You won't believe how we pulled off getting Hoonigan's building

Summary

The video follows a vlogger's chaotic journey from a remote island to Los Angeles to oversee the moving of his company's office. Despite fog cancelling his plane, he improvises by ferry, helicopter and driving to make his flight. More mishaps occur: the moving truck arrives before paperwork is complete and keys obtained. Once moving commences, excitement builds seeing their new expansive space taking shape. Vehicles are transported and art installed. The vlogger prevails through persistent optimism, adaptability and support of his team.

Takeaways

• 😀 The narrator is trying to travel from an island to LAX airport for a flight but fog is causing flight cancellations
• 😟 Multiple transportation options are explored including ferry, plane and helicopter to get off the island
• 🛶 A new walk-on ferry service called Hulo is tried to reach Vancouver
• ✈️ The narrator ultimately takes a helicopter to Vancouver then flies to LAX
• 🕑 The LAX flight is delayed allowing more time to reach the airport
• 👷‍♂️ Movers arrive at the new DDE headquarters building which has lots of space
• 🚗 Exotic cars are brought to the new headquarters location
• 🎨 The building is branded with DDE logos and murals
• 🤹‍♂️ Cars are drifted and spun in the parking lot
• 🥳 Despite logistical challenges, move to new HQ is completed

Q & A

Why does the narrator live on an island?

The narrator lives on an island off the coast of Vancouver.

How does the narrator typically get on and off the island?

The narrator typically takes a float plane or regular plane off the island. Boats are another option but very slow.

Why were the planes unable to fly on the day the narrator needed to get off the island?

The planes were unable to fly because there was too much fog. Since they fly visually (VFR), the fog prevented them from being able to see where they were going.

Where was the narrator trying to fly to and why was it urgent?

The narrator needed to get to Los Angeles by 7pm that day for a flight to move their business the next day. It was urgent because the movers were scheduled to arrive the next morning.

What transportation options did the narrator consider to get off the island?

The narrator considered a jet, a ferry called Hulo, and ultimately took a helicopter to Vancouver.

What problems did the narrator encounter when moving into the new building?

The narrator did not have access to the new building at first. Also, the building needed a deep clean before moving in.

How big was the new building the narrator moved into?

The new building was 30,000 square feet inside with 50,000 square feet of parking space outside.

Who helped paint the DDE logos on the new building?

A graffiti artist named J2 helped paint the DDE logos on the new building.

What caused damage to the Mercedes van?

The van was damaged from hitting the back of it with trailers and trucks.

How did the narrator celebrate moving into the new building?

The narrator did donuts with one of the cars in the parking lot to celebrate moving into the new building.

Outlines

00:00

🚁 Struggling to Get Off a Foggy Island to Make a Flight

He lives on an island and fog has caused flight cancellations, making it difficult for him to get off the island to catch a flight to LA to handle moving logistics. He tries float planes, ferries, helicopters, and more to try to find a way off.

05:01

🚚 First Moving Trucks Arrive at the New 30,000 Sq Ft DDE Headquarters

The first moving trucks arrive at the massive new 30,000 square foot DDE headquarters. James reflects on how they managed to secure the new space against the odds. They start moving cars and furniture in while trying to get the huge shop properly cleaned up and organized.

10:03

🐎 Moving Cars and Somehow End Up Near Horses?

While moving cars to the new HQ in traffic, they somehow end up near people riding horses, questioning where exactly they have moved to.

15:05

🖼️ Late Night Art Installation and Branding the New Building

After getting moved in, they start personalizing the space by installing wall art and branding elements like "Powered by DDE" and "Life's Too Short to Drive Boring Cars" on the walls.

20:55

😂 Jameson Tries and Fails to Paint a Mural

James attempts to try spray paint art to help create a mural but quickly fails at it while the actual artist J2 takes over to handle the spray painting properly.

25:57

🚗 Celebratory Donuts in the Parking Lot

With the move finished, they celebrate by doing donuts with their cars in the parking lot outside the new huge shop space.

Keywords

💡island

The narrator lives on an island off the coast of Vancouver. Being on an island creates a key challenge for him to get to the airport on time, since he has to take a boat or plane to get off the island. This island location is referenced multiple times when he talks about the fog delaying his float plane.

💡fog

There is heavy fog around the island, which is preventing planes from taking off and landing. This fog is the main reason that the narrator's flights keep getting delayed or canceled, making it difficult for him to get off the island on time.

💡float plane

Float planes are aircraft with pontoons that allow them to land on water. The narrator had booked a float plane to take him from the island to Vancouver, but it was canceled due to the foggy weather conditions.

💡helicopter

When the float plane was canceled, the narrator booked a helicopter instead to try to make his flight on time. Helicopters are able to fly in foggy conditions.

