Register 2016: hedges and bits

Statements from 2016 that are not plain sincere assertions: sincere claims the speaker hedged or marked as uncertain (with the hedge words quoted), and statements made as a bit. Plain sincere, unhedged statements are on the video pages. Back to the overview.

John

1108 statements · sincere 89% · playful 10% · other bits 1% · hedged or unsure 12%

Sincere but hedged (119)

Split by hedge type (derived from the quoted hedge words with a fixed word list — see the overview): epistemic doubt 42 · wish / hope 11 · opinion marker 44 · other hedge 19 · hedge words not recorded 3.

Epistemic doubt (42)

real uncertainty about whether it is true

2016-01-05 · Who Owns Oregon? Some Historical Context on the so-called Militia Occupation of Public Lands — John concludes that if the refuge headquarters doesn't belong to the federal government, the refuge and much of southwestern Oregon belong to the tribe's 349 surviving members, not the militia. — hedged: “it seems to me” [epistemic doubt] (00:05:13)
2016-01-19 · The Looking for Alaska Movie, Davos, and Hufflepuff Shade: It's Question Tuesday — John says the Looking for Alaska movie may never happen: he hopes that will change someday but doesn't expect it to. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:34)
2016-02-02 · Is the Gender Pay Gap Real? — Men, by contrast, seem to fare better in employment opportunities and wages after having children. — hedged: “seem to” [epistemic doubt] (00:04:10)
2016-02-02 · Is the Gender Pay Gap Real? — John says this may partly explain why the gap worsens over time: near 10% from young adulthood to about 35, when it jumps. — hedged: “may” [epistemic doubt] (00:04:16)
2016-02-16 · Kindness — John calls Octavia Butler's The Parable of the Sower the best book he has read in years. — hedged: “I don't know” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:05)
2016-02-16 · Kindness — When such a book ends, John feels the mysterium tremendum of having seen and been seen, and a sadness, maybe at never reading it fresh again or waiting for another. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:34)
2016-02-16 · Kindness — John thanks Hank for encouraging him to let go of that irony and for being, throughout his adult life, a model of positive obsession, even a guiding star at times. — hedged: “kind of” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:05)
2016-02-26 · Things You Don't Know About Us (REUNION!) — The book John has reread most is probably Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, counting his childhood. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:03:04)
2016-03-15 · The Extraordinary Story of Hussam: Teenager, Writer, and Syrian Refugee — John says Hussam genuinely loves learning, is a very successful tenth grader at the camp high school and loves writing stories. — hedged: “seems to” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:25)
2016-03-22 · Understanding the Primaries: Delegates, Democracy, and America's Nonstop Political Party — John says that may not be the case this year (2016), and it remains to be seen who will wield power when the party and the people disagree. — hedged: “may” [epistemic doubt] (00:05:07)
2016-03-29 · My New Book, Marriage Advice, and Hamilton: 50 Snapchat Questions Answered! — Asked where he'll be in ten years, John says he doesn't know but knows what he wants to be doing on Tuesdays. — hedged: “I don't know” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:39)
2016-04-26 · Understanding the Tax Plans of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz — John says Trump's plan would probably lead to even bigger deficits than Cruz's. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:07:13)
2016-05-17 · A Brief History of the Non-Denial Denial — John says the so-called non-denial denial has perhaps been the most prominent form of deception in American politics for the past several decades. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:01)
2016-06-28 · New Iceland — John expects Icelanders to refuse, liking their country where it is; maybe that says something about Icelanders, or about change, which he calls a dangerous and beautiful force. — hedged: “Maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:03:13)
2016-07-05 · The Horizon Line — Sugimoto has said water and air vouchsafe our existence; John suggests that may be the comfort he feels at a water horizon. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:48)
2016-07-12 · Our Capacity for Wonder: A Review — John says the line, near the novel's end, has always seemed slightly out of place, as if Fitzgerald needed one zoom-out to the 'beginning' of his continent's 'history'. — hedged: “it's always seemed to me” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:29)
2016-07-12 · Our Capacity for Wonder: A Review — John suspects most people, deep down, would rather be interesting than happy. — hedged: “I suspect” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:32)
2016-08-09 · Why I Didn't Vote (And Six Reasons You Might Not) — John says maybe you do want the lesser of two evils, since it is less evil; not voting ranks the candidates as equally evil, which he finds impossible given their very different policies. — hedged: “I think maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:21)
2016-08-16 · Some Good News: 16 Ways 2016 Is Not a Total Dumpster Fire — John says the global economy is growing and will probably grow faster this year (2016) than last. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:27)
2016-08-23 · The Ocho! Sports I Want on TV — John suspects that if a home for niche sports ever emerges online, it will be called not ESPN8: The Ocho but YouTube Sports. — hedged: “I suspect” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:48)
2016-08-30 · My Body Is a Broken Temple — John has decided to clear his schedule for several months to finish a draft of his new story, so over about ten months he will make only three public appearances. — hedged: “kind of” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:34)
2016-09-06 · How We're Spending Your Money: The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Quarterly Report — John says they have long felt textbooks should be free: free high-quality curricular materials online would let schools save on textbooks and invest in teachers, their most important resource. — hedged: “felt like maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:29)
2016-09-13 · YouTube's New Thing (and a New Thing of Our Own) — John says advertisers, especially back then, saw engaged viewers as bad news: they watch fewer ads, and media shaped directly by the masses was terrifying. — hedged: “kind of” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:56)
2016-09-20 · Failing to Follow Up The Fault in Our Stars — John says he really liked Hank's video on Friday and continues their discussion of failure by turning to his new book. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:01)
2016-09-20 · Failing to Follow Up The Fault in Our Stars — John says writing had become miserable, and as he gave more time to Crash Course and The Art Assignment he realized he has amazing work he is lucky to do. — hedged: “kind of” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:19)
2016-09-20 · Failing to Follow Up The Fault in Our Stars — John says readers probably won't like a new book as much as The Fault in Our Stars; he hopes to finish the one he is writing and that people like it, but doesn't know. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:56)
2016-10-04 · Drowzees and Masterpieces: Thoughts from London — John suspects we sometimes do things for the picture, choosing by how our lives will photograph rather than how they make us feel. — hedged: “it feels to me sometimes like maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:40)
2016-10-04 · Drowzees and Masterpieces: Thoughts from London — John concludes that looking at something is not quite the same thing as looking at it through a lens. — hedged: “I guess” [epistemic doubt] (00:03:01)
2016-10-11 · Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Tax Plans — John says under Clinton's plan the Kennedys' and Roosevelts' taxes would not change (unless the Roosevelts claim huge deductions), while the Johnsons' would fall from $553 to zero. — hedged: “might” [epistemic doubt] (00:04:17)
2016-10-11 · Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Tax Plans — John says US debt held by the public is about 77% of annual economic output: high, but near-zero Treasury rates show lenders aren't worried; trouble traditionally starts around 100-110%. — hedged: “might” [epistemic doubt] (00:08:12)
2016-10-11 · Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Tax Plans — John explains a debt spiral: nervous lenders raise rates, government raises taxes or cuts spending, growth and revenue fall, costlier borrowing follows, ending like Greece; it takes decades to unwind. — hedged: “might” [epistemic doubt] (00:08:39)
2016-10-11 · Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Tax Plans — John summarises: Trump's plan cuts income taxes for most, with most benefits to the wealthiest and small rises for some middle-class families; Clinton's cuts them for middle-class families with children and raises them for the wealthiest. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:09:51)
2016-10-18 · Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Health Care Reform Proposals — John says the ACA may have helped slow health cost growth (experts disagree): costs rose by an average of 8% in the 20 years before 2008 and 5.5% in the last five years. — hedged: “may have played a role, although experts disagree about this” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:40)
2016-10-18 · Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Health Care Reform Proposals — John says Clinton would offer a public insurance option on the exchanges, open to anyone; it would probably be cheaper than private insurance by sharing Medicare's administrative costs and slightly cut the deficit. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:07:02)
2016-10-18 · Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Health Care Reform Proposals — John says neither proposal will probably significantly reduce the overall cost of US health care. — hedged: “probably not” [epistemic doubt] (00:08:17)
2016-10-18 · Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Health Care Reform Proposals — John grants a public option might put real price pressure on private insurers, but says single-payer health care would not magically fix US problems, pointing to a link in the description. — hedged: “it might” [epistemic doubt] (00:08:35)
2016-10-18 · Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Health Care Reform Proposals — John says health care is a complicated, multifaceted problem; anyone selling simple solutions probably isn't telling the whole story, himself included, and this video is only an introduction. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:08:46)
2016-10-25 · Will the U.S. Presidential Election Be Rigged? — John says he understands that fearmongering is part of US politics, but undermining the legitimacy of political institutions without cause is not. — hedged: “I guess” [epistemic doubt] (00:06:31)
2016-11-15 · Good News/Bad News: A Pizzamas Video in Nine Slices — John says that, worrisomely, 2016's record will likely only stand until 2017. — hedged: “likely” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:05)
2016-11-17 · Decathlons, Pretension, and the Weirdest Animal I've Met: It's Question Thursday — John reads fiction for consolation, feeling unalone even in his inexpressible fears, and to escape the prison of his consciousness and live in someone else's mind. — hedged: “I think it’s nice and maybe even important” [epistemic doubt] (00:03:01)
2016-12-09 · The Difference A Decade Makes: The 10th Annual Project for Awesome Is Here! — John says maybe a decade from now we will look back and see the little successes as part of a much larger one. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:56)
2016-12-20 · How Giraffes Mate, and Why It Matters — John says maybe, if we can accept that responsibility, we will begin to take it more seriously. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:03:35)

Wish / hope (11)

a wish about the future, not a claim about what is true

2016-02-23 · How Energy and Time Change Everything — John's answer: lots of people trying lots of solutions, most of which will fail but a few of which will hopefully succeed spectacularly; otherwise we are in big trouble. — hedged: “hopefully” [wish / hope] (00:01:44)
2016-03-15 · The Extraordinary Story of Hussam: Teenager, Writer, and Syrian Refugee — John hopes Hussam will soon be an engineer and wishes him to be a soldier in the army of engineers that rebuilds his country. — hedged: “hopefully” [wish / hope] (00:03:28)
2016-03-25 · Snapchat Question Time! — John says he and Hank will hopefully go on tour together sometime next year (2017). — hedged: “hopefully” [wish / hope] (00:02:32)
2016-04-19 · Literally Hitler — John hopes that in this election cycle people can avoid insults and focus on what government should do and how. — hedged: “I really hope” [wish / hope] (00:03:11)
2016-05-24 · Easier Than IKEA: A Video in Two Parts — John asks Nerdfighters in or near London to come to Wembley on May 30 to cheer on the Dons, and tells those who can't afford a ticket to email him so he can try to work something out. — hedged: “I hope” [wish / hope] (00:03:24)
2016-08-02 · Beckoning Lovely — John hopes viewers outside Chicago too will join him in reading Textbook, with links in the doobly-doo. — hedged: “I hope you'll” [wish / hope] (00:02:34)
2016-08-30 · My Body Is a Broken Temple — John points to ticket info in the description, apologizes for not traveling more because he wants to finish the draft, and hopes to see many viewers in Minneapolis, Boston or Cleveland. — hedged: “I hope” [wish / hope] (00:03:08)
2016-09-06 · How We're Spending Your Money: The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Quarterly Report — John hopes Crash Course will reach six videos a week by the end of 2017, including its first higher-education topics such as advanced physics and anthropology. — hedged: “hopefully” [wish / hope] (00:01:47)
2016-09-06 · How We're Spending Your Money: The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Quarterly Report — John says this is only the first course and he hopes they will find funding to create more full courses. — hedged: “hopefully” [wish / hope] (00:03:16)
2016-11-01 · BABY! BABY! BABY! (And the 10th Annual Project for Awesome) — John asks viewers to make P4A videos: on December 9 upload a video about a charity they care about, explain why its work matters, and ask people to vote for it at projectforawesome.com. — hedged: “hopefully” [wish / hope] (00:01:10)
2016-12-20 · How Giraffes Mate, and Why It Matters — John says humans want giraffes in the world, or at least he hopes so, and it is our choice: if we lose the giraffe, the only reason will be humans. — hedged: “or at least I hope we do” [wish / hope] (00:03:08)

Opinion marker (44)

