The 99 Questions No One Asks ("Question Tag")

it may be said that this video is in
part an exercise in futility it may be said that this video consists of me answering a list of 99 questions that some random stranger on the Internet made up six years ago and that hundreds of people here on YouTube answered on camera about five years ago and then that the whole world forgot about but it may also be said that this is a slightly artistic exercise in juxtaposing the reality of what YouTube used to be with what YouTube now has become I mean there's a strange sense in which we can look back on YouTube as 2015 as an ideal that today we can't even aspire to achieve on the same platform there is this really strange lost avant-garde of what YouTube used to be maybe primarily because there was a time when most people were coming on YouTube without even the possibility of making money out of it coming into their minds and maybe also because people had a greater appreciation for greater priority on the extent to which this was a form of dire ism the G that sounds like a dirty word making a diary creating a record of your own life and at the same time reaching out to strangers to make friends remember that still to this day if you think about it technologically there's no way that any of the applications on your phone that claim to help you make friends can possibly compete with what YouTube does there's no way someone can look at a photograph of you on Instagram or tinder or even Facebook and get the sense of what kind of person you are and what it's like to talk to you and what it's like to spend time with you the way you can get to know somebody on YouTube but yeah I think you know primarily because of the you know the money making instant and maybe secondarily also the fear the fear of Bossier the fear that talking about yourself in a personal honest and intimate way on YouTube can lead to your destruction the reality of daxing and swatting and defamation and I don't know people calling up your boss and getting you fired after they see you on YouTube and disappeared it was like there are different you know elements that kind of silenced that core of self-expression and of reaching out to people in a kind of honest open-minded way used to be what YouTube was all about you know alright so today if you search YouTube for a question tag you won't even find a trace of what used to be a major part of how people made friends how people socialized how people again that kind of created a diary of their what was going on in their lives so they could look back on it themselves one day here on YouTube tell if you search question tag you get youtube videos about English grammar you know we use the term question tag in linguistics certain type of feature of a sentence in English and if you put in YouTube question tag if you might think that's all true but no then you get advice on how you can make more money how you can do search engine optimization by adding tags to your YouTube videos so you know times have changed I think for a lot of you in the audience you'll hear this go like oh yeah that's right people used to make lists of questions and send them around to their friends on YouTube on tumblr you know maybe by email at that time then people used to make YouTube video this way look I mean I'm gonna try to provide something honest and interesting and valuable in my answers to what are admittedly a pretty stupid set of questions right number one do you sleep with your closet doors open or closed I assume this question is intended for really young teenagers maybe people who still have closet doors open because they fall asleep afraid there's something or somebody hiding inside but happens not not really my problem in life do you take the shampoo and conditioner bottles from hotels I have not used shampoo or conditioner many many years do you sleep with your sheets tucked in or out so currently I live in semi-tropical Taiwan in the mountains of Taiwan and you know mosquitoes are really a going concern so what I do with my bed sheets has everything to do with preventing mosquitoes from harassing me and ruining my night's sleep currently however mosquitoes were not enough of a problem here for me to commit to buying a mosquito net boxing in my bed with netting the way that I absolutely had to when I was living in places like Thailand and Laos so mm-hmm I Cove but what I do with my bed sheets is a big part of that coping some of you might not have thought about that before but yeah if you want to live in the tropics you never have to shovel the snow but your life revolves around mosquitoes and cockroaches and some of those other concerns to a much greater extent than it does in a cold climate question four have you ever stolen a street sign before I believe the answer this is no I did know other teenagers when I was a teenager who who were into stealing street signs that kind of thing and you know I think the truth is I yearned for more authentic and more effective forms of rebellion against the establishment stealing a street sign just couldn't do it for me and I think this is still a factor in the contrast between myself and say other activists in the vegan movement or I find myself yearning for a more authentic and more effective rebellion against the status quo I'm not interested in doing the things they they do at the time question 6 do you cut out coupons but then never use them apparently back in the Year 2015 people still had coupons on paper I was a kid they were a coupons on paper I haven't seen coupons on paper in a long long time I'm just being honest with you number seven you know what but newspapers on paper recently to of just you know out of out of interest living here in Taiwan of but the newspaper couple times so I don't I don't see that right anymore all right number seven would you rather be attacked