Good morning Hank it's Monday, July 9th. Welcome to my guest bedroom. By the way for the last two weeks I've been giving you a tour of my house. Have you noticed? Hank over the last few days several commenters and also some people in My Pants have said that you and I, uh, textually communicated on purpose because we miss getting punished. Would that it were so. The fact of the matter is that we're just really stupid. I mean, I don't think you're that stupid, I think that you were probably doing six at once and just happened to textually communicate with me. I think that I'm stupid. I don't enjoy punishments, although I do enjoy you getting punished.
Hank to prove to you that I didn't get punished on purpose, I'm going to recreate the actual textual communication we had. So I'm sittin around, working on my new book, thinking about what the title should be and all of a sudden, on my screen, up pops a video chat request from you. And I say to myself, well, you know, video isn't text so that's allowed. So I hit OK, but for some reason it doesn't work, doesn't go through. And then I get a text screen pops up that says OK I'm here now. And I'm like, is that Katherine? Did Katherine go up on Hank's IM? And so I say, Katherine? And the person responds, no Hank. And then I'm like (dances) YES YES YES YES YES YES! And I'm sitting there and I'm thinking to myself he's gonna get punished. He's so punished. And then I just wanted to tell ya, Hank. I just wanted to tell you how punished you were. And so I said Dude, you are so punished! And then I hit return.
(image of a Nerdfighters live here sign) Wait, I ju- we just need to take a quick time out from this story. Just to say Nerdfighters!
Honestly Hank? Even after I typed enter, even after I saw the words Dude you are so punished pop up on the screen. I was just like dobidydoobidydabidydabididoodoo. And then I noticed that you weren't writing back, and I was like, why isn't Hank writing back to me? And then I said, oh, right it's because we're not textually communicating. Doh! Stupid stupid stupid! GAHH I'm gonna get punished!
I think that we have your punishment all set up in My Pants. It look like your punishment is definitely going to involve wait- can we- can we go ahead and cue up the- (image of Hank in makeup) YES! Yes! It's going to involve recreating that! I don't know the other details, but it's definitely going to involve recreating that picture.
As for my punishment, it doesn't seem like anyone's said a lot of anything, and Hank maybe you could go into My Pants and help people talk about it and pick stuff that you think would be particularly harmful to me.
Oh, and Hank, quick side note: I know that we can't veto our punishments, obviously, because then they wouldn't be punishments, but I do think that our wives should have the right to veto punishments that the Nerdfighters suggest for us. Because nothing against the Nerdfighters, but sometimes they suggest punishments that are sort of, uh, maniacal. Like, oh, I think you should have to do your happy dance in public 200 times and then after that you should have to saw off your leg. Now the fact that I don't want to saw off my leg shouldn't figure into the punishment thing at all. But the fact that the Yeti doesn't want me to saw off my leg that's a deal breaker to me. So I hope we can agree: wives have veto power. And, uh, I will see you tomorrow. But more importantly, hopefully by Thursday, I will see (image) this guy again!
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Showing posts with label Rules. Show all posts
Sunday, November 7
Wednesday, November 3
Brotherhood 2.0: May 2: Book Banning
Good morning Hank, it's Wednesday, May 3rd. No it's not, it's May 2nd, am I ever gonna get that right? I'm sitting in front of different books because change is good.
(sings) Helena, Montana. Helena, Montana.
Good work with the song. In fact Hank, you did such a good job with the song that I can't help but think that maybe you could write one song every two weeks for the rest of the project. Say, every time you have to do a Wednesday. That would be fun and also easy! And by easy I mean, you know, for me.
Hank, thanks also for standing in that line to get Neil Gaiman to say hi to me. Neil Gaiman signed more books on that day in Helena, Montana than I've signed in my entire career. I gotta start writing about Neil Gaiman stuff.
And speaking of books, there's big news out of the young adult literature world. Brotherhood 2.0 fan and future secret sister Maureen Johnson has just had a book banned in Oklahoma. Hank, the book in question is called The Bermudez Triangle. I don't wanna do it, I don't wanna do it, I don't wanna do it...ahh in your pants! Ahhhh feels so good when you let it out. The Bermudez Triangle...in your pants.
