Hi there everybody, so today I’m here with my friend Bry.
Hi.
And we’re on holiday.
And you have called this video American VS British.
It’s part of a series.
Even though I’m Irish.
You wouldn’t change the title for me.
You know some British customs though right?
Oh yeah.
We all do.
I mean, you’re part of the area.
Right.
Europe-ish.
Ok.
Ireland is like best buds.
Evan, it’s alright.
Let’s just make the video.
So today we wanted to talk about the cool and interesting differences between holidays
cause we’re on holiday so I was like why not!
Let’s do it.
The biggest holiday for family at least where I’m from is Thanksgiving.
Like that’s where all your extended family comes around a big table, eats turkey, yams,
sweet potatoes, you got some marshmallow on those yams, those candied yams.
You got stuffing.
There’s pumpkin pie no matter what.
Sweet pumpkin pie.
Or sweet pecan pie.
Sweet potato pie.
Sweet potato pie is amazing.
But then when it comes to Christmas, we don’t really…
like, it’s big, but it’s not really as big as thanksgiving.
I guess you guys don't have that.
We don’t have thanksgiving Evan, but on November 1st every year, I put my Christmas
tree up with Candice.
November 1st?
November 1st.
That's so early!
That's a 55 day countdown.
Wow.
Wow, you got that memorised.
It's not really that hard, but...
Yes, I love Christmas.
Not in a religious way cause I'm not religious, but just the giving and receiving I find of
presents is just enough for me to get excited.
And fairy lights.
If fairy lights were all year round then that would make me...
No actually, no cause then I wouldn't get excited about Christmas.
So do you like literally just take off your costume from Halloween and go CHRISTMAS!
I don't like Halloween.
There it is.
Really!
Yeah.
Halloween is one of my favourite holidays.
I hate it.
Do you guys celebrate it really big in Ireland?
Yes, and that's why I don't... *sigh*
Ahh it's gonna get real deep.
If you're not as popular as the other kids, Halloween isn't a nice night for you.
Oh really?
Yeah.
I would just go Halloween trick or treating with my brother and I dress up as something
silly.
But I just wanted free candy.
We got so much.
That's great, but you can't do that after you're what age?
I kept going till I was 17 because I had a baby face, and I was like... gimme some candy!
Bit creepy, but.
Well I just wanted candy, mate.
That's not really socially acceptable to go after the age of 12 in Ireland.
You should be drinking after that.
I don't drink anymore, but I used to drink back then so Halloween was just this nightmare
of a night where everyone would just get plastered and fireworks, and when you are drunk and
there's fireworks everywhere...
bit dodgy ya know?
We get 3 months of school holidays from June to August.
Okay, same.
We have this thing called the Gaeltacht in Ireland cause that's where I'm from; I'm Irish.
Like I said.
The Gaeltacht?
Yeah.
The Gaeltacht basically is an Irish-speaking only place where you go if you're a 15 year
old insecure boy.
You go there for 2 weeks.
The good thing is it's where you meet girls for the first time.
Oooh.
But you can't speak English.
If you speak English more than 4 times your name gets put in a book every time and you
get sent home.
I was in the book 5 times, man.
Wow.
So I'd just be like...
Dia duit Exactly.
I mean, we just had boy scouts so.
With the little...
Yeah, I'd be in summer camp so we'd spend 1 week in summer camp, but that was just with
boys.
So I mean... unless I was looking for boys.
You coulda been looking for boys.
Coulda been lookin.
Were you looking for boys?
I wasn't lookin for boys.
In America, I know from where I came from one of the biggest holidays of all time was
St. Patrick's Day.
I appreciate that.
But like literally, there's a bar at my university in New Jersey that had a clock on it that
said how many days were left until St. Patrick's Day.
That's really sweet.
I do that for Christmas.
I don't even do that for St. Patrick's Day.
It's such a big drinking holiday.
Everyone just goes out and gets completely wasted.
Do you know who St. Patrick is?
He was a man who played a flute and got snakes to leave the country of Ireland.
He did get the snakes to leave though cause apparently Ireland was full of snakes which
you could believe easily, and he got rid of them.
And we celebrate his existence every 17th of March.
And everybody just gets pissed and four leaf clovers.
Ireland doesn't even do it the best.
Like we don't even celebrate it... really?
Well we do celebrate it; we don't celebrate it good compared to America, compared to Asian
countries.
Everybody just goes mad for St. Patrick's Day.
