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Where are Whale Balls? Question Tuesday: Pizza Edition

2017-10-31 · Q&A · Hank, John · 4:00 · watch on YouTube

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

On a theatre set they wandered onto backstage, Hank and John answer a pizza-themed Question Tuesday: pineapple or no, John's rolled-up pizza, cold next-day pizza, being inside a blue whale, where whale testes are and overrated Italian pizza; John has shaved his mustache.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Sneaking onto a theatre set to film; John mocks 'behind the sides'

  • ★ John tells Hank to stop trying to make 'behind the sides' happen. (playful) — 00:00:03
  • ★★ John notes that they have found themselves on the set of a play in a small theatre, where they film the video. (playful) — 00:00:07

00:00:35 — Greeting; John acknowledges shaving his mustache

  • ★★ John acknowledges 'the elephant in the room': he has shaved his mustache. (playful) — 00:00:39

00:00:48 — Pizza questions: pineapple or no, eating method, next-day pizza, gas-station corn dogs

  • ★ John: Asked 'pineapple or no', John says he'd take a pineapple, or might take 'no', which he finds a very useful word. (playful, hedged) — 00:01:06
  • ★★ John's pizza-eating method: he takes it off, rolls it up and slices it so it is like a cinnamon roll. (playful) — 00:01:10
  • ★★ Hank is strongly in favour of next-day pizza, eaten cold straight out of the fridge. — 00:01:30
  • ★★ John says Hank will eat anything, such as a gas-station corn dog that has been rotating for hours on tour. (playful) — 00:01:37 · Hank Green
  • ★★ Hank corrects John: gas stations don't rotate corn dogs but keep them under the heat tray; only hot dogs get rolled. — 00:01:44

00:01:58 — Inside a whale: the blue whale aorta and whale testes

  • ★★ Hank says a blue whale's heart is big enough that a person could probably be inside its aorta. (hedged) — 00:02:11
  • ★★★ Hank says whales do have testes, and they are on the inside of the body. — 00:02:25

00:02:33 — Pizza-sized John, pizza in Italy, 'we make stuff better'

  • ★★ John: On a pizza-sized John or a John-sized pizza, John says that if a miniature version of yourself showed up you would have to let it decide for itself. (playful) — 00:02:38
  • ★★ John has eaten pizza in Italy; it had too many olives, and he finds Italian pizza a little overrated. (hedged) — 00:02:53
  • ★★ Of the line 'America: we don't make stuff, we make stuff better', Hank says it is not always true, but in 2017 what matters is whether it sounds good. (satire) — 00:03:03 · United States

00:03:13 — How Hank knows whale testes are on the inside

  • ★★ Asked how he knows, Hank admits he simply looked up one day where whale testes are. — 00:03:17

00:03:25 — Guessing the play, the formal living room, sign-off

In the description and comments

  • ★★ The description says Hank and John sneaked around backstage in Bellingham, Washington, and found a theatre set for a Question Tuesday meant to be mostly pizza questions. — video description · Question Tuesday

Humor (dominant)

  • Asked 'pineapple or no', John treats 'no' as the alternative food. — 00:01:06

    “I find "no" to be a very useful word”

  • John imagines being swept down a whale's blood vessel into a junction; Hank asks if whales have nuts. — 00:02:19

    “No, in my nuts.”

  • After Hank confirms whale testes are on the inside. — 00:02:29

    “And people say you don't learn anything from Vlogbrothers videos.”

  • On what to do with a miniature version of yourself. — 00:02:46

    “Right, you'd have to be like, go free little me. And if you love me, you'll come back.”

Threads in this video

Mentioned

Central: pizza

Also: Arsenic and Old Lace · Blue whale · Death of a Salesman · Italy · moustache · Testicle · United States

Only in the description or credits: Bellingham, Washington · Question Tuesday

Also centred on pizza: The History of Pizza and the History of John: Pizzamas Day 4

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