- Hi, we're Joel and Lia.
- And welcome back to our channel.
This video is a little bit of story time for you.
We got this book from a viewer
and it's called the Meaning of Life.
Oh, no, it's called-- - No, the Book of Questions.
- The Book of Questions.
She also sent a book called the Meaning of Life.
- It's actually The Meaning of Liff.
That's the thing. - Ah, The Meaning of Liff.
- 'Cause when we first opened these as a vlog,
our last John and Lia vlog of vlogmas,
we opened these and as soon as I saw it,
The Meaning of Life and The Book of Questions
I thought it was a religious book
and I was like oh no, it's a viewer trying
to convert us to their religion.
- Yeah.
- But, it's not, they're just books.
So this one has, what is it, the words?
- This is a book all about words that
can't be explained in the English language,
is that right? - Yeah.
So like this one hu-nah or hue-nah
is the result of coming to the wrong decision.
But this book, The Book of Questions,
has loads of questions in, that aren't designed like trivia,
they're designed to get to know yourself better.
So they're like prompts - Oh my gosh.--
- About life, money, sex,
all these other things-- - All the things.
- To try and know what your beliefs are on things.
So we thought it was a really cool idea
to incorporate into our video.
So Loraine if you're watching thank you for these books.
- Thank you Loraine.
- It's gonna help with our channel.
- Starting now.
- Okay so, question number one.
- Oh, we're starting at the beginning?
- Yeah. - I thought we would just,
see that's already, we already differ on that, don't we?
I'd be like this. - Ah, no.
No, 'cause then you know,
no it has to be from the beginning.
- Are you kidding?
- Yeah.
- Okay, so we have to start at the beginning,
that's so boring.
- It's mainly for our channel,
as in, because then we'll know where we've got up to.
- Oh okay, fine, okay, well done, nice and organized.
(both laughing)
I'm like one, two, three, that one.
- Well, we can but then-- - No, no, no, no we'll lose--
- Okay, we'll lose track. - Track, you're right.
- You're right we'll lose track.
- Okay, so the first question is
for a person that you loved deeply
would you be willing to move to a distant country
knowing that there would be little chance
of seeing your friends or family again?
- Oh.
Well if I love-- - So would you
basically move to a foreign country
for the love of your life knowing that you
probably wouldn't see your friends and family ever again?
- Ever again?
- Yeah, that's what it says.
- We need to iron out some creases right now.
(Joel laughing)
If we're gonna play this game we can't do the,
oh, but I'll go home at Christmas.
You can't do that-- - No, no.
- Oh, but I would fly home.
- No we have to say this--
- Literally. - Question literally.
So the question is saying there's little chance
of you seeing your friends and family again.
- No I wouldn't do it,
would you? - No, no I wouldn't, no.
'Cause I don't think you're ever that in love,
that quickly, that you would sacrifice
family and friends for.
- Yeah, I don't think I'd do that.
I want to be close to, because if I'm gonna
start a family with someone,
what's the use in being (laughs)...
This sounds serious.
What's the use in being in a different country?
Who's gonna babysit.
- Yeah, exactly
- [Both] Who's gonna look after the kids?
- It's true - That's so mean.
- No, I know what you mean.
You want a community vibe. - It helps to be near...
I like community vibes.
I like loads of people.
So if there is gonna be just me and the person
and the family we create in a foreign country
no where near anyone, that's just gonna
send me into-- (child screaming)
I'm sorry. - Excuse me.
- But we're trying to talk to the legends.
- Not in Chelsea. - Ridiculous.
Not in Chelsea.
- Anyway.
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(both laughing)
Back to the video.
- To link on from this, do you believe,
it's not a question in the book,
do you believe-- - Alright.
- In love at first?
No, not love at first sight.
Do you believe that there's only one person
that you can fall in love with that you're meant to be with?
Like the one,
do you believe in the one? - No.
I don't believe in the one.
- No, me neither, so then I'm just like,
just find someone else
'cause you'll fall in love with someone else.
- In your country. - Yeah.
- In your neighborhood. - Yeah.
- Find someone closer. - Find someone.
- But do you guys-- - Make it happen.
- Believe in the one?
Let us know in the comments below,
I'd like to know whether we're common
in thinking that you can fall in love
multiple times in your life.
- Yeah, I think so.
- I think you can. - I don't think there's
the one and then that's it.
- No.
- And then if you lose them it's game over.
- No.
- I think it's a bit different if you're widowed.
