May 2022 Q&A

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Hey Moonbeams and happy May. Got another Q&A for you. It never ceases to amaze me how you guys just keep coming up with new questions.

And I wonder how many of you are using like websites and cheat sheets and stuff. Because some of these questions are really just not ones I would have seen coming. So I got a lot this month and there are some that are going to be really easy to answer and there are a few others that are going to be a little bit more challenging.

But I'm going to try to give you real answers and not cop-outs. So let's get to it. Tina asks what my favorite bagel toppings are.

I really am not that much of a bagel guy and I'm really not one for bagel toppings. Honestly, my favorite is just an Asiago cheese bagel with nothing on it. And I don't have them very often.

Maybe once a year or something like that. Just not something that really finds its way into my diet that often. What's your perfect sandwich? Okay, so there is a sandwich chain that I found out about for the first time when I was at Disney World.

It's called Earl of Sandwich and there are a few other locations around the country. I most recently ate some of their food when I had a layover, I want to say in Newark, New Jersey. It was either that or JFK.

I'm pretty sure it was Newark that it's in the airport there. And the perfect sandwich, my favorite is their sandwich, the original 1762. And I'll, here, let's pull that up.

Bear with me here. Original 1762. Okay, got the, where's the menu? My goodness.

It shouldn't be this hard. Okay, there we go. Roast beef, cheddar and horseradish and I, you know, simple and I'm sorry I had to look it up.

But that is probably that toasted and hot is probably my favorite sandwich ever. So yeah, if you guys can find a way to like have them open more locations near me, that'd be great. Or give me reasons to fly through Newark or actually to go to Disney World.

Although I don't know, I don't really like this whole lightning lane thing that they've done. And the having to, you know, get a reservation for the park. It's just, I don't love it.

I hope it goes away. If you could, do you think you'd go back in time and change something in your life? If you think it'd change everything for you now? You know, there are a couple of personal struggles that I have that I, you know, long term things just vulnerabilities that I've got that have significantly impacted my life over the course of my life.

And I, if I could go back in time and undo them and not have to face those things going through life, it would change a lot and it would certainly make life easier. So yeah, that I think I would change if I could. How do you forgive someone or at least how do you stop resenting someone or something long enough to heal yourself and move on?

Well, for me first, forgiveness is, you know, I am a Christian, I'm a devout Christian, and I believe that the Savior has commanded me and the Lord has commanded me, as well as all of us, to forgive unconditionally and the judgment will be His. He never said we had to forget. And there's a difference between forgiving and forgetting.

I forgive people, even if that means, even if I don't want them to be present in my life anymore. And I don't know how it is that I forgive someone. I just choose over and over not to think about things that have, you know, not to continue dwelling on things, I should say, not to continue reopening wounds.

And I try to act with charity towards that person. I always try to act with charity towards people. But that said, there are some people who have hurt me very, very badly during my life, and they will never be a welcome back into my life.

I forgive them, but I don't need their presence, and I don't want their presence. I wish them nothing but good, and I don't want their paths across mine. And do I use Pinterest? That's a recent thing I've started using.

Y'all know Kativa, who's my creative partner. She is very much a Pinterest. Well, she calls herself a Pinterest bitch.

She has got me to make an account. And I'm looking at home improvement stuff. I'm looking at recipes, that sort of thing.

So, yeah, you can thank Kativa for that. Hannah Johansson asks, do you have any fun plans for the summer? Yes, I do.

I'm visiting Europe, going to a few countries over there, and very excited about that. I will be working and lamenting the fact that summer vacation doesn't seem to be a thing for grownups, unfortunately. And just enjoying the warm weather.

By the time the weather warms back up, I'm very ready for that to happen. Amal asks, do you have any tattoos? No, I do not.

Are you right-handed or left-handed? I am right-handed. And 2F minus 5 equals 133.

What is the value of F? I can do this one in my head. 2F minus 5 is 133, so 2F is 138.

Divide that by 2, and you get 69. So F is equal to 69. And Lona asks, how was your first year on Patreon? You know, it was interesting.

I learned a lot. It was fun to be able to spread my wings a little bit and get into some material that I may not have posted on YouTube. And if anyone is waiting for those erotic audios, it's never going to happen.

So sorry to bust your bubble. It's just, it's a personal choice. It's a, it's something that is not going to change.

But I was able to do some stuff that I wouldn't do on YouTube. That was a lot of fun. And it's been fun doing the Hangouts.

It's been fun interacting with y'alls in the server. So it was really good. Here's to a good second year.

On to Amanda's questions. First one, are you afraid of going out to places like Cons with the fear of being recognized? Not really.

I'm not really involved in any conferences that are, you know, specific to the audio community. I've been to a couple of professional conferences during my, during my day. And I mean, I, my, my normal life and my audio life don't cross paths, really.

So I'm not really worried about other people, you know, recognizing me who I'm also. I mean, it's not like I'm freaking Liam Neeson or something. You know, it's not like I have such a huge fan base that my, that my listeners are just everywhere.

