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Animal Mating and Librarian Talking

2011-10-10 · John · watch on YouTube · Science & nature · curiosity idea

Lower-confidence wave

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

On the last day he can make meaningful changes to The Fault in Our Stars, John briefly vlogs a talk to Indiana medical librarians, then gives Hank a pre-filmed Truth or Fail on animal mating: all-female clone whiptail lizards versus incestuous garter snakes.

What is said

00:00:00 — Greeting; last day to change The Fault in Our Stars; John goes to talk to the medical librarians of Indiana and jokes about being on steroids to sign all the books

  • ★★ John says today is the last day he can make meaningful changes to The Fault in Our Stars, so he'd rather spend it with the book(s) than with Hank. (playful) — 00:00:00 · The Fault in Our Stars
  • ★★ John goes to talk to the medical librarians of Indiana, filming only a few things, and afterwards says medical librarians are so nice. — 00:00:00 · Indiana

00:00:29 — 'Performance enhanced signing'; medical librarians are nice; hand-off to a pre-filmed Truth or Fail on animal mating: rules, signed-book prize, whiptail lizard clones vs red-sided garter snakes, iPod annotations, the suit, countdown

  • ★★ Having to get back to The Fault in Our Stars, John gives Hank instead a Truth or Fail on animal mating that he filmed in the past. — 00:00:29 · Truth or Fail, The Fault in Our Stars
  • ★★ Truth or Fail rules: two purported facts, click the true one or fail; one randomly chosen person who finishes the game will receive a signed copy of one of John's books. — 00:01:05 · Truth or Fail
  • ★★ First purported fact (one of two in the game): the desert grassland whiptail lizard is an all-female species that self-fertilizes its eggs, so each offspring is a clone. (playful) — 00:01:05
  • ★★ Second purported fact (one of two in the game): male red-sided garter snakes are so rare that females must mate with any male they meet, usually a father or brother. (playful) — 00:01:05
  • ★ Viewers on an iPod can't play because annotations don't work there; John finds it weird that the mobile internet is taking everything over and tells them to go to a computer. (playful) — 00:01:52

Humor (significant)

  • At the medical librarians' meeting John joked he is on steroids to sign all the books and might not get into the Guinness Book of World Records. — 00:00:29 > «because it's like technically like performance enhanced signing.»
  • Opening an animal-mating Truth or Fail, John announces 'Fact one, giraffes.' — 00:00:29 > «Just kidding, there will be no giraffes.»
  • Waiting for viewers to click, John asks whether they like his suit. — 00:01:52 > «I dressed up because it's about animal sex.»

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