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Pizza Sized Johns or John Sized Pizza? It's Question Thursday

2021-10-14 · Q&A · John · 4:00 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria (also: Health) · mode: Q&A & conversation · tags: calendar ritual, self promotion, recurring series, community lore

In a Pizzamas Question Thursday, John answers viewer questions: his favorite merch (the Pizza John zine), pizza versus pizza-sized Johns, Dave Green, why the giraffe-sex videos stopped, a fact from Hank's pizza-joke texts, forgetting names, his favorite assignment in Sarah's book, and breathing as a reminder that his lungs were made for Earth's air.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Pizzamas is ending: front-loaded promo; Question Thursday intro; favorite merch

  • ★★ Pizzamas is hurtling toward its end, so all the Pizzamas items, including John's t-shirt, are available only a couple more days at pizzamas.com. — 00:00:00 · Pizzamas
  • ★★ John's favorite Pizzamas merch is the Pizza John zine in which people drew Pizza John from memory: it's magic. He also loves the blanket. — 00:00:00 · Pizza John, Pizzamas

00:00:29 — Questions: Pizzamas longevity, pizza-sized Johns, head size, late-night YouTube, Dave, love, giraffe sex, best fact, names, Sarah's book

  • ★★ John marvels at Pizzamas's longevity: how is a 10-year-old joke getting funnier? (playful) — 00:00:29 · Pizzamas
  • ★ Weighing one John-sized pizza against 100 pizza-sized Johns (stressful tiny neurotic people who might do his work), John decides the Johns are more trouble than they're worth and picks the pizza. (playful) — 00:00:29 · John (name)
  • ★ Asked whether people say his head looks bigger in person, John says not that he recalls; most people don't comment on his appearance, which is probably the way to go. (hedged) — 00:00:58
  • ★★ John's late-night YouTube is a lot of a guy sanding cow hooves; he isn't interested in the field but can't stop watching. — 00:00:58 · YouTube
  • ★★ Dave is doing Dave stuff: John used to feel bad that Dave had no Twitter or YouTube, but now thinks Dave maybe just achieved enlightenment. (playful) — 00:01:27 · Dave Green, Twitter, YouTube
  • ★ Is there more to love than chemicals? Probably not, John says, but really good chemicals. (playful, hedged) — 00:01:27
  • ★★ Asked why he stopped making videos about 'unerotic giraffe sex', John first notes there is no other kind of giraffe sex. (joke) — 00:01:27
  • ★★ The real answer is personal: looking at himself 12 years ago, John wonders at how he wanted to be popular; then he got enough popularity to want it less. — 00:01:57
  • ★★ John signed up for Hank's daily Pizzamas pizza-joke texts; yesterday's (13 October 2021) taught him that Pink worked at Pizza Hut, the only fact he remembers learning all week. — 00:01:57 · Hank Green, Pizzamas
  • ★ Asked why one remembers trivia like Justin Bieber's rented Lamborghini but not the names of one's children's classmates' parents, John admits he always thinks one parent is Jim, and it's never Jim. (playful) — 00:02:29
  • ★★★ John uses many assignments from Sarah's book, most often Never Seen, Never Will: articulating something you know exists but will never see, his way into realizing he doesn't know almost everything. — 00:02:29 · You Are an Artist, Sarah Urist Green

00:03:07 — Breathing exercises: lungs made for this air; back to pizza; sign-off

  • ★★★ For breathing, John takes a few conscious breaths and reminds himself his lungs were made for this air: his breath is literally interwoven with all life and Earth's chemistry. — 00:03:07 · Earth

In the description and comments

Humor (significant)

  • Weighing one John-sized pizza against a hundred tiny neurotic pizza-sized Johns. — 00:00:58

    “I'm going to pick the pizza. I should always just pick the pizza.”

  • Asked how his brother Dave is, John says he used to pity Dave for having no Twitter or YouTube. — 00:01:27

    “but now I think maybe he just achieved enlightenment.”

  • Asked why he stopped making videos about unerotic giraffe sex. — 00:01:27

    “there is no other kind of giraffe sex”

  • John cannot recall the name of his children's classmates' parents despite countless introductions. — 00:02:29

    “I always think it's Jim, but it's never Jim.”

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Mentioned

Central: Pizzamas

Also: People: Justin Bieber · Pink

Works: Pizza John zine · You Are an Artist

Organizations: Lamborghini · Pizza Hut · Twitter · YouTube

Rituals: Question Tuesday

Terms: Pizza John

Concepts: giraffe · hoof · Intellectual humility · love

Places: Earth

Events: Justin Bieber DUI arrest

Characters: Dave Green

Only in the description or credits: Sarah Urist Green

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