ELLEN HARDCASTLE IS HERE! A Reunion Video

2011-07-13 · announcement · John, Hank, Katherine Green · 3:38 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Projects (also: Personal life) · mode: Announcements · tags: self promotion, guest or collab, on location, song or performance

From an airport and then LeakyCon 2011, John (after a colonoscopy) extends the Gatsby reading deadline and admits social-anxiety guilt, then is joined by Hank to launch Hank's album Ellen Hardcastle, with Hank promising a video of a ten-word script for every physical-copy buyer.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — John in an airport after a colonoscopy; Gatsby reading extension to Monday; cut to LeakyCon 2011 ('Hogwarts')

• ★★ John, filming in an airport, says he had a colonoscopy the day before (12 July 2011) and is still feeling (punningly) 'crappy'. (playful) — 00:00:00
• ★★ John gives people who haven't yet read the first six chapters of The Great Gatsby an extension until Monday (18 July 2011). — 00:00:00 · also in: John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated
• ★★ John reports he is at LeakyCon 2011, which he jokingly calls Hogwarts, with many nerdfighters downstairs. — 00:00:00 · Nerdfighteria

00:00:21 — John's guilt over social anxiety at LeakyCon; he raises Hank's album Ellen Hardcastle

• ★★ John says he feels guilty that his social anxiety disorder makes it impossible for him to take pictures with nerdfighters or hug strangers. — 00:00:21 · Nerdfighteria
• ★★ John says Hank has worked on his album Ellen Hardcastle for a year and a half and named it after a nerdfighter who won a Project for Awesome raffle. — 00:00:21 · Project for Awesome · also in: John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated

00:00:41 — Hank appears: Ellen Hardcastle is out; ten-word-script videos for every physical-copy buyer, rules and how to order

• ★★★ Hank confirms Ellen Hardcastle is out today and available now; he has an unopened box of copies downstairs. — 00:00:41
• ★★ Hank recalls that the day before they talked about John signing every pre-ordered copy of The Fault in Our Stars, and says that was not enough, so he offers more for Ellen Hardcastle. — 00:00:41 · The Fault in Our Stars

• ★★★ Hank, outdoing John's signing offer, says every buyer of a physical Ellen Hardcastle can send him a ten-word script that he will film and put on YouTube. — 00:01:05 · YouTube · also in: John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated

  “I'm going to film that video, and then put it onto YouTube.”

• ★★ Hank sets rules for the scripts: not profane, in English, and they must make sense. — 00:01:27

• ★★ John tells viewers who want a Vlogbrothers video of Hank saying their ten words to buy a copy of Ellen Hardcastle and await emailed instructions. — 00:01:27 · Vlogbrothers

00:01:50 — Link confusion, the album's namesake, song highlights with Katherine, the 'scientific phenomena songs' t-shirt joke

• ★★ John touts the album's songs: Phineas Gage, Strange Charm (best song ever about quarks), Shake a Booty (one of his favourites) and, from Katherine, Fermi Paradox. (playful) — 00:02:11 · Katherine Green

00:02:56 — Sign-off and an excerpt of Strange Charm, the quark song

• ★ Hank: The Strange Charm excerpt says quarks, observed in 1968, are pieces of protons and neutrons and, with leptons and bosons, make up everything we know exists. — 00:02:56

In the description and comments

• ★ John apologises to Nerdfighters for not talking about The Great Gatsby in this video, because he has been sick. — video description · Nerdfighteria

Humor (significant)

• John explains he had a colonoscopy yesterday and searches for a word for how he feels. — 00:00:00

  “I'm still feeling kinda... crappy?”

• Hank one-ups John's pre-order signing with personalised ten-word videos; John protests in mock rivalry. — 00:01:05

  “It's unfair! I mean, I was going to make thousands of ten-word videos!”

• John praises Strange Charm as the best song ever written about quarks. — 00:02:11

  “Admittedly low bar, but it exceeds it by a lot.”

• John garbles praise of Hank's dominance of little-known scientific-phenomena songs; Hank wants it on a t-shirt. — 00:02:33

  “Hank Green, dominating little-known scientific phenomena, comma, songs about.”

Threads in this video

• told · John's colonoscopy (July 2011) — John had a colonoscopy the day before and is still feeling unwell while travelling. (00:00:00)
• rule change · Blurbing Book Club 2011: group reading of The Great Gatsby — John extends the deadline for reading the first six chapters of The Great Gatsby to Monday. (00:00:00)
• told · John and Hank at LeakyCon 2011 — John is at LeakyCon 2011 with many nerdfighters, but his social anxiety keeps him from taking pictures and hugging. (00:00:00)
• outcome · Hank's album Ellen Hardcastle: release (2011) — Hank's album Ellen Hardcastle, a year and a half in the making and named after a P4A raffle winner, is released and available now. (00:00:41)
• promised · Hank: film a video of each physical Ellen Hardcastle buyer's ten-word script (2011) — Hank commits to film and post on YouTube a video of the ten-word script sent by each buyer of a physical Ellen Hardcastle (no profanity, English, must make sense). (00:01:05)
• asked · John asks viewers to buy a physical copy of Ellen Hardcastle to get a ten-word Hank video (2011) — John tells viewers to buy a copy of Ellen Hardcastle to get their own ten-word Hank video, with emailed instructions. (00:01:27)
• reminder · John asks Nerdfighters to read The Great Gatsby with him for the Blurbing Book Club (summer 2011) — John gives people who haven't yet read the first six chapters of The Great Gatsby an extension until Monday (18 July 2011). (00:00:00)
• progress update · John: sign every copy of The Fault in Our Stars (2011) — Hank recalls that the day before they talked about John signing every pre-ordered copy of The Fault in Our Stars, and says that was not enough, so he offers more for Ellen Hardcastle. (00:00:41)

Where the stories that moved here went next

• John asks viewers to buy a physical copy of Ellen Hardcastle to get a ten-word Hank video (2011) — promotion (not a request); last: result reported, 2011-07-27
• Hank: film a video of each physical Ellen Hardcastle buyer's ten-word script (2011) — changed; last: progress update, 2011-09-02
• John: sign every copy of The Fault in Our Stars (2011) — kept; last: recalled, 2024-12-31
• Blurbing Book Club 2011: group reading of The Great Gatsby — past edition (2011); last: milestone, 2011-09-07
• Hank's album Ellen Hardcastle: release (2011) — completed; last: looked back, 2011-11-14
• John and Hank at LeakyCon 2011 — followed over 4 videos (2011); last: update, 2011-07-25

Mentioned

Central: Ellen Hardcastle · LeakyCon

Also: People: Katherine Green

Projects: Project for Awesome

Works: Fermi Paradox (song by Hank Green) · Phineas Gage (song) · Shake a Booty · Strange Charm · The Fault in Our Stars · The Great Gatsby

Organizations: YouTube

Concepts: anxiety disorder

Characters: Hogwarts

Only in the description or credits: DFTBA Records · iTunes · Reunion video

Also centred on Ellen Hardcastle: Punishments, Floods, and Pink Hitler Babies · HARDCASTLED! · John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated

Also centred on LeakyCon: WROCK! · To Be Anything At All: Thoughts from Places, Chicago and LeakyCon 2012 · Plane Butts, Fish Farts, LeakyCon, and Marriage Equality

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