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SETTING THE QUESTION TUESDAY WORLD RECORD

2008-03-04 · Q&A · John · 4:01 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria · mode: Q&A & conversation · tags: community lore, recurring series

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

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

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

  • ★ 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 · fishing boat proceeds
  • ★★ 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 (2007) best movie, Rushmore as his one movie, and the Mountain Goats' 'Up the Wolves'. — 00:00:28
  • ★★ 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, YouTube
  • ★ 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

In the description and comments

  • ★★★ In a Question Tuesday, John answers more than 55 viewer questions in four minutes, his world-record attempt. (playful) — video description · Question Tuesday
  • ★★ Many more questions were taped than fit; John says he may run some of them in a follow-up. (hedged) — video description · Question Tuesday
  • ★★ John thanks everyone who made his visit to Spartanburg, South Carolina so awesome. — video description

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.”

Threads in this video

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Mentioned

People: Daniel Biss · Friedrich Nietzsche · Immanuel Kant · Sarah Urist Green · Sydney Green · William Shakespeare

Projects: Nerdfighter Ning

Works: As I Walked Out One Evening · Juno · Left on the Right Side of the Road · Paper Towns · Rushmore (film) · Suite Scarlett · Three Little Words · Up the Wolves

Organizations: Republican Party · YouTube

Groups: The Beatles · The Rolling Stones

Rituals: Question Tuesday

Terms: best wishes · Decepticon (“Decepticonia”) · Evil Baby Orphanage · Who the Eff Is Hank

Concepts: extreme poverty

Places: Nepal

Characters: Alaska Young · Darth Vader · Lindsey Lee Wells · Margo Roth Spiegelman · Voldemort

Products: My Little Pony

Only in the description or credits: Ashley Rhodes-Courter · Maureen Johnson · Spartanburg, South Carolina · The Mountain Goats

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