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TFiOS Movie, Bees, Babies, and More!

2013-07-19 · John, Hank · watch on YouTube · Personal life · conversation qa

John and Hank do a Question Tuesday on a Friday while Hank visits John's family: foods, flies and bees, the TFIOS film, John's tooth, baby a child of the brothers, life advice, silk history, and John's return from paternity leave on July 30.

What is said

00:00:08 — Foods wished for in the US: paprika Pringles; Sarah's hot nuts from Mexico

  • ★ Asked which foods they wish were more readily available in the US, Hank names paprika Pringles. — 00:00:08
  • ★★ John says Sarah is a huge fan of Hot Nuts and comes home from Mexico trips with huge amounts, telling customs she doesn't think of them as food. (playful) — 00:00:15 · Sarah Urist Green

00:00:31 — Hank's camera corner covered in flies; a neighbor fan; a bee; a child of the brothers's bee nightmares

  • ★ John says Hank set up the camera in the single corner of their beautiful house that is covered in flies. (playful) — 00:00:31 · Hank Green
  • ★★ John, startled by a bee, says he doesn't like bees and that bees are all a child of the brothers has nightmares about, which he calls a healthy fear. (playful) — 00:00:51

00:01:00 — TFIOS film: filming in Pittsburgh from August 26; John is just the book's author; predicts a very good movie

00:01:16 — John's removed tooth; one-month-old a child of the brothers and a child of the brothers's nose-bop wait

  • ★★ Asked if he's missing a tooth, John says yes: it caused terrible chronic pain since before Brotherhood 2.0, was removed in complicated, painful surgery, and no longer hurts. — 00:01:16 · Brotherhood 2.0
  • ★★ Asked whether a child of the brothers has done a Nerdfighter salute, John says she is one month old and has made no intentional gestures yet. — 00:01:24 · Nerdfighter gang sign
  • ★★ John says a child of the brothers read in a Berenstain Bears book that baby sisters bop you on the nose, so he waits by a child of the brothers's arm and cheers when she moves involuntarily. — 00:01:36

00:01:58 — How to stop feeling you're doing nothing: Larry Langford's 'let's do something' versus doing good things

  • ★★ John says Larry Langford, now in prison, was mayor of his quasi-hometown Birmingham, Alabama, and ran for mayor with the motto 'Let's do something'. — 00:02:01
  • ★★★ John says it turns out that just doing something is a terrible, terrible idea. — 00:02:14
  • ★★★ John advises focusing not on doing something but on doing good things, even very little ones like nice favors for people you like. — 00:02:19

00:02:31 — Something learned today: flies; monks smuggling silkworms to the Byzantine Empire

  • ★★ John says he learned that China's monopoly on the world silk trade ended when two monks smuggled about seven silkworms out of China to the Byzantine Empire, rewriting history. (hedged) — 00:02:40 · China
    • number check: seven — doubtful

00:02:59 — Cucumbers and pickles; a pen name; pet peeve flies; time travel

  • ★ John says cucumbers are just a step on the way to a pickle, which he hates: an unruined pickle he likes better than a pickle. (playful) — 00:03:02

00:03:27 — John's return from paternity leave: secret sister Maureen next Tuesday, then July 30, a day from VidCon

  • ★★★ John says he won't be back next Tuesday, when viewers will see his secret sister Maureen, but the following Tuesday, which he thinks is July 30th. (hedged) — 00:03:30 · Maureen Johnson, secret sibling

Humor (significant)

  • John says Sarah brings 400 pounds of Hot Nuts home from Mexico; asked at customs if she has any food, she answers: — 00:00:28 > «I mean, I don't think of Hot Nuts as food exactly.»
  • John asks Hank his favorite game of all time. — 00:01:56 > «The game of thrones.»
  • Asked what surprising thing he learned today, John returns to the flies around the camera. — 00:02:35 > «I learned that hank likes to set up the camera in places that are covered in flies.»
  • Asked where they would go if time travel were possible. — 00:03:27 > «To the present because antibiotics.»

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