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Let's Go Outside

2015-06-02 · list · John · 2:36 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Science & nature · mode: Curiosity & trivia · tags: on location, community lore

Continuing the brothers' 15/16-part exchange, John, a self-described opponent of outside, walks through the woods listing 16 things he loves about being outside and concludes that what he likes most about nature is its ability to go on no matter what.

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; Hank's second 15-part video answered with 16 things John loves about outside; John as a longtime opponent of outside; sky polygons through trees

  • ★★ John answers Hank's second 15-part video with 16 things he loves about being outside, after his earlier 16-part reply made because he thought Hank's first video had 16 parts. — 00:00:01
  • ★★ John, calling himself a longtime opponent of outside, says that noted, there is a lot he likes about being outside. (playful) — 00:00:10
  • ★ John's loves on the walk include sky polygons through the trees, daddy longlegs, an invasive honeysuckle bending toward light, geese and goslings, a downy woodpecker, turtles, swamps that feel undiscovered, and snails. (playful) — 00:00:24

00:00:29 — Daddy longlegs, invasive honeysuckle bending toward light; the White River and why Indianapolis is the largest US city not on a navigable waterway

  • ★★ John says politicians sited Indianapolis in the geographic middle of Indiana on the White River, but the river is in many places about six inches deep, making it the largest American city not on a navigable waterway. — 00:00:39 · Indianapolis, Indiana

00:01:02 — Geese and goslings (Ryan Gosling), woodpecker, turtles, flowers as a human-plant-bee collaboration, bubbles, peeing outside, swamps, snails, the smell of outside, a mosquito bite; Henry and Alice and attentiveness

  • ★★ John says contemporary flowers are like a collaboration among humans, plants and bees, and that humans need to collaborate better with plants and bees. — 00:01:13
  • ★ Admiring the chemists of the artificial smell business, John says nothing matches the actual smell of outside, though he knows he sounds like the nature enthusiasts he has reviled. (playful) — 00:01:34
  • ★★★ John says while he looks for coyotes and herons, his son points out moss; his son and daughter remind him that with the right level of attentiveness, everything is amazing. — 00:01:55 · Henry Green, Alice Green

00:02:09 — Tiny trees and leaning trees: what John likes most about nature is its ability to go on; sign-off ruined by tripping

  • ★★★ Loving tiny trees and trees leaning over water that are doomed but keep going, John says most of what he likes about nature is its ability to go on no matter what, which he finds inspirational. (hedged) — 00:02:19

Humor (significant)

  • John, a longtime opponent of outside, says ancestors sacrificed for millennia to create inside. — 00:00:13

    “And then we just dishonor all of that work by willfully going outside.”

  • Listing geese and their little goslings among things he loves outside. — 00:01:02

    “I also love Ryan Gosling but that's a different video.”

  • Mid-walk, John gets a mosquito bite on his cheek. — 00:01:48

    “now I probably have West Nile virus so thanks mosquitoes, for reminding me what I don't love about outside.”

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Alice Green · Henry Green · Indiana · Indianapolis · Ryan Gosling · White River (Indiana)

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