by a big bear or a swarm of bees it's a good thing they said a big bear not just a small bear here you know I'm from Canada getting attacked by bears is no joke it's a funnier story to tell afterwards but coping with bees attacking you or wasps attacking you it's a lot easier to survive I have to admit so if I've got a choice I guess I'd rather deal with bees than bears and I have no allergy I've been bitten by wasps and bees you know it's sudden it's it's a lot easier to deal with than getting bitten by a bear in my experience number eight do you have freckles I think at this point it's safe to say the answer to that is no do you always smile for pictures in my case it could be the opposite you might ask do I ever it's an awful pictures you to see me smell on a photo on my Instagram once in a while number ten what is your biggest pet peeve I don't have anything in mind as a simple answer to this question but given that we're kind of talking about the parasocial para reality of YouTube here you know it really does bother me that people get in touch with me and they expect me to actually have a completely different personality from what I have on YouTube many people are delighted to find that I'm really the same as my YouTube personality I've mentioned that many times over the years sometimes people have met me and talked to me and that they're stunned to say wow you're exactly the same person in real life that you are on YouTube that's cool and when I first got together with Melissa my girlfriend I can remember we used to walk like 45 minutes like you know long walk from our apartment to the mountain we used to walk up a mountain for exercise and you know she could ask me a question about history or politics and she could have it could be a 45 minute you know YouTube video she'd get a performance just as coherent my youtube videos are all in scripted you know asked me to go and I could really present on the topic of history or whatever just goes doing YouTube videos she said many many times that she should be recording this she said look I should be recording you while we walk to the mountain or walk to the grocery store because this is better than what's on YouTube so some people are surprised that way and that's cool my pet peeve is when instead people get in touch with me and they expect me to be like this totally different person like as if as if that their idea is that because they're special when they talk to me or they send me naked pictures themselves or something all of a sudden I'm going to be like really warm and uncritical and supportive towards them I guess because they love me or they like me and they just expect me to reciprocate on critically and it's like no no no no no the same dude you've seen on YouTube all these years the same really kind of rational analytical incisive but also you know quite harsh and castigating person that's who I am all the time you know I noticed that the last video I did before this one just in passing I've referred a Jordan Peterson's daughter who by the way is a fully grown woman she's not a child or something she's a fully grown woman who sells diet books for a living she does tours promoting her diet book I just refer to her in passing as a complete idiot like it's not the main point of the video hey stop that I reflected you know that there's some other youtuber or some other broadcaster who not only wouldn't do that but it would do the opposite who would like take a moment to say in passing like now I don't want to offend anyone guys you know I mean I really respect Jordan Peterson and I really respect his daughter and she's selling these diet books on the internet I think that's great it's like no you just get from me really raw really real in passing you know I have no respect for this person I think a complete idiot you know in transition from one topic to the next that's who I am you know that's Who I am all the time when the camera is off so they're people gettin touched me and then they're hyper fragile to being exposed to this kind of criticism and say yeah you you've seen me you've seen me call 100 other people an idiot and now you're shocked that I'm calling you an idiot and like guess what I made videos time with us I treat women the same as men if you send me naked pictures of yourself I'm gonna send you I'm gonna treat you the same way as somebody you send me clothes pictures I'm not I'm not easily seduced by money like if you're paying me like you know I don't really feel like you're my boss if you send me one dollar a month on patreon I'm not motivated by money that way you know and I'm not I'm not easily seduced you know what I mean like it's not like it's gonna corrupt my sense of mission and purpose and authenticity and integrity if you're a good-looking female and you're flirting with me and like I feel like I'm immune to that I've had good-looking women flirt with me my whole life it's just just doesn't do anything for me one more the other so yeah yes that's my that's my incredibly short succinct and concise answer to two question number 10 number 11 do you ever count your steps when you walk in the past I did wear a watch that automatically counted my steps that watch was a gift from my girlfriend I could start wearing that watch again it's only interesting if you're living a lifestyle where you're walking more than you think you are like whoa okay I really walked a lot today it in various parts of my life that's been true because I've never owned a car so there have been times my life when I was walking an enormous distance every day and that was that was a little bit interesting but no I've never counted using my own mind or using a piece of paper and a pen I've never had a priority that way for counting my own steps I just have nothing to do number twelve have you ever peed in the woods yes you know I'm from Canada