- Welcome back to another episode of Story Time!

So, this is a series we're trying out on our channel where

we sort of just answer questions from

this book called Ask Yourself,

which someone kindly bought us.

Through it, we sort of retell old stories,

and without the book, we wouldn't be able

to think about those stories really easily.

- So, the book is actually, that's what it says on the back,

Ask Yourself, but it's called The Book of Questions.

- Oh, dammit, I was like, it's called Ask Yourself.

- But that's exactly what it does,

it asks yourself questions about yourself,

your morals, your beliefs, hypothetical situations

to get to know yourself better.

- Yeah, and it's good 'cause we get

to know each other better,

even though we've known each other forever, pretty much.

It's good for that.

Right, should we kick it off?

- We'll kick off.

So, if you watched the first episode,

you'll know what this first question is gonna be.

- Oh, 'cause we did a teaser.

We were like, come back next week for dot, dot, dot.

- Like a TV show.

- Yeah, I know! - Come back next time.

- We love it when it feels like a TV show.

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- What he said.

- "You discover your wonderful one-year-old child is,

"because of a mix-up at the hospital, not yours.

"Would you want to exchange the child

"to correct the mistake?"

- Okay.

- Okay, so you've literally, you've just given birth,

you've given birth, you've gone home,

you raise your child, you spend a year

getting to know that child, it's yours,

you love it so, so much, and after a year,

the hospital calls you and goes, Lia,

I'm really sorry, I don't know how this happened,

but that child is not yours, we got your baby mixed up,

your baby is with a woman called

Susan Myers in Southampton.

- Sorry if there's a Susan Myers.

- Like, do you want, we've contacted Susan,

do you want the baby back,

or are you happy with the current one?

What do you do?

- Am I happy with the current,

obviously I've had a year with that baby,

and I think I've given birth to that baby

that's in front of me.

I'd do the swap.

- You would, would you?

- Yeah, 'cause you think about it,

you either carry on your whole life

knowing you've got a kid that's not yours,

but you're like, oh, I've spent a year with it now,

I feel like this is my baby,

or you just do a quick swap.

Okay, no.

- Yeah, but don't forget, this baby has a new name,

they won't be used to their name.

- Won't be used to me.

- They won't be used to you,

they won't know that you're mum and dad.

They'll probably be quite scarred emotionally

'cause they've had a year thinking

their mum and dad is someone.

- No, it's just, it's a baby.

- I know, but they'll still cry,

babies still cry until they see their mum.

- Yeah, babies cry.

The thing is though, the other option is to do nothing,

and stay with that baby forever.

- You're right, it's the what if.

- You've guessed what if, and then they get to five, six,

and then they're going--

- And the child then pisses you off and you're like,

I should've got my real kid back!

And you're like, I shouldn't have said that.

- Yeah, exactly.

It's really tough, but you've gotta nip it in the bud

as soon as you find out.

- But I think your love for that child,

even though it's not your blood child,

would be just as strong as if it was your blood child.

- Of course, yeah, 100%.

You'll get the new baby and you'll have to like,

well, I don't know, you'd have to, like,

I'm your mother!

And you just put it over there and you're like, here's me!

- Oh, no! - It's so hard.

- It's so hard, I don't know what I'd do.

I'd like to think I'd just keep it 'cause I'd be like,

whatever, I can't give up my child that I thought was mine,

but then I realize I hate kids,

so I'd probably just not care either way.

- You don't like kids.

- I don't like kids, so.

- Great, great, there's that.

We'll get into why Joel doesn't like kids another time.

"Do you think that the world will be

"a better or worse place 100 years from now, and why?"

It doesn't say why, but let's say why.

Well, we always would anyway.

So, do you think the world would be

a better or worse place 100 years from now?

- Well, the way it's going at the moment,

I think it'll end up worse,

but maybe it'll be 50 years of getting worse

and then it'll start to get better.

I don't know!

- Well, are you talking in terms of, like, technology?

- Politics, obviously there's lots of

bad stuff going on right now.

