TFiOS Movie, Bees, Babies, and More!

2013-07-19 · Q&A · John, Hank · 3:58 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Personal life (also: Books & writing, Pop culture, Everyday life, History & curiosities, Nerdfighteria) · mode: Q&A & conversation · tags: recurring series, guest or collab, on location, community lore

John and Hank do a Question Tuesday on a Friday while Hank visits John's family: foods, flies and bees, the TFIOS film, John's tooth, baby Alice, life advice, silk history, and John's return from paternity leave on July 30.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Greeting; Question Tuesday on a Friday, real questions from real nerdfighters

00:00:08 — Foods wished for in the US: paprika Pringles; Sarah's hot nuts from Mexico

★ Hank: Asked which foods they wish were more readily available in the US, Hank names paprika Pringles. — 00:00:08
★★ John says Sarah is a huge fan of Hot Nuts and comes home from Mexico trips with huge amounts, telling customs she doesn't think of them as food. (playful) — 00:00:15 · Sarah Urist Green

00:00:31 — Hank's camera corner covered in flies; a neighbor fan; a bee; Henry's bee nightmares

★ John says Hank set up the camera in the single corner of their beautiful house that is covered in flies. (playful) — 00:00:31 · Hank Green
★★ John, startled by a bee, says he doesn't like bees and that bees are all Henry has nightmares about, which he calls a healthy fear. (playful) — 00:00:51 · Henry Green

00:01:00 — TFIOS film: filming in Pittsburgh from August 26; John is just the book's author; predicts a very good movie

★★ John reads a viewer question that assumes TFIOS filming in Pittsburgh has started, corrects it (filming does not start until August 26th), and the question asks whether he will be coming to Amsterdam. — 00:01:00 · The Fault in Our Stars (film), Amsterdam
★★ John says people seem to think the movie is being made by him, but he is just the author of a book. — 00:01:07 · The Fault in Our Stars (film), The Fault in Our Stars · also in: John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated

“I am just the author of a book.”
★★ John thinks the TFIOS film is going to be a very good movie. (hedged) — 00:01:13 · The Fault in Our Stars (film)

00:01:16 — John's removed tooth; one-month-old Alice and Henry's nose-bop wait

★★ Asked if he's missing a tooth, John says yes: it caused terrible chronic pain since before Brotherhood 2.0, was removed in complicated, painful surgery, and no longer hurts. — 00:01:16 · Brotherhood 2.0 · also in: John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated
★★ Asked whether Alice has done a Nerdfighter salute, John says she is one month old and has made no intentional gestures yet. — 00:01:24 · Alice Green
★★ John says Henry read in a Berenstain Bears book that baby sisters bop you on the nose, so he waits by Alice's arm and cheers when she moves involuntarily. — 00:01:36 · Henry Green, Alice Green

00:01:54 — Hank's favorite game: The Game of Thrones

00:01:58 — How to stop feeling you're doing nothing: Larry Langford's 'let's do something' versus doing good things

★★ John says Larry Langford, now in prison, was mayor of his quasi-hometown Birmingham, Alabama, and ran for mayor with the motto 'Let's do something'. — 00:02:01
★★★ John says it turns out that just doing something is a terrible, terrible idea. — 00:02:14
★★★ John advises focusing not on doing something but on doing good things, even very little ones like nice favors for people you like. — 00:02:19 · also in: John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated

00:02:31 — Something learned today: flies; monks smuggling silkworms to the Byzantine Empire

★★ John says he learned that China's monopoly on the world silk trade ended when two monks smuggled about seven silkworms out of China to the Byzantine Empire, rewriting history. (hedged) — 00:02:40 · China · also in: John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated
- check: seven — doubtful

00:02:59 — Cucumbers and pickles; a pen name; pet peeve flies; time travel

★ John says cucumbers are just a step on the way to a pickle, which he hates: an unruined pickle he likes better than a pickle. (playful) — 00:03:02

00:03:27 — John's return from paternity leave: secret sister Maureen next Tuesday, then July 30, a day from VidCon

★★★ John says he won't be back next Tuesday (23 July 2013), when viewers will see his secret sister Maureen, but the following Tuesday, which he thinks is July 30th. (hedged) — 00:03:30 · Maureen Johnson, secret sibling

Humor (significant)

John says Sarah brings 400 pounds of Hot Nuts home from Mexico; asked at customs if she has any food, she answers: — 00:00:28

“I mean, I don't think of Hot Nuts as food exactly.”
John asks Hank his favorite game of all time. — 00:01:56

“The game of thrones.”
Asked what surprising thing he learned today, John returns to the flies around the camera. — 00:02:35

“I learned that hank likes to set up the camera in places that are covered in flies.”
Asked where they would go if time travel were possible. — 00:03:27

“To the present because antibiotics.”

Threads in this video

update · John has a tooth surgically removed (2013) — John confirms he is missing a tooth: after chronic pain since before Brotherhood 2.0 it was removed in complicated, painful surgery, and it no longer hurts. (00:01:16)
predicted · John predicts The Fault in Our Stars movie will be a good movie (2013) — John thinks the TFIOS film is going to be a very good movie. (00:01:13)
update · Birth of John and Sarah's second child, Alice (2013) — John says Alice is one month old with no intentional gestures yet, and Henry waits for her to bop him on the nose as in a Berenstain Bears book. (00:01:28)
update · John's paternity leave from vlogbrothers, with guest hosts filling in (2013) — In a Question Tuesday filmed while Hank visits the family in Michigan, John says next Tuesday's (23 July 2013) video will be by his secret sister Maureen and he returns the following Tuesday, he thinks July 30th. (00:03:30)
callback · The brothers' 'secret siblings' (2007) — John calls Maureen Johnson his secret sister, adding that she might be him. (00:03:32)
promised · John: return to vlogbrothers from paternity leave on July 30 (2013) — John says he will see viewers on July 30th, his return from paternity leave. (00:03:48)

Where the stories that moved here went next

John predicts The Fault in Our Stars movie will be a good movie (2013) — came true
John: return to vlogbrothers from paternity leave on July 30 (2013) — open (no report in 2013–2026); last: promised, 2013-07-19
John's face is hit by a bike messenger in Chicago, starting years of chronic mouth pain (about 2003) — followed over 3 videos (2013–2016); last: told, 2016-05-10
John's paternity leave from vlogbrothers, with guest hosts filling in (2013) — told 2×, last update 2016; last: retold, 2016-11-14
Birth of John and Sarah's second child, Alice (2013) — told 4×, last update 2019; last: retold, 2019-12-17

Mentioned

Central: The Fault in Our Stars (film)

Also: People: Alice Green · Henry Green · Larry Langford · Maureen Johnson · Sarah Urist Green

Projects: Brotherhood 2.0 · VidCon

Works: A Song of Ice and Fire (“The game of thrones”) · The Berenstain Bears · The Fault in Our Stars

Rituals: Nerdfighter gang sign · Question Tuesday

Terms: secret sibling

Concepts: time travel

Places: Amsterdam · Birmingham, Alabama · Byzantine Empire · China · Mexico · Pittsburgh

Events: Smuggling of silkworm eggs into the Byzantine Empire

Products: Hot Nuts · Pringles

Only in the description or credits: Michigan

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