marks a view as the speaker's own; not doubt

2016-01-12 · Zero Severed Hands: On Star Wars and Making Things — John says many complain that The Force Awakens is just a rehash of the original Star Wars, but he thinks that view oversimplifies the movie. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:13)
2016-01-12 · Zero Severed Hands: On Star Wars and Making Things — John says he really liked The Force Awakens; it is at times nostalgic, but he doesn't think nostalgia is all bad. — hedged: “I don't think” [opinion marker] (00:02:04)
2016-01-12 · Zero Severed Hands: On Star Wars and Making Things — John thinks some of the blowback against the film comes from its commercial success: most people are never comfortable loving something unironically, especially once it is popular. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:26)
2016-01-12 · Zero Severed Hands: On Star Wars and Making Things — John thinks George Lucas's feelings about the film run deeper: it is really hard for creators, even successful ones, to see their work loved for reasons they didn't intend. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:34)
2016-01-19 · The Looking for Alaska Movie, Davos, and Hufflepuff Shade: It's Question Tuesday — Asked how the writing is going, John says he thinks it is going well and apologizes that it is taking so long. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:45)
2016-02-16 · Kindness — John thinks Hank would love this particular book, though the books that floor John don't always floor Hank. — hedged: “I do think” [opinion marker] (00:00:46)
2016-02-23 · How Energy and Time Change Everything — John thinks the biggest question of this century is how to get energy to the 1.3 billion people without it while also dramatically reducing carbon emissions. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:01:33)
2016-02-23 · How Energy and Time Change Everything — John thinks we will look back on energy and gender equity as two of the biggest challenges of the 21st century. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:03:31)
2016-04-12 · On the Banning of Looking for Alaska — John says he doesn't think Looking for Alaska is pornographic or that its readers find it titillating. — hedged: “I don't think” [opinion marker] (00:02:04)
2016-04-12 · On the Banning of Looking for Alaska — John says it should not be up to him whether any book is in a school or library: he is not a teacher or librarian, the highly trained, criminally underpaid professionals employed to decide. — hedged: “I don't think” [opinion marker] (00:02:09)
2016-04-12 · On the Banning of Looking for Alaska — Recalling earlier videos, John says publicly funded learning exists primarily not for parents or even students but for the benefit of the social order. — hedged: “I don't think” [opinion marker] (00:02:23)
2016-04-12 · On the Banning of Looking for Alaska — John thinks teachers and librarians know more about their work than he does and must be allowed to do their jobs serving the whole public. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:49)
2016-04-19 · Literally Hitler — John feels that imagining a past that never existed feeds the notion that the US faces an unprecedented danger only candidate X or Y can solve. — hedged: “I feel like” [opinion marker] (00:02:08)
2016-04-19 · Literally Hitler — John thinks insults hurt American political life, making government less effective whatever the leaders' ideology. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:03:02)
2016-05-10 · On Pain — John says turning toward hope is challenging with chronic pain but not impossible, admitting that is easy for him to say with excellent care and no constant pain. — hedged: “I don't think” [opinion marker] (00:02:44)
2016-05-10 · On Pain — John says that when you can turn outward, knowing pain can make you much more empathetic, which helps us alleviate each other's suffering. — hedged: “I do think” [opinion marker] (00:03:00)
2016-05-17 · A Brief History of the Non-Denial Denial — John says it is important to pay attention to the language of people who are or want to be our leaders, especially in an election season. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:56)
2016-06-07 · Zaatari: Thoughts from a Refugee Camp — John says we cannot imagine those things, but still need to know that they are real and that this is happening. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:01:37)
2016-06-14 · Orlando — John says it is valuable to listen to people directly affected by the shootings, and has put reading in the description. — hedged: “I do think” [opinion marker] (00:00:54)
2016-06-14 · Orlando — John says he wants to share the names of the people who were murdered, because we should hear their names as much as possible. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:01:21)
2016-06-28 · New Iceland — John thinks a better-located Iceland would probably have brought earlier, more robust trade between the Americas and Afro-Eurasia, which might have mitigated the Columbian Exchange's human and biodiversity horrors. — hedged: “I honestly think” [opinion marker] (00:01:52)
2016-07-05 · The Horizon Line — John thinks he has underrated happiness and the pleasure of just observing. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:40)
2016-07-12 · Our Capacity for Wonder: A Review — John concludes that he thinks Fitzgerald was wrong. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:03:11)
2016-07-19 · Pretty Bad Ways to Start a Conversation — John says the grammatical ambiguity of the 'Power' lyric 'they say I was the abomination of Obama's nation, that's a pretty bad way to start a conversation' is important. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:10)
2016-07-19 · Pretty Bad Ways to Start a Conversation — John says these bad conversation starters are effective because we all feel compelled to respond: hostility generally gets answered with hostility. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:13)
2016-07-19 · Pretty Bad Ways to Start a Conversation — John says controversial comments get replies but don't change minds: screaming at each other is a bad way of listening and of getting heard. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:43)
2016-08-02 · Beckoning Lovely — John says writing works the same way: Amy's books are special because she tries to make a gift for the reader, not to wow or impress them. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:01:16)
2016-08-02 · Beckoning Lovely — John says we all have people whose generosity lifted us up or held us together, and he has been thinking of them in light of Hank's big news. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:39)
2016-08-09 · Why I Didn't Vote (And Six Reasons You Might Not) — John thinks a strong minority moderates the party in power at national and local levels, and says 'God knows we could use some moderation'. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:01:40)
2016-08-09 · Why I Didn't Vote (And Six Reasons You Might Not) — John doesn't think money negates the power of a vote, and thinks rich people know this. — hedged: “I don't think” [opinion marker] (00:02:03)
2016-09-20 · Failing to Follow Up The Fault in Our Stars — John says what changed is that he got okay with not knowing: his once unshakable beliefs about books and writing are now shaken, which is uncomfortable but productive. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:03:03)
2016-09-27 · Books, Movies, and Wonder: Thoughts from a Red Carpet — John says his favourite feeling is not joy or excitement but wonder, as on an autumn walk with his kid or in the company of a great book or movie. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:01:24)
2016-09-27 · Books, Movies, and Wonder: Thoughts from a Red Carpet — John concludes that people make experiences wonderful, not the other way around. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:03:05)
2016-10-04 · Drowzees and Masterpieces: Thoughts from London — John says what he loves about the installation is that you couldn't look at it through a lens: you had to be there. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:03:11)
2016-11-09 · My Post-Election Thoughts — John thinks the result is so hard partly because Trump attacked not what opponents believe but who they are (race, gender, religion); being called dangerous or less than by a president-elect is painful, scary and real. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:25)
2016-11-09 · My Post-Election Thoughts — John thinks this will be a tough time in US history, though he hopes it won't be. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:01)
2016-11-09 · My Post-Election Thoughts — John holds that the nation must be bigger than its leaders, who must answer to the people, so citizens must make sure government gives all equal protection, protects rights and keeps policy sound. — hedged: “I also think” [opinion marker] (00:02:05)
2016-11-09 · My Post-Election Thoughts — John says hope is not idealistic or silly but the founding emotion of our species. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:03:12)
2016-11-15 · Good News/Bad News: A Pizzamas Video in Nine Slices — John says he thinks he will close out his part of Pizzamas on Thursday (17 November 2016) with an old-fashioned Question Tuesday. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:52)
2016-11-17 · Decathlons, Pretension, and the Weirdest Animal I've Met: It's Question Thursday — Asked which of his characters he would vote for as president, John picks Hazel's mom from The Fault in Our Stars: cool under pressure, thoughtful, cautious, played by Laura Dern. — hedged: “I feel like” [opinion marker] (00:01:16)
2016-12-06 · Exactly Like the Human Sternum — Among the many books by YouTubers, John highlights Hannah Hart's Buffering as a beautifully written, extraordinarily touching memoir. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:39)
2016-12-09 · The Difference A Decade Makes: The 10th Annual Project for Awesome Is Here! — John says that sometimes statistics can be a barrier to empathy rather than a path to it, so he looks at one family. — hedged: “I think sometimes” [opinion marker] (00:01:58)
2016-12-20 · How Giraffes Mate, and Why It Matters — John thinks giraffes have a reasonably good chance of surviving the Anthropocene, not because of their necks or lion-killing kicks, but because humans like them. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:55)
2016-12-27 · The Best of My 2016 — John's favourite 2016 memory was being home: after more than a hundred days away in both 2014 and 2015, he was home nine nights out of ten, with more time for writing and family. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:31)

Other hedge (19)

a hedge that matches none of the word lists

2016-02-02 · Is the Gender Pay Gap Real? — John says part of the US gap is due to discrimination but most is ostensibly about choice of majors, hours or occupation, which is what 'debunking' the gap usually means. — hedged: “ostensibly” [other hedge] (00:02:15)
2016-03-29 · My New Book, Marriage Advice, and Hamilton: 50 Snapchat Questions Answered! — John says he doesn't know when the new book will come out, but not this year (2016). — hedged: “I dunno” [other hedge] (00:00:54)
2016-04-26 · Understanding the Tax Plans of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz — John explains that unlike Europe's consumption VAT, Cruz's VAT taxes business revenue minus capital investment and payments to other companies. — hedged: “Basically” [other hedge] (00:03:38)
2016-04-26 · Understanding the Tax Plans of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz — Using a pizza t-shirt sold at DFTBA.com as an example, John explains the VAT taxes what is left over, profits and wages, so it is a tax on both wages and corporate profits. — hedged: “So basically” [other hedge] (00:04:16)
2016-05-03 · No Fumar — John says few people know that their dad basically ran their company until a year ago, doing the payroll, budgeting and spreadsheets that made Crash Course and SciShow possible. — hedged: “basically” [other hedge] (00:00:44)
2016-05-10 · On Pain — John says that sometimes listening generously to people in pain and believing them can be very good medicine. — hedged: “sometimes” [other hedge] (00:03:08)
2016-06-21 · Syrian Refugees in the United States: One Family's Story — John argues the US is lucky in every way, socially, politically and economically, to have this family. — hedged: “I'd argue” [other hedge] (00:01:58)
2016-07-19 · Pretty Bad Ways to Start a Conversation — Granting it's easy to say with a platform, John says no one has ever changed their mind because they were called an idiot. — hedged: “I truly don't think” [other hedge] (00:02:53)
2016-07-26 · El Chapo and Me — John hopes to use the answers as inspiration in the coming months as he works on his new story. — hedged: “I am hoping” [other hedge] (00:02:15)
2016-08-09 · Why I Didn't Vote (And Six Reasons You Might Not) — To minority-party voters in one-party states, John says down-ballot votes might matter and the vote matters regardless: not voting makes politicians think the state is less politically diverse than it is. — hedged: “I'd argue” [other hedge] (00:01:26)
2016-08-09 · Why I Didn't Vote (And Six Reasons You Might Not) — John agrees the system is corrupted by money but says not voting won't fix it, because protest non-voting looks to the system exactly like apathy. — hedged: “I just don't think” [other hedge] (00:01:53)
2016-10-04 · Drowzees and Masterpieces: Thoughts from London — At the National Portrait Gallery John reflects that portraits are artworks but also historical artifacts: the pictures we keep show who and what mattered to us. — hedged: “I found myself thinking” [other hedge] (00:00:41)
2016-10-04 · Drowzees and Masterpieces: Thoughts from London — John argues experiences now barely feel real unless photographed; documenting a meaningful experience can seem more important than having it, as if 'pics or it didn't happen' became true. — hedged: “At times, it feels like” [other hedge] (00:02:27)
2016-10-11 · Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Tax Plans — John points to non-partisan analyses linked in the description and says he will try to answer questions in the comments. — hedged: “try” [other hedge] (00:10:11)
2016-10-25 · Will the U.S. Presidential Election Be Rigged? — John says many on the left, reportedly including Kerry himself, believe voter suppression and possible ballot fraud rigged that election, as a Rolling Stone cover story argued. — hedged: “by many accounts” [other hedge] (00:02:03)
2016-11-01 · BABY! BABY! BABY! (And the 10th Annual Project for Awesome) — John says the Project for Awesome began in 2007 when Nerdfighteria essentially tricked YouTube's algorithm into featuring videos about charity. — hedged: “essentially” [other hedge] (00:00:51)
2016-11-09 · My Post-Election Thoughts — John says more Americans appear to have voted for Hillary Clinton than Donald Trump, but Trump won most Electoral College votes and is president-elect. — hedged: “it appears” [other hedge] (00:00:05)
2016-11-09 · My Post-Election Thoughts — John says we must get better at listening to and challenging each other constructively and generously, but worries the very architecture of the social internet might make that impossible. — hedged: “I worry” [other hedge] (00:01:29)
2016-12-27 · The Best of My 2016 — John says 2016 seems destined to be remembered as the year of the dumpster fire, which he thinks unfair: it contains multitudes, 7.4 billion different years to 7.4 billion people. — hedged: “I don't really think” [other hedge] (00:00:00)

Hedge words not recorded (3)

marked as unsure, but the hedge words were not quoted

2016-09-20 · Failing to Follow Up The Fault in Our Stars — John says this is hard to discuss because such stories usually end in greater success after failure; he is not sure his will, and doesn't know if he'll publish another book. — explicitly uncertain (hedge words not recorded) (00:02:41)
2016-10-04 · Drowzees and Masterpieces: Thoughts from London — John says he cannot tell whether he loves a famous Van Gogh self-portrait or is just excited to see in real life something he has seen in so many reproductions. — explicitly uncertain (hedge words not recorded) (00:02:50)
2016-11-09 · My Post-Election Thoughts — John says he doesn't know how to make the community more inclusive without opening it up to cruelty and hatred. — explicitly uncertain (hedge words not recorded) (00:01:24)

Satire (1)

a mock position (e.g. a fake moral panic) — the opposite of what is meant

2016-09-06 · How We're Spending Your Money: The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Quarterly Report — John jokingly lists the bank's 'three branches' as those of US government: an over-powerful executive, a judiciary that thinks corporations are people, and a legislature that passes nothing. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:11)

Joke (6)

a gag; not a claim

2016-03-22 · Understanding the Primaries: Delegates, Democracy, and America's Nonstop Political Party — John quips that congresspeople go to Washington and fail to pass a budget, as if that were their main job. (00:02:50)
2016-06-28 · New Iceland — The group's proposal is to move Iceland from its rainy, lava-spewing spot to one where it would be a lovely stopping point between continents. (00:01:40)
2016-06-28 · New Iceland — The coalition would create New Iceland: great weather, Björk, a soccer team apparently better than England's, and only a two-hour flight from New York, Madrid or Marrakesh. (00:02:16)
2016-06-28 · New Iceland — Jobs were assigned: Destin gave Henry the moving of Iceland, Grey the design of a New Iceland flag, and himself something to do with rockets. (00:02:28)
2016-06-28 · New Iceland — John was tasked with the political problem: getting Icelanders to agree to move their country about 3,000 miles south-southwest. (00:02:42)
2016-06-28 · New Iceland — John tells Icelanders their country is cold and rainy in winter and summer and dark in January, and offers beaches, warmth, sunshine and joy while they keep Björk. (00:02:51)

Hypothetical (1)

a thought experiment or "what if"

2016-11-29 · Baby Poop Rookie: Vlogbrothers Reunited — For a desert-island book, John imagines a book that read forwards is the collected works of Shakespeare and read backwards is a survival guide for the island. (00:02:12)

