How Much Do You Love Each Other? It's Question Tuesday

2018-10-02 · Q&A · John, Hank · 3:13 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Books & writing (also: Nerdfighteria, US politics & society) · mode: Q&A & conversation · tags: recurring series, guest or collab, self promotion, civic or action cta

Together on tour, John and Hank answer viewer questions about An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (endpapers, favorite quotes, characters, merch) and point voters to How to Vote in Every State; in a coda John says his part of the tour is over, urges viewers to still see Hank, and announces his 60 Minutes profile.

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, 'How much do you love each other?', a secret code in the book's endpapers

★★ Hank: Asked whether the building drawings in the book's endpapers hide a secret code, the answer is that the viewer is overthinking it: there are no Easter eggs in the endpapers. (playful) — 00:00:00 · An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

00:00:34 — How to vote in every state: Hank's How to Vote in Every State project

★★★ Asked how to vote in every state, John says to look at Hank's 'amazing project' How to Vote in Every State. (hedged) — 00:00:34 · How to Vote in Every State, Hank Green
★★ John admires that Hank was working on How to Vote in Every State in the two weeks before his book came out (September 2018). — 00:00:34 · Hank Green, How to Vote in Every State
★★ Hank says he had a lot of help with the project. — 00:00:34 · How to Vote in Every State
★★★ John tells viewers who need to learn to register, know their state's voting laws or understand how to vote to check out the series: ballots, polling places, everything. — 00:00:34 · How to Vote in Every State

00:01:00 — What's next, favorite quotes from each other's books, most similar characters, glitter, tortoises, the science one and the old one, jelly

★★ John's favorite quote from Hank's book is 'I had a very happy childhood, but I was not a very happy child'. — 00:01:00 · An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
★★ Hank says that line is one he stole from John, and that he asked first. — 00:01:00 · John Green
★ John confirms he gave Hank permission to use the line. — 00:01:00 · Hank Green
★★ Hank's favorite quote from a John Green book is 'imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia', which he calls really good. — 00:01:00 · John Green
★ John says he stole that line from his wife. — 00:01:00 · Sarah Urist Green
★★ both: Asked which characters in An Absolutely Remarkable Thing they are most like, the brothers name April and Andy. (playful) — 00:01:00 · An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
★★ John has glitter on his face from the poster and from snuggling Alice, who is always covered in glitter: it is part of being Alice's dad. (playful) — 00:01:29 · Alice Green
★★ Hank: Now that both are authors, Hank says he is the science one and John is the old one. (playful) — 00:01:58 · John Green

00:02:26 — Book merch at DFTBA.com, sign-off, then John's end of tour, his 60 Minutes profile and 'Quadragacon 2018'

★★★ Hank: Asked why there is no merch for An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, Hank says there is, at DFTBA.com. — 00:02:26 · An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, DFTBA Records
★★★ In a later coda, John says his part of the An Absolutely Remarkable Thing tour has ended. — 00:02:26 · An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
★★★ John urges viewers to still go see Hank on tour: he's great. — 00:02:26 · Hank Green
★★★ John says that this Sunday (7 October 2018) he will be profiled on the American TV show 60 Minutes, and interested viewers should check it out. — 00:02:26
★★ The video ends on 'Quadragocon 2018', which is just about core strength. (playful) — 00:02:26

Humor (significant)

Asked how much they love each other, the brothers hesitate and hem. — 00:00:00

“That's a lot of questions.”
Monica asks what's next for the two of them. — 00:01:00

“Bed.”
Imagining a hyper-fast tortoise whom the other tortoises tell to slow down. — 00:01:29

“And they're like, dude, Larry, chill.”
Asked for their one-word difference now that both are authors. — 00:01:58

“I'm the science one and he's the old one.”

Threads in this video

reminder · Hank asks viewers to use their state's How to Vote in Every State video to register, get a sample ballot and vote (2016) — John tells viewers who need to learn to register, know their state's voting laws or understand how to vote to check out the series: ballots, polling places, everything. (00:00:34)
kept · John: join Hank on the An Absolutely Remarkable Thing tour in six cities (2018) — In a later coda, John says his part of the An Absolutely Remarkable Thing tour has ended. (00:02:26)
reminder · John asks viewers to get tickets for Hank's An Absolutely Remarkable Thing tour at hankgreen.com (2018) — John urges viewers to still go see Hank on tour: he's great. (00:02:26)
launched · Quadragocon 2018 edition: a core-strength contest shown at the end of a Question Tuesday — The video ends on 'Quadragocon 2018', which is just about core strength. (00:02:26)
milestone · How to Vote in Every State: launch of the 54-video guide to registering and voting in each US state (2016) — John admires that Hank was working on How to Vote in Every State in the two weeks before his book came out. (00:00:34)
retold · John takes the line 'Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia' from Sarah on their first date for Looking for Alaska (told 2016) — John says he stole that line from his wife. (00:01:00)
milestone · An Absolutely Remarkable Thing book tour (2018) — In a later coda, John says his part of the An Absolutely Remarkable Thing tour has ended. (00:02:26)
reminder · John asks US adults to make sure they are registered to vote (2018) — John tells viewers who need to learn to register, know their state's voting laws or understand how to vote to check out the series: ballots, polling places, everything. (00:00:34)

Where the stories that moved here went next

John: join Hank on the An Absolutely Remarkable Thing tour in six cities (2018) — kept; last: recalled, 2019-12-17
How to Vote in Every State: launch of the 54-video guide to registering and voting in each US state (2016) — last documented in 2022; last: milestone, 2022-08-19
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing book tour (2018) — last documented in 2018 (looked back on in 2019)

Mentioned

Central: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

Also: People: Alice Green

Projects: DFTBA Records · How to Vote in Every State · Quadragocon

Works: 60 Minutes

Rituals: Question Tuesday

Concepts: tortoise

Characters: Andy Skampt · April May

Only in the description or credits: Sarah Urist Green

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