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ELLEN HARDCASTLE IS HERE! A Reunion Video

2011-07-13 · John, Hank, Katherine Green · watch on YouTube · Projects · announcement promotion

Lower-confidence wave

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

From an airport and then LeakyCon 2011, John (after a colonoscopy) extends the Gatsby reading deadline and admits social-anxiety guilt, then is joined by Hank to launch Hank's album Ellen Hardcastle, with Hank promising a video of a ten-word script for every physical-copy buyer.

What is said

00:00:00 — John in an airport after a colonoscopy; Gatsby reading extension to Monday; cut to LeakyCon 2011 ('Hogwarts')

  • ★★ John, filming in an airport, says he had a colonoscopy the day before and is still feeling (punningly) 'crappy'. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • ★★ John gives people who haven't yet read the first six chapters of The Great Gatsby an extension until Monday. — 00:00:00 · The Great Gatsby
  • ★★ John reports he is at LeakyCon 2011, which he jokingly calls Hogwarts, with many nerdfighters downstairs. — 00:00:00 · LeakyCon, Nerdfighteria

00:00:21 — John's guilt over social anxiety at LeakyCon; he raises Hank's album Ellen Hardcastle

  • ★★ John says he feels guilty that his social anxiety disorder makes it impossible for him to take pictures with nerdfighters or hug strangers. — 00:00:21 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★★ John says Hank has worked on his album Ellen Hardcastle for a year and a half and named it after a nerdfighter who won a Project for Awesome raffle. — 00:00:21 · Project for Awesome

00:00:41 — Hank appears: Ellen Hardcastle is out; ten-word-script videos for every physical-copy buyer, rules and how to order

  • ★★★ Hank confirms Ellen Hardcastle is out today and available now; he has an unopened box of copies downstairs. — 00:00:41
  • ★★ Hank (speaker unclear) recalls they talked the day before about John signing every pre-ordered copy of The Fault in Our Stars, which he then tries to outdo. — 00:00:41 · The Fault in Our Stars
  • ★★★ Hank, outdoing John's signing offer, says every buyer of a physical Ellen Hardcastle can send him a ten-word script that he will film and put on YouTube. — 00:01:05 · YouTube > «I'm going to film that video, and then put it onto YouTube.»
  • ★★ Hank sets rules for the scripts: not profane, in English, and they must make sense. — 00:01:27
  • ★★ John tells viewers who want a Vlogbrothers video of Hank saying their ten words to buy a copy of Ellen Hardcastle and await emailed instructions. — 00:01:27 · Vlogbrothers

00:01:50 — Link confusion, the album's namesake, song highlights with Katherine, the 'scientific phenomena songs' t-shirt joke

  • ★★ John touts the album's songs: Phineas Gage, Strange Charm (best song ever about quarks), Shake a Booty (one of his favourites) and, from Katherine, Fermi Paradox. (playful) — 00:02:11 · Strange Charm, Katherine Green

00:02:56 — Sign-off and an excerpt of Strange Charm, the quark song

  • ★ The Strange Charm excerpt says quarks, observed in 1968, are pieces of protons and neutrons and, with leptons and bosons, make up everything we know exists. — 00:02:56 · Strange Charm

Humor (significant)

  • John explains he had a colonoscopy yesterday and searches for a word for how he feels. — 00:00:00 > «I'm still feeling kinda... crappy?»
  • Hank one-ups John's pre-order signing with personalised ten-word videos; John protests in mock rivalry. — 00:01:05 > «It's unfair! I mean, I was going to make thousands of ten-word videos!»
  • John praises Strange Charm as the best song ever written about quarks. — 00:02:11 > «Admittedly low bar, but it exceeds it by a lot.»
  • John garbles praise of Hank's dominance of little-known scientific-phenomena songs; Hank wants it on a t-shirt. — 00:02:33 > «Hank Green, dominating little-known scientific phenomena, comma, songs about.»

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