Playful (112)

a real point made in a joking way; the paraphrase records the meant core

2016-01-05 · Who Owns Oregon? Some Historical Context on the so-called Militia Occupation of Public Lands — John's description corrects the video: Oregon's capital is Salem. (video description)
2016-01-05 · Who Owns Oregon? Some Historical Context on the so-called Militia Occupation of Public Lands — John judges cities by their soccer support and public transportation, by which Portland might be America's greatest city. — hedged: “might” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:29)
2016-01-12 · Zero Severed Hands: On Star Wars and Making Things — Citing Hank's video from over five years earlier, John says the first six Star Wars films contain at least thirteen severed hands, Anakin Skywalker losing one three separate times. (00:00:32)
2016-01-12 · Zero Severed Hands: On Star Wars and Making Things — John notes that Anakin Skywalker also cuts off three hands over the films, calling Star Wars justice 'a hand for a hand': cutting off a hand risks losing your own. (00:00:59)
2016-01-12 · Zero Severed Hands: On Star Wars and Making Things — By John's count Obi-Wan Kenobi removes nine limbs from people while keeping all four of his own. (00:01:12)
2016-01-12 · Zero Severed Hands: On Star Wars and Making Things — With mock outrage, John notes that despite plenty of swordplay, no hand is severed in The Force Awakens. (00:01:27)
2016-01-12 · Zero Severed Hands: On Star Wars and Making Things — As little kids, John says, he and Hank watched Grease 2 over and over on VHS and, by loving that mediocre movie, somehow made it great. (00:03:09)
2016-01-19 · The Looking for Alaska Movie, Davos, and Hufflepuff Shade: It's Question Tuesday — John jokes that his three favourite hobbies are eating pizza, sponsoring fourth-tier soccer teams and literary tourism. (00:00:26)
2016-01-19 · The Looking for Alaska Movie, Davos, and Hufflepuff Shade: It's Question Tuesday — Asked to six-degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon himself, John says he acted in The Fault in Our Stars movie (scene cut, but in the extended version) with Laura Dern, who was in Novocaine with Kevin Bacon. (00:01:23)
2016-01-19 · The Looking for Alaska Movie, Davos, and Hufflepuff Shade: It's Question Tuesday — Asked how a dog should wear pants, John says that on dogs with pants he stands with the president. (00:01:33)
2016-01-19 · The Looking for Alaska Movie, Davos, and Hufflepuff Shade: It's Question Tuesday — John says that, as far as he can tell, presidential debates now exist to sell expensive advertising on cable news networks, and at that they are very effective. — hedged: “as far as I can tell” [other hedge] (00:01:39)
2016-01-26 · Billionaires and Radical Hope: Thoughts from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland — When John said he lived in Indianapolis, people almost always asked why; he resisted answering that it was partly because of people like them. (00:01:24)
2016-01-26 · Billionaires and Radical Hope: Thoughts from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland — John found the social hierarchies exhausting, joking that the billionaire class seems to have modelled its social order on the American middle school. (00:01:32)
2016-02-09 · Water in My Cereal: Taste Testing Various Liquid Accompaniments to Raisin Bran — Nerdfighteria, usually very supportive, condemned his habit swiftly and nearly universally, sending studies on eating cereal with milk and a Vine recreating cereal with water. (00:00:10)
2016-02-09 · Water in My Cereal: Taste Testing Various Liquid Accompaniments to Raisin Bran — John picked Raisin Bran as between healthy and delicious, noting it has more calories, sugar and sodium than Lucky Charms. (00:00:43)
2016-02-09 · Water in My Cereal: Taste Testing Various Liquid Accompaniments to Raisin Bran — Raisin Bran with tap water is delicious and magnificent: five raisins. (00:00:58)
2016-02-09 · Water in My Cereal: Taste Testing Various Liquid Accompaniments to Raisin Bran — With Florida orange juice the two great ingredients turn out horribly: one raisin out of five, and even that is generous. (00:01:13)
2016-02-09 · Water in My Cereal: Taste Testing Various Liquid Accompaniments to Raisin Bran — Lemon-lime Gatorade seemed almost good after the orange juice but still wasn't good: two raisins. (00:01:30)
2016-02-09 · Water in My Cereal: Taste Testing Various Liquid Accompaniments to Raisin Bran — Hot black coffee from his AFC Wimbledon mug tasted almost only of coffee, but he likes coffee: three raisins. (00:01:45)
2016-02-09 · Water in My Cereal: Taste Testing Various Liquid Accompaniments to Raisin Bran — Raisin Bran with cow's milk is disgusting and too rich, like eating cake rather than breakfast: two raisins. (00:01:58)
2016-02-09 · Water in My Cereal: Taste Testing Various Liquid Accompaniments to Raisin Bran — Sarah built a Louvre out of Legos, which John and Henry then attacked with a clone army. (00:02:11)
2016-02-09 · Water in My Cereal: Taste Testing Various Liquid Accompaniments to Raisin Bran — By 'a scientific study of his taste buds', the best liquid for Raisin Bran is water, then coffee, lemon-lime Gatorade, milk and orange juice. (00:02:15)
2016-02-09 · Water in My Cereal: Taste Testing Various Liquid Accompaniments to Raisin Bran — Despite their intractable disagreement, John thinks the brothers will keep respecting each other and collaborating, and there may be a lesson in that. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:32)
2016-02-23 · How Energy and Time Change Everything — John tells Hank that in 1800 he would probably have died before age five, given his serious childhood infections, a loss for everyone: his companies employ many, he teaches science, he invented 2D Glasses. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:53)
2016-02-26 · Things You Don't Know About Us (REUNION!) — John claims he had more girlfriends growing up, including long-term relationships in elementary school. (00:00:34)
2016-02-26 · Things You Don't Know About Us (REUNION!) — John recalls the argument instead as being about which part of the human body would make the largest contiguous steak. — hedged: “I feel like” [opinion marker] (00:01:12)
2016-02-26 · Things You Don't Know About Us (REUNION!) — Measuring their ears against the Goonies, the brothers find John has the bigger ears, which John puts down to being older. (00:01:33)
2016-02-26 · Things You Don't Know About Us (REUNION!) — Asked whether they have seen each other poop, John says probably only when Hank was about three months old. — hedged: “Probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:52)
2016-03-01 · Question Tuesday: The Potato Edition — When Hank notes that potatoes are the trend of this Question Tuesday, John deadpans that he just got a lot of potato questions and doesn't know why. (00:01:12)
2016-03-01 · Question Tuesday: The Potato Edition — After Hank names the russet, the purple and 'Goldie Hawn' as potatoes, John says there should be a potato named after Goldie Hawn, an American treasure. (00:01:51)
2016-03-01 · Question Tuesday: The Potato Edition — Playing the potato-title game, John says he is quite fond of 'Their Eyes Were Watching Potatoes'. (00:02:21)
2016-03-22 · Understanding the Primaries: Delegates, Democracy, and America's Nonstop Political Party — John says he has strep throat, which he rates 0 out of 10, not recommended. (00:00:00)
2016-03-25 · Snapchat Question Time! — John, who has strep throat, says his favorite food when sick is Chloraseptic Max, which numbs the back of the throat where the strep is. (00:02:37)
2016-03-29 · My New Book, Marriage Advice, and Hamilton: 50 Snapchat Questions Answered! — John names Spontaneous, not yet out, his favorite YA debut of 2016 and the best book about spontaneous combustion you will ever read. (00:00:43)
2016-03-29 · My New Book, Marriage Advice, and Hamilton: 50 Snapchat Questions Answered! — Asked to name a character in his new book Avery, John first refuses, then says he kind of likes the name; maybe. — hedged: “Maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:08)
2016-03-29 · My New Book, Marriage Advice, and Hamilton: 50 Snapchat Questions Answered! — Answering how he would get away with murder, John says 40% of murders in Indianapolis go unsolved, so apparently it is not that difficult. (00:01:28)
2016-03-29 · My New Book, Marriage Advice, and Hamilton: 50 Snapchat Questions Answered! — John says his favorite furniture is his La-Z-Boy, where he wrote part of all his books, described by The New Yorker as grubby and oatmeal-colored and by The Wall Street Journal as tan. (00:01:34)
2016-03-29 · My New Book, Marriage Advice, and Hamilton: 50 Snapchat Questions Answered! — Asked whether to read The Fountainhead, John replies that there are so many good books, implying it is not one. (00:01:52)
2016-03-29 · My New Book, Marriage Advice, and Hamilton: 50 Snapchat Questions Answered! — Asked his honest opinion of Donald Trump, John quotes Cyrus Ching: never wrestle with a pig; you get filthy, and the pig likes it. (00:02:00)
2016-03-29 · My New Book, Marriage Advice, and Hamilton: 50 Snapchat Questions Answered! — John says he shaved his head in high school, dyed the regrowth fuchsia-plum, reacted badly to the dye and got fuchsia-plum dandruff, which stressed him out. (00:02:34)
2016-03-29 · My New Book, Marriage Advice, and Hamilton: 50 Snapchat Questions Answered! — Asked how Willy is, John says he is so good, but cannot say hi because he cannot talk. (00:03:13)
2016-04-05 · What's Wrong with Monopoly? — John calls Monopoly a terrible game: distressingly like contemporary life, slow then suddenly fast, mostly random yet treated as meaningful, only occasionally fun. (00:00:10)
2016-04-05 · What's Wrong with Monopoly? — John says the app adds new problems: Rich Uncle Pennybags introduces every game, and with no online play you face a weak AI that desperately proposes ludicrous trades. (00:00:28)
2016-04-05 · What's Wrong with Monopoly? — John says he sometimes accepts the AI's ridiculous trades out of guilt, since winning is its only goal. (00:00:58)
2016-04-05 · What's Wrong with Monopoly? — John says Monopoly's history is a far more interesting study of capitalism than the boring game, which he rates 2 out of 10 and does not recommend. (00:03:46)
2016-04-12 · On the Banning of Looking for Alaska — John supposes this is a kind of honor: the book had the same language and descriptions ten years ago but was much less likely to be banned because few people had read it. — hedged: “I suppose” [other hedge] (00:00:24)
2016-04-12 · On the Banning of Looking for Alaska — John says that kind of narrow, prescriptive reading seems to happen only inside the offices of school superintendents. — hedged: “So far as I can tell” [other hedge] (00:01:59)
2016-04-26 · Understanding the Tax Plans of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz — John stresses he is neither a tax policy expert nor an economist, though in 1994 he won the economics bronze at the Alabama State Academic Decathlon; he has read many experts. (00:00:43)
2016-04-26 · Understanding the Tax Plans of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz — John says lower corporate rates would probably lead many people to identify as corporations instead of human beings, for complicated reasons explained on screen. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:05:41)
2016-05-03 · No Fumar — John calls the Indianapolis International Airport the best airport on Earth; his number one complaint is a no-smoking announcement every 12 minutes. (00:00:14)
2016-05-03 · No Fumar — John says it can by now be presumed that you can't smoke in an airport; without the message he'd happily live there, so maybe it is meant to get him onto a plane. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:22)
2016-05-03 · No Fumar — John wonders why it is so easy to say 'I love you' to his parents when he can only say it to his brother once a year, on Esther Day. (00:00:56)
2016-05-03 · No Fumar — John says he did not shave for six consecutive weeks because AFC Wimbledon, the fourth-tier English team sponsored by Nerdfighteria, kept winning. (00:02:13)
2016-05-10 · On Pain — After John's last video teased where he was going next and Katherine commented it was a toss-up between the dentist and the airport, John says he is at the dentist. (00:00:00)
2016-05-17 · A Brief History of the Non-Denial Denial — John says that in the decades since, the non-denial denial has become almost beautiful in its linguistic sophistication. (00:00:49)
2016-05-24 · Easier Than IKEA: A Video in Two Parts — In the speech John recalls that his Kenyon peers agreed the 'real world' of adulthood was a disease you caught and died from, to be dreaded and resisted until it overtook you like a zombie plague. (00:00:14)
2016-05-24 · Easier Than IKEA: A Video in Two Parts — John says that to be an adult, as students saw it, meant talking about brand awareness and engaging in totally unironic conversations about the weather. (00:00:43)
2016-05-24 · Easier Than IKEA: A Video in Two Parts — John recalls that at Kenyon his grandmother called to say the Weather Channel showed rain in Ohio; he told her he was reading Ulysses, was not even in Gambier but in Dublin in 1904, and nothing mattered less than the weather. (00:01:03)
2016-05-24 · Easier Than IKEA: A Video in Two Parts — John says he is in the greatest sports month of his life: a couple of weeks ago (14 May 2016) he drove the pace car at the Indianapolis Grand Prix, tailgated by professional drivers. (00:02:19)
2016-05-24 · Easier Than IKEA: A Video in Two Parts — John says the Indianapolis 500, the annual highlight of his social calendar, is six days away. (00:02:30)
2016-05-31 · The Most Amazing Day — Every year John's race day starts at 8 a.m. with a one-mile foot race between two friends; he always bets on the one who always loses, and this year (2016) that friend wins. (00:00:05)
2016-05-31 · The Most Amazing Day — John says Speedway, Indiana is like the Vatican: surrounded by Indianapolis but not Indianapolis. (00:00:30)
2016-05-31 · The Most Amazing Day — John says the key to enjoying being awake for several days is wardrobe changes, and counts his outfits through the trip. (00:00:48)
2016-06-07 · Zaatari: Thoughts from a Refugee Camp — John jokes that the camp's delivered pizza is phenomenally good, better than any delivered pizza in Indianapolis. (00:01:55)
2016-06-21 · Syrian Refugees in the United States: One Family's Story — Nada's son comforted her and told John his mom also cries whenever Messi scores. (00:01:41)
2016-06-28 · New Iceland — John traditionally ends VidCon on Saturday evening on the YouTube show Beer and Board Games; this year (2016) the emphasis was on the beer, so he is hazy on the details. (00:00:06)
2016-06-28 · New Iceland — On John and Sarah's August 2008 Iceland bus tour, the guide claimed the weather was mild year-round; outside it was barely above freezing, with wind-driven rain over brown lava. (00:00:50)
2016-06-28 · New Iceland — John says there is no convenient midway point on the Atlantic between the Americas and Afro-Eurasia, unlike Hawaii or the Cook Islands in the Pacific. (00:01:27)
2016-07-12 · Our Capacity for Wonder: A Review — John thinks humans' capacity for wonder is nonetheless pretty great and gives it 10 out of 10, highly recommended. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:03:11)
2016-07-26 · El Chapo and Me — John says today's video is like Alice's Doc McStuffins Lego: it comes in only one part. (00:00:01)
2016-07-26 · El Chapo and Me — John has many questions: did El Chapo like it, how was the Spanish translation, did he ship Ben and Radar, does he now imagine Santa more complexly. (00:01:22)
2016-08-16 · Some Good News: 16 Ways 2016 Is Not a Total Dumpster Fire — John names Beyoncé's album: Lemonade, the greatest non-Mountain Goats album of the decade. (video description)
2016-08-16 · Some Good News: 16 Ways 2016 Is Not a Total Dumpster Fire — John says 2016 has been something of a dumpster fire, yet there is still a lot of good news around the world. (00:00:01)
2016-08-16 · Some Good News: 16 Ways 2016 Is Not a Total Dumpster Fire — John says the rise in bookstore sales reminds him that he should really finish the book he has been working on. (00:02:57)
2016-08-16 · Some Good News: 16 Ways 2016 Is Not a Total Dumpster Fire — John says Beyoncé released maybe the best album of the decade not made by the Mountain Goats. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:03:30)
2016-08-23 · The Ocho! Sports I Want on TV — John enjoyed Hank's video on sports for the Olympics, but objects that the Olympics come only every four years and he won't wait until 2020 to watch televised headis. (00:00:04)
2016-08-23 · The Ocho! Sports I Want on TV — John jokes that he can't watch three men jumping rope at once, one wriggling beneath the others, or live professional double mini trampolining despite the many sports networks in his area: 'a travesty'. (00:00:32)
2016-08-30 · My Body Is a Broken Temple — John says the rib coincided with a midlife reflection: he has long been middle-aged, since double his age is a respectable lifespan, but only recently began to feel it. (00:00:29)
2016-08-30 · My Body Is a Broken Temple — John recalls that at boarding school, at about 16, he ate only nacho cheese Doritos and drank only Mountain Dew for eight days straight. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:58)
2016-08-30 · My Body Is a Broken Temple — John says treating his body less terribly in his 30s let him feel young for a decade, but now he is old and can't inhale without pain. (00:01:56)
2016-08-30 · My Body Is a Broken Temple — John offers as the only moral that your body is a temple: don't fill it with Doritos, nor with beer on your 39th birthday, or you will hurt yourself. — hedged: “I guess” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:08)
2016-08-30 · My Body Is a Broken Temple — John will give a speech in Cleveland on May 3, 2017, on a topic he doesn't know yet because it seems very far away. (00:03:01)
2016-09-06 · How We're Spending Your Money: The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Quarterly Report — John thanks viewers for watching the ad before the video, hoping there was one. — hedged: “Hopefully” [wish / hope] (00:01:08)
2016-09-06 · How We're Spending Your Money: The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Quarterly Report — John says textbooks are ridiculously, astonishingly, stupefyingly expensive. (00:02:24)
2016-09-13 · YouTube's New Thing (and a New Thing of Our Own) — John says he generally dislikes change and thinks YouTube peaked in July 2007, when the site went down for maintenance almost every Wednesday. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:05)
2016-09-13 · YouTube's New Thing (and a New Thing of Our Own) — John says the first problem was that he didn't want to exercise and eat well for 100 days, since sitting and pizza are his way of life. (00:00:58)
2016-09-13 · YouTube's New Thing (and a New Thing of Our Own) — John says the second problem was that the show's infographics, recipes and live shows would have meant maintaining countless new social media profiles. (00:01:05)
2016-09-13 · YouTube's New Thing (and a New Thing of Our Own) — John says Nerdfighteria knows Chris mainly from once appearing in a Vlogbrothers video in a Speedo, but promises viewers will like him. (00:03:24)
2016-09-20 · Failing to Follow Up The Fault in Our Stars — John says the concept was partly flawed: he always wanted to write a proper thriller but is no good at thriller craft such as action scenes, guns or plot. (00:00:43)
2016-09-27 · Books, Movies, and Wonder: Thoughts from a Red Carpet — John irrevocably stained his dress shirt at a sushi lunch and had to buy a new one, admitting he hates trying on clothes. (00:00:15)
2016-09-27 · Books, Movies, and Wonder: Thoughts from a Red Carpet — John says he caught a Magikarp in his seat before the movie. (00:02:08)
2016-10-04 · Drowzees and Masterpieces: Thoughts from London — After leaving Somerset House John catches some Drowzees and declares London lousy with Drowzees and masterpieces, the video's title line. (00:01:51)
2016-10-18 · Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Health Care Reform Proposals — Signing off, John says he will see Hank on Friday unless Hank has a child in the meantime. (00:09:15)
2016-11-01 · BABY! BABY! BABY! (And the 10th Annual Project for Awesome) — John says his excitement about the baby is at the level of Cheez Doodles Guy, and screams. (00:00:09)
2016-11-01 · BABY! BABY! BABY! (And the 10th Annual Project for Awesome) — John says he is suddenly old, since his baby brother had a baby, going from Cheez Doodles Guy excitement to glimpsing the void in under a minute. (00:00:33)
2016-11-08 · A PIZZAMAS MIRACLE — John jokes that Hank scheduled his child's arrival poorly and is on paternity leave, but managed to upload a video during his leave, with dancing in it. (00:00:11)
2016-11-08 · A PIZZAMAS MIRACLE — John declares a Pizzamas miracle as his mustache returns; he cut himself shaving and grew a beard for two months for the joke. (00:00:35)
2016-11-15 · Good News/Bad News: A Pizzamas Video in Nine Slices — John jokes that this proves we live in the best sports timeline of the multiverse and the worst everything-else timeline. (00:01:32)
2016-11-15 · Good News/Bad News: A Pizzamas Video in Nine Slices — At 15 John wrote a sincere, terrible English paper arguing there could never be another great work of fiction since Dostoevsky was dead; months later Song of Solomon and Angels in America made him retract it. (00:02:17)
2016-11-15 · Good News/Bad News: A Pizzamas Video in Nine Slices — In the end screen, a Self Care Bunny from Rosianna reminds viewers to take care of themselves because there is only one of them and the world is lucky to have them. (00:03:23)
2016-11-17 · Decathlons, Pretension, and the Weirdest Animal I've Met: It's Question Thursday — John says he looks up most to his parents and secondarily Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, and wants to be remembered as a father, husband and AFC Wimbledon sponsor. (00:00:13)
2016-11-17 · Decathlons, Pretension, and the Weirdest Animal I've Met: It's Question Thursday — John likens social media to an intense, fun romantic relationship burning the candle at both ends that will not last; maybe he should end it, but it isn't serious. — hedged: “maybe you should” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:44)
2016-11-17 · Decathlons, Pretension, and the Weirdest Animal I've Met: It's Question Thursday — John reminds viewers that Pizzamas ends tomorrow and its items are available for only one more day at dftba.com. (00:03:24)
2016-11-29 · Baby Poop Rookie: Vlogbrothers Reunited — John announces a reunion video: Hank is making a triumphant but temporary return to vlogbrothers from his leave. (00:00:05)
2016-11-29 · Baby Poop Rookie: Vlogbrothers Reunited — John says Henry pooped on him many times but Alice never, because he went in with about seven diapers, like a diaper suit of armor. (00:01:37)
2016-12-06 · Exactly Like the Human Sternum — John says the 'thing' he is working on is intentionally undescriptive. (00:00:31)
2016-12-06 · Exactly Like the Human Sternum — John says he is not thrilled by the notion that half the cells inside your body are not, strictly speaking, yours. (00:02:55)
2016-12-06 · Exactly Like the Human Sternum — John says Self-Care Bunny hopes viewers are being nice to themselves and eating their carrots, unless they are allergic to carrots. (00:03:42)
2016-12-20 · How Giraffes Mate, and Why It Matters — John warns there is glitter on his face throughout the video, from his kid, and that the video is about giraffe mating. (00:00:00)
2016-12-20 · How Giraffes Mate, and Why It Matters — John says giraffe intercourse lasts under two seconds and is followed by over a year of pregnancy, usually producing one calf often six feet tall and over 150 pounds at birth. (00:01:07)
2016-12-27 · The Best of My 2016 — John notes the Indy 500 is technically just 800 left turns, half of them out of sight because the track is so huge. (00:00:34)
2016-12-27 · The Best of My 2016 — Answering those who ask how he can be excited about England's 82nd best football team, John says AFC Wimbledon are now actually the 55th best. (00:01:13)