I've been in the woods I've been I've been into one of the last parts of remaining jungle and Laos I don't really remember peeing but if you're in the woods of the jungle long it's gonna happen have you ever pooed in the woods possibly not possibly not number 14 do you ever dance even if there's no music playing yes but it's normally to make my girlfriend laugh or yeah I can't think of any other context where that comes up I've never tried to distract a police officer by dancing when there's no music for example but I mean I could hypothetically think of that scenario number 15 do you chew your pens or pencils no that was something I stopped doing one day I made the decision I did chew pens and pencils all the way through childhood and teenage years I was it was while I was in university and there was one day when I decided this is over I'm not gonna do this anymore and it was over and I know it's a small thing but you know I share this with you now by saying that you may have habits you may have hangups where you think you're never gonna change and you're never gonna get over them you can change you can change real fast it's always worth reflecting on you know we have some of these simple sayings in English simple saying that masks a complex meaning we say things like he changed his mind she changed her mind think about what it means to change your mind you can change your mind about chewing on pencils you know you can be a different person tomorrow than you were today especially in this in this sort of habit of mind she always say oh okay I thought this was I thought this was for kids most of these questions have been aimed for kids question 16 was how many people have you slept with this week let me tell you something unless you count the mosquitoes as people hashtag speciesism I've been sleeping alone uh-huh 17 what size is your bed it's definitely big enough for two maybe it's big enough for three but yeah here in central Taiwan I have been being alone you guys know I made a trip to Greece recently I made a trip to Canada recently but no here in Taiwan there's been nothing - nothing to gossip about in that respect number 18 what is your song of the week I really stopped listening to music entirely many years ago I could get into the timeline of that but right now I mean the only time I listen to music is probably when I'm preparing a YouTube video when I'm looking for music to put in the video I don't even listen to music when I when I lift weights when I go to the gym anymore and for example when I was in conveying I did I did listen to music oh when I was lifting weights not always but often I was going to the gym multiple times per day every day that and so but yeah that was really the last period I had of listings you to music at all number 19 is it okay for guys to wear pink I have many many times worn pink on this channel I haven't gotten any complaints you know it's definitely true that that forms of gender identification are changing in their significance because their society is becoming more accepting towards transgender individuals so I think probably we're moving on to a new era of people using cultural and symbolic markers indicate what gender it is they want to be treated as or called by or what-have-you number twenty do you still watch cartoons you can guess the answer is no I mean unless I'm sitting with my daughter but to be honest with you my daughter who might now haven't seen in more than 12 months by the way but back when I did get to see her she was not into she was not into cartoons we tried you know she wasn't into it so 21 what's your least favorite movie Wow Wow and such a strangely worded question your least favorite movie it's not asking what's the most overrated movie but what's your least favorite movie I phrased that way I don't I don't really have an answer for the question it's not even asking like what's a movie you were forced to see because you aren't an air and you resent it now like you know like like a movie you saw in some circumstance like that but you know I've phrased as as such I just I just don't even answer that question number ooh let's let's stay on track here see this is why I need an intern here you know work the teleprompter I normally don't read anything on the screen here Oh where would you bury treasure if you had some I guess it has to be somewhere you can find it again but you know if you're from Canada even on the west coast of Canada there's empty land absolutely everywhere there plenty of places to hide something but you know I guess I could name one of the buddhist monasteries up in the mountains of laos that I have a special memory of there'd be a fun place to hide treasure there's one right on the border between Laos and Thailand I remember but not the most convenient place to get that treasure back number 23 what do you drink with dinner I wish I could say water but it's not I'm currently drinking a lot of soy milk if I want to lose weight if I want to get leaner I should get rid of the soy milk and drink water soy milk is the number one source of fat in my diet for that reason if I just reduce my soy milk intake I lose weight at any given time that's been true for the past several years say number 24 what do you dip a chicken nugget in if I had a chicken nugget I would give it a proper burial I'd get us speed and dig a hole in my backyard and read it as last rites and bury it because I am vegan so I don't I don't dip no chicken nuggets in nothing I'm against I'm against the whole system number 25 what is your favorite food you know that the truth is I was asked this many many years ago in a Q&A I'm not motivated that way I don't think about food that way I don't feel about food that way I kind of have a broccoli based diet most of the time where my diet is kind of planned around broccoli currently peas frozen peas or big programs