Hank, the fact that The Bermudez Triangle is funny when you add "in your pants" is literally the dirtiest thing about the book. There is nothing in it that's inappropriate for teen readers. For that matter, there's not really anything in it that's inappropriate for like, 10 year-olds. Hank, one of the biggest problems with book banning isn't even the books that get banned, it's the books that don't get banned because they never get into libraries in the first place because people are scared that they're going to get banned. Part of the reason we have to fight challenges is so that librarians know that we're with them when they get challenged. The other main reason that we have to fight challenges is because it's absolutely ridiculous to ban The Bermudez Triangle from a high school library, when it doesn't even contain any, like, dirty words or dirty scenes or anything! All it contains is gay characters. Honestly Bartlesville Mid High School, are you seriously going to ban all books that contain gay characters from your high school library? Are you gonna ban Bridget Jones's Diary? The Color Purple? No Exit? Brideshead Revisited? Angels in America? The Picture of Dorian Gray?
No, I don't think novels should be removed from high school libraries simply because they have homosexual characters. If you agree with me, I put the email addresses of all the people who were on the committee, most of whom haven't even read the book, right there (points down), beneath my picture. Let's email them, and tell them that we won't stand for this.
And then Hank, if they don't email us back, we can call them on Friday. I do have their phone numbers. I'll see you tomorrow.
(sings) Helena, Montana. Helena, Montana.
Good work with the song. In fact Hank, you did such a good job with the song that I can't help but think that maybe you could write one song every two weeks for the rest of the project. Say, every time you have to do a Wednesday. That would be fun and also easy! And by easy I mean, you know, for me.
Hank, thanks also for standing in that line to get Neil Gaiman to say hi to me. Neil Gaiman signed more books on that day in Helena, Montana than I've signed in my entire career. I gotta start writing about Neil Gaiman stuff.
And speaking of books, there's big news out of the young adult literature world. Brotherhood 2.0 fan and future secret sister Maureen Johnson has just had a book banned in Oklahoma. Hank, the book in question is called The Bermudez Triangle. I don't wanna do it, I don't wanna do it, I don't wanna do it...ahh in your pants! Ahhhh feels so good when you let it out. The Bermudez Triangle...in your pants.
Hank, the fact that The Bermudez Triangle is funny when you add "in your pants" is literally the dirtiest thing about the book. There is nothing in it that's inappropriate for teen readers. For that matter, there's not really anything in it that's inappropriate for like, 10 year-olds. Hank, one of the biggest problems with book banning isn't even the books that get banned, it's the books that don't get banned because they never get into libraries in the first place because people are scared that they're going to get banned. Part of the reason we have to fight challenges is so that librarians know that we're with them when they get challenged. The other main reason that we have to fight challenges is because it's absolutely ridiculous to ban The Bermudez Triangle from a high school library, when it doesn't even contain any, like, dirty words or dirty scenes or anything! All it contains is gay characters. Honestly Bartlesville Mid High School, are you seriously going to ban all books that contain gay characters from your high school library? Are you gonna ban Bridget Jones's Diary? The Color Purple? No Exit? Brideshead Revisited? Angels in America? The Picture of Dorian Gray?
No, I don't think novels should be removed from high school libraries simply because they have homosexual characters. If you agree with me, I put the email addresses of all the people who were on the committee, most of whom haven't even read the book, right there (points down), beneath my picture. Let's email them, and tell them that we won't stand for this.
And then Hank, if they don't email us back, we can call them on Friday. I do have their phone numbers. I'll see you tomorrow.
Tuesday, November 2
March 14: Becoming a NerdFighter
Good morning John, it's Wednesday. No, yes, yes, Wednesday. March 14th. (yawn) If it looks like I am cold and tired, it's because I'm cold and tired. ugh (rubs eyes)
I up got early this morning so I could prepare for a phone call. I have two very important meetings today, I had one very important meeting yesterday. This is the most very important meetings I have ever had in a two day period. My very important meeting today starts in 3 minutes and it is with Yahoo. They're uh, like a search engine and they have uh, email and some news and, I don't know. I can't tell you what they are calling about, 'cause it is confidential. It's officially time for me to be calling the Yahoo number and get started at my meeting.
I have finished the Yahoo call. So I started the Yahoo call by mentioning that I've done some research on the people, who I was having a call with, and I didn't say "Oh, looked you up on the Internet" to the people at Yahoo. No, I said: "I googled you"... uuuhhhg... People at Yahoo don't google people. People at Yahoo would rather you not google. People at Yahoo Yahoo. And I don't Yahoo. Other than that, the meeting went very well.
John, I've been thinking about Nerdfighters. And I've been thinking that there should be a way to become a Nerdfighter. Possibly a series of tasks. I think the first one of these tasks, is to figure out what kind of Nerdfighter you are. And the second task would be, to write a lyric for the Nerdfighter song from the perspective of that Nerdfighter character.