Hank

932 statements · sincere 90% · playful 10% · other bits 1% · hedged or unsure 16%

Sincere but hedged (140)

Split by hedge type (derived from the quoted hedge words with a fixed word list — see the overview): epistemic doubt 58 · wish / hope 2 · opinion marker 58 · other hedge 18 · hedge words not recorded 4.

Epistemic doubt (58)

real uncertainty about whether it is true

2016-01-22 · Why Are Vegetarians Annoying? (An Exploration of a Cultural Rift) — Hank argues that acting in accordance with society is, to an extent, the only thing to do: breaking too far with culture makes it very hard to find self-worth and connection. — hedged: “kinda” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:27)
2016-01-29 · Why the Word "Millennial" Makes me Cringe — A few weeks ago Hank sat on a plane next to a young woman, maybe 23, who had taken the same flight 150 times in two years for her job. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:00)
2016-02-05 · Honest YouTube Talk Time — Hank expects YouTube to keep changing, with fascinating, weird, independent work always happening there, but such work will likely never again be at the top, which he feels weird about. — hedged: “likely” [epistemic doubt] (video description)
2016-02-05 · Honest YouTube Talk Time — Hank says that solo way is the spirit of YouTube, and it seems a little unfair that he can use money and attention to launch projects and gather talent when most people lack those resources and can't compete. — hedged: “maybe a little bit” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:17)
2016-02-05 · Honest YouTube Talk Time — Hank says the pure meritocracy that is perhaps part of YouTube's mythology is long gone. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:37)
2016-02-05 · Honest YouTube Talk Time — At the top, a rotating cast of well-known people in a few big genres will make polished, appealing content that many love but that may be a tiny bit bland. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:03:01)
2016-02-12 · Doing the Hard(er) Thing (and some very bad news) — Hank corrects his video: there is no "ice cream cake breaking point"; maybe there is no limit to the difficult things we can do, only to those we can choose to do, which is why taking choice out of the matter helps him do hard things. — hedged: “Maybe” [epistemic doubt] (video description)
2016-02-19 · Thanks, Lemon — Hank says we get caught up in a big world of oversized people making their mark, and maybe think that to be valuable we must make one too, however ugly. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:01)
2016-02-19 · Thanks, Lemon — Hank calls this one of a thousand things that dumb dog taught him and is still teaching him, and thanks Lemon. — hedged: “I guess” [epistemic doubt] (00:03:38)
2016-03-11 · The Politics of "Parks and Rec" — Hank calls it a nice dramatic device: Ron opposes government regulation of guns, but probably also of abortion or gay marriage, because he opposes regulating anything. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:23)
2016-03-18 · Brazil's Government is Falling Apart...and it's Good News? — Hank says Petrobras officials and the politicians who appointed them gave inflated contracts to construction companies whose CEOs kicked part of the overcharge back to them, which in the US is called graft. — hedged: “maybe always kind of been the case” [epistemic doubt] (00:04:23)
2016-03-18 · Brazil's Government is Falling Apart...and it's Good News? — Hank says Moro claims no interest in politics but doesn't seem to act that way; with two impeachment hearings under way, many want Moro to run if Rousseff is impeached. — hedged: “doesn't really seem” [epistemic doubt] (00:06:52)
2016-04-01 · Loving Loving Things in Los Angeles — Hank is a fan of what these people create and that the internet let them do it; he feels lucky to be friends with people he's a fan of, and brother to one. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:24)
2016-04-15 · T-Shirt and Jeans and TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT — Hank says Harry and the Potters have probably the best live show he has ever seen. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:03:22)
2016-04-15 · T-Shirt and Jeans and TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT — Hank says the shows are fun and laid back and packed with interesting stuff; Hank Green and the Perfect Strangers go on last, but he more or less MCs the whole evening. — hedged: “sort of” [epistemic doubt] (00:03:23)
2016-04-22 · Clinton vs. Sanders: POLICY IS EXCITING! — Hank says that under Sanders tax rates would rise, but people already pay a lot in premiums, probably, so the goal is that the average person pays less overall in taxes plus health costs. — hedged: “Probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:05:52)
2016-04-22 · Clinton vs. Sanders: POLICY IS EXCITING! — Hank says the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center pointed out that Sanders' plan would raise the costs of starting or growing a business, possibly enough to significantly decrease economic activity. — hedged: “possibly” [epistemic doubt] (00:06:22)
2016-04-29 · The Time a Taxi Driver Stole My Money — Hank feels Vlogbrothers has been fancy lately (a music video, a collab, travel vlogs, tax plans, a Brazil video, John's Monopoly review), so he will simplify and just tell a story. — hedged: “I kinda feel like” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:01)
2016-05-06 · I Hate Only Making One Video a Week — Hank says those channels are not more important to him: Vlogbrothers is by far the most interesting thing he has done, is doing, and probably ever will do. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:37)
2016-05-06 · I Hate Only Making One Video a Week — Hank says this might also reflect the YouTube platform and the brothers maturing, being 10 years older; he feels less desire to be silly than in older videos. — hedged: “might” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:27)
2016-05-06 · I Hate Only Making One Video a Week — Hank is sometimes sad that things must change, but loves seeing how they have changed and can't wait to see where it is all headed. — hedged: “kind of” [epistemic doubt] (00:03:00)
2016-05-20 · I AM A GOLDEN GOD — Hank worries that, as school focuses on what is easily quantifiable, life may too; beyond dollars, new metrics might make us forget less quantifiable but more valuable things. — hedged: “I think that might” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:40)
2016-06-03 · Redefining What it Means to Matter — Hank says culture has always told lies but seems to be getting better at it, and, pointing back at the comic, asks what signal culture gives that individual humans matter at all. — hedged: “it seems like” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:50)
2016-06-17 · Hey, Let's Change Some Things — Hank says confining our shouting to the internet and to people who agree with us may make us feel better and righteous, but is not the path that creates the most change. — hedged: “might” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:53)
2016-07-01 · So, I Ruptured Both my Eardrums! (Also, NerdCon: Nerdfighteria) — Hank says ruptured eardrums apparently happen fairly frequently: super painful, but they get better. — hedged: “apparently” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:27)
2016-07-01 · So, I Ruptured Both my Eardrums! (Also, NerdCon: Nerdfighteria) — Hank says it will be a much smaller, more intimate event than VidCon, so it will probably sell out quickly. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:03:00)
2016-07-08 · Your Illness is Not Your Fault — Hank says his chronic illness is fairly insignificant compared with what many others face, but thinks this experience is probably common. — hedged: “I think this is probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:17)
2016-07-08 · Your Illness is Not Your Fault — Hank allows that maybe one adviser will be the one who was right, and he may be missing a chance to get better. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:35)
2016-07-08 · Your Illness is Not Your Fault — Hank says science will keep advancing and maybe someday a medicine will control his disease without making him sick in other ways. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:20)
2016-07-15 · On Lives and Mattering — Hank imagines every US police officer felt similarly after the Dallas shootings, knowing they could be taken from their families because of what their job is. — hedged: “I imagine” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:34)
2016-07-15 · On Lives and Mattering — Hank says officers who have other career options may now be thinking the job isn't worth it anymore. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:45)
2016-07-22 · Ending the Age of Outrage (at least in ourselves, if not in the world) — Hank suggests we need a new stage of the social internet, where we choose and create places that bring personal and societal satisfaction rather than addiction or distraction. — hedged: “Maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:21)
2016-07-29 · Thoughts from Comic-Con (NO MORE CHEETO MEDIA!) — Hank suggests viewers who want to love things like that check out NerdCon: Stories, the conference he built with a team; last year (2015) was fantastic. — hedged: “I might suggest” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:57)
2016-08-03 · Lives Made of Love - Esther Day 2016 — Hank says Esther Day, August 3, celebrates kinds of love society is less good at celebrating, though they hold society together. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:03)
2016-08-12 · AMERICA, DAMMIT! - Thoughts from Glacier National Park — Hank spent last weekend in Glacier National Park, full of scenic beauty and without cell phone signal, maybe because of the cliffs and not wanting towers on scenic mountains. — hedged: “That might have something to do with” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:01)
2016-08-26 · I'm Just Going to Talk for Four Minutes — Hank suggests people near Minneapolis who can't go to Boston attend NerdCon: Stories, where John will be but Hank will not. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:03:08)
2016-09-02 · One Scientifically Proven Thing Actually Makes People Happier — Hank says nearly all happiness strategies he hears of seem obvious, poorly supported by science, hard to implement or only short-term. — hedged: “seem” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:19)
2016-09-08 · Punk Friends — Hank explains that Andrew roped him into a project covering the Friends theme in nine genres, so viewers who disliked his version will probably like another. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:03)
2016-09-09 · Sleep Paralysis, Double-Pregnancy, and The 2016 Census — Hank assumes the double-pregnancy dream was an anxiety dream. — hedged: “I assume” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:31)
2016-09-16 · Let's Talk about Failure — Hank says we celebrate our own and others' successes but don't talk about failure at all; it is a taboo topic, hard to ask about or discuss. — hedged: “kind of” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:08)
2016-09-16 · Let's Talk about Failure — Hank says the conference was budgeted for 3,000 attendees, roughly what it needed to work financially, but it has a thousand. — hedged: “sort of” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:13)
2016-09-16 · Let's Talk about Failure — Hank says last year's (2015) NerdCon: Stories was wonderful; he is sad he can't attend this year (2016), especially since it is probably the last time it happens. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:45)
2016-09-16 · Let's Talk about Failure — Hank might make a hankschannel video discussing all the mistakes, so viewers needn't explain them in comments. — hedged: “I might” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:29)
2016-09-16 · Let's Talk about Failure — Hank says NerdCon: Stories is a really weird event, which probably doesn't work in its favour and is among the mistakes made. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:59)
2016-09-16 · Let's Talk about Failure — Hank says its weirdness is also why they won't pull the plug: the event goes ahead though it will lose him money, because it is different and special. — hedged: “kind of” [epistemic doubt] (00:03:07)
2016-09-16 · Let's Talk about Failure — Hank says everyone will fail and make things that don't work, and asks whether we can drop the shame and make it a failure you can be proud of. — hedged: “Maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:03:16)
2016-09-23 · How do YouTubers Make Money? — The description says most YouTubers can only supplement other income, creators may need to move to subscription-style content for higher-budget work, and SciShow and Crash Course are secure. — hedged: “It may be that” [epistemic doubt] (video description)
2016-09-23 · How do YouTubers Make Money? — Hank says a very low-budget show like this one, just two guys, could probably subsist on AdSense and merch. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:45)
2016-09-23 · How do YouTubers Make Money? — Hank says brand deals, any payment to talk about something in a video, from an audible.com callout to a whole sponsored video, have become available to middle-class creators. — hedged: “sort of” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:43)
2016-09-30 · Here are Some YouTube Tricks I Use — Hank says many people find the J/K/L choice annoying and senseless, but he kind of loves it. — hedged: “kind of” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:58)
2016-10-21 · Coming Out, Goats, Government, and Attack Ads with Denise Juneau — Hank (description) says it was always, and remains, unlikely that Juneau will win, but that government is defined by more than just the winners of elections. — hedged: “unlikely” [epistemic doubt] (video description)
2016-10-28 · Give Me Your Tweets, I'll Give You My Phone · Last Video Before Leave! — Hank suggests John might make a video about the Project for Awesome, admitting it is probably his own turn. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:33)
2016-11-29 · Baby Poop Rookie: Vlogbrothers Reunited — Hank says he might make another video this week (week of 28 November 2016) about VidCon; John teases that he is bad at paternity leave. — hedged: “might” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:12)
2016-12-01 · See you in Amsterdam, Melbourne, or Anaheim!! (also Boston) — Hank suggests John might Skype in for a Dear Hank and John, admitting he has not asked John first. — hedged: “Maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:13)
2016-12-30 · The Most Interesting Thing I've Ever Done — Hank says we are in a time of cultural upheaval; probably true for everyone who has ever lived, but it seems particularly strong now. — hedged: “it seems” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:35)
2016-12-30 · The Most Interesting Thing I've Ever Done — Hank says individualism brings good things but has also resulted in an explosion of distrust among people and of cynicism, especially in young people. — hedged: “I think it's also sort of” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:05)
2016-12-30 · The Most Interesting Thing I've Ever Done — Hank says those moments might be getting more common as we see people online with perfect lives, pretty faces, giant travel budgets and many followers. — hedged: “might” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:25)
2016-12-30 · The Most Interesting Thing I've Ever Done — Beneath the newsworthy achievements, Hank says, lies an amorphous community whose size, interest and maybe importance no one understands. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:04:14)