it's not because I like any of it you know I really don't live to eat I do like I have rather monastic taste in food the last time I was in Toronto with my she made black beans rolled up in flatbread rolled up in like a burrito black beans with tomatoes diced tomatoes and tomato sauce I said look I could eat this three meals a day and never ate anything else think lettuce and a few other things they're real simple high protein nutritious vegan food I can live my life around that and you know but I'm you know for many years now I really don't enjoy eating in this strange sense so yeah again that's kind of interesting to talk about but my life changed now separated from my daughter in many ways and I do think that's one of the ways I've changed my my enjoyment my enjoyment of things I experienced through my eyes and mine you know my perception in the world that change and it changed probably I would say that kind of came crashing down before my daughter was born it wasn't wasn't really right at the time I was separated from my daughter but then separation from my daughter was a tragedy that deepened my nihilistic and ashen view of life experience of life okay number 26 what movies could you watch over and over and still love none unless I'm doing it for language practice you know if you're using a movie to memorize something in Chinese or in French or something I can imagine doing that but otherwise I wouldn't do that to myself number 27 who was the last person you kissed or who kissed you look I'd love to tell you guys that I was cheating on my girlfriend but I'm not so she's the last person I kissed is the same person you guys know about from my youtube channel as my as my girlfriend number 28 were you ever a boy or girl scout no but my parents did enroll me in the Younger program that was called the Beavers in Canada so that's like below Boy Scouts and I do have I remember I remember all this stuff in my youth very clearly yeah and that was a really kind of pathetic really pathetic Vantage on Canadian society as a whole that didn't last that long but it was really weird I mean I think I was a really young kid that like I don't know if that was junior kindergarten year or kindergarten year grade one I was a really small kid but it seemed to me like me and all the smarter kids picked up on the fact that the instructors knew they were just wasting our time and like our parents were just paying these people to waste to waste our time it was just like it was worse it was not even babysitting I mean it's like your parents had somewhere to be so they paid these people to do nothing with you in a gymnasium it's just ridiculous number 29 will you ever strip or pose nude in a magazine absolutely no what's the magazine it's it's more difficult to imagine what magazine that would be in foreign policy Financial Times no number 30 uh when was the last time you wrote a letter to someone on paper I think that was writing to my daughter I can remember drawing pictures illustrations and writing to my daughter and sending her stuff in the mail saying you know your father still loves you I miss you you know you forget now if I was writing in English or French and to be honest might have been already in French at the time but um you know saying to her you know you have a father and I look forward to seeing you again and so on yeah yeah that's so I have various memories along those lines of writing on paper but as you all know it's less and less a factor in 21st century life number thirty-one can you change the oil on a car or no I've never tried I've never owned a car 32 have you ever gotten a speeding ticket again no I'm a lifelong pedestrian I have never driven a car I've never owned a car never even rented a car have you ever ran out of gas please refer to my answers - 31 32 34 favorite kind of sandwich I think we covered this at length I really don't have favorite foods but again I could eat nothing but the simple you know black bean and broccoli diet I was I was describing before the advantage of peas is that they're a lot easier to digest than beans but you know it's I'm just not worried of that way or not anymore no not what's left of me not what remains of me after a life of such you know tragedies and disappointments there is nothing left in me that has a favorite kind of sandwich a man of many sorrows number 35 the best thing to eat for breakfast probably what it probably you should take some frozen peas out of the fridge pour boiling water over them and just eat just eat peas peas and broccoli get get all your vitamins minerals and protein and for the day that would be a very impressive breakfast what is your usual bedtime I ain't got no usual bedtime number 37 are you lazy uh back when I was married to my first wife I said to her many times that most people assumed I was much more hard-working than I am and much less intelligent than I am and we were in situations like that Smith says in just I'm making up in a thin air and that they would be shocked or maybe even disturbed if they realized that I was more lazy but also much more brilliant than I thought I was so you know I had you know the the lecture I delivered for example at Oxford University my ex-wife my first wife she saw me do all the research all the preparation all the writing for that I think like it was like two hours on one day and like three hours and the next day or something and that was it and I know most people would have put you know like two weeks of work into that for many many hours but no I put that together and again just like I dunno gave this very impressive lecture at Oxford and you know the professor organized in the event he was tremendously impressed so on and so forth so and again I think everyone there assumed there was a lot of research and writing time that went into that but no so back in that period of my life I