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Paternity Leave Ends! And I Find Myself...

2013-07-30 · John · watch on YouTube · Personal life · personal update

Back from paternity leave and unexpectedly in an airport on his way to VidCon, John recounts a month on Lake Michigan and how a child of the brothers, three and a half, announced that Germans like digging holes, a stereotype absorbed in the Netherlands at age one.

What is said

00:00:00 — John is back from paternity leave and finds himself in an airport (smoking and heroin gag)

  • ★★ John announces he is back from paternity leave, says he missed viewers and had a wonderful time at home with his family. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ The description thanks the guest hosts by name: Hannah Hart, Grace Helbig, WheezyWaiter, Rosianna, MagicTurtle643 and NerdyAndQuirky (the list is cut off). — 00:00:00 · Craig Benzine
  • ★★ John is in an airport on his way to VidCon. — 00:00:12 · VidCon

00:00:28 — A month with family on Lake Michigan; Nerdfighters recognise him shirtless at the beach; 'movie magic' cut to California

  • ★★ Before this John spent the last month with his family on Lake Michigan, 'the United States' third coast': beautiful water, sunsets, and people who 'pretend to have a war' for Independence Day. — 00:00:25
  • ★★ Many Nerdfighters were on the Lake Michigan coast, but John only met them when he took his shirt off at the beach and someone would ask if he was John Green. (playful) — 00:00:41 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★ John defers his story until California and cuts to his hotel ('Movie... Magic!'), calling it a joke six hours in the making. (joke) — 00:00:54

00:00:59 — a child of the brothers says Germans like digging holes: origin in the Netherlands, Dutch complaints about German beach holes; a child of the brothers's first cultural stereotype

  • ★★★ Digging holes on a Michigan beach, a child of the brothers, three and a half, asked John who likes digging holes and answered: Germans. — 00:01:12
  • ★★★ When a child of the brothers was one the family lived in the Netherlands while John researched The Fault in Our Stars; Dutch people said they thought little of Germans not because of the war but because Germans dig holes in their beaches. — 00:01:34 · Netherlands, The Fault in Our Stars
  • ★★ This happened about six times and John and Sarah remarked on it, apparently in front of a child of the brothers; on a Dutch beach they then saw German speakers digging huge holes with full-size shovels. (playful) — 00:01:53 · Sarah Urist Green
  • ★★ That a child of the brothers remembered this from age one worries John about what else he remembers, such as John swearing during Liverpool games. (playful) — 00:02:08
  • ★ John jokes that it is time for Germans and Dutch people to have a constructive dialogue about holes in beaches. (joke) (hedged) — 00:02:21
  • ★★★ At three and a half a child of the brothers already has his first cultural stereotype, hole-digging Germans, which John thinks says a lot about humans. (hedged) — 00:02:28

00:02:42 — Thanks to Nerdfighteria and the guest hosts; hotel room; sign-off

  • ★★ John thanks Nerdfighteria for being understanding during his paternity leave and the guest hosts who made it more fun than 'regular me'; links in the doobly-doo. — 00:02:42 · Nerdfighteria, doobly-doo
  • ★ John thanks Hank for the hotel room and will see him downstairs after editing. — 00:02:50 · Hank Green

Humor (significant)

  • John gushes about being home with his family after paternity leave, then looks around — 00:00:12 > «Am I in an airport?! Dang it!»
  • Told he can't smoke inside, John asks whether he may snort heroin instead — 00:00:21 > «What is this, an airport or a monastery?»
  • Digging holes on the beach, a child of the brothers asks John if he knows who likes digging holes — 00:01:31 > «he looked at me and he said, "Germans".»

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