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- Well Happy Halloween, Joel.
- Happy Halloween.
I don't celebrate Halloween but there you go.
- Happy terrible Halloween.
- Yeah, seriously.
- I don't think there'll be much celebrating
going on in my household.
- No.
- I think it will just be, oh my gosh.
- What?
- I won't get any trick or treaters, I live in a flat.
- That's so good.
- I live in a flat.
- Otherwise people in the building might come down though.
- Oh, and we have got a lot of families actually.
- I don't know, I don't know, I don't like Halloween.
- Oh, I know.
- But you know, I'm not being a Scrooge.
So I'm getting in the spirit of it.
I've put on a green hoodie.
- Is that Halloweeny, I guess so.
- Yeah,
- Green is like the stalk of a pumpkin, yeah.
- Like slime and-- - Slime and green--
- Grossness. - Like Halloween.
- So there you go, wow, I think a couple of Halloweens ago
I was wearing my big, green camo t-shirt
and that's when I got called a plumpkin
and that's triggered me to lose all this weight.
What's going to happen this video?
- What are you gonna say this video
that's going to make Joel spiral?
- Yeah, honestly, such a snowflake.
Anyway, so this video is 13 things I want to know.
- [Both] About Halloween in America.
- 'Cause us Brits, we don't really do Halloween
to the same extent.
- Yeah. - I found this article
on BuzzFeed and we thought we'd discuss it.
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- No, exactly, so what things do we want to know
about Halloween in America?
- So the first one is an obvious, sweeping statement
which you guys have heard before but just why
do Americans go so big at Halloween and why the Brits don't.
Like, take a moment to actually think about it.
What is it about our two cultures that makes
Americans go huge at Halloween but Brits are like "meh".
- Is it a cost thing, I wonder.
Even just thinking about British people at the time of year
where it comes to putting Christmas lights on outside.
They go, "God that's really going to
stack up on my electricity bill."
Maybe we're just really boring and stingy?
- True, but Americans can be stingy too.
Americans on a whole are more generous with their money
but of course not all Americans are like spending money.
- Yeah, like cash, cash, cash.
- Americans can save as well, I don't know what it is.
- I don't know what it is but yeah, you're right.
I've recently been doing
a few little home decor improvements
and people have asked me on Instagram
"Are you going to be making it--"
what's this season called?
Autumnal?
- Fall - Fall.
What are you buying for Fall and I'm not.
- No, we don't decorate for seasons in the UK.
I think it's getting more like that
and now you see people like those YouTubers
who do lifestyle and homeware
and they're getting pumpkins
and putting them in their doorways.
- I mean, it's amazing, but I just don't.
- Just a lot of money
and the only time we do that is for Christmas.
- Yeah, exactly, I don't know.
Let me know if you think we sound like
we're not spending any money on anything.
- Or fun. - Or fun, but I just wonder
why we don't go as big.
- I want to know the difference.
- Maybe if everyone did we'd feel more pressure to
in the UK because we just copy, we're like sheep here.
- Maybe that's what it is.
- Yeah, maybe.
- Number two.
Apparently you guys start prepping for Halloween
really early.
They've got a tweet as an example with someone saying
"Is it too early to do my Halloween theme?"
And that was tweeted on the 26th September.
- Oh, that's far too early but saying that
when is it the right time to do anything?
For instance, you were playing
Michael Bublé's Christmas album recently.
- Oh, the other day.
- And I actually played even after I told you off.
- Did you? - And I loved it.
- Isn't it amazing?
I was listening to it on the way back from the gym
the other day.
Listening to It's Beginning to
Look a Lot Like Christmas and it's October.
- Too cute
- But I love it but in the UK with Halloween
if someone does do decorations for Halloween
they literally do it the morning of Halloween.
- Yes, for a Halloween themed party that evening.
- For a party not for--
- And they go to Poundland and get the one pound cobwebs.
- Yeah exactly and you chuck it on a bush or something.
- I mean.
- It's each to their own, isn't it?
- Yeah.
- I listen to Christmas music in October.