said that I was a lot more lazy and more brilliant than most people thought I was looking ahead to the next period of my life I don't know I'm probably gonna be less brilliant and more hard-working maybe I'm wrong maybe I wrong but that's that's my expectation back when I was at University of Victoria you know you guys have already probably heard some of the videos talking but what my work ethic was there that was probably a balance of brilliance I know that was probably more hard work and less brilliance let's let's be real not a whole lot of brilliance got poured into those University assignments but from the day I received the assignment from the professor there's only the first day of class I would go to the library that day start doing research that day and that's why all my research assignments were as good as they were so that was that was hard work rather than brilliance yeah so that's kind of scary so as I'm getting older maybe I'm getting less lazy but also less brilliant um I don't know I feel a lot less intelligent now than when I was younger but it may also be that I have higher and higher standards even applied to myself 32 nope yeah see we need we need a I need to have a live-in intern I need to have someone here holding up the title cards for me what are we up to when you were a kid what did you dress up for Halloween so again I remember all this stuff very clearly but my childhood was very sad so I never think about it I never never think about this stuff but I can remember specific Halloween's but it's not the case that I dressed up as as the same thing every year the very first Halloween I have a participated in when I was barely tall enough to walk so this would have been before I started kindergarten you know before before great one when I was a little little tiny kid I simply took a pillowcase and cut holes for the eyes I forget if there were two holes are one hole you know what I think I think I started with two holes and then that was too hard to see through so I cut one hole so it was just a pillowcase and I winners of course I was a really tank yet when people open their door door I said I am a ghost and I was such a small kid that year you know I could barely walk properly like I was just out of being a toddler and wearing this pillowcase I would take a few steps and then fall over because it was hard to walk with the pillow I was so tiny the pillowcase was longer than my entire body right like I was I was so short and tiny I didn't even fill a pillowcase and of course what I remember also was when I was looking up at these adults who opened their door on Halloween all of them would just kind of freaked out at how how cute I was right like they all found this like kind of unbelievably cute this tiny pillowcase saying I am a ghost of course it was they couldn't even see me I mean I you know it's just this it was just this funny thing I mean I don't know it's people for I guess I was cuter than other I thought kids dressed up as vampires or something that scene but people seem to find this really cute and endearing so there you go that's one of my many memories of Halloween number 39 what is your Chinese astrological sign it is in fact the same as the last name I use in Chinese you know many of you will know I have a Chinese name that I have used since 2007 or 2008 there about something using the same name in Chinese for many many years if you don't know if you're new to my channel I do speak read and write Chinese to a mediocre extent Oh number 40 how many languages can you speak English it's not how many languages have you studied I've studied many many languages but I am a master of just one and I do I do reflect on this I often see youtubers who don't speak English nearly as well as I do even though it's their first language where they haven't really mastered English and I think you know what looking back in my life I'm glad I'm glad I put as much emphasis as I did on developing my ability in my first language I don't look back and wish I'd spent more time developing mastery of lotion Cambodian Korean Japanese French German a Jib way Cree this is not a complete list of well pally let's not forget pally language from India I don't look back and wish I'd spent more time on those on those languages instead um 41 do you have any magazine subscriptions absolutely none 42 what is better Lego or Lincoln Logs I don't like either one but sure you'd have to say Lego you know if I'm playing with my daughter or something 43 are you stubborn many of you would be shocked to hear this but the answer really is no I could get into kind of a long set of reflections on this but I've pointed this out in different contacts with professors even with different authority figures in my life it's very easy for an authority figure to try to approach you as stubborn you have to be prepared for it because the reality is they just want you to submit and accept their authority but a member is saying to Professor you know like I've switched my major here three times like you've suggested that I take a course I said okay and I took the suggestion I was able to point to things look the minute you made a positive suggestion of what I should do I was going to do it I've come to you and said what do you want me to do and I did whatever you like it's just not true that I'm so stubborn I can give you like a resume of the different points in our relationship as professor and student where you made the decision you gave direction and I went with it so now you tell me I'm stubborn where there's one thing you want me to do when I'm expressing skepticism no being skeptical and being stubborn are two very different things so sometimes you have to stand up to people and explain that you're not stubborn and give real examples of how you've been willing to take direction how you've been willing to re-examine