Technology, I get annoyed when people say that, like,

oh, the internet's really bad,

and social media's really bad,

'cause I'm like, well, no it's not,

it's made, like, it's done loads of good,

but I can see the bad elements of it.

- It's done some bad, yeah.

- So I don't know, I don't know!

- 100 years from now, so what year will that be, 2119?

2119, so our children's children will be

alive, doing stuff.

What's it gonna look like and will it be better or worse?

I think, obviously, we've lived through

an age of, like, technology booming.

I think it will be scary to us where that will go.

Technology is listening to your conversations.

Soon there are things that know everything about you.

There's gonna be cars, like,

you get into a car, say that, like,

you only ever drive to work, home, and the gym,

you get into the car and you say work

and it'll just take you there

'cause it's remembered it.

- Which I think is amazing.

I don't think anything bad can come of that, really.

- Yeah, 'cause people are not being stupid, yeah.

- I think the only bad things that can come of it, really,

are the new technologies that people will just get

more and more distant from each other,

which is coming from a very emotionally distant person.

Like, I don't, I'm quite a lone wolf,

don't really like people very much,

so I quite like the fact that technology

disconnects us from people,

but still keeps you connected,

you know what I mean?

- Yeah, like we're all really connected,

but through these devices, you like that.

- I like that, but I can see it could get even bigger,

the divide, where people just end up

not talking to each other at all,

which would be really bad.

- Yeah.

- I don't know, it's a hard one.

- It's really tough, isn't it?

- And then I want to think, like, who cares?

Like, in 100 years, we'll be dead,

so it's another generation's issues,

they can deal with it.

- Really?

I'm really glad that we're not,

that we're this generation,

that we're not gonna be born in 50 years.

I'd hate to be born into all of this.

- We were the last generation

that didn't grow up with the internet.

Like, when we got the internet,

I think we were in our teens,

rather than childhood, so that'd be really weird.

- It'd be so weird.

Imagine photos now, every single photo, say, of your child,

will be documented probably online somewhere.

- Forever.

- We're really lucky.

- We're very lucky, 'cause my parents and I,

I don't have any pics of me as a child, really.

I just have a few.

- Let us know your guys' thoughts because

the world's a scary place.

- Also, we wanna know what you guys think,

because this is a way we can think

deeper about these things, 'cause maybe you thought

something that we haven't.

- Yeah, definitely.

- Which is rare, because, you know,

we're really clever, so.

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Okay, oh my god, "Would you accept $1 million,"

let's say pounds, "would you accept one million pounds

"to leave the country and never step foot in it again?"

- Just a million?

- Yeah. - No.

What, a million to never come back to the UK?

- Yeah, it's not enough, is it?

- It's not enough.

- A million pounds would go very far.

- No, it really wouldn't.

- Like, a million pounds in London, like,

that could buy you a nice two bed flat.

- Yeah.

- Two bed apartment, that's it.

- That's it, no, I wouldn't accept a million pounds.

- And then you'd never see your family, your friends.

- No way, that's, no way.

- Instant no.

- Instant no, but I wonder what amount of money

it would have to be for us to say yes,

'cause clearly everything's got a price, doesn't it?

- Yeah, exactly.

- So what price would it be?

- 10 million.

- 10 mil?

- I think so, but still--

- I'd probably do it for 10 mil.

- But still, family and friends is an issue.

- I know, that sucks.

Yeah, but it doesn't mean you can't fly them to you.

We've made this rule, you can't say that,

but with that money, I'd do this, yeah, it's like--

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- Takeaway?

- [Lia] That's our takeaway.

- Okay, run, run, run.

- Should we finish the video? - [Joel] Yeah.

- We'll finish the video.

- Okay, so the million, yeah, 10 million.

- 10 mil?

- I think 10 million, I could do it, but--

- We'll go to the US, we'll just miss the UK a lot.

- Yeah, and to be honest,

your family would come and visit you,

and there isn't anything to say

you couldn't just fly home and see them.

That didn't say to never, actually,

you couldn't step foot in the country.

- You can fly somewhere else and they can be there.

- Yeah, they can come and see you.

Also, for 10 mil, I'd just relocate my whole family.

- Exactly.