite pieces in my collection being at
the event and seeing the cars in real life. They
had the Haka Super and the Ken Mary at the
event and the Fat five racing pieces. They've probably just
because of the sentimental value and how much I like
both those cars, they've probably become my favorite pieces in
my whole collection.

Speaker 6 (01:10:46):
So yeah, but I still do collect the hot wheels.
I'd buy.

Speaker 2 (01:10:53):
I still buy RLCs. At the moment, I'm very selective
on what i'll buy. Been in Australia, we pay a
little bit for Poe Stitch and you know, RLS is
a tough one. At the moment, I like it, But
you know, what was it the Lamborghini?

Speaker 6 (01:11:12):
Is it the Mirror? The mirror that just came out recently. Mirror.

Speaker 2 (01:11:16):
You know we're paying sixty seven dollars for that plus
thirty dollars posted, so paying one hundred dollars one hundred
dollars to get that to the door. So I passed them.
I really wanted that one, but I suppose out of principle,
I just passed on that one just for the you know,
you can buy something else. You can buy you know,
Atomica Atomica one, you know, for cheaper and that sort
of thing. That Toomica Limited Vintage Neo, which is a

(01:11:37):
brand I want to get more of that I haven't
sort of explored, but I sort of like what they
do as well, so.

Speaker 4 (01:11:43):
You'll like them.

Speaker 6 (01:11:44):
You'll like them, yeah, I know I will. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:11:48):
Ignition Model, I feel like, I mean this is another
one as well, Ignition Model. Are they resin models?

Speaker 9 (01:11:54):
Yeah, well, I don't know if there the Davids bought
me one the one sixty fourth.

Speaker 4 (01:11:58):
Is that a resin or as they I think they
do both. Actually I think they do diecas and resin.
Their resins are just this world.

Speaker 3 (01:12:11):
Those are those are display pieces.

Speaker 9 (01:12:13):
Those are not you know one yeah roll down the
track or just roll those are display pieces.

Speaker 3 (01:12:18):
And I think they're really.

Speaker 6 (01:12:20):
Yeah, I mean completely, I completely understand that.

Speaker 2 (01:12:24):
I mean, I've got this this is the inner Ford Escort.
I don't know if you guys remember this one when
it came out. Doesn't look as good in the camera,
but it's like it's an amazing piece, doesn't roll its resin,
it's super lightweight. Yeah, I mean, I love the I.

Speaker 6 (01:12:40):
Love the car.

Speaker 2 (01:12:41):
I love what they've done with it. But it's just
something about not having the weight. Like I like to
pick the cars up, look at them and you know,
put them in videos, and it's probably something I need
to get over.

Speaker 3 (01:12:54):
But it's a lead in the window or something like that.

Speaker 6 (01:12:58):
Glue can't see across the resin, the resin factor yet.

Speaker 4 (01:13:03):
Let it let hey, let it go, let it go. Yeah,
you have to let it go.

Speaker 3 (01:13:07):
Yeah, but.

Speaker 6 (01:13:09):
It does look good. It does look amazing sitting sitting
there on display. Sorry, it's good.

Speaker 3 (01:13:14):
To display pieces.

Speaker 9 (01:13:15):
I like their larger their larger scale stuff. I've yet
to buy it, but I want to buy their five
ten wagon. That's a I don't know what it is,
one twenty fourth or something like that. Yeah, yeah, absolutely,
three three two to four dollars I can remember.

Speaker 3 (01:13:30):
But yeah, that's cool stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:13:36):
Well, I personally been I fully support you going down
the rabbit hole. That I did, uh on to the
forty to fifty sixty dollars models. Now once you go,
you can't you can't go back to the cheap ot
stuff in the future.

Speaker 3 (01:13:51):
So it's really define cool.

Speaker 4 (01:13:53):
Sorry, al R your wallet.

Speaker 6 (01:13:56):
Yeah, yeah, I'm well aware of that.

Speaker 2 (01:13:57):
And it's yeah, taking a hit, and it will continue
to take a hit. So yeah, that's that's fine, and
I'm more than happy with that.

Speaker 5 (01:14:04):
How you go and investing in your personal happiness care,
self care, self care, I.

Speaker 2 (01:14:12):
Mean, and when you when you're lucky enough to be
in the position that you know, YouTube offsets it in
a way. It definitely makes the decision to pick these
higher higher end pieces up as well easy.

Speaker 5 (01:14:23):
I'm sure sure, absolutely all right, Ben, Well, thank you
again so much for being on the show with us.
For those who somehow don't know how, how do they
connect with you? Where do they find you? What's the
best way to low key boy racer Ben?

Speaker 6 (01:14:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:14:40):
Easy one, yeah boy racer Ben on? Yeah, I mean,
I am on TikTok. I'm not so much posting there,
but Instagram and probably Instagram is the best place, especially
if people want to message me as well. So people
I still get messages on Facebook and that sort of thing.
Not too active, not too active on YouTube as well,
just because you know, it is harder to sort of

(01:15:01):
get in touch with people Instagram if people want to
get touch in touch with me in general. But yeah,
I usually post my up to date content on Instagram,
YouTube and Facebook. So whatever your preferred platform is.

Speaker 5 (01:15:15):
Yeah, sure, all right, fantastic Paul again, Thank you Ben,
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be for die casts, so he might be onto something.
This guy, he's in touch with what the youth want,
the the utes, not the utes, not the Australian but

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actually New Jersey youths. So well, thanks all right, thanks yeah,
thanks for being here, Ben, and thanks for making It's
the end of another episode of that guest Breakdown. As always,
want to thank you for coming along with us for
the ride. So until next time, stay fresh cheese.

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