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I Was on Jeopardy!!!!

2010-12-22 · letter vlog · John, Daniel Biss, Craig Benzine · 2:52 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria (also: Global development, Personal life) · mode: Personal update · tags: calendar ritual, community lore, guest or collab, on location

John says a miserable week (Henry very sick, fear that P4A would fail) turned around: Henry recovered, P4A 2010 made over 3,000 videos and raised over $135,000, and a Nerdfighter on Jeopardy! got Alex Trebek to say his name, so he does a happy dance.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — A miserable week: Henry very sick; worry that P4A would fail; the 'world's largest ball of suck'

  • ★★ John says last week (the week of 13 December 2010) was one of the worst of his life: Henry was very sick and crying all night, so they were scared and up every night. — 00:00:01 · Henry Green
  • ★ John says he also worried that P4A would raise no money, the website would break, and Nerdfighteria would hate the brothers and exile them to Elba. (playful) — 00:00:11 · Project for Awesome, Nerdfighteria

00:00:26 — Henry recovers; P4A 2010 results (3,000+ videos, $135,000+); phone call to mathematician Daniel Biss

  • ★★ John says things then changed, first and most importantly because Henry got better. — 00:00:26 · Henry Green
  • ★★★ John reports that P4A 2010 generated more than 3,000 P4A videos and raised more than $135,000 that can be confirmed, probably much more. (hedged) — 00:00:31 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Not being a mathematician, John phones 'Brotherhood 2.0 resident mathematician' and state representative-elect Daniel Biss to ask whether $135,000 is a lot; on hearing yes, John cheers. (playful) — 00:00:47 · Daniel Biss, Brotherhood 2.0

00:01:04 — A Nerdfighter librarian answers Final Jeopardy! with 'Who is John Green?' and Alex Trebek says his name

  • ★★★ John says a Nerdfighter librarian, Julia, on Jeopardy! yesterday, didn't know the Final Jeopardy answer and wrote 'Who is John Green?' as a shout-out, so Alex Trebek said his name. — 00:01:04 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★ John tells the contestant he is sorry she lost on Jeopardy!, thanks her, and awards her the non-existent Nerdfighter prize of the day. (playful) — 00:01:28 · non-existent Nerdfighting Prize of the Day

00:01:38 — Thanks to Nerdfighters; John's happy dance around his hotel, coached by Wheezy Waiter

00:02:36 — Raffle drawing on December 26, the zombie novella, holiday schedule and sign-off

  • ★★ John tells Hank the brothers will draw the P4A raffles on December 26. — 00:02:36 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ John says he still has to finish his zombie apocalypse novella, but he is on it. — 00:02:36
  • ★ John says there will be no video from him on Friday because it is Christmas Eve; he will see Hank on Monday. — 00:02:44 · Christmas

Humor (significant)

  • John phones a published mathematician and state representative-elect to ask whether $135,000 is a lot of money. — 00:00:52

    “Yes! We did it!”

  • A Nerdfighter's Final Jeopardy! answer 'Who is John Green?' leads Alex Trebek to utter what John calls immortal words. — 00:01:21

    “John Green? That's gonna cost ya.”

  • John awards the Jeopardy! contestant the non-existent Nerdfighter prize of the day, a running bit. — 00:01:32

    “which isn't nothing. Actually, it is nothing.”

Threads in this video

Where the stories that moved here went next

Mentioned

Central: Henry Green · Jeopardy! · Julia (nerdfighter, mentioned from 2010) · Project for Awesome

Also: People: Alex Trebek · Craig Benzine · Daniel Biss

Projects: Brotherhood 2.0

Works: Annals of Mathematics · Zombicorns

Rituals: Happy dance (practice)

Places: Elba · Omaha

Events: Christmas

Only in the description or credits: Brent Kore · Karen Kavett · Los Angeles

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