mistakes you've made and take on a new direction after you had a different direction before this sort of thing so here's a question the must be from the distant past question 44 who is better Leno or Letterman those are people who were famous more than 10 years ago but maybe nobody knows what who that what those names are today I know one please 45 ever watched soap operas no not in any language if you want to learn Korean South Korea does produce a lot of good soap operas I'd say that's the best culture and language for soap operas 45 are you afraid of heights not that I'm aware of not compared to other people but you know I haven't had a lot of practice where I'd where I know that 47 do you sing in the car I'm never in a car so the last 10 15 years of spent almost zero time in the car 48 do you sing in the shower no 49 do you dance in the car or please refer back to my answer for number 47 but you know what probably the answer is yes if I spent more time in cars I guess I would dance in cars just haven't had the opportunity 50 ever used a gun I think if the verb is used then the answer is no I mean I've held a gun but no I've never used the gun 51 what was the last time you had your portrait taken by a photographer probably when I graduated from high school you know they paid you know the high school took a portrait of each person I think it's never happened since not 52 do you think musicals are cheesy in a word yes I'm vegan so you know I'm reluctant to use the word cheesy but yes 653 is Christmas stressful only because I'm trying to abolish Christmas I'm a nihilistic atheist and I don't celebrate Christmas so I make a big effort to try to give my daughter a meaningful holiday that's an alternative to Christmas 54 have you ever eaten a pierogi possibly not possibly I never have but if I did as a kid I'd have no great memory of it probably I did at some point but no I have no memory of eating for weighs 55 your favorite type of fruit pie fruit pie has really not been a significant part of my life but I guess I guess it would be I guess it would be so G that's hard to say that's hard to say I eat a lot of fruit but I mean fruit pie hmm I guess the higher art is probably just Apple they're all there's a lot you can do with Apple you know the French have many different ways to make an apple tart a pear though pear tart see I'm familiar with French cuisine pear tart is a really refined art too but I was going to give it to someone like blackberry that's tough 156 occupations you wanted to be when you were a kid yeah I thought a lot about different Sciences I didn't like the fact that many of the research Sciences involve torturing animals I was aware of that and I thought I might going to botany for that reason where you're doing research on plants doesn't involve torturing mice and what have you or dogs you know doesn't involve that kind of research so I did actually think about botany also as a kid I thought about the pure Sciences like theoretical physics but as I found out more about each of those things I think I made the right decision in deciding not to pursue any of them I read books about it now I remember reading a book about theoretical physics when I was a small kid and you know finding out more about what those fields of science are and what the job really entails and yeah I think I made the right decision in in closing those doors 57 do you believe in ghosts no but I believe that there are people who see them because I believe that hallucination is a very fundamental part of human life and culture so people both historically and presently hallucinate more than they want to admit they do so ghosts show up in history in every culture there's an extent to which people can relatively easily dream while they're awake including by the way when you have common diseases diseases in the ancient world still today there are a lot of illnesses that cause hallucination so no I do not believe in ghosts but I believe that people people do see things people do hallucinate to a greater extent than we want to is normal in the modern world and that we forget when we're looking back at the history of the ancient and medieval world have you ever heard of deja deja vu feeling yes I have but most of the time when you stop and reflect on it you can figure out why it is you have the deja vu feeling you know something but the situation reminds you of something else there's normally a rational basis for for why you you felt that way do you take a vitamin daily yes I'm vegan I take all kinds of vitamins all the time do I wear slippers yes it's hard for me to imagine you know living in a circumstance where I'd stop but yeah I've lived in a lot of different climates in a lot of different situations and you know I used to live in cultures in Southeast Asia where it was super super important to take off your shoes when stepping into someone's home or when stepping through a door they real that was a big deal culturally ethically you know so those years when I was living in South East Asia probably changed the way I saw shoes and slippers because when I was younger I used to be barefoot in the house or you know just socks but I would wear heavy boots all the time you know in Canada so some of those things in my life really changed do I wear a bathrobe not for many years now no if some of my ex girlfriends are watching this don't remember me wearing bathrobes but no it's been many many years since I was doing the bathrobe thing you know I could say some x-rated stuff here but we'll skip it 62 whoo what do you wear to bed I'm wearing a pajama shirt right now actually this had a matching pair of pants that was was pretty terrific too so this is this is actually a part of a pajama suit that my current girlfriend bought me I could go on wearing this kind of thing but hey man I whatever sometimes book collapse naked often