Do you guys have a lot of fireworks during holidays and things?
We do.
We love a good firework.
Cause we're like: oh is it that day the county might've been founded?
Yeah.
Go for it!
Next week, oh it's somebody's birthday!
Fireworks.
Have you ever lit a firework yourself?
I have.
Was it alright?
It was alright.
Same as firing a gun.
You kinda just do it and *excited giggle* You fired a gun?
I fired a gun.
You fired a gun!?
I fired many guns.
Ooooo I was in the boy scouts.
You fire guns in the boy scouts?
I used to own a 4 10 shotgun and a 12 gauge and a 20 gauge.
Okay, boy scouts is vastly different in America.
Well we did bow and arrow as well.
I'm good at archery.
Oh sure, yeah.
This became less holiday and more like Evan holding guns.
Boy scouts seems so much cooler now than it did 5 minutes ago.
Yeah, everyone takes the piss out of me in England because when I came to England I was
like Oh I'm an Eagle Scout, where in America everyone's like oh yeah, here's a job.
In England they're like *laughs* What?
When the school year's just about to end around June do you guys have some big type of school
holiday where you all go out for recess all day?
We call it flag day.
And we all have to wear red, white, and blue.
And we play loads of fun sports.
We play video games outside like little tik tak toe games.
It's really fun.
Yeah we call it sports day.
Sports day.
That's literally one of my favourite days and memories of school.
Is all this stress and then fun all day.
For most people watching from Ireland or Britain right now (because they're different places)...
different places.
would wear a uniform to school so the idea of a non uniform day...
Oh so you get to for one time not wear your uniform.
Aww yeah like once every 3 months and you pay a pound and it goes to a charity of some
choice, but that day is just... everything is so much better.
Yeah.
When you're not in that, you never experienced that.
Itchy.
No, I wore whatever I wanted.
That's disgusting Evan.
I feel like I would've been better off without a uniform cause I always looked terrible because
I just wore like...
My thing as a kid was I had this mindset where I was like I don't care what people think
of me.
So I didn't care for myself, I didn't look good, I didn't dress good.
I was like I don't care; I'm here to learn.
So I didn't really have many friends because I looked like a tramp.
Right.
But if I had a uniform maybe I might've had more friends.
Maybe.
Well, my name is blurryface and I care what you think.
*laughs*
Do you guys celebrate Valentine's Day as bigly as we did?
Bigly.
As bigly.
I don't anymore, but back in the day I did, but I will give you a little story if I may.
I gave a girl when I was 12 called Susan, hello Susan if you're watching.
I'm sure she watches Evan Edinger.
She's a big fan.
Big fan.
Susan, I gave her a necklace.
Now I went to the local jewellers and got this.
It cost 15 pounds which was a lot of money for a 12 year old at the time.
Yeah wow.
And I wrote her a Valentine's Day card and I gave her a little necklace and I asked her
will she go out with me, and that was completely not like me cause I was very shy, but I just
really, really liked this Susan girl.
And then she accepted and I had a girlfriend, and then 2 hours later she sent one of her
friends saying Susan's changed her mind.
And that kinda ruined Valentine's Day for me since.
Wow.
Did you get forced to do it in school?
Oh yeah big time.
It's awful.
I remember everyone had to have these little folders in the front of their desks and you
had to like...
I remember like the day before, my mom would help me and write Dear Gina, Dear Susan...
and ya know I'd have to write all these out and like with
a little candy, and you pop them into everyone's little things and it was very happy.
What if you are demisexual?
Well, what if you're demiromantic or aromantic, you just kindof go with the flow still.
That's what I did it's like I'm just doing what society wants me to do.
Yeah.
Was there any boy to boy, girl to girl?
Oh, I mean, you did it to everyone.
Oh!
It was very lovely in that way.
Well that's quite nice.
Yeah you kinda just put them in everyone's.
But what if you're like the Ralph Wiggum?
He doesn't get any.
Oh, that does happen.
I got a very small amount I think my last year doing it and I went... oh....
We have Arthur's Day in Ireland which celebrates the guy that made guinness.
Really?!
He made us great beer, celebrate.
Arthur Guinness made guinness in the year 1752 and basically what you do on Arthur's
Day is at 17:52 you're supposed to drink a pint of guinness and cheers your friends.
That's a good marketing campaign.
It's brilliant.
There was a tradition in my family that every time New Year's Eve came you all gathered
round the tv and watched the ball drop in New York City.
