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Laurel or Yanny and Baby Dance Moves - It's Question Friday

2018-05-18 · Q&A · Hank · 3:57 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria (also: Personal life) · mode: Q&A & conversation · tags: recurring series, on location

On vacation in Florida for his in-laws' 50th wedding anniversary, Hank answers quick, low-stress viewer questions (Orin's butt wiggle video, the unladen swallow, who wrote 'Rama Lama Ding Dong', Yanny or Laurel, the word 'moist', whether eating a carnivorous plant is vegan) and performs Orin's 'finger guns' dance move.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Rain and a thunderstorm in Florida; back the next day; in Florida for his in-laws' 50th anniversary, he asked for questions on Twitter

  • ★★ Hank says he is in Florida, where it is raining, and loves the wetness because Montana is so dry his skin breaks out and his nose gets crackly. (playful) — 00:00:00 · Florida, Montana
  • ★ A storm interrupts the filming; Hank comes back the next day to the same spot because he felt committed to it. — 00:00:32
  • ★★ Hank is in Florida for his in-laws' 50th wedding anniversary and tweeted that he needed to make a fun, quick, not stressful video so he could get back to celebrating. — 00:00:40 · Florida, Twitter

00:00:53 — Questions: Orin's butt wiggle video, the unladen swallow, Grace Helbig's 'dance', what's under his feet, jacket embroidery, gasoline, who wrote 'Rama Lama Ding Dong'

  • ★★ Asked by Amanda whether he has watched the Orin butt wiggle video today, Hank says he watched it yesterday, but he also has the real thing. (playful) — 00:00:57 · Orin Green
  • ★★ Asked by Scott Manley for the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow, Hank answers with the Monty Python counter-question: African or European? (joke) — 00:01:02
  • ★★ To Grace Helbig's 'Dance', Hank objects that it is not a question and that it is stressful because so many people are watching. (playful) — 00:01:09 · Grace Helbig
  • ★★ Asked what is under his feet, Hank shows that there is nothing but air: this is how he sits, being very flexible in one way. (playful) — 00:01:22
  • ★ Asked what he should embroider on his jacket, Hank picks the suggestion 'fancy dingo'. (playful) — 00:01:43
  • ★ Asked whether he likes the smell of gasoline, Hank says yes. (playful) — 00:01:48
  • ★★ Googling who put the ram in 'Rama Lama Ding Dong', Hank finds songwriter George Jones Jr., who died in 2008; the album cover originally called the song 'Lama Rama Ding Dong'. — 00:01:54 · Google

00:02:29 — Yanny or Laurel, the word 'moist', whether eating a carnivorous plant is vegan

  • ★★ Hank hears 'Yanny'; Katherine hears 'Laurel' and thought he was lying to her about Yanny, but Yannies are real. — 00:02:29 · Katherine Green
  • ★★ Asked about the word 'moist', which he used earlier, Hank says it is a useful word that should be thought of in its usefulness, and he really likes it. (hedged) — 00:02:48
  • ★★ Asked whether eating a carnivorous plant would be vegan, Hank first says of course, then concedes the questioner is right, and asks whether we need rules for everything. (playful) — 00:03:06

00:03:19 — Dance requests answered with Orin's 'finger guns' move; sign-off

  • ★★ After many requests to dance, Hank says his baby has a bunch of dance moves and performs his current favorite, which he calls finger guns. (playful) — 00:03:19 · Orin Green

In the description and comments

  • ★ The description's pro tip: rain in Florida is fun until bolts of electricity start flying, so don't vlog in a thunderstorm. (playful) — video description · Florida

Humor (significant)

  • Asked what is under his feet, Hank turns the camera to show his legs folded up — 00:01:27

    “Nothing. Air. Air on both sides.”

  • Hank says somebody should shake the hand of the man who put the ram in 'Rama Lama Ding Dong' — 00:02:08

    “He's dead.”

  • Hank explains why his baby screamed off camera while he praised the word 'moist' — 00:03:01

    “Because he was like, no dad, don't talk about the word moist.”

  • Hank steps back from the camera and does Orin's finger guns move — 00:03:44

    “That's Hank Green doing finger guns. Now you've all seen it.”

Mentioned

People: George Jones Jr. · Grace Helbig · Katherine Green · Orin Green · Scott Manley

Works: Monty Python and the Holy Grail · Rama Lama Ding Dong

Organizations: Google · Twitter

Concepts: Carnivorous plant · Veganism

Places: Florida · Montana

Events: Yanny or Laurel

Only in the description or credits: Question Tuesday

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