enough I wear whatever is good to be worn 63 first concerts I've been to very very few concerts in my life but I did see Bob Dylan perform live when I was a kid you know I've been to just a few concerts so yeah I remember I remember seeing Bob Dylan perform that was a conventional white Western you know live mainstream music concert so I had that experience just a couple of times and it's hard for me to believe anyone wants to waste the time and money to do that I even for a very accomplished performer like well I just can't believe I just can't believe people want to spend hundreds of dollars in so many hours to stand there and do that it's really it's really not worth it um be sure literally better off staying at home and reading a book while listening into an album well listening to music play out of your at your computer you're better off walking up a mountain while listening to the music playing off your mobile phone or mobile mobile device um Walmart versus target versus Kmart that's really not been part of my life at all I have no opinion when I spent time with my girlfriend son who's obvious how out of touch I am with mainstream American corporate you know retail it just hasn't really been part of my life Nike versus adidas today that's changed over the years today as a vegan buying running shoes it's gotta be Nike in 2020 mmm if we're talking about the shoe game we're not talking about you know zip up gym pants we're not talking about clothing you know for the jackets and track pants adidas make some use that but for shoes as a vegan its Nike in 2020 uh Cheetos or Fritos neither I'm vegan out and stuff peanuts are sunflower seeds neither I don't eat this kind of high-fat food the most high fat thing in my diet is soy milk and tofu and stuff with that you know I would never eat Cheetos Fritos peanuts or sunflower seeds have I ever heard of the group treyvion no never heard of them have I ever taken dance lessons no not unless you count being a really small child and you didn't have a choice no is there a profession you picture your future spouse doing I think I have to refuse on that question can you curl your tongue probably 72 everyone a spelling bee you've never even participated in a spelling bee 73 have you ever cried because you were so happy no no I've cried because I was sad 74 do you own any record albums none but you know I've lived out of a suitcase everything I own has to fit in a suitcase because of hope from one home to the next so many times over the years do you regularly burn incense huh no no no not at all I mean back when I was involved with Buddhism as a religion no not even then and not now have you ever been in love yes many times I'm in love work right now absolutely I don't know if this was designed for a much younger person answer but yeah sure I have had the experience of being in love many times in many circumstances and yes I'm in love right now 78 who would you like to see in concert nobody refer to the earlier question what was the last concert you saw number 80 hot tea or cold tea 81 - your coffee look I'm really kind of anti caffeine in general I would prefer to have no caffeine at all in my life however when I use caffeine which I do sometimes whether it's to cope with a common cold or to cope with jetlag when I drink caffeine I drink coffee and not tea even though I like the taste of tea here in Taiwan the mental effects I find tea much more dizzying whereas with coffee I feel I'm just getting the caffeine with tea you're getting some other kind of mental effects we feel a little bit out of it and it messes up my sleep cycle much more in message that my emotional state much more drinking tea so if I'm gonna use caffeine and whenever I'm using caffeine I'm constantly talking about quitting caffeine because I want to get back to zero caffeine and zero caffeine tolerance it's gonna be coffee and not tea sugar versus snickerdoodles not part of my life not part of my not not part of reality on planet earth is I've known it eighty-three can you swim well well enough I would not say I swim well but I can swim eighty-four can you hold your breath that only you knows yes yeah I can go underwater like that 85 are you patient I'm patient when there was a reason to be patient but I think ahead and I don't like wasting time so in a situation where I'm aware that something is a waste of my time then I am impatient for that reason so whether you perceive me as patient or impatient will be relative to whether or not you agree with my assessment that something is or is not a waste of time 86 DJ were banned at your wedding yeah well I already have been married once I think I've got to tell you I would neither want a DJ nor a band at my wedding unless he did like a drum circle or something you could do he do Japanese drumming you could do a Caribbean steel drumming I don't know could you have participatory drumming where everyone who attends drums together that would that be too dorky no but there were those there were those competitive drumming games for for the Nintendo Wii right could we work that in my idea of a wedding may not be your idea of a wedding guys I'm willing to be creative but I'm not willing to have people dance too you know Parliament Funkadelic played by a DJ it's not not when I'm about at my wedding 87 ever won a contest yes 88 ever had plastic surgery no um as you can tell I probably the guys notice I never even really had any work done on my teeth so you can tell my teeth are naturally crooked and to some extent naturally straight but whatever know if I've never had anything whatsoever done 89 which are better black or green olives so I had a job working at Whole Foods the grocery store and I worked in that department the department that included the expensive olive selection right where people can take a spoon and serve their own almost not just