*PREVIEW* 2025 Q&A

It is our yearly QA episode.

So we ask our patrons and Discord members to send us in questions that, you know, maybe we just don't have time for a question from the Legion, or we get a lot of questions from the Legion.

So we're not exactly going to get through them all.

And QA is a good way to do it.

It's fun for everybody.

We got like several hundred questions.

Yeah.

So we tried to, Tom went through them and picked out a handful of, I think, the best ones.

Yeah.

But it's, I can't believe it's actually been a year since our last Q ⁇ A.

Yeah, we said that last year as well.

Time is going by so fast, I needed to slow down.

It's been a really good year for the show, I guess we could say.

We've done a lot of very good episodes, did some more live shows.

We performed in an unventilated concrete box during a British heat wave, which was lovely.

We didn't go to Belfast because it never happened.

That is true.

It was unfortunately the show's canceled.

Some people would wish.

Some people would wish.

But yeah, do you want me to start us off with the very first Q ⁇ A question?

Thank you, everyone.

So like who submitted them.

There was like nearly 300 questions.

Yeah.

And we should maybe do the really quick yes or no answers first.

Like if people, a lot of people ask, like, are we going to do an episode of X or Y?

Yes.

The answer is yes.

If I want to continue having my job, I will hypothetically have to cover every conflict until I die.

I mean, it's like the rule they have with no gods, no mayors.

They will cover every mayor ever.

Yeah, but there's a specific order, and you're not allowed to know it.

Exactly.

I do have the majority of the rest of this year scheduled out.

I'm not going to tell anybody what it is to include you two.

But yeah, I try to work like six months to a year out when it comes to scripts and plans.

Sometimes it's just not the thing that maybe you were looking forward to.

I do my best.

I do listen to suggestions.

But, you know, I'll get to it eventually or I'll die trying.

Yeah, that's the short answer.

But for the first real question is: congrats, you've been turned into a racehorse.

What is your wacky horse name?

Shoulder hair.

You're going to get shot by the IRA like Shergar.

I would pick last resort

because if you're getting me to run anywhere, it's not good.

I'm going to do the thing that is the most horse-related thing I can think of, which is pediatric surgery ward.

And here comes Pediatric Surgery Award looping around shoulder hair right behind last resort.

We really regret that the sponsor decided to name this horse.

Sponsored by Big Health Insurance.

Second question.

How old were you when you first started growing facial hair?

I think, Joe, you were born with facial hair.

Yeah.

You know how like some kids are born with a full head of hair that just changes colors?

Yeah.

That was my whole body.

I think I was like 13.

It's like as soon as puberty hit.

Yeah.

It was bam, peach fuzz on my face.

This is like, this is like

from the kid who's on the iPad in the back of his dad won't stop playing the fucking car, playing blind slip by donkeys in the car.

That's the question he asks.

I was probably about

16 or 17 when I actually had to start shaving.

Like it was noticeable enough that I had a mustache.

I didn't really grow facial hair to speak of a significant volume until I was in my 20s.

But I had, when I was in the army, like even if I could get away with not shaving my cheeks, my chin, whatever, like I had to shave the mustache.

That just that, so that came in.

And that's

people who know me in real life know that, like, like, I can grow a sick mustache, beard, not much beard to speak of.

I'm going to do far better now than it was, you know, call it, say, 10 years ago.

But

I was very enthusiastic about having to shave, but I didn't have to actually really shave until I was, I remember I was like, it started to look kind of like nasty, you know, fucking.

You have that shitty teenager beard.

Yeah.

Well, just shitty teenager mustache in my case when I was probably about 17.

Cause I remember swimming one time and I had shaved the night before and it still like irritated when I was in the pool.

But also, also you got to realize, I grew, like I, by the time I was like 16, I was my current height.

So, you know, I'm six feet.

But I, I have a photo of me and my cousin at the beach when I was almost 16.

So I'd be very, very close to my current height.

And if it weren't for my height, you would think I was like 13 at most.

I looked very, very young for my age.

It's just that I was, I, I, I grew enough to be like adult.

I was typically, typically, typically like, you know, 11-year-olds are six feet tall.

Maybe they are now.

In the future, when we give them, you know, YouTube and ultra fucking ultra neurotropics, they will be.

But like, uh, give the babies HGH.

Just a baby with a massive gut.

I turned 16 in 2000, and so back then, yeah, we didn't have Joe Rogan.

We only had, we only had, what is it, news, radio, and fucking Fear Factor.

We didn't have the real unlocked power about Newotropics.

For me, I started shaving when I was 14, and I had to learn how to shave myself.

So the first time I ever shaved, I like nearly cut my lip off.

Because I was like,

you got to shave off that lip hair, yeah.

Cause I used like one of my dad's like Mac 3 razors and didn't realize you had to use like shaving foam, so I did it with just water.

And I didn't have a huge amount, so it came off, but like, yeah, like slice right on the line of my lip, like completely open blood everywhere.

