Challenge. Can you post another Q&A within six months?

No, I cannot.

What are your favorite and least favorite kinds of questions to answer?

A long time ago, in a state far away, I did an event with some friends where my job was to pick questions from the audience.

Right before the show started, Pretty Derek turned to me and said,

Please don't pick superlatives.

And I said, what's a superlative?

Best, worst, favorite, least favorite.

Ah!

The show begins and those were probably half the questions in the bowl.

But Derek, having had much more experience with Q&A's, was totally right.

On the spot those questions are pretty hard to answer.

But also, as I've grown up, I found the whole concept of a favorite X has become

more abstract and situational. Favorite things seem to be more important the younger you are,

which makes sense because you don't really know who you are and so define yourself by the world

around you. And it's also a practice for the tribal affiliation games we never escape even as

adults, which can make trying to answer these questions

super unfun when people take the answer way too seriously. So a question about my favorite is by far

my least favorite, but Fahrenheit is still my favorite. Come at me. Anyway, if you're ever at a show

or submitting questions to a Q&A, to raise the odds of getting an answer, try turning it a bit.

For example, whose videos do you watch

the most? That's an easy answer. Red Letter Media by a mile. I started with the highly produced

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