And you've had the love of your life,
and then that person dies,
and you don't want to find anyone else,
and you're not interested in that.
- Oh yeah, that's different.
- 'Cause that's literally like you've built
your life with them. - Yeah.
- I think that I kind of believe in the one
after you've spent all of that time with them.
Do you know what I mean? - Okay.
But do you believe that there is one person
that you are set out to be with
that someone, somewhere, whatever God you believe in,
or whatever, even if you don't,
do you believe that they have gone,
this is the person for you
and you're gonna meet. - No, I don't think so.
No, I think that person becomes that person.
- Yeah.
- But I don't think that God, or whoever,
was like you're, Joel was meant to be with Lia.
- Yeah. - I don't believe in that.
- Well because I think if that did happen
all the people that we know that are in love
so like for me, like my parents, I know,
I'm like what are the chances
that they were both born in the same country
and they're both-- - What are the chances?
- You know, lived like an hour away from each other.
If it was truly the one then surely everyone
would have their one, would be in another country.
- Yeah, that's so true.
There's a really good episode of Black Mirror
where, the dating one-- - Yeah, the dating.
- Where they find out their expiring day.
- Yeah! - That's so good.
- That was really good - Don't know which one,
don't know what it's called
but I'll find it. - I can't remember.
- And I can maybe leave it in the comments.
- Yeah, it's really-- - It's really good.
- Black mirror is a great TV series.
- So alright what's the next question Joel?
- Right, you go into the next.
- Okay, number two is
do you believe in ghosts or evil spirits?
Would you be willing to spend a night alone
in a remote house that is supposedly haunted?
- So I have a story about this.
- Okay.
- I do believe in ghosts and evil spirits.
- Same.
- I believe they're more evil spirits rather than ghosts.
- Same.
- And, so anyway, I got an acting job,
my first acting job after we were at Rada,
was for the National Geographic channel,
it was like a, you know like the, reenacting things?
- Yeah, yeah, I remember it. - So basically it was
a story about these American boys
that went hiking in Alaska and they got attacked
by a grizzly bear and it was about their survival.
And so they were recounting their story,
and we were acting it out.
So anyway, I was very excited,
went to Wales, the Brecon Beacons,
that apparently looks like Alaska.
- Apparently. - Apparently.
- On a budget. - On a budget.
- [Both] On a budget.
- I'm on a budge.
- That's gotta stick.
Stay.
Guys, we can't eat here we're on a budge.
- We're on a budge.
Sorry I'm on a budge. - Budge.
- Anyway so we went there and we turned up
at this massive castle, the taxi arrived.
And it turns out it's the most haunted hotel in Wales.
And we arrived there and in the reception
it had about the most haunted bedroom,
I think it was bedroom 18 or something
and it was the most haunted bedroom in the hotel.
The people from Most Haunted,
which is a TV program here in the UK,
I don't know if you have it elsewhere.
Refused to stay in that bedroom.
They tried staying there for the night
and they left halfway through
because it was so haunted and so terrifying
they couldn't stay there.
So anyway, we then get allocated our rooms
and of course what number room am I in?
- 18. - 18.
The most haunted hotel in the country
'cause it's most haunted. - Did you know this after?
- No this was during.
- Right, you knew that whilst you got there,
you were like oh, 18, that's the haunted room.
- Yeah.
- And then you got-- - And so I arrived--
- Given your number, 18. - Yeah, 18.
And the other people in the castle were like 17, 16,
they were down the hall and I was like of course
I'm in the most haunted room on my first acting job,
away from my family for the first time ever.
I'm already nervous about this acting job,
let alone sleeping-- - Oh my gosh.
- In this room.
But anyway, turns out there's no really good story.
It wasn't haunted and I didn't believe it, but.
- Were you knocked out?
Did you sleep well that night?
- I did, I had two nights there and I did sleep well.
When I read the book in the hotel room,
there were stories from it so they were capitalizing on it
'cause I think the only people that sleep in this room
are the ones who love ghosts and stuff,
and it was like the shower turned on
in the middle of the night.
I saw a figure at the bottom of my bed.
I had sleep paralysis.
Like I couldn't wake. - No stop.
- And someone was over me. - I can't.
So I was just like oh my gosh, how am I gonna sleep here?
But because I believe that evil spirits
and because I believe in God,
I thought, you know, if I pray about it
and get God to deal with it then it's fine.
Bad spirits will just go
and I didn't have any issues at all.
- Yeah.
- But, yeah, crazy to think that people
have those experiences in that room.
