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Vlogbrothers REUNITED AT LAST

2021-11-30 · Q&A · John, Hank · 4:00 · watch on YouTube

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

A longer version is linked in the description: https://youtu.be/ySdGTQXNs-E.

Together in person again, John and Hank trade quick questions: renaming Twitter, holiday gifts (John plugs signed Anthropocene Reviewed copies with a charity zine), how differently their minds handle unwanted thoughts, Hank's sales ideas, a pulped Paper Towns, and whether either knows how to write the next book.

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, renaming Twitter, holiday gifts and the signed Anthropocene Reviewed plug

00:00:43 — What they dislike about each other; Hank's tweet about not feeling guilty for thoughts; John's ocean of thoughts

  • ★★ John says the signed books are at DFTBA.com and all proceeds go to charity. — 00:00:43 · DFTBA Records
  • ★★ Asked what he dislikes most about the other, John says both he and Hank are 'a little much'. (playful) — 00:00:43 · Hank Green
  • ★★ John says he has long wondered what the inside of Hank's head is like, Hank being the person he has known longest, and finds it funny how different heads are. — 00:01:12 · Hank Green
  • ★★ John recalls Hank recently tweeted that he doesn't feel guilty for his thoughts, then sent John a worried follow-up text explaining it. — 00:01:12 · Hank Green, Twitter
  • ★★★ John tells Hank he is not a bad person but enlightened: he can have a thought and understand that it is just a thought, and a thought is not an action. — 00:01:12 · Hank Green · also in: John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated
  • ★ Hank adds that he would be totally embarrassed if people knew about the thought, but they don't. — 00:01:12
  • ★★★ John says thoughts are an ocean, but he picks up one drop he finds dangerous and weird, keeps thinking about it, and the drops double to 2, 4, 16, 32. — 00:01:41

00:02:03 — Could Hank's sock-selling talent sell coffee; Hank's book sales idea begins

  • ★★ John calls Hank's talent for selling socks genuinely unparalleled and asks whether he could apply it to coffee. — 00:02:03 · Hank Green, Awesome Socks Club
  • ★ Hank says coffee would be a different challenge, but he bets he could do it. (playful) — 00:02:03

00:02:26 — Two-dollar-bill idea for remaindered books; John watches Paper Towns get pulped

00:03:24 — What they want to be when they grow up: authors who don't know how to write the next book; sign-off

In the description and comments

Humor (significant)

  • Asked what he most dislikes about John, Hank gives the answer people give in job interviews — 00:00:43

    “I think he just cares too much. He works too passionately.”

  • After John describes his anxious thoughts doubling from one drop to 32, Hank says he does the same — 00:01:41

    “I do that, but with sock sales techniques.”

  • Hank's sales idea for remaindered copies of The Anthropocene Reviewed — 00:02:26

    “sign $2 bills and call it a $2 discount.”

  • John watched Paper Towns get pulped; Hank asks whether the staff found it normal — 00:02:55

    “they were like, that's the way the cookie crumbles.”

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Mentioned

Projects: Awesome Socks Club · DFTBA Records

Works: Looking for Alaska (novel) · Paper Towns · Star Wars · The Anthropocene Reviewed (book)

Organizations: Twitter

Rituals: Question Tuesday

Concepts: guilt · Zine

Only in the description or credits: Reunion video

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