Wish / hope (2)

a wish about the future, not a claim about what is true

2016-04-08 · 47 YouTubers Laugh Without Smiling — Hank invites viewers who like online video to come to VidCon. — hedged: “I hope” [wish / hope] (00:03:20)
2016-09-23 · How do YouTubers Make Money? — Hank hopes the Internet Creators Guild can play a part in keeping online video's benefits accessible. — hedged: “I hope” [wish / hope] (00:03:48)

Opinion marker (58)

marks a view as the speaker's own; not doubt

2016-01-08 · Who Am I?! - Some thoughts on Personal Identity — Hank says he thinks climate change is the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:29)
2016-01-15 · Eating Weird Food from the 50s (with Katherine) — Hank begins to say there may be some wisdom in '50s food, but is cut off. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:03:39)
2016-01-22 · Why Are Vegetarians Annoying? (An Exploration of a Cultural Rift) — Hank says he has recently decided he wants to have lots of really tough conversations on Vlogbrothers, and opens one about meat. — hedged: “I feel like” [opinion marker] (00:00:02)
2016-01-29 · Why the Word "Millennial" Makes me Cringe — Hank thinks America may once have been homogeneous enough to talk intelligibly about generational trends, but that time has passed. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:01:58)
2016-02-05 · Honest YouTube Talk Time — Hank recommends Bill Wurtz's History of Japan, a weird art piece from a creator who came out of nowhere, which he thinks everybody should watch. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:01:06)
2016-02-05 · Honest YouTube Talk Time — Nobody really knows what YouTube is, but Hank thinks the best analogy for its creative, personality-driven parts is the music industry. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:52)
2016-02-05 · Honest YouTube Talk Time — Because such creators usually won't bubble up, Hank thinks it is very important to use tools like Patreon to support them. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:03:31)
2016-02-05 · Honest YouTube Talk Time — Hank tells John that, though their lives are no longer normal or relatable, it is important that they remain authentic, even at some cost to relatability. — hedged: “I just think” [opinion marker] (00:03:36)
2016-02-19 · Thanks, Lemon — Hank thinks he is a pretty good writer, but says he writes his best stuff when not doing what people consider writing. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:01)
2016-03-11 · The Politics of "Parks and Rec" — What works beneath it all, Hank thinks, is respect: they value each other's convictions though they rarely share goals or opinions, except about breakfast food. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:24)
2016-03-18 · Brazil's Government is Falling Apart...and it's Good News? — Hank thinks the whole affair speaks very highly of Brazil: a reckoning had to come, and he is pleased its citizens are holding the government accountable. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (video description)
2016-03-18 · Brazil's Government is Falling Apart...and it's Good News? — Hank thinks there are many good things in Brazil's future, but its leaders will have to do more than fight for power: they will have to actually lead. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (video description)
2016-03-18 · Brazil's Government is Falling Apart...and it's Good News? — Hank thinks the crisis is bad for Brazil in the near term but good in the long term, because it shows being a crooked politician is not worth it. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:09:31)
2016-04-01 · Loving Loving Things in Los Angeles — In the description Hank says he wants to be driven mainly by liking what gets created, not by comparison; a little of both is healthy, but competitiveness must not outweigh enthusiasm. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (video description)
2016-04-01 · Loving Loving Things in Los Angeles — Hank credits audiences for much of that and thanks viewers for deliberately choosing to support and watch creators who don't suck. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (video description)
2016-04-01 · Loving Loving Things in Los Angeles — Hank says part of his appreciation of others' work is wanting to be like them and make things as good, and thinks that is where some of his ambition comes from. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:01:35)
2016-04-08 · 47 YouTubers Laugh Without Smiling — Hank says laughing without smiling has been done before and is done in the VidCon office to relieve stress; he likes that fake laughing often turns into real laughing. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:50)
2016-04-29 · The Time a Taxi Driver Stole My Money — Hank calls What If? a fantastic book and says he read the driver a bit of it because it is such a great thing to share with people. — hedged: “I just think” [opinion marker] (00:00:29)
2016-04-29 · The Time a Taxi Driver Stole My Money — Hank says maybe every act of trust is a gamble, but being taken advantage of feels far worse than having your trust justified. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:28)
2016-04-29 · The Time a Taxi Driver Stole My Money — Hank says the theft is far down the scale of violations of trust, and if he lets it change how he sees the world, that is bad for him, not for the thief. — hedged: “I feel like” [opinion marker] (00:02:41)
2016-04-29 · The Time a Taxi Driver Stole My Money — Against thieves who rationalise that victims can afford it, Hank says maybe he can afford $60, but society cannot afford to be constantly looking over its shoulder. — hedged: “I don't think” [opinion marker] (00:03:17)
2016-05-06 · I Hate Only Making One Video a Week — The description says Hank expects to look back on these days as some of the best of his life. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (video description)
2016-05-06 · I Hate Only Making One Video a Week — Hank thinks this has, over the years, changed how people perceive the Vlogbrothers channel. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:17)
2016-05-13 · The Time I Fell Asleep with an M&M in My Mouth (and a song) — Asked how Hank Green differs from Hank Green and the Perfect Strangers, Hank says playing and listening to music is more fun with a band, so friends made one, but they play the same Hank Green songs. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:11)
2016-05-20 · I AM A GOLDEN GOD — Hank says it is easy and financially advantageous to make musicians look cool, and that building an image like a brand around an artist is vital to their success. — hedged: “I feel like” [opinion marker] (00:02:16)
2016-06-03 · Redefining What it Means to Matter — Hank says what people crave besides stability is meaning, and thinks it is getting harder and harder to find. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:16)
2016-06-03 · Redefining What it Means to Matter — Hank says wanting to make a difference makes sense for a cultural species and made humanity wonderful and powerful, but thinks we are starting to expect too much. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:01)
2016-06-24 · Questions (and Announcements) from VidCon — Asked for opinions on gerrymandering, Hank suggests watching CGP Grey's video about it. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:51)
2016-06-24 · Questions (and Announcements) from VidCon — Hank says he doesn't get to think much about VidCon and forms few memories rushing between things, and this one will be particularly intense because of three announcements. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:01:55)
2016-07-22 · Ending the Age of Outrage (at least in ourselves, if not in the world) — The description says that, especially in US election years, there is a sense that winning matters more than not being terrible. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (video description)
2016-07-22 · Ending the Age of Outrage (at least in ourselves, if not in the world) — Hank says we want to talk as much as we're listened to: fine with two people, frustrating with six or eight, and in a billion-person conversation a deafening roar with feelings of powerlessness. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:21)
2016-07-22 · Ending the Age of Outrage (at least in ourselves, if not in the world) — Hank says we are in the first age of the social internet, whose job is to suck us in and keep our eyeballs close to revenue-generating ads. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:50)
2016-07-22 · Ending the Age of Outrage (at least in ourselves, if not in the world) — Hank thinks a new age of the social internet is coming, not immediately, where platforms and users work together to promote good community, kindness and empathy. — hedged: “I do think” [opinion marker] (00:03:33)
2016-08-03 · Lives Made of Love - Esther Day 2016 — Hank thinks we too often forget the fabric that holds it all together: appreciating each other for who we are. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:01:56)
2016-08-03 · Lives Made of Love - Esther Day 2016 — Hank says life-changing moments deserve to be noticed and enjoyed, but achievements are not what life is made of; the best lives are made of love. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:54)
2016-08-05 · Our Massive Project: How to Vote in Every State — In the description Hank says he thinks one reason some people don't vote is that figuring it out is a pain, and he can see it is complicated. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (video description)
2016-08-19 · 16 Sports that Should Be in the Olympics — Hank thinks the Olympics miss a bigger opportunity: to understand and share themselves as a massively parallel viewing experience with tons of things happening at once. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:28)
2016-08-19 · 16 Sports that Should Be in the Olympics — Hank thinks that with distribution and production costs dropping, this is possible; all the Olympics need is a ton of new, interesting and weird events. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:44)
2016-08-19 · 16 Sports that Should Be in the Olympics — Hank introduces a list of sports he says should absolutely be added to the Olympic Games (he says 17 but lists 16). — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:55)
2016-08-19 · 16 Sports that Should Be in the Olympics — Hank says the Olympics' pageantry and patriotism shouldn't be left behind, but thinks the ancient tradition could be far more inclusive of humanity's cultural diversity, which modern technology makes possible. — hedged: “I do think” [opinion marker] (00:03:30)
2016-09-16 · Let's Talk about Failure — Hank thinks this year's (2016) NerdCon: Stories will be a fantastic time for everyone there, and says that is what really matters. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:01:55)
2016-09-23 · How do YouTubers Make Money? — Hank says the answer is complicated and that everyone should be more open about how YouTube money works. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:32)
2016-09-23 · How do YouTubers Make Money? — Hank says he doesn't want to and can't run the ICG, being too biased, and looks forward to stepping back after helping Laura Chernikoff get established as executive director. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:03:20)
2016-10-14 · Compassion, Weakness, and the 2016 Election — Hank says he is voting for Hillary Clinton, not only because he thinks Trump treats the world as a game to win at any cost and would raise the (still low) odds of apocalypse, but because she has done much good and he relates to her. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (video description)
2016-10-14 · Compassion, Weakness, and the 2016 Election — Hank says his problems with Clinton are mostly about foreign and military affairs, which he feels the US does wrong, but he admits he knows nothing about them and finds it weird so many think they do. — hedged: “I feel like” [opinion marker] (video description)
2016-10-14 · Compassion, Weakness, and the 2016 Election — Hank apologises for going the other way: talking about the ideas and stories behind politics, in the US and, he thinks, everywhere. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:18)
2016-10-14 · Compassion, Weakness, and the 2016 Election — Hank says at the heart of this unnamed ideology is a perspective he cannot abide: that strength is control and compassion is weakness. — hedged: “I feel like” [opinion marker] (00:00:49)
2016-10-21 · Coming Out, Goats, Government, and Attack Ads with Denise Juneau — Hank wanted to talk with someone who knows government and has faith in it; no politician is blameless for hyper-partisanship, but we cannot move past it without humanizing politicians and asking them to humanize each other. — hedged: “I don't think” [opinion marker] (video description)
2016-10-21 · Coming Out, Goats, Government, and Attack Ads with Denise Juneau — Hank says he wants to discuss not policy or her campaign but government, being an elected official and how partisanship affects her, because we often forget politicians are people. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:36)
2016-10-21 · Coming Out, Goats, Government, and Attack Ads with Denise Juneau — Hank tells John with so many serious issues, talking with a candidate as a person can feel hard to justify, but he thinks imagining these people as people really matters. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:07:18)
2016-10-28 · Give Me Your Tweets, I'll Give You My Phone · Last Video Before Leave! — Hank says others, he thinks mostly Victoria, will tweet as him to announce things like P4A, VidCon or Pizzamas. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:01:46)
2016-11-07 · It's Pizzamas!!! (Thoughts From the Place Where they Print Our Shirts) — Hank thinks businesses want buyers to imagine products come from Star Trek-style replicators, thinking of the thing rather than the people who made it, not because those people are unhappy but because it complicates the transaction. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:01:54)
2016-11-07 · It's Pizzamas!!! (Thoughts From the Place Where they Print Our Shirts) — Hank thinks it is nice and maybe important to see the complexity and hard work behind the things he buys and sells: not simple, but more rewarding and more real. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:11)
2016-12-01 · See you in Amsterdam, Melbourne, or Anaheim!! (also Boston) — Hank says it is fantastically important that we gather together in the real world when we can and love things together, and he is proud to help facilitate that. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (video description)
2016-12-13 · P4A 2016 Hilarity Reprise - OVER $2M RAISED!! — Hank thinks the break changed him and is interested to see how that shows as he returns to making videos and says things he has been thinking about. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:03:18)
2016-12-30 · The Most Interesting Thing I've Ever Done — Hank says he can be distracted from vlogbrothers by the new projects the community made possible, which have whole teams while vlogbrothers is still just him and John, and he doesn't want to lose its work of finding new ways for cohesive, constructive community to exist. — hedged: “I also think” [opinion marker] (video description)
2016-12-30 · The Most Interesting Thing I've Ever Done — Hank says the internet will have an unknowable effect on human culture, which he thinks will be huge and both positive and negative. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:43)
2016-12-30 · The Most Interesting Thing I've Ever Done — Hank thinks we need to find the tools for building such community, and quickly. — hedged: “I really think” [opinion marker] (00:04:00)