I think I might be a Magic the Gathering nerd. Do you even know what Magic the Gathering is? When I was in high school, it was one of the nerdiest things you could do. And I was extra-nerdy about it because I was really bad, but I kept playing. The idea is, that you have cards and they're kind of collectible. They rank from really common cards, to really rare cards. But there are rules about the cards. Like you can't play a certain cards unless you have other cards out. And then you can attack using your cards against the other person's cards and your cards have ratings for defense and attack power. It's really, very complicated. When I say complicated, I mean nerdy.
OK, I think I figured my Nerdfighter-song.
(takes out guitar, singing)
My collectible card games are underrated,
Complicated and sophisticated.
If you think that my powers could be debated,
Just meet my Summon Dragon and be burninated.
I'm a Nerdfighter my cards have power,
I'm a wizard of the coast and I rarely shower.
(does Nerdfighter sign) Nerdfighters! I'll see you tomorrow.
(Brotherhood 2.0 Logo) Do you wanna be a Nerdfighter, too? Click on the side bar at brotherhood2.com, where it says Nerdfighters, and tell us what kind of Nerdfighter you are. And put in your Nerdfighter lyrics.
I up got early this morning so I could prepare for a phone call. I have two very important meetings today, I had one very important meeting yesterday. This is the most very important meetings I have ever had in a two day period. My very important meeting today starts in 3 minutes and it is with Yahoo. They're uh, like a search engine and they have uh, email and some news and, I don't know. I can't tell you what they are calling about, 'cause it is confidential. It's officially time for me to be calling the Yahoo number and get started at my meeting.
I have finished the Yahoo call. So I started the Yahoo call by mentioning that I've done some research on the people, who I was having a call with, and I didn't say "Oh, looked you up on the Internet" to the people at Yahoo. No, I said: "I googled you"... uuuhhhg... People at Yahoo don't google people. People at Yahoo would rather you not google. People at Yahoo Yahoo. And I don't Yahoo. Other than that, the meeting went very well.
John, I've been thinking about Nerdfighters. And I've been thinking that there should be a way to become a Nerdfighter. Possibly a series of tasks. I think the first one of these tasks, is to figure out what kind of Nerdfighter you are. And the second task would be, to write a lyric for the Nerdfighter song from the perspective of that Nerdfighter character.
I think I might be a Magic the Gathering nerd. Do you even know what Magic the Gathering is? When I was in high school, it was one of the nerdiest things you could do. And I was extra-nerdy about it because I was really bad, but I kept playing. The idea is, that you have cards and they're kind of collectible. They rank from really common cards, to really rare cards. But there are rules about the cards. Like you can't play a certain cards unless you have other cards out. And then you can attack using your cards against the other person's cards and your cards have ratings for defense and attack power. It's really, very complicated. When I say complicated, I mean nerdy.
OK, I think I figured my Nerdfighter-song.
(takes out guitar, singing)
My collectible card games are underrated,
Complicated and sophisticated.
If you think that my powers could be debated,
Just meet my Summon Dragon and be burninated.
I'm a Nerdfighter my cards have power,
I'm a wizard of the coast and I rarely shower.
(does Nerdfighter sign) Nerdfighters! I'll see you tomorrow.
(Brotherhood 2.0 Logo) Do you wanna be a Nerdfighter, too? Click on the side bar at brotherhood2.com, where it says Nerdfighters, and tell us what kind of Nerdfighter you are. And put in your Nerdfighter lyrics.
Brotherhood 2.0: Peeps and Genocide
Good morning John it's Tuesday, March 6th and I am entirely surrounded by 100 peeps. (in store) We found the peeps. The bunnies count as full-sized right? I think I’m gonna get the bunnies, cause they’re kinda more swallow-able. They look more like a shape that won’t choke me to death. I’ve just discovered something very interesting, it says that four bunnies are 31 grams and that they contain 33 grams of carbohydrates. There is actually more sugar than there is bunny in these bunnies. Good news on the cheapskate front, each of these things is only 99 cents. So I’m going to get out of the store paying exactly 6 dollars.
So now target has 6 of my dollars and I have 100 of their peeps. I would also like to announce that I have completed the first Brotherhood 2.0 book club book. Yes, I finished We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch and since I don’t have time to discuss that and eat 100 peeps, I’m going to discuss the book while eating 100 peeps. On your mark, get set, go.
Now there some discussion on brotherhood 2.0 about We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families and how it’s a book designed to make you feel guilty about something that already happened and there’s no use crying over spilled milk. 1 gallon per every dead person, 800,000 gallons of milk. But what Philip Gourevitch’s book was really about was understanding that something happened in Rwanda. Something very significant on a world-wide scale. Unlike eating peeps.
I only ate half of this one, why did I do that?
