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HipPOTATOmus

2009-08-10 · John · watch on YouTube · Personal life · personal update

John marks 100,000 subscribers, recounts a weekend at the Philo Apple Farm cooking school (and the hippo-shaped 'hippotatamus' potato), and proposes three changes to the 2009 Nerdfighter Fitness Challenge.

What is said

00:00:00 — Intro at cooking school; part one: 100,000 subscribers, what do Nerdfighters want?

  • ★★ John announces that the channel has 100,000 subscribers. — 00:00:00 · Vlogbrothers
  • ★★ John thinks they should get the Nerdfighters something and asks Nerdfighters what they want. (hedged) — 00:00:00 · Nerdfighteria

00:00:23 — Part two: cooking school at the Philo Apple Farm; the Yeti off camera; the hippotatamus potato; the ocean

  • ★★★ John spent the weekend at the Philo Apple Farm cooking school with the Yeti and her family, a woman and her son, and a woman who knows all about organic, sustainable food. — 00:00:23 · Sarah Urist Green
  • ★★ John calls cooking school amazing, delicious and sort of life-changing. (hedged) — 00:00:23
  • ★★ John can show little footage because the Yeti is in all of it, and showing her would make Nerdfighteria collapse. (playful) — 00:00:23 · Sarah Urist Green, Nerdfighteria
  • ★★ John shows what cooking school looked like: chopping, blending, separating eggs and churning ice cream. — 00:00:53
  • ★★ A potato looked like a hippo; John called it the hippotato, and the woman's son said it should be called the hippotatamus. (playful) — 00:01:15
  • ★ John says the Philo Apple Farm definitely doesn't forget to be awesome. (playful) — 00:01:15 · DFTBA
  • ★ On the way home they saw the ocean, which John says he could almost set a novel at. (hedged) — 00:01:15

00:01:45 — Part three: three suggestions for the 2009 Nerdfighter Fitness Challenge; part four: cows; sign-off

  • ★★★ John offers three suggestions ('we') for the 2009 Nerdfighter Fitness Challenge: extend the deadline to October 1st, make it Hank vs John vs all Nerdfighteria, and five ridiculous disciplines. — 00:01:45 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★★ John tells Nerdfighters who want to take part in the fitness challenge that there is a group on the Ning. — 00:01:45 · Nerdfighter Ning
  • ★★ John asks Nerdfighters to suggest ridiculous fitness challenges in the comments. — 00:01:45

Humor (significant)

  • John cannot show the footage because the Yeti is in all of it. — 00:00:23 > «if I show any of the Yeti then the very foundations of Nerdfighteria will collapse»
  • John calls a hippo-shaped potato the hippotato. — 00:01:15 > «it should be called the hippotatamus.»
  • After the fitness-challenge logistics John announces 'Part four' of the video. — 00:02:18 > «cows.»

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