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Question Tuesday: Secrets & Primes

2018-08-14 · Q&A · John · 3:35 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria (also: Books & writing, Pop culture) · mode: Q&A & conversation · tags: recurring series, self promotion, community lore

In a Question Tuesday of a prime number of questions, John reveals his inside joke that each of his novels has a prime-minus-one number of chapters, updates the Hulu Looking for Alaska series, gives the P4A 2018 start date, calls pineapple pizza peak Anthropocene, and plugs Hank's tour, which he joins.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Question Tuesday of a prime number of questions; the painting that mattered; third favorite rock

  • ★★ John introduces Question Tuesday as the day he answers a prime number of real questions from real Nerdfighters. (playful) — 00:00:02 · Question Tuesday, Nerdfighteria
  • ★★ A painting (shown on screen) had a big impact on John, opening him to the idea of a direct form of expression for the abstract, hard-to-describe problem inside his brain. (hedged) — 00:00:10
  • ★ Asked his third favorite type of rock, John punningly starts with Dwayne Johnson and settles on the Rock of Gibraltar. (joke) — 00:00:22

00:00:28 — Looking for Alaska Hulu limited series update

  • ★★★ John says Looking for Alaska is to be adapted into a Hulu limited series; it's still happening, he has read the great first-episode script, and that's all he knows. — 00:00:29 · Looking for Alaska (novel)
  • ★★ John adds that, just as he doesn't cast movies, he does not cast Hulu shows. (playful) — 00:00:38

00:00:43 — Mountain Goats song, measuring success, what John is geeking out about

  • ★★ John's favorite Mountain Goats song keeps changing; at the moment it is 'Weekend in Western Illinois'. — 00:00:45

  • ★★★ John measures success by asking what he learned and whom it helped. — 00:00:51

    “What did I learn and who did it help?”

  • ★★ John is geeking out about a novel by Tommy Orange, DoctorBenjyFM's YouTube series managing a fictional football team (never so invested in pixels), and the new season of the podcast In the Dark. — 00:00:55

00:01:06 — Prime numbers: chapter counts of his novels, other inside jokes, a new book, emojis

00:01:56 — P4A 2018 date, eating light, the origin of pineapple pizza

  • ★★★ John says the Project for Awesome starts on December 7th this year (2018). — 00:01:56 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ John asks viewers to mark their calendars and block out the P4A weekend if they can. (hedged) — 00:01:59 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Asked by his four-year-old kid whether you can eat light, John says in a roundabout way you literally can't eat anything else. (playful) — 00:02:02
  • ★★ John says pineapple on pizza was invented in 1962 by a Greek immigrant in Canada, inspired by Chinese cuisine to put a South American food on an Italian dish. — 00:02:15 · Canada
  • ★★ John, who wrote half an episode of The Anthropocene Reviewed about it, calls pineapple pizza peak Anthropocene, for better and for worse. — 00:02:27 · The Anthropocene Reviewed (podcast)

00:02:31 — Excitement about The Anthropocene Reviewed and the tour, AFC Wimbledon ads, pacifist Fortnite, sign-off and P.S.

  • ★★ John says he really loves making The Anthropocene Reviewed. — 00:02:33 · The Anthropocene Reviewed (podcast)
  • ★★★ John is very excited to tour with Hank in September; not knowing when they will tour together again, he will try to relish it. — 00:02:36 · Hank Green
  • ★★ John says tour tickets are selling out in many places, so now is the time to get them at hankgreen.com. — 00:02:45 · Hank Green
  • ★★ John is very excited for AFC Wimbledon's new season; all 'our' stadium advertisements now advertise An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, reaching third-tier English football supporters. (playful) — 00:02:52 · AFC Wimbledon, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
  • ★★ John plays Fortnite as a pacifist on HankGames, refusing to let Epic make him violent, and will continue until he wins or people get bored of Fortnite, probably the latter. (playful, hedged) — 00:03:05 · HankGames
  • ★ John thanks Tuataria for making a glorious Pizza John in Fortnite playground mode. — 00:03:20 · Pizza John

In the description and comments

  • ★★ The description says Hank is going on tour and John is joining him for the East Coast leg. — video description · Hank Green

Humor (significant)

  • Asked his third favorite type of rock, John first offers Dwayne Johnson 'in role of Gibraltar' — 00:00:22

    “The Rock of Gibraltar is my third favorite type of rock.”

  • Asked whether he is writing a new book — 00:01:51

    “Sometimes, but not usually.”

  • AFC Wimbledon stadium ads that John calls 'our' advertisements now advertise Hank's novel — 00:02:53

    “so Hank, you'll definitely be reaching that coveted demographic of third-tier English football supporters.”

  • In a P.S. John recounts the video's prime number of questions — 00:03:30

    “If you count the intro and the outro and this, it's a prime plus one.”

Threads in this video

Where the stories that moved here went next

Mentioned

Central: prime number

Also: People: DoctorBenjyFM · Dwayne Johnson · Tommy Orange

Projects: HankGames · Project for Awesome · The Anthropocene Reviewed (podcast)

Works: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing · An Abundance of Katherines · Fortnite · In the Dark · Looking for Alaska (miniseries) · Looking for Alaska (novel) · Paper Towns · The Fault in Our Stars · Turtles All the Way Down · Weekend in Western Illinois · Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Organizations: AFC Wimbledon · Epic Games · Hulu

Groups: The Mountain Goats

Rituals: Question Tuesday

Terms: Pizza John

Concepts: Anthropocene · Hawaiian pizza

Places: Canada · Rock of Gibraltar

Only in the description or credits: East Coast of the United States

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