💡flight

The narrator has a flight he is trying to catch from Vancouver to Los Angeles. He needs to get to this flight on time for work obligations the next day. Multiple flights end up delayed or canceled due to the fog.

💡moving

A key reason the narrator needs to get to LA is that his company is moving offices the next day. Movers are coming to pack up their old office. He needs to be there to meet with the realtor about their new office space.

💡building

The narrator mentions they are moving into a new office building in LA. He provides some details about the large size of the building and parking area. The process of securing the new building has evidently been lengthy.

💡real estate

The narrator references dealing with real estate agents, making offers, and signing paperwork to try to finalize acquiring the new office building in time for the move.

💡logistics

A lot of complicated logistics are mentioned, such as moving inventory, cars, and equipment to the new building, while also getting workers and personnel relocated.

💡commute

The narrator frames this as an extreme "master commute" with all the complications of flights, fog delays, moving logistics, and real estate contracts converging at once. His commute encapsulates the video's theme of orchestrating a complex move.

Highlights

Narrator lives on an island and is trying to get off to make a flight, but fog has caused flight cancellations.

Narrator books a seaplane to fly off the island, but it gets cancelled due to fog.

Narrator tries a ferry called Hulo as an option to leave the island.

The Hulo ferry may be able to operate in the fog when planes cannot.

Narrator's LA flight gets delayed by 2 hours, giving more time to travel.

The building lease and insurance for the new DDE headquarters location gets finished at the last minute.

The DDE team starts moving into the new 30,000 sq ft headquarters building.

The new HQ has 50,000 sq ft of parking space outside.

Everyone at DDE gets their own office in the new headquarters.

The team wants to clean and organize the new building before fully moving in.

DDE founder Damon Fryer says he "can't believe" and is "speechless" about acquiring the new headquarters.

The team brings cars to the new HQ first while the moving truck comes later.

They plan to create a racetrack with the large amount of space at the new HQ.

The team starts customizing the headquarters with DDE branding and murals.

Muralist J2 uses a projector to help paint a large wall mural.

