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Is the Inside of Your Mouth a Soup? (a vidcon reunion video)

2024-07-09 · Q&A · Hank, John · 4:02 · watch on YouTube

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

In a reunion video recorded at VidCon, John shows his AFC Wimbledon suit lining and thanks people for their kindness after his hard-time video, the brothers recall co-throwing a first pitch at an Angels game, and they banter over viewer questions: whether the inside of the mouth is a soup, writing as a way of thinking, and whether to return to four-minute videos.

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 teases John's suits; John's suit lining commemorates AFC Wimbledon's Wembley goal

  • ★ John: Teased by Hank for wearing suits all VidCon, John says he is 46 and doesn't want to pretend otherwise: he is signaling old. (playful) — 00:00:00 · VidCon
  • ★★ John shows his suit lining, which depicts the moment Lyle Taylor scored at Wembley for AFC Wimbledon to send them back to League One, and reads 'JMFG'. — 00:00:00 · AFC Wimbledon

00:00:25 — John thanks people, including AFC Wimbledon fans, for kindness after his hard-time video

  • ★★★ John says people, including many AFC Wimbledon fans, have been kind and generous since his video about having a hard time, reminding him he is part of many great communities. — 00:00:25 · AFC Wimbledon
  • ★★ John says he and Hank co-threw out a first pitch (actually the second of several) at the Angels game with about 12 minutes' warning, and the player who caught it signed his ball. (playful) — 00:00:25 · Hank Green

00:00:38 — Co-throwing the second first pitch at the Angels game and Hank's baseball-player small talk

  • ★ John swears that Hank, thanking the players who caught their balls, asked one of them whether he plays baseball. (playful) — 00:01:13 · Hank Green
  • ★★ Reading a Dear Hank and John live-show question from Abby on whether cereal is a soup, Hank calls it well-trodden ground and says a backstage conversation with YouTubers hit an unfortunate hypothetical: is the inside of your mouth a soup? (playful) — 00:01:13 · Dear Hank and John

00:01:24 — Viewer question on cereal as soup becomes: is the inside of your mouth a soup?

  • ★ John: Asked his favorite video to make, John recalls that the first time he made a 'format video' he spent all day telling Sarah how much fun he was having. — 00:01:38 · Sarah Urist Green

00:02:02 — Favorite video to make; writing a video as a way of having thoughts

  • ★★ Hank says he sometimes really likes writing a video, when he hits on something interesting he can't wait to share. — 00:02:07
  • ★★ John relates to Evan Puschak's point in his book that writing is his way of having thoughts: John doesn't have a complete thought until he has written it down. — 00:02:07

00:02:31 — Bobblehead and VidCon swag, meeting CG5, and a bacteria tier-list gag

  • ★★ Hank says CG5 approached him in the VidCon lobby, knowing Hank once tweeted that he unironically enjoys CG5's music, and Hank apologized. (playful) — 00:02:36 · VidCon

00:03:05 — Should they go back to four-minute videos; long YouTube videos like Tom Lum's

  • ★★★ John: Asked whether they should go back to four-minute videos, John says no, but they should make them more often. — 00:03:05 · Four-minute rule
  • ★★ John says much of the four-minute video's benefit was writing the extra material and then deleting it down to about 750 words. — 00:03:05 · Four-minute rule
  • ★★ John says he watches a lot of hour-long YouTube videos, such as Tom Lum's video about carbon dating, which Hank calls amazing and links in the description. — 00:03:05
  • ★★ Hank agrees 20-minute-plus videos are doing well but says they are very hard to make. — 00:03:05

00:03:49 — Hank thanks John for making the video; sign-off with a small bear

In the description and comments

  • ★★ The description says the video was recorded at VidCon at John's suggestion and edited by Hank, adding a bit of John to John-free July. — video description · VidCon, John Green

Humor (significant)

  • Several people throw out the first pitch, so the brothers' throw was not really first — 00:00:25

    “We co-threw out the second first pitch.”

  • After asking a player whether he plays baseball, Hank explains himself — 00:01:13

    “I don't know what to say to baseball players. This is the first one I ever met.”

  • Riffing on whether the inside of the mouth is a soup, they decide people are soups — 00:01:38

    “I'm a soup dumpling.”

  • The soup logic is extended to preserved corpses — 00:01:38

    “Mummies are just ramen noodles.”

  • CG5 thanks Hank for a tweet saying he unironically enjoys CG5's music — 00:02:36

    “And I was like, I'm sorry about that.”

Threads in this video

Where the stories that moved here went next

Mentioned

Central: Four-minute rule

Also: People: CG5 · Evan Puschak · Lyle Taylor · Mike Trout · Sarah Urist Green · Tom Lum

Projects: Dear Hank and John · VidCon

Works: Escape into Meaning

Organizations: AFC Wimbledon · EFL League One · Los Angeles Angels

Places: Wembley Stadium

Characters: BB-8

Only in the description or credits: Reunion video

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