Beyond acknowledging it, it’s about understanding how something like that could happen. I mean, in a matter of days 800,000 people were killed. All you have to have is the right cocktail of International indecision, local alcoholism, long-term racism, and a couple of inflammatory people with control over the media and it is absolutely possible for completely normal, heathy people to become genocidal maniacs, to commit the worse crime that so far humanity is capable of committing. It wasn’t just bad people killing bad people it was a bad situation and that when we can recognize those ingredients being poured together in the stew again, we can put a lid on it before the fumes reach a nation-wide fervor and create a another genocidal scenario. World governments need to recognize that it’s possible and that individual citizens need to recognize that it’s possible so that they can pressure their governments.
Bla. (cough). That’s not me almost puking, that’s just the bad taste of the peeps. Oh, 5:16. I’m not going to be able to finish this one. It’s too late, I’m so glad. 6 minutes is up. That peep was just sticking to my finger, and I’m not gonna, I'm not gonna eat this half a peep. I had that many, which honestly I think is pretty good. (burp) I’m feeling kinda jittery. I really haven’t eaten anything else today, that is, that is all I’ve eaten, that is 100% of the food I’ve eaten today. It doesn’t feel very good though. I can’t I can’t see, huh hu- I hate their little eyes. So now I have to go online and contribute 87.5 dollars to the Brotherhood 2.0 foundation to decrease suck levels worldwide. Think what we could do with that money! Plus the 20 I already donated and plus the 20 you already donated, that’s like 127.5 dollars. Whew! Um, this video is longer then 4 minutes please do not punish me because I’m doing a punishment and we haven’t made that an official rule yet. But I’m making it a rule now, from now on video must be less then 4 minutes and this is the last one that will be more then 4 minutes. That is a rule as of tomorrow, which is when I will see you.
(After logo) Who wants peeps? (Shakes head and Peeps fly up under glasses)
So now target has 6 of my dollars and I have 100 of their peeps. I would also like to announce that I have completed the first Brotherhood 2.0 book club book. Yes, I finished We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch and since I don’t have time to discuss that and eat 100 peeps, I’m going to discuss the book while eating 100 peeps. On your mark, get set, go.
Now there some discussion on brotherhood 2.0 about We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families and how it’s a book designed to make you feel guilty about something that already happened and there’s no use crying over spilled milk. 1 gallon per every dead person, 800,000 gallons of milk. But what Philip Gourevitch’s book was really about was understanding that something happened in Rwanda. Something very significant on a world-wide scale. Unlike eating peeps.
I only ate half of this one, why did I do that?
Beyond acknowledging it, it’s about understanding how something like that could happen. I mean, in a matter of days 800,000 people were killed. All you have to have is the right cocktail of International indecision, local alcoholism, long-term racism, and a couple of inflammatory people with control over the media and it is absolutely possible for completely normal, heathy people to become genocidal maniacs, to commit the worse crime that so far humanity is capable of committing. It wasn’t just bad people killing bad people it was a bad situation and that when we can recognize those ingredients being poured together in the stew again, we can put a lid on it before the fumes reach a nation-wide fervor and create a another genocidal scenario. World governments need to recognize that it’s possible and that individual citizens need to recognize that it’s possible so that they can pressure their governments.
Bla. (cough). That’s not me almost puking, that’s just the bad taste of the peeps. Oh, 5:16. I’m not going to be able to finish this one. It’s too late, I’m so glad. 6 minutes is up. That peep was just sticking to my finger, and I’m not gonna, I'm not gonna eat this half a peep. I had that many, which honestly I think is pretty good. (burp) I’m feeling kinda jittery. I really haven’t eaten anything else today, that is, that is all I’ve eaten, that is 100% of the food I’ve eaten today. It doesn’t feel very good though. I can’t I can’t see, huh hu- I hate their little eyes. So now I have to go online and contribute 87.5 dollars to the Brotherhood 2.0 foundation to decrease suck levels worldwide. Think what we could do with that money! Plus the 20 I already donated and plus the 20 you already donated, that’s like 127.5 dollars. Whew! Um, this video is longer then 4 minutes please do not punish me because I’m doing a punishment and we haven’t made that an official rule yet. But I’m making it a rule now, from now on video must be less then 4 minutes and this is the last one that will be more then 4 minutes. That is a rule as of tomorrow, which is when I will see you.
(After logo) Who wants peeps? (Shakes head and Peeps fly up under glasses)
Brotherhood 2.0: January 25th
Good morning John, it's Thursday, January 25th. Yesterday, you said it was Thursday, today I'm saying it's Thursday. One of us is wrong.As you may have noticed in my January 23rd video, I'm currently in mom and dad's little cabin on the side of their house. Katherine and I have begun our yearly Tour of the Entire Southeastern United States!
