[00:00] This is me. And this is the stranger I convinced to swim with sharks. This video was made possible by Surfshark. I've come to West Ham Stadium to find a fan to conquer their fear and go VIP to the game.
[00:13] I only had two and a half hours to find a fan, so I wasted no time and approached everyone I saw. Hey West Ham fans, want a free ticket? Are you a West Ham fan? I'm West Ham fan. Ahhhh! Everyone's working. With no luck at the stadium this early, I headed to the shopping centre next door where there were West Ham fans everywhere.
[00:30] Have you got tickets to the game? Yes. Ah, one of them is only a dozen. We have a free ticket to West Palm. Oh, he's interested. That's a smile. But my goal was to find the right farm, so once they were interested, I asked them a simple question.
[00:42] What's your biggest fear? It really is the lions. The lions? Yeah, you got off the lawn, did you? What do you know about it? What are you scared of? Scared of? YouTubers. Yeah. And after being ignored by so many people, my sign was proving to be the issue.
[00:57] Do you think the sign is the issue? Multiple people have said I don't have a ticket. So I headed to buy a new thing, but the lady behind the table was interested in a free ticket. No, it's yours. Can I go up to the match? Go.
[01:09] See, I was thinking about my dad. Yeah? Okay, now your dad can have the ticket, right? But you need to do something. We're going to swim with sharks. Swim with sharks? So if you swim with sharks, your dad can have the ticket. Yeah, I don't know what to do.
[01:22] Oh my God, no, we're going to go. I love my dad. He's going to do it. So as she phoned her dad, I waited patiently on the answer. But unfortunately, it was a no. After walking around the shopping centre in circles, I still hadn't found someone.
[01:36] And time was ticking down. We're actually going to get this through. We have like an hour until we need to conclude it all. So, this needs a pick up. You a West Ham fan? Yeah, I'm a West Ham fan. Are you? Are you going to the game?
[01:49] Do you want to go to the game? What's your biggest fear? My biggest fear? Oh, I'm a fucking ocean. What about the ocean? I can't see what's in there. Is there anything where the ocean would protect it or scare it?
[02:01] Like, what would you get to run into? I'm shocked with mine. I don't know, like, what if there's like a giant squid or something? Yeah It wrap me up And after coming so close I carried on my hunt and went to the local pubs which were full of restaurant fans But everyone had a ticket But I got talking to this man who suggested I head towards the ticket office
[02:21] Where after a while, I bumped into someone looking for a ticket and asked him his biggest fear. Well, you kill a whale. Kill a whale? What about a shark? Yeah, or a shark. What we're looking to do is we're basically looking to find someone to swim with sharks.
[02:34] That's what we're doing. That's what we're doing. Okay, okay. We're having a hard time finding someone. I'll go talk to their inmate. Hey, come back. You can find us, yeah. Okay, okay. But after he had gone off to speak with his girlfriend, he came back with more bad news.
[02:46] Yes, not that deep to me, but... No, but... No, no, no, no. So after two and a half hours speaking to hundreds of people and walking 20,000 steps, the timer was off, meaning every second from this point we would be late for shark diving.
[03:00] So I had no option but to tell everyone the full story. Right. Who wants to go swim with sharks and make a real match? Does anyone want to swim with sharks and go to the match VIP? I'm joking. Swim with sharks?
[03:13] Yes, I guess. Swim with sharks? Okay. Yeah. Sure. And then we're going to go to West Ham, the VIP. Are you serious? Alfie? Alfie, I'm John. Nice to meet you. This is Alfie. Alfie, you're our senior.
[03:26] Why are you walking around here for two and a half hours? I know everyone's smoking car kids. I wonder what that sign says. We're going to swim with sharks. We have done it. me and my new mate Alfie jumped onto the tube and headed across London where he was getting
[03:39] excited for his spontaneous day. It's something I've thought about for years, but living in London is not something you can just go out and do. So, in a way, this is going to be awesome. But he didn't realise his day was going to get even better, as I was going to give him
[03:51] a chance to win a mystery prize. But now was the time to see the sharks we'd be diving with. They're proper sharks, aren't they? What do you think? They're never going to catch you. Geez! Oh, mate. So, we found a little boy. Oh, jeez.
[04:04] I think of this one with sharks and I say, oh he's sweet, but by the look of it, look at that guy! That's what I did. Look at that guy! I just kept reminding him, I'm here, he's over here. Are we in a cage?
[04:17] You'll be in a cage. Whenever you say that I just let them know don swim into me I was like wait there right Mark I was like thanks and he was like Do you have any surf sharks in there No no no Let me tell you about surf sharks
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[05:24] Back to some real sharks. As Alfie and I picked out our websites, we went to get changed. The excitement was starting to kick in. So after being a total stranger less than an hour ago
[05:43] Alfie was about to snort on the shark We both got into the tank and shared the experience of a lifetime Getting to see the sharks up close and personal We soaked up every second in the tank and our time was up
[05:59] But all that time in the shark tank had made us late for the football So we sprinted for the underground and while we waited for the tube I had a surprise for Alfie
[06:11] What I have here is a big old mystery box You're not allowed to see what's in it And neither are you But at the end of the game of win-win you get to keep the box Oh right
[06:23] Win-win draw or lose you have to give the box to a stranger Oh I like that idea that's cool And in the next Strangers Mystery Box there be five pins for every new subscriber and one pin for every like on this video You can make a difference they all add up With even more reason to enjoy the game we made our way across London and sprinted to the stadium but the game had already kicked off So we scanned our tickets and headed
[06:45] straight up to our VIP seats on the halfway line, just in time to see West Ham stroke an early win.
[07:01] And as the first half went on, the Man City fans had nothing to cheer about. So as the referee blew his whistle for half time, unbelievably, it looked like Alfie was going to win the mystery box.
[07:16] We got ourselves a free beer and Alfie speculated about what was inside the box. For so long that as we headed back to our seats, we noticed there was a change in the scoreboard. Oh no, I didn't hear any cheering.
[07:28] Man City were piling on the pressure with chance after chance. What a save! That was outrageous. And it didn't take long for them to add a second. There goes the big two.
[07:40] And Erling Haaland saved Alfie's face. Are we doing that far away? What a disaster. We were doing great for about 20 minutes. So as the away fans celebrated until after the final whistle, Alfie headed off to find a stranger to give the mystery box to
[07:54] and had a clear plan in mind. Let's find a nice family and let's make their day. That's the goal. And after walking around the stadium for a while, he finally found his lucky winner. Hello, gentlemen. How's it going?
[08:06] This is a very strange situation for me. Essentially, these guys are giving me a mystery box for a YouTube video. I don't know what's inside it, and if West Ham want, I've got to keep it. And if they've lost or true, I get to give it away. And I was wondering if you guys would be interested.
[08:20] Oh, you've got to say yes, mate. Yeah, I'd love to give it to you guys. You're welcome. I think you need to open it. Yeah, yeah, we'd love to see what you've got.
[08:32] Whoa! What is it? Whoa! Awesome! Whoa! How do we look at the back of it as well? I'll set my car up on one. Click here to watch me surprise another stranger,
[08:45] and big thanks to Star Shark for making this possible.