So yeah, I'm not really worried about that. What is one convention or event that you would like to attend that you've never been to before? I would love to go to South by Southwest or the Sundance Film Festival.

I'd really love to do one of those things. Would you ever go to see and I don't know how it's actually pronounced. Sabaton, Sabaton.

I probably would. It depends on tickets. You know, there are there are other brands that I would probably have higher on my list.

Just because as I've gotten, as I've gotten older, my musical tastes have kind of mellowed a little bit. So I still do enjoy the heavy stuff, but I'm more mellow than I used to be. What kind of YouTube videos do you like watching? You know, one thing that I've watched a lot of in the past is drum covers of rock songs.

I know it's kind of stupid, but I like watching those live recordings, live musical performances. I like those. I've watched.

I've watched a lot of I watch a good number of makeup artists like bad makeup artist review ones. I love Judy D. She's hilarious.

And although I could do without some of the sound effects she uses on her videos, I think. And then there's some really cool stuff like NASA stuff and and just other science stuff, space stuff really interests me. So, yeah, that kind of thing.

Is there a hobby you've always wanted to try but wasn't too confident confident in trying or didn't know anyone to ask for help with? I've always actually wanted to learn to play the drums, but, you know, there's just too much going on in life and I don't have time. So it's not a confidence thing or a not knowing who to go to thing.

More just a time thing, time and energy. And now we're into unrefined sugars questions, and she often finds a way to answer or to ask rather some very interesting things. So let's see where this takes us.

I'm a sour candy slash food fiend. How do you feel about sour candy? I love it.

Have you ever had toxic waste? Is this like a candy or something like I I accidentally tried ranch dressing one time. So, yes, I've had toxic waste.

I ate some hummus the other day that, well, I didn't I didn't eat much of it because it was clearly not good. So that was toxic. I don't know if this is like a candy.

I assume it wasn't because you didn't capitalize anything. If not, if it is, then use your capital letters. So there you go.

Would you rather wear the same outfit every day for the rest of your life? Keep in mind, it is not snazzy, a very boring normal outfit or have no hair from your neck up for the next five years. This includes facial nose, ear and scalp hair, as well as your eyebrows and eyelashes.

Definitely the hair thing. Definitely, absolutely the hair thing. I would just keep wearing a mask over my face for the next five years and then say I'd shave my eyebrows for charity.

So easy peasy. Done deal. You know, some good stuff did come with covid, like the fact that I can hide the fact that I have no hair from the neck up behind a mask.

So that's maybe the only good thing that came from that, that they figured out a lot more about like home food delivery, because that's pretty awesome being able to get restaurant food without having to go out. Imagine you can only drink your meals for the next fortnight. What meal that is usually best served solid would you want to liquefy to make your tummy happy or unhappy if you're adventurous?

I had to drink the same meal for two weeks. Definitely, absolutely steak and potatoes. Please bring it.

Make me happy here. In remembrance of Ranch Hand Matt, what sound does a cat in a cowboy hat make? There is only one correct answer.

Well, I mean, I could be like a really bad person and say, if you're doing it right, you hear the sound of drowning. But I'm just not a cat person. But I do not know.

Maybe you can upload something in the server that shows us what that sounds like. It would have to be simulated because I do not want you to put a cat in a cowboy hat for real. Shy Shadow wants to know what the most difficult home improvement project I've ever done was and was I able to complete it myself or did I have to call in professionals?

I, a few years ago, built a shed and it was a kit that I got from Costco. But it wasn't like prefab or anything. It was it was all like regular old loose lumber just cut to the right lengths and everything ahead of time and with plans.

And so I had to frame the thing. I had to build it. You know, cut the window out and put, you know, install the window and I had to shingle it and everything.

And it was a it was a big, big job. And I did not have to call in professionals. I managed it.

It looks great. And that did take me a good part of the summer because it was like, first off, you know, I was working. And then second, it was hot as balls.

And so there were a lot of days that I couldn't do a whole lot of work because I would have absolutely died. And then also where I live, mosquitoes become a problem in summer. And so I had like I would douse myself from head to toe in raid before I'd start working because otherwise I'd be eaten alive.

And I stacked the cans, the empty raid cans out in front of the shed. And by the time I was done, I think I had six, five or six cans of raid that I had emptied over the course of the weeks that I've been working on the thing. Wasn't eaten by the mosquitoes, though, which is usually what happens to me.

I'm very much a mosquito magnet. What is the craziest prank you've ever pulled on someone? Did they know that you were pranking them? I might have to give you a cop out here because I'm really not that much of a prankster.

You know, I joke with people, I fib with people, but then I also let them know that I'm fibbing. And I. ..

gosh. Well, OK, so one time when I was in college, my roommate and I and a couple of our friends freshman year went down to the floor below us in the dorms. And the dorms that I was in at the time were like a long straight hallway with a dorm room with dorm rooms lining both sides of the hall.

And so we took rope and we tied everyone's door handles to the handle across the hall from them and did that the whole way down the hall for the entire floor at three in the morning. And so.