- Yeah, that is nuts. - And I was terrified.
- That's nuts, I believe in spirits too.
- Do you?
- I believe that there are people
who are connected more so than others.
So I believe that mediums can access the spirit world
but normal people that don't have that gift,
I think it is a gift, isn't it?
Or it's just like, I think that they obviously can't.
Why do I think this?
I don't know if I want to share this story.
I think I might save it for another video.
- Okay.
- Because it's basically about a time
where I truly believed that I was possessed
by my friend's ex boyfriend.
- Possessed by the boyfriend? (laughs)
- No, like. (laughs)
I think he...
- Oh, he spoke to you. - Yeah.
- Sorry, I thought you meant you became the boyfriend.
(Lia laughing)
(mimicking possession) - Like, oh hello.
- No, it's a really sad story actually.
So a friend, her ex boyfriend had committed suicide
and their spirit, I think, came through me to talk to her.
But I'll save that for another video
because I think I need permission to tell that story.
- Okay, well, let us know if you want to hear it.
- If you want to hear that story, let us know.
I was just in complete disbelief,
I didn't know what the hell was happening to me.
But this was at Takita Wolf actually.
- Yeah.
Well 'cause obviously I'm psychic as well.
- Yeah, so Joel's psychic.
- If you want us to tell the story about me being psychic
then let us know in the comments below.
We've got so many stories.
- So many stories.
- We've never really spoken about stories
in our lives before. - Oh, no?
- There's so much.
So the next question is if you could spend one year
in perfect happiness but afterwards would remember nothing
of the experience would you do so?
If not, why not?
- If I could have a year of being really happy all the time.
- Yeah but then the next year you wouldn't remember
any of it, would you still do it?
- Yeah, definitely. - Really?
- I think I would.
I would have no memory of it so even if someone was like,
you had the best year of your life,
I have have no memory of it. - You couldn't remember.
- But I'd love that because then maybe other people
or whoever was involved in that year
would be like constantly reminding me of these times
and maybe I'd be like yeah whatever, whatever.
But I'd be like really we did what?
(both laughing)
I'd love that. - Do you think?
I think I'd hate it 'cause I think, life,
the only thing you take with you is memories,
experiences are great to have and you only get memories
by having experiences.
But, you carry your experiences, your memories
with you much longer than experiences.
So to have a year of no memory of this pure happiness.
- Yeah.
- I would rather have some memories of really bad times
but some of really good,
than just no memories of anything good.
- You are allowed to have good memories after
or does it say you have to-- - Yeah.
- Live the rest of your life in...
- No, no, you can have good memories after
but I wouldn't want a whole year of no memories.
That's like to me, a whole year of my life gone.
- To me, I've got that anyway
'cause my memory's really horrible, that's fine.
If someone is like what did you do 2014?
I'm like, can't tell you. - Don't know.
- I can not tell you what I did.
Like, that's fine.
- Yeah. - I was like genuinely,
I'm just like, no memories. - No idea.
- Someone was like, oh, you guys should show us
around your hometowns and where you grew up
and I'm like my memory is so bad.
Well I left at like 15, 16 to go to boarding school
and I'm like but I didn't get my independence
until I left home so my memories at home
are just wake up and go to school
and come back and eat dinner.
- Do your homework.
- And go Greek school on Saturday, that's it.
What am I gonna show them?
- Yeah.
- So, I'll be fine - You'll be fine.
- To have a year wiped.
You wouldn't, but I'd be fine. - A year of happiness.
- But yeah I'd be like cool. - That's good.
- Yeah, well that's good.
That's good, we've got a differing opinion.
- Yeah, right.
- Yeah, I just think it would be,
I think that's part of the joy of life
is having really dark, horrible times,
especially as like creative though.
- Yeah. - I think 'cause I'm getting
more into writing and obviously
both with being actors and stuff,
I think we need to use those terrible experiences
in what we do. - Yeah.
- And it does make us who we are,
so I would rather have bad experiences.
- A year of normal.
- Normal experiences, yeah. - Yeah, yeah, okay, cool.
So join us next week or next time we do this series
'cause we're going to discuss this question.
You discover your wonderful one-year-old child
is because of a mix up at the hospital not yours.
(Joel gasping)
Would you want to exchange the child to correct the mistake?
- Okay.
- Well that is a juicy question.
- That's really good.
I can't wait to get on to that.
- We'll save that for the next story time.
- Yep, so come back. - About that time I had child
and it got mixed up, guys.
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