Some of you might think that's stupid, I love it.
It makes me feel all cozy and warm.
- Oh it's lovely, I did tell you off.
- You did.
- But then I took it back and I said
"You know what? I'll give it a go."
And I loved it.
- We've got footage of this.
We'll have to try and insert it.
- Where's it from?
The US?
- The US, I think we're in Target and we were shocked
at the Halloween greeting cards.
There's so much Halloween stuff.
This doesn't happen in the UK, like Halloween cards.
Who sends a Halloween card?
- [Lia] No, oh that's got to be a joke.
- Really strange, we just don't do that.
- You've got to be joking me.
What do you say?
Congrats?
Like Happy Halloween?
- Just Happy Halloween?
Oh, we've got romance, funny.
- We've got ghostly giggles, let me see what I would get
if I had a boyfriend.
- [Joel] Spook me. - Spook me.
The only thing missing from my pumpkin season is you.
There's no way real life couples send each other those.
- No.
- Who sends someone a Halloween card? That is shocking.
- I can't believe it.
Birthday?
Of course.
Christmas?
Of course.
Anniversary?
Yes, all of these things.
Halloween?
- Halloween, that is so weird.
Why would you send someone a card.
What would you write in it?
- Honestly, these people that make cards
are making a killing.
- They really are.
- Off stupid people, so please
if you're one of those people don't do it.
You're just feeding into this whole thing of
advertisers making so much money.
- It's crazy, I mean, the only exception I could think of
would be those unfortunate people who are born on the 31st.
- Halloween.
- What is the date of Halloween?
- October 31st.
- Does October 31st happen every year
or am I losing my mind?
- Yeah, it's only February that doesn't.
- Oh, so it doesn't but yeah, those people.
Maybe they end up receiving
a Halloween-themed Christmas card instead of a normal
birthday card, not Christmas card.
- Or maybe if someone's throwing
a really good Halloween party and you want to
get the host a card to say thank you, I get that.
But just in general?
- All these Halloween cards that are on the stand?
In the shop?
- It's mental - It's crazy.
- To our British brains this is just madness.
- Yeah, that is crazy, crazy.
- It's crazy. - Yeah.
- Also, I've got a personal question to ask.
In the UK, especially Christians, are like
"no Halloween is awful, not doing that."
Weirdly, in America, there are so many more Christians
than in the UK and they're supposedly more religious
than in the UK yet loads of Christian families in America
celebrate Halloween. I don't get it.
Why are you celebrating Halloween if you're a Christian?
Or am I just being really stupid?
- Yeah, I don't know.
- Like, I don't have anything against it.
If you want to do it, do it. I'll probably go to a
Halloween party this year but I never grew up doing it.
And I'm just confused because America, stereotypically
is the more severe religious country than the UK
yet they're the ones celebrating Halloween.
- Yeah it must just be, well I don't know.
We'll find out but surely it's just like it's tradition.
Because I'd go trick or treating every year as a kid
and we'd get costumes but the house wouldn't be decked out
we'd just go up and down the streets nearby
and it was just quite fun, really.
The best costume my brother ever had was one
where you squeeze the hand and blood came down.
And I remember it cost so much
and mum and dad were like "You have to wear that every
year now because it was really expensive."
- That's your costume now.
- And mine was a witch one
and I had the same broomstick every year but it was cute.
It was good, good fun.
- I'm glad you enjoyed it, I can't relate.
- Yeah, you didn't have any of that did you?
- We switched all the lights off and hid inside.
- It's amazing, I would sometimes see people
hide behind their sofa when we'd approach.
And I'd be like "Why are they hiding?"
- No, I'm such a Scrooge.
Even to this day, I'm not giving out free sweets or candy.
Go buy your own, what kind of peasant are you?
Coming knocking on my door asking for food.
- Oh my gosh, the best ones Joel were when
you'd get to someone's door and they'd give you cash.
- That's amazing.
- It was so good.
I couldn't believe it.
I think the best we ever had was a fiver each.
- That's well good.
- We were kids and we were like "Five quid each?"
