November 2022 Q&A

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Hey Moonbeams! Welcome to the beginning of your November content. Now I know the month is almost over but it was a little bit of a slog as you remember trying to get caught up from October, from the move, from the recording space snafu where I was getting some really bad sound quality.

So the goal here is to have all of November done in November as opposed to October which actually took until the second half of November to finish being recorded and posted. So thank you for your patience. Thanks for sticking with me.

We're gonna get through all this content. Get everything to you that you've been waiting for. And my goal in December is to be more spread out throughout the month.

To post things a little bit more regularly rather than having them all stacked up at the end. But be that as it may, let's focus on the time being. Let's focus on where we are right now.

The thing we're doing right now, let's do some questions and some answers. So I have a total of seven of y'all that have asked me some questions and I have not taken the time yet to preview and prepare any answers for any of these things. A lot of times I'll give them a look through ahead of time to, you know, familiarize myself.

See if there's anything that is gonna be a little bit more challenging to to answer and maybe figure out my responses to a few things ahead of time. Now one thing I'm gonna ask you for is a little bit of patience here. I have been under the weather a little bit and I'm pulling out of it but the sinuses are still a little bit a little bit stuffed up.

So if I sound a little bit like I've had a cold it's because I have. But don't worry about me. It's all good.

It's it's just a cold. It's not COVID and and I'm on the mend. I'm much much better than I was several days ago.

So first off we have Luna Castro. Are you excited for the World Cup in Qatar? I really, you know, I see each his own.

I know there are a lot of sports fans, a lot of soccer fans the world over that really just enjoy that game. I don't care at all about soccer, honestly. It's not that I despise it or think poorly of it.

It just doesn't do anything for me. Very much a fan of American football. Very much a fan of basketball.

I really don't care much about hockey. Baseball's fun when there's nothing else on and soccer just doesn't do much for me. So it's not that I'm not excited about the World Cup in Qatar.

I do think that it was a little bit of a maybe a short-sighted decision on the part of Qatar and on the part of FIFA to put it there because of the amount of infrastructure that they needed to build. The fact that they're building that they had to build all those stadiums for such a tiny country with such a small population. My my sense of, you know, morality and ethics kind of makes me feel like it was an irresponsible decision on the part of FIFA because they they had this tiny country spend massive massive amounts of money on a whole bunch of stuff that's gonna get one use and then never get used again.

Now on the other hand, Qatar did put in a lot of infrastructure that's gonna serve them very well going forward. So maybe I'm the one that's short-sighted here. Time will tell, I suppose.

It is interesting to me that they've had to have shuttle commuter flights from the UAE and other, you know, countries in that region because Qatar lacks the infrastructure in the hotels to even accommodate the number of spectators and officials and players that descended upon that that country. So do you enjoy your own company or do you feel like you need to be with someone all the time? Really neither.

You know, I am an extrovert and I enjoy the company of other people. When I'm in a relationship I really enjoy the company of my partner. That said, even when I am in a relationship there are times that I just you know want to chill, want to think my thoughts, want to have time to myself and solitude can be a very beautiful thing.

And so I really I can't say that there's a hard and fast answer to everything there's to everything there is a season, right? And so sometimes I like to be on my own, a lot of times I like to be with someone. Next up, Amanda asks if you could build your dream ramen or udon bowl, how would you build it starting from the soup base all the way to the toppings?

I really lack the knowledge to give you a whole lot of info or insight there. I really just don't have a lot of ramen or udon experience. So I'm gonna just have to say I would look at the menu and figure out what looks good to me.

And I know that that's completely a cop-out but I just I'm afraid I don't have a good answer for that. What is one game you will never ever play and why? Well you know I'm not gonna play truth or dare for example because I don't trust my friends not to dare me to do things that will result in grievous bodily injury or other significant harm, mostly.

Obviously there are a lot of party games that that get played in college a lot that I just have no interest in because I'm not part of that crowd at this point. And I'm not a drinker so I'll never play beer pong. Although if you know if they needed someone to make all the shots because he was the only one still sober and other people would drink the shots that I made then I would play some beer pong but I won't play as as someone that has to consume his own beer when he makes a shot.

If you were an artist what would your medium or media of choice be and what would you create? I think if I really had a lot of artistic skill I would probably be an oil and canvas painter. That kind of art just really you know I've seen a lot of that kind of work that I've really enjoyed.

I really like history, I like historical sites, I like historical images and literature and there's a lot of oil on canvas that has been done through many ages that I've enjoyed so that's probably the way I would go. The Sleepy Kid says, phew it's been a while. Hi, since Christmas is near, one any favorite Christmas memories? Yeah one that I was actually telling a friend about just earlier today as a matter of fact is when I was a kid my mom would make these really delicious scones and she only did it on Christmas morning and it was something that I looked forward to every single year.

