Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast - *PREVIEW* 2025 Q&A

Episode Date: October 22, 2025

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It is our yearly Q&A 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 to get through them all. And Q&A 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. years since our last Q&A. Yeah, we said that last year as well. Time is going by so fast, I need it to slow down.

It's been a really good year for the show, I guess we can say. We've done a lot of very good episodes. Did some more live shows. We performed 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 cancelled. 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 to like, who submitted them, there was like nearly 300 questions. Yeah. There's a lot. 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 marriage. is 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 to. 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 shirgar 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 ward

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 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 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 blinds led by donkeys in the car That's the question he asked 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 little 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 with not shaving my my cheeks my chin whatever like I had to shave the the mustache that just that came in and that's it 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 mean too far better now that it was you know call it say 10 years ago but um I was very enthusiastic about having to shave but I didn't have to actually shave until I was I remember it was like it started to look kind of like nasty you know fucking like that shitty teenager beard yeah well shitty teenager mustache in my case when I was probably

about 17 so I remember swimming one time and I had shaved the night before and it's still like irritated when I was in the pool. But 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 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 grew enough to be like adult. 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 all fucking ultra new atropics they will be but like uh give the babies hg 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 was it news radio and fucking fear factor we didn't have the real unlocked power about newotropics making you huge um 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 gotta shave off that lip hair. Yeah, because I used like one of my dad's like Mac three razors. I 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. 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. Robert Evans, where I 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 with that one. I think it would work now because the last time I saw you with a beard, you didn't have hair either. You would have shaved hair.

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 looked like a ex-member of the Dubliners for somebody. 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'd ever grew facial hair out until I moved to the UK. My wife used to say she liked it like she thought I was better and she liked the feeling of it when I was, you know, four days, five days without shaving. But I always shaved for my job. I did not have anything 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 hairs. I would have been what? I was 33, sort of about 34 when I was 33, like an almost. one year older when we moved to London so. And basic training, I had to shave twice a day. I have some photos of me fucking as my beer grew out the first year

of kind of figuring it out where I absolutely looked like white ISIS convert. I'm not gonna 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 and it's like you one tip in case, just my dad, who's kind of a piece of shit 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. Um, he was like, obviously hot water first than shaving cream. Better razors mean less cutting. Just saying 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 your technique is okay 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, we'll 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, ring 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 I would start off hot water, like hot all over, kind of get beard wet, then cleaning shaving cream laser laser. 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 to turn the shaving corner.

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'll have one. Let me think of it. 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. I'm going to say Bud Light the clown. Yeah. Like imagine you were being, you know, hired for like a kid's party and they see a very disappointing clown show.

That's why I was like, cigarette the clown, aka I'm just like Krusty. Yeah, he's 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 for the gunshot I think Proof the clown The 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 A hole and unchewing You have to swallow the potato Like a snake Hey listen I'm going by Mary and Pippen from Lord of the Rings Boil them mash them stick them in a stew

You can't go wrong Potatoes are always good a dolphin wall, you know, make a, you know, raclette like mega, 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 reclap before I moved here

because it's kind of their thing. So, there you go.