March 2022 Q&A

Transcript

Top of the morning to you, Moonbeams, and welcome to the March Q&A for Patreon. This month we have an interesting mix of questions. Some of them are personal, but not too personal.

Others are not personal at all. Some of them make a lot of sense. Some of them make no sense whatsoever.

Some of them are going to require me to think a little bit, and some of them are not. And some of them I may have to give you a little bit of a cop out. Without further ado, we're going to go ahead and crack open a Diet Pepsi.

Gotta have my poison of choice here as I record. Partly because we do have a question about that later. MasqueradingDragon asks what my favorite beer or drink for St.

Patrick's Day is. Well first off, I do have some Irish heritage, however, it wasn't really something that was emphasized. I grew up in the western US.

I understand that there's a lot of, you know, like Irish heritage in Boston, New York, stuff like that, where people are very Irish and that's part of their identity. Where I grew up out west, that wasn't nearly as stressed, it wasn't nearly as prominent, you know, it was like, well you got some Irish, great, so, you know, and kind of that way for everything, you know, oh you're part German, like cool, whatever, like it just wasn't out there stressed as much as it is in some parts of the east coast. So yeah, so I'm aware of my, my grandmother was a really big genealogy nut and so I have actually on her side of my family, I have quite an extensive family history and I can tell you there's a good bit of Irish in there, mix of the British Isles, little bit of Scandinavian too, little bit of general western European, so kind of an American mix.

And but anyway, back to St. Patrick's Day, really the only tradition that I have for St. Patrick's Day is telling people that I will break their fingers if they pinch me because I'm not wearing green just because of the day.

Usually it's just because I forgot and, and yeah, so I don't really have a favorite beer or drink. I actually do not drink alcohol and that's a personal choice that I made years and years ago and, and so I can't say that I really have anything that I, I mean if I had to guess I would say Diet Pepsi. Tina asks what the backstory is with Lola.

She also asks if Lola and Mooney have beef and are the exes trying to stay civil? Lola is an Easter egg for a friend of mine, someone else who records audios, who someone in their family, someone very dear to them is named Lola and, and that, that, that is an Easter egg for that person. I kind of have stopped doing it.

I don't really, you know, I'm not opposed to doing it again. It's just kind of something to taper it off, but there's really no backstory, no more backstory than that. It's, it's not that she and Mooney or, you know, have a beef or if they're exes or anything like that.

It was just me giving a shout out to a friend. Amal asks, do you have a favorite Beatles song? I'm going to have to say there are a few, and this is probably going to sound like a cop out because there's, it's nothing like, I'm not going to come up with some, you know, some song that like, oh wow, that one's totally obscure.

You know, it's off the beaten path, whatever. I would have to say in no particular order, Hey Jude, Let It Be and Twist and Shout. Just love all of those songs.

I'm not the biggest Beatles aficionado, but, you know, when stuff comes up with some of these bands, it's, it's, you don't really hear a lot of their songs anymore because they've got so many songs out and so many of them were huge hits that like, those are the ones that get, that get played. Okay. So like, for example, a couple of years ago, ACDC was on tour with Axl Rose singing for them.

It was incredible. He did a great job. He's a real piece of work as a person, but man, he's a good rock singer.

But and the show, like if you put, if you look at ACDC albums, like track listings, like most of the songs on there, I was just, I'd be like, well, I don't know this song. I don't know that one. Like I knew almost every song, basically every song in the concert, because it was like, they were just playing their greatest hits, you know?

Same for when I saw Metallica a couple of years ago, it was like, it was like the Metallica greatest hits album. So the Beatles, I feel like it's kind of the same way. Like I can't really say that I know the Beatles, but all of their songs that still get played widely, I know, if that makes sense.

And when will we get to hear you sing again? I don't know when you'll hear me sing again. Right then, apparently.

But that was a new song, original composition. I don't expect it to crack the top 40. I don't know.

And I'm a geek. And you already knew that. So shut up.

I'm not sure when the opportunity presents itself. I am a little bit self-conscious about when I sing. And we'll see when the opportunity comes up.

Unrefined Sugar. I'm going to put out here right now, anyone on the Discord server who misbehaves right now, if your sole purpose is to make Sugar's life hard, you get a free pass, OK? Because her questions are absurd.

Like Sugar, you're on my list now, girl. So are boneless wings just chicken nuggets? I would say, I would say no.

I think the nugget part of the bird is, you know, down closer to like the thigh or something like that. You know, I'd need to see a diagram of the chicken, you know, like the way they show like the cuts of beef on a cow, I'd need to see the diagram of the chicken to see where the nugget is. Would I rather go on a trip to Flavortown or Funkytown? Most definitely Flavortown.

Funkytown would probably be obnoxious, whereas Flavortown, I love good food. I love delicious flavors. I love trying things.

If you were blindfolded and given two cups to drink out of, one with Diet Pepsi and one with Diet Coke. Hang on. There we go.

Do I think I would be able to tell the difference? It depends where I was. If I was in the U.S.

, absolutely, without question, I could tell the difference. Yes. Because I've tried that and I've done it.