Transcripts

well we have a

problem you see it give you a better

view fog look at that H bird uh lots of

fog lots of fog for a few days now and

here's why it's an issue I live on an

island not that kind of Island an actual

island in the Pacific Ocean off the

coast of

Vancouver and the only way off the

island is by airplane or by a boat the

boat's very slow the fair is like two

and a bit hours so I book a float plane

or regular plane or whatever and in this

case it was a float plane and every

single flight has been canceled today

because of the fog they can't fly in the

fog they're VFR they just see where

they're going fair enough

so I'm not sure how we're getting off

the island today to make my flight to

the LA at 700 p.m. Vancouver to LAX

arrived at 11:30 p.m. it's

currently oh give me one sec 1:45 my

flight leaves in 45 minutes but it's

supposed to leave now it's not leaving

the fair is 2 and a half hours 2 hours

that won't work so we need to get really

creative here to get off this rock

that's part of commuting a master

commute for DDE so join me and see if we

can't get there because tomorrow's

moving day like we got to pack up the

whole shop I need to be there to meet

the realtor to figure out the new

building it's not I want to get to the

details of that because it's been going

back and forth for like 6 weeks as far

as like an offer was rejected on one

building and another building we have a

really good option I don't know right

now if you guys know what it is yet but

I'm going to assume you don't so I'm not

going to share it but it's not done yet

and we are moving tomorrow the movers

come to move into the new building and

we're not done there's a few steps in

the way including insurance and some

other Minor Details because it's a

subase but we'll get into that let's

just figure out how the hell we get off

this

island oh The Misery all right guys

here's the update I found an option well

there's two options number one or two

doesn't matter what order we do it in

momento Style there is a hella jet over

here where I can fly that leaves at 610

lands at 6:40 my flight boards at 710

it's a separate terminal and I have to

do customs and security it's kind of

risky so I found a new option which I

forgot existed which is called Hollow

hulo the signage for it great marketing

and it's a walk-on fairy it's brand new

I've never been on it before and we're

going to try it out today hopefully it

can go in the fog I can't imagine why it

wouldn't it goes down Time Vancouver

took a cab we'll be at the airport for

6:00 cool

cool there's

delay so now I have decide to just jump

on a helicopter cuz the helicopter

leaves at 6:10 guys my watch 6:10 if

this is late and this goes downtown and

there's traffic we might be might be in

uh barar situation here all right we're

boarding now but I just got notification

that my flight to La is now delayed 2

hours so in a way it's LA and it worked

out in a way it didn't so we have an

hour and 10 sailing to downtown probably

an hour cab ride and then we get to the

airport probably have 2 hours to spare

so we have some time to kill make some

Vancouver car spotting maybe go see

Uncle Raymond that

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pieces

there it

is so far pretty good so what's the uh

what's the big deal with all this what

are we doing up here what are we doing

up here yeah we're going to Vancouver

there's there's three there's three

classes there's economy premium and

business that's correct and you get more

space and it's not that expensive it's

like $20 more so I company credit card

so I opted for

it that's still the entire time now we

have to get to the airport and figure

out if our next plate is going to go or

not otherwise we're stuck in Vancouver

tonight this is the Olympic torches from

2010 downtown Vancouver anyways find an

Uber I made the flight now midnight it's

about 2 and 1 half hours delayed I

didn't filming is really

boring but uh I just got insurance in

the new building and the leas is signed

we move to

it came down to like literally the last

minute what we don't have

is a time to meet they change the keys

over and I'm told we may not be able to

move because of that but the movers come

tomorrow like we can't stop it I asked

Mike for to call the another day and

they said nope be there in the morning

so see look at the water gushing out the

back of the

Hummer I hit the happy modor hold on uh

we had a huge

rainstorm and it's full of water it's

insane

dude this

hard welcome home

boys how are you how's the drive not too

bad no traffic yet no not yet how's our

movers doing back at the shop right now

they're uh they almost have the truck

completely packed full so there's still

some stuff but I think it's stuff that

we can move pretty easily what's funny

is they have I know the games they play

we're going to get a that'll be a big

moving bill it cool to do 500 or it'll

be three grand it so it was like 750

bucks to start and then 200 something

per hour after that plus any equipment

that oh bro it's going to be a few

Grands yeah exactly all right uh we're

going to go in this gate okay all

right

first load officially here at the

HQ that's right the

new DDE HQ

30,000 square ft with about 50,000 ft on

the outside of the parking space and uh

we're not officially moved in yet we

have some paperwork to do but they're

let us do an early entry so we are

bringing

the cars I'm kind of speechless right

now saw some of the hoonigan stuff here

which is crazy we going to get that out

today

well the first trucks

arrived throttle back it's too loud

throttle

back got some race cars here oh yeah you

pumped dude it's surre I just can't

believe

like it's just the fact that this all

happened it's happening right now you

couldn't predict that this was going to

be available and that uh we would end up

here like it's just it's wild and this

is like and no this this place is like

when I say it is [ __ ] huge this is

less than the quarter of the building

we're in right now this is because our

entire old location like legit we can

create a whole racetrack out of the

building in the outside and we will huh

all right so the boys brought

us so a bunch of the cars obviously

aren't plated or registered to drivve on

the street and we're trying to beat rush

hour so that's why we asked them for a

bit of Early Access to start moving

Vehicles back and forth cuz it does burn

up a lot of time and then the actual

Furniture truck will be here probably an

hour with probably a massive bill look

at the bank angle of these planes they

come

in it's

wild oh [ __ ] we brought the McLaren and

the

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McCaron very first car the new official

DDE headquarters dude how sick is this

though it's insane so crazy [ __ ] that

old place dude this is like dude come on

we have this entire lot now there's

massive amounts of room inside the

building I get lost whenever I'm in

there I'm like which room am I in right

now everyone gets their own office

regardless if you need it or not

do you have Windows black spray Tim has

an office with the desk he's like what

do I do in here I don't know Tim just do

the

paperwork do your work dtim do your

homework so right now the boys is just

making sure that there's somewhat a

clean area the entire building needs a

deep clean so we thought we'll move

everything we have into this section for

now where the rest gets cleaned up and

then figure out where everything lives

in the meantime the boys was making sure

there's no obviously U nail screws or

anything that could puncture a tire also

just make it look good for you guys guys

damid also is a clean kind of person so

we like things

clean all right let's get going may

maybe let's keep that trailer hey if we

put that inside technically it belongs

to us like possession is 9/10 of the law

so that's our new goose neck TR you

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guys

do a donut the lot has to be cleared so

before we can do anything D over here we

want to get a su superer to get all the

debris off so it'll puncture a

tire where's the camera has

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it all right we're moving

cars

how's the how's that clutch pedal Mike

we are on the 710 and it 45 I was just

saying to Tim like that's actually it's

not too bad n and then we on the 710

exit and it's well is that bad oh yeah

it's hear that

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mik

yeah he's he's he's just idling man he's

chilling

got the bike moner to rev Road what is

going on Sean can't turn Tim where did

we move no hold on a second where are we

hold on a

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second was that a horse that was a