Other hedge (18)

a hedge that matches none of the word lists

2016-01-08 · Who Am I?! - Some thoughts on Personal Identity — Hank says there is an unexplained link between bad eyesight and intelligence; his favourite theory is that children in glasses look smart, are expected to be smart, and become smart. — hedged: “One of the theories that explains this and my favorite” [other hedge] (00:01:35)
2016-02-19 · Thanks, Lemon — Hank cannot know his dog's mind; all he can know is her effect on him, which, somewhat selfishly, is maybe the important thing. — hedged: “I suppose” [other hedge] (00:01:27)
2016-03-11 · The Politics of "Parks and Rec" — Hank contrasts the show with House of Cards, in which, as far as he can tell, there are no good people. — hedged: “as far as I can tell” [other hedge] (00:00:58)
2016-03-18 · Brazil's Government is Falling Apart...and it's Good News? — Hank says the days of scandals ending in pizza appear to be over, for several reasons, the first being the massive scale of this scandal. — hedged: “appear to be” [other hedge] (00:03:59)
2016-04-22 · Clinton vs. Sanders: POLICY IS EXCITING! — The description says the two plans almost shouldn't be compared, since Sanders' biggest tax increases depend on a massive change to the US health-care system. — hedged: “almost” [other hedge] (video description)
2016-04-22 · Clinton vs. Sanders: POLICY IS EXCITING! — Hank explains payroll tax is basically income tax paid by both employee and employer; the self-employed pay all of it, then called self-employment tax. — hedged: “basically” [other hedge] (00:02:13)
2016-04-22 · Clinton vs. Sanders: POLICY IS EXCITING! — Hank says Sanders does this mostly to create a single-payer system in which the government is everyone's insurer, basically Medicare for everybody. — hedged: “basically” [other hedge] (00:05:40)
2016-06-03 · Redefining What it Means to Matter — Hank says we cannot all be Elon Musk, and argues even Musk cannot be what we think of as Elon Musk. — hedged: “I would argue” [other hedge] (00:02:13)
2016-06-24 · Questions (and Announcements) from VidCon — Hank describes the ICG as basically a thing that promotes the interests of internet creators. — hedged: “basically” [other hedge] (00:02:11)
2016-07-22 · Ending the Age of Outrage (at least in ourselves, if not in the world) — Hank says the internet has become a less kind place; unpleasant as it is for an internet lover to admit, we seem to have entered an age of outrage. — hedged: “it would appear” [other hedge] (00:00:06)
2016-08-05 · Our Massive Project: How to Vote in Every State — Hank feels voting is one of the most important parts of being an American. — hedged: “I feel” [other hedge] (00:00:28)
2016-09-02 · One Scientifically Proven Thing Actually Makes People Happier — The description adds that having a dog or cat is another repeatedly shown happiness booster, apparently because being needed makes people feel intrinsically valuable. — hedged: “It appears” [other hedge] (video description)
2016-09-02 · One Scientifically Proven Thing Actually Makes People Happier — Hank says we rarely weigh the commute when choosing where to work and live; moving closer to work, even to a smaller or pricier place, is often far better for happiness. — hedged: “often” [other hedge] (00:01:25)
2016-09-23 · How do YouTubers Make Money? — Hank says YouTube started sharing ad revenue with creators way back around 2007 and 2008. — hedged: “like” [other hedge] (00:01:01)
2016-10-14 · Compassion, Weakness, and the 2016 Election — Hank says a politician's rhetoric of 'this country is losing', instead of using our many resources to protect citizens, protects no one; it seeks out people's wounds and aggravates them intentionally. — hedged: “To me, it feels like” [other hedge] (00:01:15)
2016-10-14 · Compassion, Weakness, and the 2016 Election — Hank says part of citizens' job in a democracy can be recognising when the fears pitched to them are made of cardboard and styrofoam. — hedged: “It can be” [other hedge] (00:02:08)
2016-10-28 · Give Me Your Tweets, I'll Give You My Phone · Last Video Before Leave! — Hank says he will try to disengage from social media and not tweet at all, which will be very hard for him. — hedged: “gonna try” [other hedge] (00:01:38)
2016-12-30 · The Most Interesting Thing I've Ever Done — Hank doesn't want individualism gone, but says it is so new and pervasive that few structures help it exist without destroying society, admitting this rests on little research. — hedged: “Now that's a big statement that's based on not a lot of research” [other hedge] (00:01:34)

Hedge words not recorded (4)

marked as unsure, but the hedge words were not quoted

2016-02-05 · Honest YouTube Talk Time — Hank wonders whether the lost meritocracy is creating frustration and reducing the number of people taking chances on weird, wonderful things on YouTube. — speculative (hedge words not recorded) (00:02:41)
2016-04-22 · Clinton vs. Sanders: POLICY IS EXCITING! — Hank says US health costs are so complicated that it is impossible to know whether the new taxes would pay for universal health care or more revenue would be needed. — explicitly uncertain (hedge words not recorded) (00:06:12)
2016-04-22 · Clinton vs. Sanders: POLICY IS EXCITING! — Hank suggests that people worrying less about health care or retirement might make the economy healthier, but says he doesn't know. — explicitly uncertain (hedge words not recorded) (00:06:32)
2016-04-22 · Clinton vs. Sanders: POLICY IS EXCITING! — Hank says something you will never hear on cable news: he does not know which plan is best for the country and its future. — explicitly uncertain (hedge words not recorded) (00:07:01)

Fiction (2)

a story or novel read aloud; the words belong to characters

2016-05-13 · The Time I Fell Asleep with an M&M in My Mouth (and a song) — Hank's new song tells someone that Annie has her own life and baggage and doesn't need their luck or worry, but needs them to get out of her way. (00:01:05)
2016-05-13 · The Time I Fell Asleep with an M&M in My Mouth (and a song) — The song asks whether holding Annie close is love or fear, and says you only get to keep her if you let her go. (00:01:53)

Joke (3)

a gag; not a claim

2016-03-01 · Question Tuesday: The Potato Edition — If he could create anything with potatoes, Hank would make a thinking, feeling, sentient potato man. (00:01:27)
2016-03-25 · Snapchat Question Time! — Hank recalls that on Dear Hank and John they joked there were only two multiverse futures in which Donald Trump became the Republican nominee, one requiring a meteor to kill all but 12 Americans. (00:00:39)
2016-08-26 · I'm Just Going to Talk for Four Minutes — Hank jokingly counts the brothers' 'upcoming sports network', still unnamed, among John's best ideas. (00:02:43)

Playful (89)

