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It's a Pizzamas Miracle! (Pizzamas Day 2)

2015-11-10 · list · John · 3:11 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Personal life (also: Nerdfighteria, Global development) · mode: Announcements · tags: calendar ritual, community lore, self promotion, fundraising ask, civic or action cta, self correction

On Pizzamas Day 2 John shaves his beard down to the Pizza John moustache, corrects the P4A start time to noon Eastern on December 11, plugs Pizzamas gear, tells the story of his not-Bill-Gates orchid, and calls for questions for a Question Tuesday on Thursday.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Pizza John sweatshirt over Pizza John galaxy shirt; a commenter and Hank finally like his beard, so John shaves it: the Pizza John moustache is back

  • ★★ After a Nerdfighter commenter and Hank both said they finally liked his beard, John declares it time to shave it and reveals his moustache as a Pizzamas miracle. (playful) — 00:00:13 · Pizzamas

00:00:37 — Part 1: correction - P4A begins at noon Eastern on December 11, when the livestream starts and videos should be uploaded; watch Hank's P4A video

  • ★★★ John corrects Hank: the Project for Awesome begins not at midnight but at noon Eastern on December 11, when the livestream begins. — 00:00:38 · Project for Awesome

    “That was a lie. In fact, it begins at noon eastern time on December 11th.”

  • ★★ John tells Nerdfighters to upload their P4A videos at that time, noon Eastern on December 11; their videos could raise money for their favourite charities. — 00:00:48 · Project for Awesome, Nerdfighteria

  • ★★ John describes the Project for Awesome as an annual charity event organized by Nerdfighteria. — 00:00:56 · Project for Awesome, Nerdfighteria
  • ★ John recommends Hank's last video on P4A as very funny, with dance moves equal to or slightly better than Drake's. (playful) — 00:00:59 · Project for Awesome

00:01:08 — Part 2: other Pizza John gear only during Pizzamas (shoestrings, travel mug); the leaning Pisa shirt

  • ★★ Besides the Pizza John T-shirts, other Pizza John gear such as shoestrings and a travel mug is available only during Pizzamas. — 00:01:08 · Pizza John, Pizzamas

00:01:26 — Part 3: the Bill Gates get-well orchid that died and was replaced by a Trader Joe's orchid; friends give John a plaque; the friends were in an Art Assignment dinner party

  • ★★ After John got meningitis last year (2014), Bill Gates sent him a get-well-soon orchid, a thoughtful gesture John really appreciated. — 00:01:26
  • ★★ At a recent dinner party John name-dropped the Bill Gates orchid; Sarah told him Bill Gates's orchid had died and this one came from Trader Joe's. (playful) — 00:01:35 · Sarah Urist Green
  • ★★ A couple of weeks later a friend and his wife gave John a little plaque for the orchid reminding him it is not Bill Gates's orchid; John says he has great friends. (playful) — 00:02:07
  • ★ The same friends took part in a recent Art Assignment episode that was also a dinner party, viewable on The Art Assignment. — 00:02:27 · The Art Assignment

00:02:34 — Part 4: dad jokes about the moustache; John will do a Question Tuesday on Thursday and asks for brief questions

00:02:55 — Sign-off; P.S. Alice asks what is on his face

Humor (significant)

  • Since a commenter and Hank finally like his beard, John says it can only mean one thing and shaves it off with "movie magic". — 00:00:27

    “It's a Pizzamas miracle, Hank, my moustache is back!”

  • John name-drops his get-well orchid from Bill Gates at a dinner party, until Sarah quietly corrects him. — 00:01:59

    “Bill Gates's orchid died. We got this orchid at Trader Joe's.”

  • After admitting he cannot believe he is uploading this, John reflects on the moustache. — 00:02:39

    “the moustache is kind of growing on me actually Hank, both literally and figuratively.”

  • P.S.: John's daughter Alice asks what is on his face; he says a moustache and she repeats it as "mustask". — 00:03:04

    “I actually already made that joke.”

Threads in this video

Where the stories that moved here went next

Mentioned

Central: Bill Gates · Pizzamas · Project for Awesome

Also: People: Alice Green · Drake · Sarah Urist Green

Projects: The Art Assignment

Organizations: Trader Joe's

Rituals: Question Tuesday

Terms: Pizza John

Concepts: meningitis · moustache

Places: Pisa

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