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HipPOTATOmus

2009-08-10 (said on 2009-08-09 — implied: date said in the video; uploaded 1 day later) · letter vlog · John · 2:21 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Personal life (also: Nerdfighteria) · mode: Personal update · tags: on location, community lore, civic or action cta, punishment or challenge

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

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

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 (8–9 August 2009) 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 · HipPOTATOmus
  • ★ 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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Mentioned

Central: Nerdfighter Fitness Challenge · Philo Apple Farm

Also: DFTBA · HipPOTATOmus (“hippotatamus”) · made of awesome · Nerdfighter Ning · Sarah Urist Green

Only in the description or credits: Punishment

Also centred on Nerdfighter Fitness Challenge: Half a Beard · This Machine Pwns n00bs!

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