a real point made in a joking way; the paraphrase records the meant core

2016-01-01 · Why Does January First Start the New Year? - New Year's Explained — Hank says the month names' Latin number prefixes no longer matching their positions is an immense source of frustration for him. (00:01:29)
2016-01-01 · Why Does January First Start the New Year? - New Year's Explained — Hank thanks Numa Pompilius, Sosigenes and Aloysius Lilius for their contributions and apologises that everyone has forgotten them. (00:03:25)
2016-01-08 · Who Am I?! - Some thoughts on Personal Identity — Hank lists labels for himself: heterosexual white cis male, Taurus, ENFP, Montanan, American, book lover, no tattoos. (00:00:20)
2016-01-08 · Who Am I?! - Some thoughts on Personal Identity — Hank took a BuzzFeed quiz on which YouTuber he is, with himself among the options, and got Miranda Sings. (00:00:37)
2016-01-08 · Who Am I?! - Some thoughts on Personal Identity — Hank says telling people to 'be yourself' is not advice. (00:03:06)
2016-01-15 · Eating Weird Food from the 50s (with Katherine) — Hank says the recipes are 'interesting', so he and Katherine decided to try a few; the results were mixed. (00:00:12)
2016-01-15 · Eating Weird Food from the 50s (with Katherine) — Hank calls the Golden Rabbit (Campbell's cheddar cheese and tomato soups with milk, poured over crackers) bland; its predominant flavor, he says, is crackers. (00:00:47)
2016-01-15 · Eating Weird Food from the 50s (with Katherine) — Hank's suggestion for improving the chop suey is huge amounts of salt, which he says makes it much better. (00:02:24)
2016-01-15 · Eating Weird Food from the 50s (with Katherine) — Of the orange cranberry relish mold, Hank says eating it is like coming across sand in your food, and warns viewers not to serve it to friends or family. (00:03:18)
2016-01-29 · Why the Word "Millennial" Makes me Cringe — Hank says such articles generally made sweeping generalisations about America's most diverse group of young people, complained young people acted unexpectedly, or stoked other generations' anxiety about 'unknowable snake people'. (00:01:20)
2016-02-05 · Honest YouTube Talk Time — Hank stresses it is still a small business, with fewer employees than the average McDonald's. (00:00:32)
2016-02-12 · Doing the Hard(er) Thing (and some very bad news) — Hank says there is always a different song in his head and wonders why his brain is set up that way. (00:00:23)
2016-02-12 · Doing the Hard(er) Thing (and some very bad news) — Hank says he lives a pampered life, and for about eight years has had a job that lets him get up whenever he wants, so he has mostly slept in. (00:01:04)
2016-02-12 · Doing the Hard(er) Thing (and some very bad news) — Admitting he has no scientific evidence, Hank feels people can only do so many things they don't want to do before giving in (eating a whole ice cream cake). — hedged: “sometimes I feel like” [opinion marker] (00:02:18)
2016-02-19 · Thanks, Lemon — Hank calls greyhounds relaxed, loving and adorable: a cuddle companion, a reason to get up on Sunday mornings and someone to blame your farts on. (00:02:55)
2016-02-26 · Things You Don't Know About Us (REUNION!) — Hank thought as a kid that he wanted to be an oceanographer, but it turned out he doesn't like boats. (00:00:51)
2016-02-26 · Things You Don't Know About Us (REUNION!) — Hank says their pettiest ongoing argument, from the day before, was about which part of the human body would take the longest to eat. (00:01:05)
2016-02-26 · Things You Don't Know About Us (REUNION!) — Hank calls bubble baths a boiling cesspool, saying a bath feels like putting his entire body on every other part of his body. (00:02:04)
2016-02-26 · Things You Don't Know About Us (REUNION!) — Hank's 20-year goal is still to have a colon when he is 55. (00:02:28)
2016-02-26 · Things You Don't Know About Us (REUNION!) — Asked how Dave Green is, Hank says he is fine and doing good. (00:02:35)
2016-02-26 · Things You Don't Know About Us (REUNION!) — Hank is also proud of vlogbrothers but thinks his greatest accomplishment is having made the internet's most viewed video of a goat giving birth. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:03:33)
2016-03-18 · Brazil's Government is Falling Apart...and it's Good News? — Hank says Americans easily get caught in their bubble, but the world goes on, and Brazil's government is falling apart in a way that makes House of Cards look boring. (00:00:00)
2016-03-18 · Brazil's Government is Falling Apart...and it's Good News? — Hank says that after troubled decades, hard work and China's appetite for iron ore and beef ('hamburgers', said playfully) put Brazil's economy on track, making it a developing-world success story until recently. (00:01:32)
2016-04-08 · 47 YouTubers Laugh Without Smiling — Hank asks YouTubers he met (47, per the title) to try to laugh without smiling, and cuts their attempts into a montage. (00:00:05)
2016-04-08 · 47 YouTubers Laugh Without Smiling — Hank says the VidCon team is in Anaheim preparing for VidCon, which is earlier this year (2016): June 23rd to 25th. (00:03:05)
2016-04-15 · T-Shirt and Jeans and TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT — In the song, Hank says his T-shirt and jeans don't mean anything: he tries not to say much with his clothes, so to know him people have to talk to him. (00:00:59)
2016-04-15 · T-Shirt and Jeans and TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT — Hank sings that jeans are durable and comfortable, and that he likes shirts with unironic images of things he likes. (00:01:18)
2016-04-15 · T-Shirt and Jeans and TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT — Hank sings that he loves that his wardrobe reveals little about him, not even whether he is a thousandaire or a billionaire; he wants to tell people with his mouth, not his clothes. (00:01:38)
2016-04-15 · T-Shirt and Jeans and TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT — Hank sings that he finds it odd that when people rebel they put on uniforms, like eyeliner or factory pre-torn fancy pants. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:02)
2016-04-15 · T-Shirt and Jeans and TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT — Hank sings that it is easy to assume a guy is a certain way because he dresses offbeat; the subcultural shortcut may be what he wants, but it is always incomplete. (00:02:12)
2016-04-15 · T-Shirt and Jeans and TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT — Hank says there will be merch (shirts, posters, a flash drive with every song he has written) and cash buyers may get a $2 bill he has signed as change. (00:03:37)
2016-04-22 · Clinton vs. Sanders: POLICY IS EXCITING! — Hank says both would keep the current corporate tax rate while closing loopholes such as offices in tax havens; their plans differ, but he won't get into corporate taxes. (00:05:12)
2016-04-29 · The Time a Taxi Driver Stole My Money — Hank says he immediately suspected the driver's niceness was a ploy and felt ashamed to have been a country bumpkin rube, the mark and the patsy, an idiot for trusting. (00:01:28)
2016-05-13 · The Time I Fell Asleep with an M&M in My Mouth (and a song) — Tired from tour preparation, Hank lay on his couch with peanut M&Ms, his favourite, woke half an hour later with a half-eaten M&M in his mouth, and ate it. (00:02:20)
2016-05-20 · I AM A GOLDEN GOD — Hank explores a backstage area he calls a dungeon: a gross, wet room, a room smelling of motor oil with a canoe in it, and a hole. (00:00:25)
2016-05-20 · I AM A GOLDEN GOD — Hank hears someone coming, fears a monster or an employee telling him to leave, and finds someone practising the saxophone, whom he calls a saxophone monster. (00:01:17)
2016-05-27 · Reaction Video: THE THING! — The description says seeing The Thing costs a dollar per person (seventy-five cents for kids), and calls looking it up on Wikipedia cheating. (video description)
2016-05-27 · Reaction Video: THE THING! — Hank and companions visit The Thing, following doors through other people's yards and sheds until they find where it lies. (00:00:22)
2016-05-27 · Reaction Video: THE THING! — A man says he doesn't think they can broadcast what The Thing is, so the video will just be a 'reaction video' to The Thing (the title bit). (00:00:28)
2016-05-27 · Reaction Video: THE THING! — After seeing The Thing, which has no informational placards, Hank says his curiosity is unsatisfied and some things are not meant to be known. (00:01:14)
2016-06-10 · Hank Roasts Himself Diss Track - Roast Yourself Challenge — Hank raps that he films every Thursday morning because he is careful and boring and won't risk a punishment. (00:00:00)
2016-06-10 · Hank Roasts Himself Diss Track - Roast Yourself Challenge — Hank raps that he keeps doing things to feel he matters and wants to be remembered, though someday no humans will be left to remember anyone. (00:00:00)
2016-06-10 · Hank Roasts Himself Diss Track - Roast Yourself Challenge — Hank raps that as a straight, pale male he meets society's expectations easily and sits in front of books so people think he is smart. (00:00:00)
2016-06-10 · Hank Roasts Himself Diss Track - Roast Yourself Challenge — Hank raps that most of his audience wants him to 'feel the Bern', but he is too old for revolution and just doesn't want Donald Trump. (00:00:46)
2016-06-10 · Hank Roasts Himself Diss Track - Roast Yourself Challenge — Hank raps that spending money has always given him anxiety and that he avoids cursing out of propriety. (00:00:46)
2016-06-10 · Hank Roasts Himself Diss Track - Roast Yourself Challenge — Hank raps that he keeps talking about a book he'll write someday, but it's never going to be The Fault in Our Stars, so why does he try anyway. (00:00:46)
2016-06-10 · Hank Roasts Himself Diss Track - Roast Yourself Challenge — Hank raps that he is 36, pretends to be a punk rocker, but is a nerd who sings mostly about Harry Potter. (00:00:46)
2016-06-10 · Hank Roasts Himself Diss Track - Roast Yourself Challenge — Hank raps that a teleprompter lets him pretend to know everything about the Standard Model and philosophy, when mostly he is just reading. (00:00:46)
2016-06-10 · Hank Roasts Himself Diss Track - Roast Yourself Challenge — Hank raps that he pays people to do things and help him create: capitalism, a system he supports though his former self would hate it. (00:01:27)
2016-06-10 · Hank Roasts Himself Diss Track - Roast Yourself Challenge — After the rap Hank muses that he may be a little old for this and should maybe focus on the educational stuff rather than rapping challenges. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:45)
2016-06-17 · Hey, Let's Change Some Things — Hank jokes that anyone who won't write and mail a letter should stop watching because he will make them feel guilty, and people in non-democracies should make the rest feel guilty. (00:00:30)
2016-06-24 · Questions (and Announcements) from VidCon — Overwhelmed by VidCon, Hank records early, on Tuesday, and does a Question Tuesday because anything more complicated would destroy him. (00:00:24)
2016-06-24 · Questions (and Announcements) from VidCon — Asked what a viewer adopting two kittens should name them, Hank suggests Asiago and Cheddar. (00:01:13)
2016-06-24 · Questions (and Announcements) from VidCon — Asked which fictional person he would have as a VidCon guest, Hank weighs Luna Lovegood, Galadriel and Huck Finn and says he'd have to write a fanfic. (00:01:43)
2016-06-24 · Questions (and Announcements) from VidCon — Asked about avocados and the multiverse, Hank says he loves both. (00:03:11)
2016-07-01 · So, I Ruptured Both my Eardrums! (Also, NerdCon: Nerdfighteria) — At about 70% of his normal hearing, Hank got a fortune cookie saying he would be rewarded for being a good listener this week (week of 27 June 2016); inside his head everything is loud. (00:01:41)
2016-07-08 · Your Illness is Not Your Fault — Hank says one person at a party took about half the party to explain his cure to Hank. (00:00:24)
2016-07-29 · Thoughts from Comic-Con (NO MORE CHEETO MEDIA!) — Outside his Comic-Con hotel was a Dole produce port; Hank jokes that this Thoughts from Places video will not connect it to his point and shows a time lapse. (00:02:05)
2016-08-05 · Our Massive Project: How to Vote in Every State — Against 'no one voter decides an election', Hank says if everyone thought so only one drunk voter would decide the country; viewers voting together would be an important voting bloc. (00:01:06)
2016-08-12 · AMERICA, DAMMIT! - Thoughts from Glacier National Park — Hank finds the road a little terrifying, driving basically 3 feet from a precipitous drop; passengers feel they should lean away from the cliff but should lean toward it for the view. (00:00:22)
2016-08-12 · AMERICA, DAMMIT! - Thoughts from Glacier National Park — Hank calls the road a uniquely American move: a beautiful place reachable only by the very dedicated, so spend millions on a miraculous road to democratize access to grandeur. — hedged: “It almost seems like” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:11)
2016-08-19 · 16 Sports that Should Be in the Olympics — Hank says the Olympics should let people post GIFs on Tumblr and Twitter. (00:03:47)
2016-08-26 · I'm Just Going to Talk for Four Minutes — Hank says that to escape the pressure of topping the previous year's present, the brothers stopped giving birthday presents; John already has a family, a home and a Chevy Volt. (00:00:30)
2016-08-26 · I'm Just Going to Talk for Four Minutes — Grace Helbig tagged the Vlogbrothers in her put-stuff-on-your-head video; Hank replies he has already put stuff on his head across their 1,427 videos and Grace is nine years behind. (00:01:00)
2016-08-26 · I'm Just Going to Talk for Four Minutes — Hank says he did the math: people have spent over 50 lifetimes watching Vlogbrothers videos; he jokes the brothers are eating up lifetimes and hopes it is worth it. (00:03:40)
2016-09-02 · One Scientifically Proven Thing Actually Makes People Happier — Hank sums up his happiness advice: get a pet, get married and shorten your commute, since you need to get home to feed your dog anyway. (video description)
2016-09-02 · One Scientifically Proven Thing Actually Makes People Happier — Hank says the brothers make Dear Hank and John with commuters in mind, and hopes it helps. — hedged: “hopefully” [wish / hope] (00:01:03)
2016-09-09 · Sleep Paralysis, Double-Pregnancy, and The 2016 Census — Hank says he woke last night after dreaming Katherine got 'double pregnant': a woman already pregnant gets pregnant again and carries the younger baby longer. (00:00:12)
2016-09-09 · Sleep Paralysis, Double-Pregnancy, and The 2016 Census — Hank says that after the dream his movement returned except his right arm, alarming him, until he found he had shoved his arm down his pants. (00:01:09)
2016-09-09 · Sleep Paralysis, Double-Pregnancy, and The 2016 Census — Hank says viewers floated conspiracy theories that he and John had pre-taped videos and gone off on a secret adventure; they had not. (00:01:57)
2016-09-09 · Sleep Paralysis, Double-Pregnancy, and The 2016 Census — Hank says this third week they wore the same outfits on purpose, just to keep messing with viewers. (00:02:06)
2016-09-23 · How do YouTubers Make Money? — Hank recalls that at the first VidCon a TV reporter asked how one makes money on YouTube; tired and excited, he answered 'advertising — my show has more viewers than yours', not meant as a burn. — hedged: “something to the effect of” [other hedge] (00:00:00)
2016-09-30 · Here are Some YouTube Tricks I Use — Hank flashes text for one frame that viewers can't read and promises 18 tips for using YouTube better, including how to find that text. (00:00:05)
2016-09-30 · Here are Some YouTube Tricks I Use — Hank says the bell on a phone gives push notifications for every upload, joining the coveted Notification Squad. (00:01:32)
2016-10-07 · Changing Our Business a Bit — Hank lists past experiments: he humped things, John ate toilet paper, Hank sang songs, and they went to the developing world. (00:00:15)
2016-10-14 · Compassion, Weakness, and the 2016 Election — In the description Hank says this year (2016) hit his faith in humanity, but people he knows are more than 90% super great, so probably the general population is too. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (video description)
2016-10-14 · Compassion, Weakness, and the 2016 Election — Hank grants there are huge real problems that good policy, people and strategy can influence, but says much of the fear we are fed is no more real than a Transformers movie. (00:02:15)
2016-10-21 · Coming Out, Goats, Government, and Attack Ads with Denise Juneau — Hank reminds viewers that educational videos are exempt from the time limit, so they should stop talking about punishments in the comments. (00:08:34)
2016-10-28 · Give Me Your Tweets, I'll Give You My Phone · Last Video Before Leave! — Hank says he wouldn't say he is addicted to work, though he probably should. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:03)
2016-10-28 · Give Me Your Tweets, I'll Give You My Phone · Last Video Before Leave! — Hank stresses the phone giveaway is not a sponsorship and he does not endorse the phone; viewers should choose any phone except the exploding ones. (00:02:55)
2016-11-29 · Baby Poop Rookie: Vlogbrothers Reunited — Asked how Orin is, Hank says he is a good, very cute baby; he may have smiled at Hank that morning, or may just have been pooping. — hedged: “I think he may have” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:20)
2016-11-29 · Baby Poop Rookie: Vlogbrothers Reunited — Asked why there is no sequel to The Fault in Our Stars, Hank suggests it would maybe not have been the happiest book. — hedged: “I think, maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:35)
2016-11-29 · Baby Poop Rookie: Vlogbrothers Reunited — Asked the most surprising thing about having a baby, Hank says the noise of the poops; on Orin's first day home he pooped with his diaper off and Hank tried to catch it by hand. (00:01:22)
2016-12-01 · See you in Amsterdam, Melbourne, or Anaheim!! (also Boston) — Hank says John will only be able to attend Anaheim, so Hank will be both himself and John for people at the others, joking he is practising John's simple signature. (00:02:04)
2016-12-01 · See you in Amsterdam, Melbourne, or Anaheim!! (also Boston) — Hank apologises for returning from leave to announce events most viewers cannot attend, joking that there are now fewer people who live far from one. (00:02:35)
2016-12-13 · P4A 2016 Hilarity Reprise - OVER $2M RAISED!! — Hank announces he is back, says his mind is still a little hungover from P4A, and is glad that is how he came back. (00:02:23)
2016-12-23 · 41 Dad Jokes in 4 Minutes! (with special guest star...) — Hank's first dad joke of dadhood: changing his son's diaper, he asked what to change him into, 'a rhinoceros?', got peed on, and loves being officially a dad. (00:03:36)
2016-12-30 · The Most Interesting Thing I've Ever Done — Hank notes that people who watched that first video as eleven-year-olds can now legally drink. (00:00:05)
2016-12-30 · The Most Interesting Thing I've Ever Done — Hank admits the video is longer than four minutes; he hasn't made many overtime videos but couldn't help it this time. (00:05:16)

Other voices

173 statements · sincere 80% · playful 19% · other bits 1% · hedged or unsure 21%

Sincere but hedged (35)

Split by hedge type (derived from the quoted hedge words with a fixed word list — see the overview): epistemic doubt 7 · wish / hope 1 · opinion marker 20 · other hedge 4 · hedge words not recorded 3.