It was one of the high points of Christmas for me and I still remember the time when I was a teenager that mom said you know what this is the last year I'm making them it's just it's a lot of work it's not something I particularly enjoy. My mom's never enjoyed being in the kitchen she just she did the cooking when I was a kid she was a stay-at-home mom my dad was the the bacon bringer and so she took care of that and there were a lot of you know stay-at-home mom type of stuff that she really really loved but cooking was not among those activities she just hated it and so I still remember when she said that she was done with scones it was a kind of a bittersweet time but at least she waited until I was a teenager I got a lot of memories really good memories and I actually was thinking earlier today that I had to hit her up and see if she's got that recipe still so that I can make them a month from now. Favorite Christmas slash chick flick movie that you secretly enjoy? I don't know if there are any that I secretly enjoy I'm pretty vocal about the things I like probably my favorite Christmas movie is A Christmas Story that movie is just a classic to me I've never seen Elf all the way through so maybe I'll have to watch that this year and I really really like the animated I think it's it's a it's not Claymation the the classic Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer that's one and a Charlie Brown Christmas those were classics that I watched every every Christmas as a kid and I just love them another thing I used to do is sit with my family and watch every Christmas PBS would have a a show of the ballet The Nutcracker and and we would watch that together and that was I have a lot of good memories sitting by the fireplace watching Nutcracker with my family during the lead-up to Christmas.

If you know you will die tomorrow what would your last day look like? Honestly it would just be chilling with the people close to me and probably not letting a lot of them know that it's my last day you know I would want it to be a happy day not one that just has everyone down and I would probably just enjoy it and give them some beautiful memories of me to take as I went on to the next life. And what dish can you cook perfectly every single time? I don't know if there's a single dish that I cook perfectly every single time but I do make some killer mashed potatoes and it's a recipe a monkey could do it but I do a good job and there's also a beef and noodles kind of like a like a homemade hamburger helper thing that Kativa found me the recipe for and I've made that a few times and it's it's pretty awesome I do a good job gotta say.

Mikhail asks what's your favorite Thanksgiving or holiday food? Well I mentioned those scones my mom made which are really special to me. Honestly I don't know if there's a single thing it's kind of the whole experience the turkey the stuffing the mashed potatoes the gravy the cranberry sauce the green bean casserole the sweet potato casserole like if I don't have all those things there's not one of those things that I can leave aside and be like I'm totally satisfied now by my Thanksgiving dinner like kind of all those things I gotta have them you know I don't know sue me gun to my head I'd have to say that Thanksgiving wouldn't be Thanksgiving without turkey but I kind of feel like it wouldn't be Thanksgiving without any of those other things too.

Caroline asks have you ever experienced something paranormal and no one believed you? No I haven't I don't have a lot of experiences that one would really call paranormal the few things that I do have that you know may go that way I'm not sure whether I kind of imagined them myself or whether there was anything you know more significant than that so I can't really say that I've had a lot of paranormal experiences. Then Caroline asked if you ever had stitches for a wound how did you get the wound and how many stitches?

The answer is no I've never had stitches I have had cast on my arm when I was a teenager from breaking my hand and broke the one of the bones inside my hand that yeah didn't need surgery didn't need and did the doctor just you know injected some local anesthetic and pushed on my hand and straighten the bone back out and put a cast on I had that for six weeks and and then I've got a toe that I've broken a few times the big toe on my right foot I'm pretty sure it's gonna be nice and arthritic when I when I get a bit older but yeah no stitches no stitches. Yamakun are you excited for the new Harry Potter game coming out? I did not know there was a new Harry Potter game coming out I might have to google that but I if that tells you I wasn't excited about it because I didn't even know it was a thing.

Do you like cake or pie more? Probably pie to be honest pie is serious business I mean cake cake is great but it can be a lie and pie is where it's at for me. What is one of your favorite comfort movies or shows? I have a few the Ocean's Eleven with George Clooney Matt Damon and Brad Pitt is a comfort movie for me Ocean's 13 is a comfort movie for me 12 not so much that one was I just not executed very well I think.

Other comfort stuff for me the Lord of the Rings trilogy is comfort movies for me Arrested Development is probably my is one of my comfort TV shows although I have gotten into the office I'm in the sixth season now and I enjoy that a good although I have been told not to watch the eighth and ninth season I told the show really fell off after the seventh one so well we'll have to see probably not gonna see those two. Other comfort shows I really like Burn Notice that's another comfort show for me see I've got a few that I can choose from. Have you ever been out of your state or country if so what's the best place you have visited so far? I have been to 28 of the states I think and I have been to over a dozen countries on every inhabited continent except for Australia so I have been all over the world really really enjoyed so many of the places.