Have you ever recognized a YouTuber or other celebrity
while you're out and about on the streets and think:
"I'm gonna go say hi to them"?
How was that? Did you have a nice conversation? Did you walk away thinking, "Ah, this person's pretty nice"?
I mean, I may not be the most well-known person in the world, but I do get recognized in London pretty often
and I try and make every experience really good.
For 99.9% of the time I hopefully have a good experience with this person that recognizes me.
However, there's that 0.1% chance I mess up.
Now, the thing about London is we have a bit of a homeless problem. I mean it's not as bad as San Francisco
where I feel that the people there definitely make me fear for my life
In London they're very polite, so like, you say "Sorry mate, I don't have any change" and they're like
"God bless, have a nice day," and you kind of feel bad, like, "Ah, I really wish I had some money on me,"
But when you get asked that question multiple times a day in multiple places, you begin to develop this Pavlovian reaction to it
Like you're immediately like, "Aorry mate, no change" - that's my go to - "Sorry mate, no change,"
Now, I'm on a date with this girl. It's in the evening, I've had two glasses of wine, so has she.
We're having a great conversation, we're on our way back to the tube stop
and I've already been asked for change by two different homeless people that night, however, as we're getting closer to the tube stop
this person comes up to me and she gets really close and she says something and I honestly can't really understand
what she's saying, but I think I know what it is: she wants change.
And I'm in such a good conversation here, I don't even break a beat, I'm just like
"Sorry mate, no change," and I just keep walking.
I'm just having this conversation. However, this girl's face is now burned into my retinas - her reaction - because
now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure they were not a homeless person. I'm pretty sure
they didn't ask me for change. And I just, I don't know, I think they recognised me from YouTube and that's what's really bad
and it's just, I know it's terrible, but it's really, really funny in a way because I'm just imagining this girl
going like: "Evan Edinger, oh my god, I recognise him, 'Hey are you Evan Edinger'" and me just going
"Sorry mate, no change," and her having two thoughts in her head: 1) Evan doesn't give money to the homeless
and 2) Evan thinks I'm homeless! That's just... I don't. I'm really sorry, it was like
talking to this date, there was a lot of stuff going on, I just... it's probably just the most awkward fan encounter I've ever had,
but it's just really funny when you think about it, because it was almost as if it was out of an episode of 'Curb Your Enthusiasm'
or something, that so awkward and uncomfortable and I'm just like "sorry,"
But I've always wanted to tell that story so there you go, thank you to this person for this lovely question that's inspired it
That's right, without further ado let's jump into the other questions: it's an Ask Evan.
Would you ever come to Oahu... Haw... Would you ever come to Oahu Hawa...
Would you ever come to Oahu Hawaii? That sounds like the Finding Nemo mountain, like "Mount Wannahockaloogie"
like, it was really hard to say that! Conincidentally, yes. See you in two weeks, Hawaii. I'm going to Hawaii!
To go helicoptering over a volcano and scuba diving with snorkly scales.
Snorkly scales. Turtles. I call them snorkly scales.
What is true Dodie yellow? Actual piss. Urine trouble for that one.
Don't be a penis. Can't keep track 'cause of all these puns. Urinary tract inf... okay.
Now I need to stop. How are you spending your weekend?
It is really cold in London this weekend so I genuinely haven't left the house, okay, not trying to be relatable here
Just it's really cold, I have lots of trips to plan and I also have, like, 'The Last of Us' to play online
so... I've been busy. If Dodie has Dodie yellow, what colour's your brand?
Regret grey - re-grey-t. I don't know, I like a dark, royal blue.
Now before we go any further it says "do it for the Vine" - trying to be relevant and cool, I only started wearing it after the site died.
Trying to be relevant, so. Rel-evan-t. That's why they call me relevant.
Can you give us a story about the last time you got drunk?
I have never really been properly drunk before, like I've never had a hangover, I've never blacked out
I know that's kind of weird, it's because I never really drink to excess: I know my limits. I'm not about abusing any drugs
I mean, I drink alcohol a little bit, enough to get me tipsy, and then I'm like "ey, I've just become really complimentary and honest with people
and I think that's fine." But no, I've never really had a bad time, except accidentally telling people that they're attractive.
That's not a bad thing, right? I hope?
What is your ideal patronus? Five. So I can go "Expecto Patro-number"
Five, it's a number. 'Cause I like math. I mean, that's all your gonna get, I'm sorry.
Do you know any German puns? I just came up with another one this week, coming to a German bar near you
In Munich, or maybe Dusseldorf, who knows, so, when you're learning two different languages at the same time it
get really confusing, because so many words mean such similar things. For instance,
if you're studying at a school that has a doctor programme, you call it a "Universität"
However, if you get into a school that doesn't have a doctor programme you probably made a mistake
So you'll scream "die Hochschule", because it sounds... yeah.
Were you in any clubs slash extra-curriculars at school?