Epistemic doubt (7)

real uncertainty about whether it is true

2016-11-11 · The Trouble with Wishful Thinking — Hannah Hart: Hannah says she doesn't want to blame 'us' for what just happened but will: it's not our fault, but maybe it is. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:31)
2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Rosianna Halse Rojas: Rosianna relays a friend's suggestion that the internet's murkiness comes from it not being designed to hold so many people; in her early AOL days fewer were online and they built it together, rather than entering a ready-made internet like IKEA furniture. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:13)
2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Rosianna Halse Rojas: Rosianna suggests we start by not knowing; what helped her was realizing how long it had been since she logged off, an intentional decision about her online behaviour rather than a passive one. — hedged: “Maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:28)
2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Rosianna Halse Rojas: Rosianna says that opening her computer she is often on automatic (Twitter feed, inbox, calendar), in a 'nothing state' where she is plasticine, and asks who she is handing it to. — hedged: “kind of” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:42)
2016-12-16 · Fear in Art — Tessa Violet: Tessa says it is hard to create anything and perhaps even harder to put it out, both hard for similar reasons. — hedged: “I don't know if” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:05)
2016-12-16 · Fear in Art — Tessa Violet: Tessa says it is very vulnerable to say you made something and like it, maybe more so to say you wanted to like it but don't, but that is part of learning and being a beginner. — hedged: “Maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:20)
2016-12-16 · Fear in Art — Tessa Violet: Tessa concludes it is natural to grieve the loss of ownership and safety when releasing something, and to fear your inadequacy when creating, but neither is a good reason not to try. — hedged: “I guess” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:34)

Wish / hope (1)

a wish about the future, not a claim about what is true

2016-03-15 · The Extraordinary Story of Hussam: Teenager, Writer, and Syrian Refugee — Hussam: Asked about being a writer or translator, Hussam says he hopes to go into engineering like his father in Germany, finish his studies and work for a company helping Syria. — hedged: “I hope” [wish / hope] (00:02:44)

Opinion marker (20)

marks a view as the speaker's own; not doubt

2016-10-21 · Coming Out, Goats, Government, and Attack Ads with Denise Juneau — Denise Juneau: Juneau says the worst part is politics' negativity and divisiveness: good ideas go undiscussed as people draw ideological lines and talk about fear-based issues instead of ones that matter. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:48)
2016-10-21 · Coming Out, Goats, Government, and Attack Ads with Denise Juneau — Denise Juneau: Juneau says coming out had political and personal reasons: people expect access to who candidates are, and running for Congress she wanted things out there, given possible negativity. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:03:20)
2016-10-21 · Coming Out, Goats, Government, and Attack Ads with Denise Juneau — Denise Juneau: Juneau says despite stereotypes about Montana, her coming out hasn't become a political issue, which she thinks speaks volumes for the state, the country and their direction. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:03:35)
2016-10-21 · Coming Out, Goats, Government, and Attack Ads with Denise Juneau — Denise Juneau: Juneau jokes again 'number one, get elected'; not naive about what needs fixing or divisive politics, she is optimistic and thinks most candidates want things better for those they represent. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:06:19)
2016-11-04 · Stress and Joy — Sabrina Cruz: Sabrina says that for the first time she feels she is working towards something: the readings and writings that stress her are the same things that build the framework for her happiness. — hedged: “I feel like” [opinion marker] (00:02:21)
2016-11-11 · The Trouble with Wishful Thinking — Hannah Hart: Hannah thinks 'we' probably acted on our hopes ourselves, but worries we didn't have enough conversations with other people in our families. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:01:39)
2016-11-11 · The Trouble with Wishful Thinking — Hannah Hart: Hannah says it is beautiful that millennials were motivated to vote this year (2016) with a strong turnout, and thinks the next step is talking to family and others who hold other political beliefs or are apathetic. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:00)
2016-11-11 · The Trouble with Wishful Thinking — Hannah Hart: Hannah thinks it is extraordinary to live in a country where we can still act on our beliefs, and that while we still can, we should. — hedged: “I do think” [opinion marker] (00:02:22)
2016-11-16 · Why We Left Buzzfeed (Some Thoughts on Taking Risks) — Allison Raskin: Allison says she remains grateful to BuzzFeed for incredible exposure, but a company is always a company and is not your friend, even when your coworkers are. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:47)
2016-11-16 · Why We Left Buzzfeed (Some Thoughts on Taking Risks) — Allison Raskin: Allison says big companies can trick you with stability and creative freedom, but at a certain point you have to remember you need to take risks. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:03:14)
2016-11-16 · Why We Left Buzzfeed (Some Thoughts on Taking Risks) — Allison Raskin: Allison says many people are happiest staying long-term at a company, but it was not right for them; their main message is to listen to your gut and what feels right for you. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:03:47)
2016-11-16 · Why We Left Buzzfeed (Some Thoughts on Taking Risks) — Allison Raskin: Allison says the other side isn't roses — constant stress — but they have worked on projects much bigger and more their own than they could have at BuzzFeed. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:04:03)
2016-11-18 · Are Pets Ethical? — Lex Croucher: Lex says the more she thinks about it, the weirder it is to have brought an animal into her home: Felicity is domesticated, but a bedroom is not her natural habitat. — hedged: “I don’t think” [opinion marker] (00:01:31)
2016-11-18 · Are Pets Ethical? — Lex Croucher: Lex thinks her cat is very happy with her; she cannot undo the domestication of pets, so she is happy to give one a loving home. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:03:14)
2016-12-01 · See you in Amsterdam, Melbourne, or Anaheim!! (also Boston) — a guest: In the opening promo clip, unnamed voices say meeting viewers in real life is the best part of being a creator, and they want to pioneer something new, not a TV show. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:09)
2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Rosianna Halse Rojas: Rosianna says the internet is not intrinsically anything: it is a tool and a system we use. — hedged: “I don't think” [opinion marker] (00:00:33)
2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Rosianna Halse Rojas: Rosianna says she struggles to believe that theory: we are still building the internet, there are voices we aren't hearing and still work to do. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:01:39)
2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Rosianna Halse Rojas: Rosianna says many people now claim to know the right answer about the internet, but breaking humanity down into bullet-point lists or alphas and betas contradicts everything humans have shown. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:15)
2016-12-16 · Fear in Art — Tessa Violet: Tessa says releasing something is less like giving birth, as friends told her, than like sending your kid off to college: art that was yours for a year leaves and no longer belongs to you. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:30)
2016-12-16 · Fear in Art — Tessa Violet: Tessa says the fear of inadequacy, and of rejection on release, is the reason many people never create at all. — hedged: “I do think” [opinion marker] (00:02:09)

Other hedge (4)

a hedge that matches none of the word lists

2016-11-04 · Stress and Joy — Sabrina Cruz: Sabrina argues that we build a false dichotomy between stress and happiness, assuming happiness exists only when there is no stress. — hedged: “consider the possibility” [other hedge] (00:00:54)
2016-11-04 · Stress and Joy — Sabrina Cruz: Sabrina says the biggest hindrance to her happiness for most of her life was a lack of good stress: not anxiety or fear of failure, but the stress of doing something you love that fills every hour. — hedged: “I would argue” [other hedge] (00:01:04)
2016-11-04 · Stress and Joy — Sabrina Cruz: Sabrina allows the smile may have been a coping mechanism, but likes to think it was because she is enamored with knowing there is so much more to know. — hedged: “I like to think” [other hedge] (00:02:12)
2016-11-11 · The Trouble with Wishful Thinking — Hannah Hart: Hannah says it occurs to her that wishes are what got us here: wishing is what made 46% of the population not vote. — hedged: “it occurs to me” [other hedge] (00:00:55)

Hedge words not recorded (3)

marked as unsure, but the hedge words were not quoted

2016-11-18 · Are Pets Ethical? — Lex Croucher: Lex asks whether it is better for an animal to have a long, comfortable life that is not instinctive, or a short, natural one running free and terrified. — explicitly uncertain (hedge words not recorded) (00:02:28)
2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Rosianna Halse Rojas: Rosianna wonders whether Twitter was a shortcut that didn't quite work, and whether we need more long hard work to get its benefits, like hearing more voices and community organizing, instead of seeing the pyramid as complete. — speculative (hedge words not recorded) (00:03:28)
2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Rosianna Halse Rojas: Rosianna says the truth is she doesn't know, and she is curious to hear John's thoughts. — explicitly uncertain (hedge words not recorded) (00:03:53)

Joke (1)

a gag; not a claim

2016-11-14 · Who the Eff Is Hank? — Craig Benzine: For nerdfighters missing Hank, Craig imitates things Hank does: dancing with hip thrusts, singing rock music, breathing, and smiling while he talks. (00:00:24)

Playful (33)

a real point made in a joking way; the paraphrase records the meant core

2016-01-15 · Eating Weird Food from the 50s (with Katherine) — Katherine Green: Katherine says the Mexican Chop Suey smells like dog food. (00:02:18)
2016-01-15 · Eating Weird Food from the 50s (with Katherine) — Katherine Green: Katherine asks why Jell-O even still exists, since people only eat it in prison, high school or the hospital. (00:03:25)
2016-03-25 · Snapchat Question Time! — both: Both brothers say you always shampoo, then condition; neither had heard of conditioning first. (00:02:04)
2016-10-21 · Coming Out, Goats, Government, and Attack Ads with Denise Juneau — Denise Juneau: Juneau says her Twitter bio's '54th generation Montanan' just means a long time: American Indian people were here before America was a country, history she brings to the race. (00:03:55)
2016-10-21 · Coming Out, Goats, Government, and Attack Ads with Denise Juneau — Denise Juneau: Juneau says debates are scary, with questions you must guess; at her last debate an audience member asked how she'd help LGBTQ people, and she answered: first, get elected. (00:05:45)
2016-11-04 · Stress and Joy — Sabrina Cruz: Sabrina, standing in for Hank, introduces herself: she has just started university and jokes that she is falling apart. (00:00:03)
2016-11-04 · Stress and Joy — Sabrina Cruz: Sabrina lists her university workload (midterms, presentations, essays, readings, 'suggested' problems) and jokes she would be crying herself to sleep if she got any sleep. (00:00:27)
2016-11-10 · The Museum of Pizza Johns Past — Caenaan: Caenaan says the warehouse forklift is, of course, named Forky McForkface. (00:00:10)
2016-11-10 · The Museum of Pizza Johns Past — Valerie2776: Valerie gives the ten-second history of Pizza John: John likes pizza, once had a mustache in a video, and all of this followed. (00:01:00)
2016-11-10 · The Museum of Pizza Johns Past — Rachel: Rachel models the collection's very soft pajama pants, called the PJ-PJ. (00:02:23)
2016-11-11 · The Trouble with Wishful Thinking — Hannah Hart: Hannah says people tweet 'make a wish' at 11:11 and she can't be bothered to find out why, since it is the first Friday of President-Elect Trump's 'president-electionry'. (00:00:07)
2016-11-14 · Who the Eff Is Hank? — Craig Benzine: Craig takes up the question 'Who the eff is Hank?': he is not Hank but Craig, aka WheezyWaiter, and tells the asker to clean up their language. (00:00:00)
2016-11-14 · Who the Eff Is Hank? — Craig Benzine: Craig recalls that a few years ago he filled in for John, doing his best impression of him, and says it was well received. (00:00:13)
2016-11-14 · Who the Eff Is Hank? — Craig Benzine: Craig says the term 'pizza' first appeared in a Latin text around the 10th century in southern Italy. (00:01:00)
2016-11-14 · Who the Eff Is Hank? — Craig Benzine: Craig says the Latin text was found in Gaeta, Italy, and stated that a person of a certain property was to give the bishop of Gaeta 12 pizzas every day. (00:01:11)
2016-11-14 · Who the Eff Is Hank? — Craig Benzine: Craig realises he is giving the history of pizza rather than the science, says history is more John's thing, and apologises. (00:01:30)
2016-11-14 · Who the Eff Is Hank? — Craig Benzine: Craig says basic pizza is bread, sauce and cheese, and the bread is made of flour, water and baker's yeast, a living single-celled fungus, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. (00:01:38)
2016-11-14 · Who the Eff Is Hank? — Craig Benzine: Calling the Pizza John moustache crucial, Craig says the oldest portrait of a moustache is an Iranian horseman from 300 BC (first saying AD, then correcting himself). (00:02:11)
2016-11-14 · Who the Eff Is Hank? — Craig Benzine: Craig thanks Hank and John for having him, says he loves doing these, and asks them to have lots more kids. (00:02:29)
2016-11-16 · Why We Left Buzzfeed (Some Thoughts on Taking Risks) — Gaby Dunn: Gaby says she had had a writing job before and was 26, so she was less enthused; Allison says it was her first writing job, at 25. (00:00:41)
2016-11-16 · Why We Left Buzzfeed (Some Thoughts on Taking Risks) — Allison Raskin: Allison says talking sincerely into a camera feels uncomfortable and asks where the jokes are. (00:04:17)
2016-11-18 · Are Pets Ethical? — Lex Croucher: Lex says it has been a tough few weeks and a tough year, even for her cat, who does not really understand celebrity deaths or politics. (00:00:01)
2016-11-18 · Are Pets Ethical? — Lex Croucher: Lex says the cat gets food, shelter, water, catnip and an owner who, like the parent of a newborn, has accepted years of poor sleep. (00:01:04)
2016-11-18 · Are Pets Ethical? — Lex Croucher: Lex avoids the indoor-versus-outdoor cat debate, but says Felicity, never outside and older, would be in trouble if simply let out the front door. (00:01:40)
2016-11-25 · You're Not Good Enough — Nathan Zed: Nathan says he is not good at a lot of things: sports, pottery, juggling, and he would make a terrible doctor. (00:00:18)
2016-11-25 · You're Not Good Enough — Nathan Zed: Nathan recalls a kid in art class turning round while he drew a giraffe; the taunting he imagined was probably in his head, and the kid probably said it looked pretty good. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:57)
2016-11-25 · You're Not Good Enough — Nathan Zed: Nathan cites the saying 'You miss 100% of the shots you don't take' (basketball, he clarifies, not alcohol). (00:02:44)
2016-11-25 · You're Not Good Enough — Nathan Zed: Nathan likens a life to a burrito: you may not have the best chicken or sour cream, but rolled together your ingredients make a pretty good burrito, i.e. person. (00:03:05)
2016-11-25 · You're Not Good Enough — Nathan Zed: Nathan invites viewers to follow him on YouTube and Twitter for more food-based inspirational metaphors. (00:03:34)
2016-11-29 · Baby Poop Rookie: Vlogbrothers Reunited — both: The brothers switch glasses, as they do every time; Hank finds John's lenses dirty and their left-eye lenses about the same. (00:01:49)
2016-11-29 · Baby Poop Rookie: Vlogbrothers Reunited — both: Asked for self-care advice, Hank defers to Self-Care Bunny, which John says is there to remind you to be nice to yourself. (00:02:56)
2016-11-29 · Baby Poop Rookie: Vlogbrothers Reunited — both: Recalling Nathan Zed's video, the brothers say you are a good burrito, not the best: stop putting pressure on yourself, as there are only different kinds of good burritos. (00:03:05)
2016-12-13 · P4A 2016 Hilarity Reprise - OVER $2M RAISED!! — both: A montage of P4A 2016 livestream moments: confetti, Save the Children staff, Big Bird, YouTuber guests, John answering questions and the Cheez Doodles Guy. (00:00:00)