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SETTING THE QUESTION TUESDAY WORLD RECORD

2008-03-05 · John · watch on YouTube · Nerdfighteria · conversation qa

John attempts his promised Question Tuesday world record, answering more than 55 viewer questions in four minutes with rapid, mostly comic answers.

What is said

00:00:00 — World-record Question Tuesday: rapid answers to viewer questions

  • ★★★ In a Question Tuesday, John answers more than 55 viewer questions in four minutes, his world-record attempt. (playful) — 00:00:00 · Question Tuesday
  • ★★ Many more questions were taped than fit; John says he may run some of them in a follow-up. (hedged) — 00:00:00 · Question Tuesday
  • ★ Asked about fishing boat proceeds, John says only the hardest-core nerdfighters will get the reference: another year with no profit from the ocean's bounty. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • ★★ John thanks everyone who made his visit to Spartanburg, South Carolina so awesome. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ John's advice to young writers: read. — 00:00:28
  • ★★ John names favourites: 'Left on the Right Side of the Road' by Songs from a Hat, Juno as last year's best movie, Rushmore as his one movie, and the Mountain Goats' 'Up the Wolves'. — 00:00:28 · The Mountain Goats
  • ★★ John's favourite quote: 'You shall love your crooked neighbor with your crooked heart.' — 00:00:28
  • ★★ Asked whether he'd rather drink his own pee or vote for a current Republican candidate, John says it depends on how much pee: a few drops, sure. (playful) — 00:00:57 · Republican Party
  • ★★ A viewer living an hour away asks to come by John's house; John says that would be totally weird. — 00:00:57
  • ★★ John says a book written by all nerdfighters should be about the Evil Baby Orphanage, which would be a dream come true for him. (playful) — 00:01:27 · Evil Baby Orphanage, Nerdfighteria
  • ★ John's favourite vlogger on YouTube is Hank. — 00:01:27 · Hank Green
  • ★ John's quick picks: Kant over Nietzsche, the Beatles over the Rolling Stones, cookie dough over cake batter, Vader over Voldemort, a blue shirt. (playful) — 00:01:56
  • ★★ Asked whether Daniel Biss can make a cameo in a video, John says absolutely. — 00:01:56 · Daniel Biss
  • ★★ John recommends Suite Scarlett by Maureen Johnson and Three Little Words by Ashley Rhodes-Courter. — 00:01:56 · Maureen Johnson
  • ★★ John says there will be no character named Hollis in Paper Towns, though it is a funny question to hardcore fans of his books. — 00:02:22 · Paper Towns
  • ★★ The Yeti isn't seen on camera because, John says, her cute would break the camera. (playful) — 00:02:22 · Sarah Urist Green
  • ★★ To a 17-year-old whom no one at school talks to, John says he wishes he had an answer, but lots of people will talk to them at the Ning. — 00:02:51 · Nerdfighter Ning
  • ★★ 'Who the F is Hank?': John answers that Hank is a sausage covered in cornbread batter and deep fried. (joke) — 00:02:51 · Hank Green, Who the Eff Is Hank
  • ★★ Nerdfighters can make their own Nerdfighter shirts; John says lots of people do. — 00:02:51 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★★ Answering several questions at once, John says yes to a trip to Nepal and to using his radio pieces as monologues, and names poverty as the world problem he would make go away. (playful) — 00:03:20 · extreme poverty

00:03:50 — Last questions: a nerdfighting convention?; sign-off

  • ★★ Asked whether the brothers will ever throw a nerdfighting convention, John says he doesn't know, maybe, and asks what viewers think. (hedged) — 00:03:50

Humor (significant)

  • A question about whether John and the Yeti plan kids soon. — 00:00:28 > «Mom, why are you leaving me questions for Question Tuesday? I'm trying to be professional here.»
  • Asked why the Yeti doesn't want to be seen. — 00:02:22 > «I worry that her cute would break the camera.»
  • 'Who the F is Hank?' — 00:02:51 > «Hank is a sausage covered in cornbread batter and deep fried.»
  • Asked how many pushups he can do at one time. — 00:03:20 > «I can only do one at a time.»
  • Four questions in a row: a trip to Nepal, a radio piece as a monologue, one world problem to end, and cheese. — 00:03:20 > «Yes, yes, poverty and yes.»

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