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Snapchat Question Time!

2016-03-25 · Q&A · Hank, John · 3:56 · watch on YouTube

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

Together in Los Angeles for the DFTBA.com annual meeting, Hank and John banter through Snapchat questions; Hank announces the Hank Green and the Perfect Strangers tour.

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; John and Hank sort out where to stand and the lighting

00:00:08 — Together in Los Angeles for the DFTBA.com annual meeting; John plugs DFTBA.com merchandise

  • ★★ John says he and Hank are together in Los Angeles for the DFTBA.com annual meeting; Hank adds they are talking to the people who help make the website work. — 00:00:08 · Los Angeles, DFTBA Records
  • ★ John tells viewers who need t-shirts, posters, mugs, plushies or keychains to check out DFTBA.com. — 00:00:16 · DFTBA Records

00:00:22 — John's graying temples and 'oldest YouTuber' banter; Hank recalls the Dear Hank and John joke about Trump's nomination

  • ★★ Hank recalls that on Dear Hank and John they joked there were only two multiverse futures in which Donald Trump became the Republican nominee, one requiring a meteor to kill all but 12 Americans. (joke) — 00:00:39 · Dear Hank and John, Donald Trump

00:01:01 — Snapchat questions: favorite potato, Snapchat filters with kids in Jordan, a cat, Jackson vs Roosevelt, shampoo or conditioner

  • ★★ John: Asked about Snapchat filters, John admits he barely knows Snapchat, but says in Jordan their interpreter used the filters with kids, who loved them, and he found them amazing. — 00:01:27
  • ★ both: Both brothers say you always shampoo, then condition; neither had heard of conditioning first. (playful) — 00:02:04

00:02:10 — Asked about a tour, Hank announces the Hank Green and the Perfect Strangers tour; John hopes the brothers tour together next year

  • ★★★ Asked whether vlogbrothers would ever tour, Hank announces the Hank Green and the Perfect Strangers tour that day; tickets are available now and inexpensive. — 00:02:13 · Vlogbrothers
  • ★★ John points viewers to the link in the description for tour tickets. — 00:02:24
  • ★★ John says he and Hank will hopefully go on tour together sometime next year (2017). (hedged) — 00:02:32 · Vlogbrothers

00:02:35 — More questions: sick food (John's strep), favorite Taylor Swift song, John's book writing, socks, kitchen appliances; sign-off

  • ★ John, who has strep throat, says his favorite food when sick is Chloraseptic Max, which numbs the back of the throat where the strep is. (playful) — 00:02:37
  • ★★ John: Asked how the book writing goes, John says he is writing; the last word he wrote is 'coffee', in a line about stirring milk into morning coffee that he gives 50-50 odds of surviving. — 00:02:58

In the description and comments

  • ★★ The description says Hank Green and the Perfect Strangers, Driftless Pony Club and Harry and the Potters, featuring Rob Scallon and Andrew Huang, tour in May, starting May 16 in Lawrence, Kansas. — video description
  • ★★ Hank lists the rest of the May tour: Austin (May 19) and El Paso (May 20), venues to be announced; the Rialto Theater in Tucson (May 21); Chain Reaction in Anaheim (May 22); two nights at Slim's in San Francisco (May 23 and 24); the Regent Theater in Los Angeles (May 25); the Irenic in San Diego (May 26); then, without Hank, Kilby Court in Salt Lake City (May 28), Denver (May 29) and Omaha (May 30), with May 27 still to be set. — video description · Los Angeles

Humor (significant)

  • John, worried about graying, declares himself the oldest and then the last living American YouTuber. — 00:00:31

    “You are the last living American.”

  • Hank recalls their podcast joke that Trump could only become the Republican nominee if a meteor killed all but 12 Americans. — 00:00:54

    “But he still wasn't elected President.”

  • Asked their favorite Taylor Swift song, the brothers answer on three, both saying "Shake it off". — 00:02:52

    “Oh my god! We should be brothers!”

  • Hank says he'd be an oven because he's reliable and hot, echoing his tour tickets being inexpensive because the band isn't popular. — 00:03:41

    “You are reliable, hot, and inexpensive.”

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Mentioned

Central: Hank Green and the Perfect Strangers

Also: People: Andrew Jackson · Donald Trump · Taylor Swift · Theodore Roosevelt

Projects: Dear Hank and John · DFTBA Records

Works: John's novel in progress (2016) · Shake It Off

Organizations: Snapchat

Places: Jordan · Los Angeles

Products: Chloraseptic

Only in the description or credits: Anaheim, California · Andrew Huang · Austin, Texas · Dallas · Denver · Driftless Pony Club · El Paso, Texas · Harry and the Potters · Houston, Texas · Lawrence, Kansas · Omaha · Rob Scallon · Salt Lake City · San Diego · San Francisco · Slim's · Tucson, Arizona

Also centred on Hank Green and the Perfect Strangers: New Album, New Channels, New Fabric, New Internet Thing! · The Time I Fell Asleep with an M&M in My Mouth (and a song)

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