Cheez Doodles Guy, Ringo Silver, and Dad Jokes (Pizzamas Day 4)

2015-11-12 · Q&A · John · 3:49 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria (also: Philosophy & meaning) · mode: Q&A & conversation · tags: calendar ritual, recurring series, self promotion, community lore

After saluting Hank's Cheez Doodles Guy and noting he is not that excited by WHO news of falling maternal deaths, John answers viewer questions in a quick Pizzamas Question Thursday, including a reflection on being truly alone.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Cheez Doodles Guy's screaming from Hank's video; John's goal to be that excited; WHO reports maternal deaths down 44% in 25 years, yet he is not that excited

★★ John thanks Hank for including the screaming man in his video; John thinks about him a lot and calls him Cheez Doodles Guy. (playful) — 00:00:10
★★ John says his current number one goal in life is to someday be as excited about something as Cheez Doodles Guy is about cheese doodles. (playful) — 00:00:15
★★ John calls it a weird facet of human brains that some things cause joyful excitement and others do not. — 00:00:21
★★★ John reports the World Health Organization announced that day that maternal death worldwide has fallen 44% over the last 25 years. — 00:00:26 · maternal death
★★ John calls this amazing news, arguably better than finding cheese doodles in Antarctica; he is encouraged but not Cheez Doodles Guy excited, which he finds weird. (hedged) — 00:00:33

00:00:44 — Question Thursday intro

This part replays Dec 18th: The Project for Awesome and Question Tuesday!!! (2007-12-18); what is said here is covered on that page: 1 statement.

00:00:50 — Quick answers: beard, Ringo Silver, Pizza John shirts, dad jokes and Tupperware, pizza, shoelace plug, licorice, becoming well-read (Midnight Robber), inkless tattoo, ducks

★ Asked by a viewer who had just started to like his beard why he shaved it, John says it was mostly for the mustache joke, and it was also kind of itchy. (playful) — 00:00:50
★★ John says dad jokes are not something you know but something you are: he always says 'Tupperware, Tupper-here' at the drawer, to Sarah's disgust. (playful, hedged) — 00:01:15 · Sarah Urist Green
★★ John recommends Pizza John shoelaces and a Pizza John travel mug as gifts, available for pre-order only during Pizzamas at DFTBA.com. (playful) — 00:01:38 · Pizza John, Pizzamas, DFTBA Records
★★ On becoming well-read, John says he doesn't know; he mostly reads books recommended by people he trusts, and recommends the amazing, weird sci-fi book Midnight Robber. (hedged) — 00:01:53
★★ John says his tattoo is not fake, just made with water instead of ink, so not visible but real; he would consider more invisible tattoos. (playful, hedged) — 00:02:04
★ Asked about ducks, John says he spends an inordinate amount of time thinking about what happens to them when the pond freezes over in winter. (playful) — 00:02:16

00:02:22 — How to be okay with being truly alone: always and never alone, the web of life

★★★ John argues you are both always and never truly alone: always, since no one can fully comprehend your experience; never, since you are part of an interconnected web of life grateful to have you. — 00:02:25
★★ John says remembering that web gives him energy to connect more meaningfully with people online or in real life, which in turn makes him feel less alone. — 00:02:45

00:02:56 — More answers: opposite of guacamole, India as superpower in 50 years, Walter White, travel mug plug, dead cactus, Halloween candy

★★ Asked which country will be the biggest superpower in 50 years, John thinks nation-states will matter slightly less, but picks India. (hedged) — 00:02:59
★ John admits he occasionally eats his two-year-old daughter's leftover Halloween candy because she won't notice. (playful) — 00:03:33 · Alice Green

00:03:42 — Happy Pizzamas scream that fizzles; not that excited; sign-off

Humor (significant)

Asked for his least favorite Beatle and least favorite color, John answers both at once. — 00:00:59

“Ringo Silver. That's a funny name.”
Asked if he knows more dad jokes, John says he is one: every time he puts away the dishes he says it. — 00:01:22

“Tupperware, tupperware, tupper-here!”
Asked how to deal with the death of a cactus, John says things will get easier with time, but for a while... — 00:03:25

“you're gonna feel a little prickly.”
Asked if he still has leftover Halloween candy, John reframes it as his two-year-old daughter's candy. — 00:03:35

“and you eat it occasionally because she's two, and won't notice,”

Threads in this video

first use · Cheez Doodles Guy, the screaming man of Pizzamas 2015 (2015) — John names the screaming Antarctic hiker from Hank's video Cheez Doodles Guy and says he thinks about him a lot. (00:00:13) → refers to Watch This If You Want To Smile (Pizzamas Day 3)
restate · Is unironic enthusiasm better than being cool? — John says his number one goal in life is to someday be as excited about something as Cheez Doodles Guy is about cheese doodles. (00:00:15)
kept · John: do a Question Tuesday on Thursday during Pizzamas (November 2015) — John does the promised Question Tuesday on Thursday: 'Question Thursday'. (00:00:47)
result reported · John asks Nerdfighters for brief questions in comments for his Question Tuesday on Thursday (November 2015) — John answers real questions from real Nerdfighters, mostly brief ones. (00:00:47)
callback · John's Pizza John mustache, worn on camera as a recurring bit (2011) — John says he shaved his beard mostly for the mustache joke. (00:00:53)
reminder · Hank and John ask viewers to buy Pizzamas 2015 shirts and products at DFTBA.com before the sale ends (2015) — John plugs Pizza John shoelaces and a Pizza John travel mug as gifts, available for pre-order only during Pizzamas at DFTBA.com. (00:01:40)
update · John's tattoo (2015) — John says his tattoo is not fake but made with water instead of ink, invisible but real, and he would consider more invisible tattoos. (00:02:07)
predicted · John: nation-states will be slightly less important in 50 years (2015) — John thinks that in 50 years nation-states will be slightly less important than they are now. (00:03:02)
predicted · John: India will be the world's biggest superpower in 50 years (2015) — John picks India as the world's biggest superpower in 50 years. (00:03:05)