But, like, oh, nice.

Like, I am, I think, probably the most bearded member of the cast.

Um, I feel like I might grow mine back eventually.

You should.

The last time I saw you with a proper beard was when we had that fateful trip in Dublin with Robert Evans, where I tried tried to kill you with alcohol poisoning.

That's true.

I look even older with a beard, though.

Yeah.

I don't exactly look young without one.

I think it would work now because the last time I saw you with a beard, you didn't have hair either.

You had a shaved head.

Yeah, it's true.

But yeah, I shaved every couple of days until I was maybe like 25.

So I only really like grew a beard when I was like 25.

And I just like, oh, suddenly I look like an ex-member of the Dubliners for some reason.

I didn't know how to grow or trim or keep it trimmed or like work with what I've got until I was in my mid-30s because I never grew facial hair out until I moved to the UK.

My wife used to say she liked it.

Like she thought I looked better and she thought it was, she liked the feeling of it when I was, you know, four days, five days without shaving, but I used to always shaved for my job.

I did not have any facial hair.

Other than novelty, we were allowed to grow a mustache in the field when I was in Korea, so I did.

I never have, never had facial hair.

So I would have been what?

I was 33.

So it'd have been about 34 when I started.

I was 33, like an almost one year older when I we moved to London.

So in basic training, I had to shave twice a day.

I have some photos of me fucking as my beard grew out the first year of kind of figuring it out where I absolutely look like white Isis convert.

I'm not going to lie.

But yeah, like I've gotten messages on Discord before, because obviously, like, everyone knows I have a beard, but like, you know, I do keep it quite tidy.

And I've gotten a message off a handful of like trans men who've asked me for like, oh, how do I shave?

Because I don't want to ask my like parents.

Let me give you one tip in case.

Just my dad, who was kind of a piece of shit in a lot of ways, but did actually give me good advice.

If you're shaving your muscle, he had mega thick beard.

He had to shave twice a day when he was in the army.

He was like, obviously, hot water first, then shaving cream.

Better razors mean less cutting.

Just saying less, less, less, less blood.

Use your tongue to put pressure in the back of your lip to kind of like, so you're not like wobbly skin and just so it keeps it straight.

And then just give that pressure behind it.

And then that'll help reduce the amount you have to cut.

You have to rub the razor down.

And thus, I mean, obviously, if you, if your technique is okay and and you're using a decent razor, you probably won't cut yourself, but it will get irritated.

Yeah, like it'll just, you know, all that.

Also, after shave will just make it more fucking irritated.

Do what I do: wax your entire face, yeah.

Like, if you get a hot towel, like get a like a face cloth or whatever, and like soak it in like really hot water from the tap, and then just kind of like wring it out a little bit and just let that like sit on your face.

That will help take down irritation and like get a good moisturizer to like moisturize your face afterwards.

And what I always used to do was, um, I would start off with hot water, like hot all over, kind of get beard wet, then clean, shaving cream, laser, laser, razor.

I wish I had a laser.

That would be fucking sick.

And then afterwards, put cold water.

I learned this from watching Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, actually, that shave before your shower.

And then if your skin still feels a little bit irritated and hot from having done it, then put cold water on it afterwards.

But definitely shave before the shower.

Otherwise, you're going to like, it's not like a problem, but you run the risk of it being more likely that you're going to have like, you know, razor bumps and

blocked pores and stuff like that.

Yeah.

Or just irritation in general, which for me, especially like jumping in a pool afterwards, just chlorine hell.

Like, you really don't want that.

Perfect.

Well, what's the next question we got?

I want this turned to shaving corner.

Uh, the next question is: what would your clown name be?

And I know mine straight away.

I would be cigarette the clown.

Clown name.

Nate, do you have one?

I don't have one.

Let me think.

I don't know.

I don't know what actual clown names are.

I mean, obviously, Paliachi, John Wayne, Gacy.

I don't fucking know.

They say Bud Light the Clown.

Like, imagine you were being, you know, hired for like a kid's party and they see a very disappointing clown show up.

That's why I was like, cigarette the clown, aka.

I'll just like, I'm just like Krusty.

Krusty the clown.

Yeah, I'll just show up.

I don't know.

I'm trying to think what do you think Proof's clown name was in the D12 video before that?

Gunshot, I think.

Proof the clown.

Proof.

That's me.

I'm proof.

Next question.

And this feels a little bit targeted.

What is the best way to consume a potato?

Whole and unchewing.

You have to swallow the potato like a snake.

Hey, listen, I'm going by Marion Pippin from Lord of the Rings.

Boil them, mash them, stick them in a stew.

You can't go wrong.

Potatoes are always good.

Make a dauphin wa, you know, make,

you know, raclettes, like make it whatever way you want.

It's all good.

Look at you out there fucking knowing shit about potatoes.

I guess that shouldn't surprise me, but I'd never had raclette before I moved here because it's kind of their thing.

So there you go.