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SUIT UP! A Very Fancy Reunion Video (Pizzamas Day 8)

2015-11-18 · Q&A · John, Hank · 3:46 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria (also: Personal life, Science & nature) · mode: Q&A & conversation · tags: calendar ritual, guest or collab, on location, self promotion

Reunited in suits after the Save the Children gala in New York, John and Hank answer quick viewer questions with gags (lamps, chocolate, dinosaur sounds, thankfulness, how Hank met his wife) and briefly note how fast humans are driving species extinct.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Pizzamas greeting in suits; just back from the Save the Children gala; Jennifer Garner and Olivia Wilde

00:00:20 — Questions: lamps; best chocolate (both say dark)

  • ★ both: Asked for the best kind of chocolate, both brothers answer 'dark' at the same moment. (playful) — 00:00:35

00:00:41 — Dear Hank and John merch question turned into a Pizza John merch plug; Hank's hidden shirt

00:01:04 — Dinosaur impressions; Rosianna has John's Tumblr password

00:01:54 — Holiday tradition: their mom demands a new thing to be thankful for each year

  • ★★ Hank: Asked about their holiday traditions, Hank says it is saying what they are thankful for. — 00:01:57
  • ★★ John says their mom pressures them to name a new thing they're thankful for each year, rejecting repeats such as his kids ('you said that in 2011'). (playful) — 00:02:05 · Sydney Green

00:02:26 — Cranberries lead to species extinction figures; humans on par with an asteroid

  • ★★★ John says humans have eliminated something like 40% of species in the last 500 years. (playful, hedged) — 00:02:36 · also in: John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated
    • a number in question (doubtful): "40%" — check against the recording
  • ★★ Hank says 99.9% of species that have ever existed no longer exist, though usually they didn't vanish so rapidly. — 00:02:47
  • ★★★ John says humans have eliminated more species in the last 400 years than in the previous million. — 00:02:54
  • ★★ Hank says that as a cause of extinctions humanity is roughly on par with an asteroid. (playful, hedged) — 00:03:01

00:03:08 — Chicken impression; how Hank met his wife; room service and sign-off

  • ★★ Hank: Asked how they met their wives, Hank says his wife lived across the hallway from his dorm room. — 00:03:23 · Katherine Green

In the description and comments

  • ★★ The description reminds Chicagoans that John will be talking with Daniel Biss this weekend in Highland Park. — video description · Daniel Biss

Humor (dominant)

  • Asked his opinion on lamps, John says he is opposed to them; Hank answers with a movie catchphrase. — 00:00:23

    “I love lamp.”

  • After insisting no one knows what dinosaurs sounded like, John squawks an impression anyway and names the species. — 00:01:13

    “That was a diplodocus.”

  • After John's 'go team' over extinctions and Hank's asteroid comparison, John jokes about humanity's performance. — 00:03:04

    “We are killing it.”

  • As Hank tells how he met his wife living across a hallway, John keeps supplying ever larger distances. — 00:03:27

    “An ocean!”

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Mentioned

People: Jennifer Garner · Katherine Green · Olivia Wilde · Rosianna Halse Rojas · Sydney Green

Projects: Dear Hank and John · DFTBA Records · Pizzamas

Works: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

Organizations: Banana Republic · Save the Children · Tumblr

Terms: Pizza John

Concepts: Asteroid · dinosaur · Diplodocus · Extinction event · meaning of life

Events: Save the Children gala

Only in the description or credits: Daniel Biss · Highland Park, Illinois · Reunion video

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