We couldn't believe it.
- That's so funny, where I live in London
they have a policy, if your house is decorated
for Halloween then you're allowed to knock on the door
but if you don't then you're not.
So I shouldn't get anyone knocking on my door this Halloween
because there's a neighborhood policy
of you're not allowed to knock on the doors.
- That's fantastic.
- So hopefully no one will knock on my door.
Well, I won't be answering anyway.
- That's really good.
You don't see any grown-ups do it.
If you do you're like "You're weird."
It's only when they've got their kids
and they sort of stand at the top of the driveway
and they let their kids go up.
- It's weird when it's like teenage age or our age
where people still in their twenties are like
"Let's just do it."
And you're like--
- And they're like "Trick or treat."
And you go "Trick." and then they're like
"I haven't got one".
- I haven't got one.
Leading on from tricks, do you guys actually trick?
Do you actually TP houses?
You know, throw loo roll over houses and stuff?
- I don't like that.
I think our house got egged once.
- Did it?
- It was horrible, Mum was crazy, Mum was like
"Someone's egged our house."
- What a waste of eggs.
- I know
- What a waste of bird periods
- Gross.
That bird had a period on our house.
- That's really sad.
- It was such a waste and one thing we don't like is waste.
- No, we don't like waste.
- I wonder Joel if it is a crime to do something like that
to someone's house, like throw all that loo roll.
Even if it's in the spirit of Halloween.
Surely, you can just call up the police
and be like "Someone's thrown wet loo roll all over
my house and now I've got to clean it."
- Yeah, surely that is.
- That's so bad.
- What do you call it?
Vandalism?
- Yeah.
- Or something - That's awful.
- I don't know, I just think buy your own sweets.
- You're like "Kids, buy your own sweets."
"Save your own pocket money"
- I don't think I'd want my kid to do that
because what if they've poisoned the sweets?
- Yeah, I know what you're saying.
Or what if it's out of date chocolate?
Let's buy the most out of date stuff they've got.
- It's like those news articles of people gave out drugs.
Like some horrible people had drugs that are like colorful
and in the shapes of thing and they gave them to kids.
Put them in their buckets and stuff.
Like, kids have died from getting, it's like a prank
that's been taken way too far.
- That's horrific.
- But I don't have any sympathy
because I'm like don't go knocking on strangers' doors
for candy.
- My god, this is a hot topic.
Are Halloween themed gender reveals about to become a thing?
So obviously, with the invention of the baby shower
came the gender reveal parties hand in hand with that.
And now we're talking about
Halloween themed gender reveal parties.
- Shall we watch this video?
- Let's just watch it.
- Okay.
- Baby is a--
- Okay so the smoke's coming out.
- Oh and is it going to change color?
- Blue, it's a boy.
- Oh my god. - It's a boy.
- This is so extra. - It's very much a boy.
- It's an angry boy.
- That's interesting.
- That's really cool.
- Well, there you go then.
- Each to their own.
You probably can't eat that pumpkin now.
I hope people reuse their pumpkins that they carve
and make it into soup or pie.
- I think they do.
- You can't reuse that.
- Yeah, but what can you do with the edge of the pumpkin?
Oh, I see what you're saying.
Cut those bits and make them into pumpkin squash.
- But you can't with that
because that's been dyed with blue smoke.
- Oh yeah, good point actually.
Anyway that's been our questions about American Halloween.
We hope you've enjoyed that.
- We hope you don't think we're too much like Scrooges.
What's the version of Scrooge that's Halloweeny?
I don't know.
- Hallowscroogy.
- But you know, we just don't do it as much in the UK.
- We really don't.
- But we love and respect that people across the pond do.
We're just trying to get our heads around it.
- Maybe we should try and spend Halloween
one year in the US, that would be quite fun.
- Yeah, we could stay at someone's house
and they could show us Halloween.
- That would be so fun.
- Then wait a month and then go
and spend Thanksgiving at someone else's house.
- That would be fun, that would be really, really good.
That's two things we do want to do in the US
is Thanksgiving and Halloween.
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