Abroad though, I found that Diet Pepsi in foreign countries tastes just like Diet Coke. And I've confirmed this. Like I've brought Diet Pepsi home from like foreign trips I've done and had friends taste it and they're like, yeah, this doesn't taste like Diet Pepsi here.

It's not the same flavor. And I've had international friends try ours and they're like, that's not what ours tastes like. So Diet Pepsi in the U.S.

does not taste like Diet Pepsi in other places, at least the places I've been to. And I've been to a decent number of places. So in the U.S.

I'd be able to tell. Up or down and why? I kind of think you need both.

And just to be contrarian, I'm going to say sideways. In your opinion, what is the best Jolly Rancher flavor? The same as the best flavor for any candy, green apple.

Is this even a question? Who is your favorite live action on screen portrayal of Spider-Man? I'm going to out myself here as someone that hasn't watched a lot of Spider-Man movies.

The only one I've ever watched as Spider-Man was Tobey Maguire. So I'd have to say Tobey Maguire. But I should probably get out and see some of the others.

It just seemed to me like they started making more Spider-Man movies like immediately after they'd made the three with him. It's like, we don't need more Spider-Man right now. Make something else.

But anyway, I'm not the one they ask about these decisions. And finally, and this is this is absurd. Okay, sugar, you should be ashamed of yourself for this question.

If 12 times 2 equals 24 and 13 times 2 equals 26, then how many licks does it take for a green apple to turn into an iguana? Answer to the nearest decimal, please. Everyone knows the answer is pi.

And no, I'm not going to answer to the nearest decimal because it goes on forever. 3.1415926, I think is as far as I know. And that's as close as I'm going to get.

I would just abbreviate it, you know, with pi, you know, the Greek letter. But I mean, this is elementary stuff, sugar. If you don't know the answer to that, then I'm going to have to question the quality of your education.

Like, time to go back to the drawing board, girl, time to go back to first grade. That's just I thought everybody knew that, sorry. Mary Live VOD asks, if you could have any animal as a pet, which one would it be? Well, I can tell you this, I'm not a cat guy.

I've had cats as pets. Not interested in doing that again. I'm more of a dog person.

I would like a dog as a pet. But see, I've had Shetland sheepdogs. I had those when I was a kid.

I had one as an adult too. And the problem with them, I mean, they're smart dogs, they're friendly. They're very vocal.

So they bark at like everything. But the real problem is just they shed everywhere. So I'm going to say, if I get a dog in the future, I want one that doesn't shed.

And friendly, smart, playful, that sort of thing. Three months ago, I confessed to my best friend in a letter when he left for three months. When he came back this week, he told me he liked me too.

So the question is, if you would confess to a girl that you like, how would you do it? I really don't know. More would, you know, like, ask out on dates and, and, and I can't, I'm afraid I can't give you a really clever or creative or thought out response to that.

It's just not something that I, that I really, it's just not really me. You know, it's, it's, it's just not my style. Like, and I know that it's because I do a lot of love confession audios.

But in real life, I'm not always quite so bold. I've been learning Portuguese for six months now. Que bom! Just because I like the language.

What sentence or word would you say I definitely should learn? It can be anything. That's a really hard question because obviously, you know, it's a whole language.

And I would say an interesting word to know is saudade. S-A-U-D-A-D-E. Saudade is kind of like, it's kind of like longing, kind of like yearning, kind of like a wistful remembering with a positive spin, kind of, it's, it's hard to describe.

It's a word that we, we don't really have an exact word for in English. It's just something you get from context and you learn how to use it. And it's, I always find it interesting, like learning words that don't have a direct, a direct translation in, in, in English, you know, and we have words in English don't have a direct translation in other languages too.

And so I think it's always interesting, like to learn these words and then figure out like, okay, if I want to, cause, cause what they're expressing here is something that humans need to express. But if we don't have a word for it, how do we express it? Like what, what workaround do we have to, to express this particular feeling or idea or whatever? Luna Castro.

Did you watch the new Batman movie that just came out? If so, what do you think about Robert Pattinson as Batman? I have not watched it yet.

I plan to probably, I've got a pretty, pretty intense work week coming up. So I'll probably watch it the week after next, but hit me up in April. I'll tell you what I thought.

What thing I've done to you, would you consider unforgivable? That is an interesting question. I really don't see, I draw a distinction between forgiveness versus opening back up.

I don't know that there's anything that I couldn't eventually forgive, but it doesn't mean that there aren't things that, um, there are things that I would forgive, but the person still would not ever be invited back into my life. It doesn't mean that I'm, you know, holding onto it. It just means that I've made the decision at that point that I don't trust them because there is a difference between forgiveness and trust.

And um, yeah, but I do believe that it is important to forgive. If I harbor negativity, if I harbor grudges, the person I'm hurting ultimately is myself. And um, and if someone has wronged me, then the worst thing I can do is decide to let them continue wronging me by bearing a grudge and putting that weight on myself.

Do you consider yourself a perfectionist or not? Um, very much, very much so. Did you ever meet someone who's famous? Yes.

I met Robert Redford a number of years ago, briefly. What's the most challenging thing for you as a voice actor? Well, part of it is coming up with new ideas.

It's something that, um, that, uh, takes some thinking sometimes, um, takes some work. And honestly, cause a lot of my personality is put into Mooney.