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YouTube Survey: Balls and First Kisses

2011-09-30 · John · watch on YouTube · Personal life · conversation qa

Lower-confidence wave

2011 videos did not pass the QA gate (17 %); their analysis is shown but less reliable.

After a montage mocking Hank's 'balls', a plug for Maureen Johnson's The Name of the Star and news that Nerdfighters have lent over $55,000 through Kiva, John answers Alex Day's YouTube survey (first kiss, clothes, childhood job, school friends, naming a child of the brothers) and asks Hank to answer it next.

What is said

00:00:00 — Greeting; plan to do Alex Day's YouTube survey; montage of Hank saying 'balls' from his last video

  • ★★ John opens with a montage of Hank saying 'balls', noting Hank said balls a lot in his last video. (playful) — 00:00:03 · Hank Green

00:00:11 — Team 6 for life; Maureen Johnson's The Name of the Star is out; Nerdfighters have lent over $55,000 through Kiva

  • ★ John cheers 'Team 6 for life!' (not explained in the video). (playful) — 00:00:11
  • ★★ John says secret sister Maureen Johnson, 'aka Actual John Green', had her best book ever, The Name of the Star, come out yesterday, and everybody is going to love it. — 00:00:13 · Maureen Johnson, secret sibling
  • ★★★ John reports Nerdfighters have loaned more than $55,000 to entrepreneurs in the developing world through Kiva, and says Nerdfighters are made of awesome. — 00:00:24 · Nerdfighteria, Kiva, made of awesome

00:00:36 — Survey answers: first kiss at summer camp (hair on fire), the suit and Team 6 t-shirt, wanting to be an earthworm scientist, troublemaker at a nerdy boarding school, wanting to name a child of the brothers Gatsby

  • ★★ John answers Alex Day's YouTube survey, joking that Alex does it every year, though this is the first year and it will be every year. (playful) — 00:00:36 · Alex Day
  • ★★ John's first (French) kiss was with his camp girlfriend a private person at a candlelight ceremony on the last night of summer camp; it was more like facial licking, and a candle set his hair on fire. His second kiss came three years later. (playful) — 00:00:42
  • ★★ John says summer camp was like the internet before the internet: there you were cooler and better looking than in real life. (hedged) — 00:00:44
  • ★★ John's most expensive casual clothing is the suit he bought so as not to look bad next to his wife at the Venice Biennale, or, if a suit isn't casual, his Team 6 for life t-shirt. (playful) — 00:01:29 · Sarah Urist Green
  • ★★ As a little kid John wanted to be an earthworm scientist, a professional studier of earthworms. (playful) — 00:01:43
  • ★★ John was a nerd, but for his last three years of high school at a really nerdy boarding school he was more of a troublemaker, a non-nerdy past he calls embarrassing. (hedged) — 00:01:56
  • ★★ John wanted to name his son a child of the brothers 'Gatsby', but Sarah refused because Gatsby is a tragic character; John countered with the novel's line about what preyed on Gatsby and wanted that quote over the crib. — 00:02:13 · Sarah Urist Green, The Great Gatsby

00:02:32 — Who should answer next: viewers here or at Alex Day's video, and Hank; spinny-chair song and apology; sign-off

  • ★★ John says everybody can leave survey responses on this video or at Alex Day's video. — 00:02:34 · Alex Day
  • ★★★ John says he really wants his brother Hank to answer the survey next. — 00:02:36 · Hank Green
  • ★ After singing about his spinny chair, John apologizes, saying he promised Nerdfighteria he wouldn't sing anymore. (playful) — 00:02:43 · Nerdfighteria

Humor (significant)

  • John opens with a rapid montage of Hank saying 'balls' and explains why. — 00:00:03 > «You said "balls" a lot in your last video»
  • At the candlelight ceremony John wraps his arms around a private person and starts licking her face. — 00:01:13 > «I start to smell the fact that my hair is on fire»
  • John explains why as a kid he wanted to be a professional studier of earthworms. — 00:01:49 > «I guess because it mixed my two talents of animal husbandry and science»

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