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Utter Chippy Butty Chaos

2022-04-12 · Q&A · John, Hank · 4:00 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria (also: Sports, Everyday life, Personal life) · mode: Q&A & conversation · tags: guest or collab, community lore

Formerly titled Four Minutes of Utter Chippy Butty Chaos.

Still together, Hank serves John a chip butty made with fish sauce while the brothers trade questions: platypuses, whether what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, Formula One, an anesthesiologist named Dr. House, and what Hank does when uninspired.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Hank's fish-sauce chip butty; take it or leave the platypus

  • ★★ Hank serves John a chip butty he made with mayonnaise and, lacking brown sauce, fish sauce. (playful) — 00:00:00 · John Green
  • ★ John says the platypus is a take-it-or-leave-it thing for him; asked if he would kill the last one, he says of course not, and Hank likens it to one walking slowly toward a garbage disposal that John could save or not. (playful) — 00:00:00

00:00:42 — Does what doesn't kill you make you stronger? John's itises

  • ★★ Hank: Asked by John, Hank says he doesn't believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger: it can go either way, person to person and situation to situation; John adds that sometimes, like exercise, it does. — 00:00:42
  • ★★ John says lots of bad things that happened to him, like labyrinthitis, did not make him stronger at all and still make his life a little worse. — 00:01:06 · also in: John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated

00:01:32 — Formula One, Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen and Dr. House the anesthesiologist

  • ★★ Hank: Asked about the upcoming F1 season, Hank knows only that it is a car thing, somewhat dependent on Russian oligarchs. (playful, speculative) — 00:01:32
  • ★★ John adds that, to be fair, Formula One relies on dirty money from all over the world. — 00:01:32
  • ★★ After Hank notes that the surgeon who operated on his hand tendon was named Dr. Hand, John recalls an anesthesiologist of his named Dr. House, like House MD. — 00:02:19

00:03:06 — What Hank does when uninspired; the chip butty's name; sign-off

  • ★★ Hank: Asked what he does when he doesn't feel inspired, Hank says reading always helps, though it is hard to make himself do it. — 00:03:06
  • ★★ John says that when uninspired he yells at himself to get to work, which is totally ineffective, but after 40 years the habit is hard to break. (playful) — 00:03:06
  • ★★★ Hank says he often faces a Thursday with no idea for a video, but has gone from 'this is a disaster' to a good video the next day enough times that it scares him less. — 00:03:06 · also in: John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated
  • ★★ Hank says he is glad they have a lot of British fans who can feel insulted; John says he believes in cultural humility, but that is a bad sandwich. (playful) — 00:03:34

In the description and comments

  • ★★ In a channel comment John states for the record that a proper chip butty is nothing like Hank's concoction: blame Hank, not the English. — creator comment · Hank Green

Humor (significant)

  • Without brown sauce, Hank improvises the chip butty. — 00:00:00

    “You didn't have any brown sauce, so I put fish sauce on it.”

  • Hank casts saving the last platypus from a garbage disposal as John's take-it-or-leave-it choice. — 00:00:42

    “It's like the trolley problem, but if you flip the switch, nothing bad happens.”

  • John says he has had a lot of itises. — 00:01:06

    “Heavy on the itis is going to be the name of your memoir, man.”

  • John imagines why Dr. House chose anesthesiology. — 00:02:31

    “the other anesthesiologists have you count back from ten, I have you tell me that you've seen a show called House.”

Threads in this video

Mentioned

Central: chip butty

Also: People: Lewis Hamilton · Max Verstappen · Orin Green · Sarah Urist Green

Works: House

Organizations: Formula One

Concepts: cellulitis · labyrinthitis · platypus · Russian oligarchs · trolley problem · what doesn't kill you makes you stronger

Characters: Gregory House

Also centred on chip butty: Hank and John Discover Chippy Butties

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