A few announcements

Hey Big Joel, hope you’re feeling better. So I know it’s tradition for you to make a video on the new Black Mirror season, but Im itching to know if you have any thoughts I can chew on till then? Have you even seen it?

Hey big joel, how many seagulls would you need to find in your house before youd start to think someone was putting them there?

How much do you delve into internet drama and the like before you draw a line? Sometimes I’ve come across takes so godawful I’ve literally lost sleep, so curious what you’ve experienced.

have you ever seen the movie bernie starring jack black? do you.. like it?

Do you have any doughnut preferences?

Have you finished Hunter x Hunter yet and what are your final thoughts? Favorite character? Favorite arc?

Reflect on a piece of media ephemera that had an undue or outsized impact on your development. e.g. dumb song I liked as tween became steam name became academic interest and career through stupid auto-nominative determinism.

Hey Big Joel, I have more of a hypothetical question for you: Who would win in a fight? Charles Xavier from Xmen (but he dosn't have his powers right now) or Wolverine (but he still has all his powers)

During Noah Sampson's live stream to raise money for Palestine, Bad Empanada said he had some tea on you. He then told the thousands of people who were watching that "big Joel" is actually far more leftist than he lets on... that he's actually a *radical* leftist. What is your response to these accusations? Are you prepared to go on the record and denounce radical leftism? Will you be making an apology video to your audience of right wing patriots who feel SCAMMMED, groomed even, into believing you were a god-fearing, right wing patriot too?

would u consider kermit the frog to be real or fictional? since hes a television/movie character, but he has also been interviewed on late night talk shows, and u can see him in real life

Do you think that Jordan Peterson is a genius or an idiot for essentially embracing religious beliefs as Boudrillardian simulacra and therefore viewing a literary God as indistinguishable from a "real" God, and thus equally valid as an object of spiritual devotion?

What’s a really obscure video game or piece of art you have a massive attachment to that you don’t think other people really care about?

Are you still making yourself read 20+ pages a day of classic literature like you mentioned you were doing in Fear of Death?

Ok wait a lighter question too: what's your favorite foreign food you've had outside of the US?

A question that's been on my mind lately, would like to know your view on it. How solid do you think our current western democracies are? You think it'd be possible for a few bad elections to actually place us squarely back into the actual fascist dystopias of the 40's? Or have we developed sufficient antibodies agains that as a society?

Do the constant big/medium/little Joel jokes grate on you?

I’m really bad at slay the spire, and I can’t beat even ascension 1 with the watcher. What tips do you have?

What is your favorite creative thing that you have ever produced

Big Joel, what's something from your wardrobe that you're really fucking with atm?

Hey Big Joel, who was your nastiest teacher, and what did they do to warrant that title?

You tend to talk more about Jewish issues and your Jewish identity on socials while putting less explicit focus on it on YouTube, do you think you'll ever make videos primarily about Jewish issues/antisemitism, or is dealing with the freaks you get in the comments too exhausting? I love your deleted videos on little joel about the subject and all the segments you've done in other videos addressing Jewish identity

What are your favorite plays? I've been on a big play kick recently, particularly Greek tragedies and Shakespeare. What are you into? Any reccs or spicy theatrical hot takes?

hi big joel: how different is writing a video script to writing, say, a high school essay or a university paper? aside from obvious stuff like style and humour, does the video writing process emphasize particular aspects of writing in a way that more formal writing doesn’t?

have you watched any of the blumhouse “into the dark” movies on Hulu? my friends and i have been obsessed with them for years, theyre really bad in fun specific ways

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hi big and/or little joel, do u have a favorite movie that you’ve seen this year?

if you were a pokemon gym leader what would your type special be and what would your gym theme be?

A while back, when you made the video about shoeonhead, you expressed that the comparison to bestiality made you feel somewhat uncomfortable about eating meat. Did anything come from that for you? Are you moved by arguments for vegetarianism and have you considered cutting meat partly or completely?

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Has the generally very positive feedback on "Racist kids" made you rethink your disdain for it at all? I personally really love the storytelling even if it is a little klunky at times.

Yippee!