I tried to be in as many clubs as I could so that I could get into the yearbook as many times as possible
Little did I know, I looked terrible and I regret being in every photo. However, one of the weirdest clubs
I joined in high school was the knitting club. Listen, I just wanted to be in the yearbook again, I learned
how to knit a little bit, I was really bad, okay, if you want to get down to the knitty-gritty... yes? Sew, what do you think of that one?
Sewing isn't knitting, okay, I don't want to offend the pro-knitters out there.
What's your favourite type of tea? Or are you more of a coffee person?
I'm all about Earl Grey, although English Breakfast is also right up there. As long as you've got a tiny bit of sugar
Like, almost no sugar, and then a nice amount of milk, just make it golden brown.
Are you collabing with anyone any time soon? Yes, actually I'm starting a new YouTube series
next week, which is basically me and a friend on a bed chatting about an interesting topic without any constraints
of British versus American, well I'm still going to be doing that, but this new series is just no constraints
just two friends chatting about anything they want. The first one is going to be with my friend Sammy Paul next week which will be really, really good
And then the one after that with a special, American, guest, and then, from there, I literally have so many interesting topics to talk about
with lots of different friends, and it gives me an excuse to, I don't know, make more videos with people, so
look forward to that. I'm really excited. What music are you listening to at the moment?
Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness have just released the new album yesterday, and I have, no lie, listened to it eight times
in a row, you can check my Spotify, it's just so good, it's everything I was hoping it to be, there's so many
really catchy tunes on there, and even the last song, 'Birthday Song', it's a tune, I'm singing it all the time
I really love it, so, if you haven't listen to Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness they're literally my favourite band
I'm seeing them in London in, like, May, so check them out in the description. Oh it's so good, please listen to it.
Thoughts on Paramore? When Hayley Williams was a little baby she used to have the
same great singing voice, except she used to be pushed around in a pram or something. Pram more. It's what British people call a stroller.
Okay, give me some points. Why are you against purple Skittles?
Oh I don't know, because you open a bag of Skittles, you're trying to taste the rainbow, "oh look, joy, happiness, family, friends... sadness?
Oh wait, it's a purple." It just doesn't fit with the flavours, it's depressing, I don't like purple Skittles, throw them away
give them to other people, I don't want them. When was the last time you went to the dentist?
I dunno, like five hours ago at two-thirty. Tooth-hurty? Alright it's a bit of an overused pun, I'm just
filling this video in with puns. Filling? You know the drill? You know what I do? I'm just trying to brush up on my puns.
Okay? I deserve a plaque for all these. Please.
BBQ or Tomato Sauce?
I'm throwing this question back to you, who the heck says tomato sauce? And what for? I mean
I'll say, like, pasta sauce for pasta, and maybe, like, ketchup if it's ketchup but - do you call ketchup tomato sauce?
Is that, like, something some people do? Please tell me that's... why?
I lava your new lamp. Thank you, stealing my pun from Snapchat, I bought a lava lamp. It's one of the best investments I ever made.
It's going to be in my future videos. It's not quite set up yet, but you'll see.
Since you're going to South Africa next week, try doing your best South African accent.
Oh hey, er, my name is... Canadian man? "Hello, my name is Caspar Lee, I come from South Africa, there's lots of superheroes in my town
cause it's Cape Town... they wear capes?" I'm really bad at almost every accent, except the standard British one.
Are you getting that sweet, sweet snow in London, too? I mean, not really. You can't really see it. It doesn't stick in London,
it just kinda floats around looking grey and ugly and makes me flurry-ous. Hmm.
Do you believe in parallel universes? No but perpendicular universes exist, am I right? Angle? Yeah.
The ghost of the meme mansion situation. I dunno, one day I was just having a poo, no one's home
and then the water on the tap just starts pouring hot water everywhere, it's like fully on, like, who did this?
I went around, I couldn't find anyone, but then again another mysterious thing happened today when I woke up
in the morning and Luke was gone. Where did he go? I mean to be fair the morning for me was one pm...
maybe he had stuff to do, I dunno. Maybe the ghost is all of us. Maybe he just ghosts somewhere. Hmm.
Boo. That was bad.
What beast from 'Fantastic Beasts' are you? I'm J. K. Rowling. Joking, I'm the Niffler. What's the difference? I'm just kidding.
What's your knowledge on K-Pop? I know that if you say it in a video you get lots of views. Come at me views. Keep up. K- Pop.
Do you play Minecraft? Nein-craft.
Favourite roommate from the Meme Mansion? Probably Ellen, 'cause she's the only one that's ever home.
I love you Ellen.
Soll ich die Frage auf deutshe stellen?
Cereal before milk, or milk before cereal? If you put milk in before the cereal, you live in a barn, you just splashing your milk all around
when the Cap'n Crunch just splishing... who are you? Why? Who brought you up this way? Who hurt you?
Well that about does it for this episode of Ask Evan, if you enjoyed it please be sure to give it a thumbs up and also subscribe
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Thank you very much for watching, I'll see you guys next week. Good bye.
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