Maybe that's just cause I'm from that area.
Or you could go outside.
And do what?
You gotta watch the ball drop on tv!
We do fireworks and essentially what happens on Halloween.
Oh yeah we'll do that.
We'll have these noisemakers and things, but we're also gonna watch the ball drop and be
like yayyyyy.
You build up to it so much.
It's gonna be the best.
And then you're like... oh....there it is.
It's the same.
It's 12 o' clock.
I used to love Easter because... free candy
well free candy, but also because my family were very into the whole Easter bunny thing.
The doors got closed and they're all like *gasp* he's here!
He's here!
And I genuinely thought behind that door was a big stupid man in a bunny costume which
is so stupid now that I think of it.
Well I liked it because my family did this thing for Easter where the Easter bunny would
hide his basket of chocolates and I had to find it.
And I remember one year which is the last year we did it, I ended up crying because
I was so upset I couldn't find it.
My mom was like keep looking and I was like "I don't want it anymore!"
And then she had put it like under my pillow and I was like, but I slept on that!
And she went, you're a deep sleeper.
Oh God.
I don't know.
I liked that part though.
It was fun.
And the Easter egg hunt though.
That was fun.
Yeah we did that.
In America, we have a lot of really silly holidays and by silly I mean just a day off.
You're like why we off today?
Oh it's like George Washington's birthday or something.
There's a bank holiday in Ireland at the start of May to celebrate Mary.
Oh.
Well that's nice.
Yeah, I guess we're similar in that way.
My mom's name is Mary.
Ooo congrats.
She gets a day every year.
She gets a day.
And you have a different name for this and we've argued about it before.
Ooo what is it?
It goes by the name of Pancake Tuesday.
Ooh.
Which you call Shrove...
what do you call it?
Fat Tuesday.
Ok that's even worse.
Some people call it Shrove Tuesday, but we call it Fat Tuesday.
That's when you go to church and you eat everything you can in terms of carbs.
Pancakes, waffles, french toast...
all of it.
Covered in syrup and you just for dinner, for breakfast, for lunch.
I loved that as a kid.
Fat Tuesday?
America.
Pancake Tuesday.
I was born on Pancake Tuesday.
Really?
Yeah, so I visit my family every year on that day and I get one more pancake than everybody
else because I was born.
Happy birthday, we didn't get you a present; here's a pancake.
What do you guys do on Pancake Tuesday in Ireland?
Just eat pancakes?
Believe it or not you eat pancakes.
Yeah, we have a bit of lemon and sugar in there.
Oh no.
Bit of cadbury's buttons melted up.
Bit of nutella.
Bit of strawberry and cream.
Pancakes in your country aren't pancakes.
They're crepes.
Pancakes in America are these thick cholesterol things.
I prefer the crepes; I'm more of a French kinda guy myself.
I'm not a crepper.
Not a crepper, well I don't give a crepe what you think.
*slow clap*
Did you guys ever have a clown for your birthday?
I don't wanna say that clowns terrify me cause that's kind of a cliché, but I don't find
them to be pleasant in any way.
No, they're not enjoyable.
That's just a man with really weird makeup on his face.
Yeah.
I liked the balloon animals.
And I liked face paint.
I never liked face paint.
A child.
A big sticky child coming up to you with face paint.
Ugh, stay away from me and my children.
Ya know?
Yeah, they're a PAINto look at.
Stop.
If they're a lion and they go rawr.
Stay awak.
The whiskers come from inside.
The whiskers come from within.
And I said come from inside.
Sounds a bit worse.
*screams*
Is there any specific thing you think of when it comes to September?
Sadness.
Well in the past yes.
Sadness.
I was happy to go back to school.
I liked school a lot.
But I'm weird.
No, that's not weird.
That's very commendable, and I appreciate that.
Yeah, so I don't know if you're from a different country other than Britain or America, if
you have different holidays that we missed out on I'm sure Chinese New Year has really
cool celebrations.
I've been to one of those.
And Jewish and muslim things.
Yeah, so tell us.
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I did a cover with him once.
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Other than that, I will see you guys next week.
Thank you so much for watching.
Good bye.
Bye.
*cue catchy whistling outro* *swoosh*
Wait can we wait for this police car?
Someone on holiday's been a naughty little boy.
My mom just instagrammed this picture of me the other day.
Okay.
Right here.
You see it?
Wow.
I can't believe I just did this naturally and you looked over.