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VLOGBROTHERS REUNITED!!!!

2021-06-15 · Q&A · John, Hank · 4:00 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Books & writing (also: Everyday life, Personal life) · mode: Q&A & conversation · tags: guest or collab, recurring series, self promotion, community lore

Together in person for the first time in a long while, John and Hank answer Question Tuesday questions: favorite TikTok sound, Hank's favorite Anthropocene Reviewed essay, their past selves, gum, the new Crash Course coins, and their old fight over Hank's trophy money and John's baseball cards.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Reunion opener, favorite TikTok sound, Hank's favorite Anthropocene Reviewed essay and why John prefers nonfiction

  • ★ Answering a question about favorite TikTok sounds, John says Sarah dreamed the brothers were making a TikTok to the 'wow, you can really dance' sound while being urged to leave for family stuff. — 00:00:00 · Sarah Urist Green, TikTok
  • ★★ Hank says his favorite essay in The Anthropocene Reviewed is the first that made him cry: the Liverpool one, You'll Never Walk Alone. — 00:00:00 · The Anthropocene Reviewed (book)
  • ★ Hank says it must be enjoyable to uncover a depth in the song that even people who really enjoy it don't know about. — 00:00:47
  • ★★★ John says he prefers nonfiction to fiction because in fiction events have to make sense, while in nonfiction things can just be true, like the phenomenally good true story of You'll Never Walk Alone. — 00:00:47 · also in: John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated

00:01:16 — What their selves of 10 years ago would say, peppers, mint versus fruit gum

00:02:27 — Hank on the newly launched Crash Course coins

  • ★★★ Hank says Crash Course reaches about 70 million students a year, and they want to keep being able to do that. — 00:02:27 · Crash Course
  • ★★ Hank says a $100 coin lets them reach 2,000 learners and a $500 coin 10,000 learners, with only 500 of the latter being made. — 00:02:27 · Crash Course coin
  • ★★ Asked about inconsequential brotherly arguments, John admits he stole the money Hank rolled up inside his trophies and bought all kinds of things with it. (playful) — 00:02:27

00:02:57 — Trophy money and the baseball cards sold on eBay; feeling emotion at the reunion; sign-off and Friday's plan

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Humor (significant)

  • John opens by explaining how much he missed Hank — 00:00:00

    “I missed you so much that I green screened myself into your background.”

  • Asked what his past self would say, Hank imagines being baffled by trading Dogecoin — 00:01:16

    “what is doge? And why do you want me to buy it and then sell it?”

  • John explains why fruit-flavored gum tastes like no fruit — 00:01:45

    “It tastes like you described fruit to an artificial intelligence that then ran a thousand simulations of what fruit might taste like”

  • John credits Hank's sale of his baseball cards on eBay with Hank's later e-commerce venture — 00:03:25

    “You used those lessons to found DFTBA.com.”

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Mentioned

Central: Crash Course coin

Also: People: Sarah Urist Green

Projects: Crash Course · DFTBA Records

Works: The Anthropocene Reviewed (book) · You'll Never Walk Alone

Organizations: eBay · Liverpool FC · TikTok

Rituals: Question Tuesday

Concepts: time travel

Products: Dogecoin

Only in the description or credits: Reunion video

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