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Hello Baby!!

2010-02-16 · John · watch on YouTube · Personal life · reflection essay

Back from paternity leave, John introduces his three-week-old son a child of the brothers and gives three reasons a child of the brothers will appear only a little in the vlogs: public lives get misquoted (Amanda Bynes misquoting Einstein), embarrassing stories, and not every viewer is a nerdfighter.

What is said

00:00:00 — Greeting on Monday with baby a child of the brothers on camera

  • ★★★ John, back on the vlog, introduces his three-week-old son a child of the brothers on camera. — 00:00:03

00:00:14 — Driving to the dentist; mouth hurts afterwards; who Amanda Bynes is

  • ★ John drives to the dentist; once home, his mouth hurts. — 00:00:14

00:00:46 — Amanda Bynes complains of being misquoted, then misquotes Einstein; misquoting Einstein as the internet's most common sin; public lives get misquoted

  • ★★ John says Amanda Bynes tweeted that she hates being misquoted, then less than 24 hours later tweeted a line attributed to Albert Einstein, which he calls a misquotation. — 00:00:46 · Twitter
  • ★★ John complains, calling it the internet's most common sin, that people keep misattributing quotations to Einstein, who was a physicist, not a quotation-generation machine. (playful) — 00:00:59
  • ★★★ John argues that people who make their lives public will be misquoted, and those who dislike that should make their lives private. — 00:01:25

00:01:31 — Three reasons a child of the brothers won't appear much in the vlogs: his choice of privacy, embarrassing baby stories (Mom's photo album, anachronism bit), not every viewer is a nerdfighter (the 'hot videos' message)

  • ★★★ John says Hank won't see a ton of a child of the brothers in the coming vlogs, though not none, because he wants a child of the brothers to choose whether he has a private life. — 00:01:31 · Vlogbrothers
  • ★★ Reason two: John recalls their mom showing his high-school girlfriends his baby pictures and doesn't want embarrassing stories about a child of the brothers reaching a large audience. (playful) — 00:01:43
  • ★ John jokes that Hank never had a girlfriend in high school. (joke) — 00:01:48 · Hank Green
  • ★★ Reason three: not everyone watching is a nerdfighter, as a YouTube message asking them to upload 'hot videos like kisses and other' shows; John doesn't want that sender seeing much of a child of the brothers. (playful) — 00:02:30 · Nerdfighteria, YouTube

00:03:22 — a child of the brothers and Aunt Katherine's quilt; thanks to Hank, Maureen and Nerdfighters; questions about the baby in comments; sign-off

  • ★★ John thanks Maureen for standing in as John Green, and thanks Nerdfighters for everything. — 00:03:26 · Maureen Johnson, Nerdfighteria
  • ★ John invites questions about the baby and says he'll try to answer them in the comments. (hedged) — 00:03:32

Humor (significant)

  • John quizzes Hank on the internet's most common sin, offering wrong guesses before 'misquoting Albert Einstein'. — 00:01:04 > «Exposing yourself on chat roulette?»
  • John imitates their mom showing his high-school girlfriends his baby pictures. — 00:01:58 > «Look at his tiny little penis!»
  • Mortified, John calls Mad-Eye Moody for a disillusionment charm; a second John, filmed from another angle, objects to the anachronism. — 00:02:13 > «Harry Potter hadn't been published!»
  • A viewer's message asks the brothers to upload 'hot videos like kisses and other'; John finds the premise funniest. — 00:03:05 > «And he thinks the only way to rectify this problem is to reach out to the Vlogbrothers.»

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