olives in jars but open-air olives and I have to tell you black olives are better there are obviously many different varieties of black olives but black olives are indeed the more refined art form 90 can you knit or crochet when I was a kid I could when I was a kid I could crochet but I today I assume the answer is no I'd have to get back to basics and study again what is the best room for a fireplace I would assume the central room in your house so that it heats all the other ninety-two do you want to get married yes I want to be married all the time I don't want to be married to my ex-wife my first wife but yeah sure if I could I'd basically be married all the time one way or another with one 21st century postmodern arrangement or another yeah I mean I'm a real open-minded of what about what marriage means in practice my ex-wife was to by the way you know whether it's open relationship or you know whether it's a group of people living together and cooperating and raising kids together I mean raising kids really requires more than two people and you don't have to be having sex with all those people you can have people who come together and form a family and work together to raise kids who have things in common you know and and maybe nobody's having sex with anybody maybe you're all celibate I don't even care but having a community having a sense of a small tribe having a family that really works together and marriage being a part of that sure sure man those are those are huge priorities in my life and and always have been you could say I mean how far back always goes would be another trip down memory lane 94 who was your high school crush man for me high school was a long time ago when it lasted a long time I had a crush on a bunch of different women I pursued a bunch of different women most of the time my pursuit of them was reciprocated sorry why what is a crush only supposed to be someone who didn't reciprocate I can remember examples of that also I guess they just want a name I guess that is one a one-word answer but you know the the problem for me in high school there were there were a lot of really really beautiful women there were a lot of beautiful women who were interested in me or who quickly became interested me when I just talked to them many times many times either the women who were stunningly beautiful really amazed and some of those women went on to become models and one of them wanted to become a TV actress I mean so one of them went on to become a stripper she said she's another story you know so it's not just my opinion that they were track women a lot of them went on to do jobs that were they exploited their you know socially recognized form of of beauty but you know my main problem again and again and again was that these women were too stupid for me so even if you meet someone and they were attractive and as soon as you're talking to them it's like am I gonna lie to myself and tell myself this person is smart enough for me and you know I really couldn't do it so that was the main shadow cast over my life already in high school let alone university is that you know and and you know you got a try you got a try you gotta try to you know you gotta try to take lemons and make lemonade you got to try to love people on their terms not on your terms you got to try to love people for their demon qualities they have not the redeeming qualities you wish they had but yeah I got a problem with having a crush on stupid people or falling in love with him being in a relationship with you oh it doesn't it doesn't really work for me all right coming down to the last couple questions here 95 do you cry threw a fit until you get your own way one-word answer no 96 do you have kids I have one kid and you've already heard a lot about her 97 do you want kids yeah sure I want the one daughter I have who might now haven't seen for more than 12 months I also want say one more child I could I mean depending on the situation you know what depending on the situation I could have two three four or five more kids I could actually but I assume that there's maybe just one more child in my future I don't know yeah no I mean it depends on yes III would like to have more children plural or one more child we'll see what's will see what's possible and you know what the other thing is I have the maturity and attachment that if it's not possible I just wouldn't I just wouldn't have another kid it's easy for me to imagine also circumstances what would be really unwise for me to take on the further responsibility and risk of having a second kid number 98 what is or favorite color they got the toughest questions for last oh this this question doesn't make sense to me I think something my girlfriend knows about me it's not a specific favorite color but I really do intentionally buy things with strong contrasting colors that make them easy to find so for example this is a speaker this is a portable speaker plays music from your computer please whatever audio is coming out of your computer you can listen to YouTube videos with it I would intentionally prefer something like this be bright red or bright orange a lot of electronic gadgets are just black this is a cell phone and then they just disappear you know you have a black item sitting on a black desk so I do intentionally buy things that are bright orange and bright red that integrate into my life that way so that when you're looking around your apartment you can you can find them more easily so that is a kind of favorite color but I mean it could be right green it could be anything I do intentionally tend to buy objects in colors that will make them easy to recognize and easy to find question number 99 do you miss anyone right now well my girlfriend Melissa is disqualified because I'm gonna see her again just a few days from now in the future yes I miss my daughter