horse I think uh I think we didn't move

to the right area we not we moov

to well

was that the horse I don't know I want

to go hide uh the horse was

cool

yeah

yeah yeah they're dope but like if I'm

spending the money of not buying a c but

how much but how much is a GT4 RS like

260 yeah that's a lot for a yeah but it

there's a very few so it'll probably

hold value I don't know because it's not

a purest thing maybe because it's an RS

but it's the last uh and

ABC

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course

now you know that was a little scary but

it was

okay I I was a little nervous but not

that nervous if it was my Technica guy I

probably would have been crying

screaming I would have got in front of

the car I would have been like

stop you out of here Ryan

you're going to do the I'll do a spin

and I'll leave spin it to win it I'm

going to do a spin and

leave

yeah yeah

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Ryan let's

go I'll get

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close

hope he doesn't

uh

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there got a little hectic towards the

end are you holding on to the ladder hey

it got I'm holding on to the ladder it

got a little hectic with the bumps in

the highway

dude he's crazy dude but by the way svr

is

sick let's hear the

svr what's up let's hear you Revit a

little

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bit She Bangs She Bangs She Bangs so we

have a little bit of a late night art

installation yes we do is Jay here not

yet no no everyone for a drive real

quick

welcome to the uh ddq have you been to

this building before I have not my arm

is completely numb bro look at it holy

[ __ ] holding on to that for by the way

you also match again today yeah we

switched it to the

blue got rid of the yellow switched it

to the

blue bro had a ladder all the way here

well the Range Rover is versatile I give

you that much yeah my buddy was like

it's not going to work with the Range

Rover you didn't need a truck and we

made it work I the building

and then there was

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that a ladder there I would have taken

you inside all right now do the interior

tour yeah now let's go

inside

riing it's a carrer van GT man it's been

on gum ball think you might scratch the

front

bumper well looks all right you remember

when I came here were you yeah you were

here when I came here and it was the

lake and I ripped the whole front end of

the van off in the lake this thing's

been through some [ __ ] it's been through

some [ __ ] you see the back oh you got a

straw stuck in your oh that that's for

the nitrous that's a purge you got

it decided to be [ __ ] and we

started hitting the back of the van with

the trucks Oh with the trailers so we

just started driving into it best part

is check this out still works bro bro

functional

functional Dodge not bad that's some

americanmade stuff right you can't do

that with any of your little Supercar

things we could try what's that

noise we could try that's Pizza CR best

part is like look at this this thing has

all the bells and whistles it's got

a

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yeah behind this there a safety spot

right there

oh

oh reverse

360 not

bad that was a good

360 all right so we have officially

branded the new HQ with powered by DD it

looks super sick but we need a little

extra something and I think one of my

favorite quotes is life is too short to

B uh life is too short to drive boring

cars so we're we're going to throw that

I'm walking in here hold on I'll we're

going to throw that on the side of the

door so there's powered by DDE looks

awesome you have already seen this in

the main Channel by now then life is too

short to drive Bo car now this is day

one we moved in this afternoon it's like

midnight yeah and making this happen

Mark's eding the video you guys already

watched yeah Eric's here Eric what is it

you do we're not sure he sing Wheels

emotional support right and we have a

whole huge moving company for the heavy

machinery bringing all that in tomorrow

we're just walking all the truckers

drive by I like this spot dude it's very

like industrial it's super dope lots of

campers so excited we're excited we got

a bunch of other stuff we need to brand

this building brand this property cuz it

is no longer what it once was it is now

ours ABB always be branding always be

branding I found this guy downtown LA

wandering the streets thought hey you

you work for us what's your name and

what do you do my name is J2 and I'm a

tattoo artist SL muralist graffiti

artist and how can people find you uh

Instagram J2 what's your home address

it's St there it's St there all right

you actually get so the top you painted

with a brush because of the cenil style

whatever but now you can actually use

spray paint with the uh overlay from the

projector this is something that I would

be I would be so bad at doing it would

be you want me to try I'm stoked to see

this pretty B

you good yeah let help it hold it for a

sec is that stable

enough

yeah by the

book the uh lights [ __ ] the

lights like two feet and come forward

more you

going

yeah is that all you got

lame the

Reach This Is Not

Safe yeah you're right come forward a

little

bit come forward a little

bit a little

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bit

keep all

right that's better yeah much

safer

hey you got to go do a walkthr with the

Mover guys I do or you do no you do are

we done what's all [ __ ] here still what

what's all this stuff oh it's getting

itchy

now all right what do we have to

do um it looks like you have to speak up

man yeah seems like we're pretty much

done I don't know if you if you want to

tell us is there something else I want

to let's see here oh right I can't hear

anything oh it's all empty that's all

done that's just done holy

moly oh it's all empty you

guys we don't have to film

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this

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that was close

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perfect [ __ ] the

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bum

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D loser I'm a

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loser

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oh

God I want to get in while he [ __ ]

up

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that's

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all the locks is in the house all wheeel

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Drive