We're starting out in Asheville, North Carolina, which is right here. Then we're going to jaunt over to Athens, GA to see some friends, and then jaunt back from Georgia to Asheville, and then we're going to jaunt from Asheville to Orlando, that jaunt being in an airplane- by all accounts this is a lot of jaunting- and then we're gonna jaunt in a car from Orlando to Tampa St. Petersburg to see some friends, and then from Tampa St. Petersburg we're going to jump to Englewood, Florida which is pretty far down on the Gulf Coast. Two of the three weeks I'll be on this trip I'll be without high speed internet. (shakes head) Not okay. You said that you believed that mom and dad's house was the last residence in the United States of America with dial-up internet. You were wrong. There's an entire town in the Gulf Coast of Florida without broadband internet. And I'm about to go there.
I'm very concerned what this means for the Brotherhood 2.0 project. I'm also very concerned because a lot of people have been coming up with a lot of very good punishments. These aren't the kind of punishments that are just very difficult to do, they're the kind of punishments that are extremely embarrassing to have on video blog, and that's the kind of punishments that we're going to want to be doing! So I've decided something. As the Brotherhood 2.0 brother who may be very likely be making his first foray into punishment territory, I would like to suggest that the brother not being punished decide which punishment to give the brother being punished. That way, I just don't take the punishment I'd most want to do, but you'd give me the punishment you'd most want our viewers to see me doing.
You were right about another thing about Asheville, North Carolina. I'm surrounded by memories of my childhood. (holds up a cage with the words, "Hank's Critters painted on it) Do you remember when Phil Wood made us these little critter cages so we could catch grasshoppers, and store them inside? So they can be punished for the crimes of their incessant chirping! (turns cage around, showing tear in back) They never really worked very well. (holds up a toy doghouse and a toy dog) This reminds me of my childhood because it is a little dog that I made to resemble our little dog, Red, and the doghouse that we never had. It doesn't actually fit inside the doghouse.
Oddly enough, one of the things that remind me most of my childhood in this place is the food. Mom made Shepard's Pie last night! And also, something I haven't seen since I left home...a Kraft American cheese individually wrapped single. It...ah...it smells like noth-I mean, it doesn't, it's not cheese; it doesn't look or smell like cheese, it doesn't...(laughs) cheese doesn't wobble like this, holy crap! There's really three ways I'd eat one of these, on a white bread sandwich with turkey, all by itself on a tortilla, microwaved, or folded in quarters (proceeds to do so, with sound effects) and then eat it. (eats it) Mmm, delicious cheese. Kinda. I enjoyed your survey, and hopefully I'll see more of it tomorrow.
We're starting out in Asheville, North Carolina, which is right here. Then we're going to jaunt over to Athens, GA to see some friends, and then jaunt back from Georgia to Asheville, and then we're going to jaunt from Asheville to Orlando, that jaunt being in an airplane- by all accounts this is a lot of jaunting- and then we're gonna jaunt in a car from Orlando to Tampa St. Petersburg to see some friends, and then from Tampa St. Petersburg we're going to jump to Englewood, Florida which is pretty far down on the Gulf Coast. Two of the three weeks I'll be on this trip I'll be without high speed internet. (shakes head) Not okay. You said that you believed that mom and dad's house was the last residence in the United States of America with dial-up internet. You were wrong. There's an entire town in the Gulf Coast of Florida without broadband internet. And I'm about to go there.
I'm very concerned what this means for the Brotherhood 2.0 project. I'm also very concerned because a lot of people have been coming up with a lot of very good punishments. These aren't the kind of punishments that are just very difficult to do, they're the kind of punishments that are extremely embarrassing to have on video blog, and that's the kind of punishments that we're going to want to be doing! So I've decided something. As the Brotherhood 2.0 brother who may be very likely be making his first foray into punishment territory, I would like to suggest that the brother not being punished decide which punishment to give the brother being punished. That way, I just don't take the punishment I'd most want to do, but you'd give me the punishment you'd most want our viewers to see me doing.
You were right about another thing about Asheville, North Carolina. I'm surrounded by memories of my childhood. (holds up a cage with the words, "Hank's Critters painted on it) Do you remember when Phil Wood made us these little critter cages so we could catch grasshoppers, and store them inside? So they can be punished for the crimes of their incessant chirping! (turns cage around, showing tear in back) They never really worked very well. (holds up a toy doghouse and a toy dog) This reminds me of my childhood because it is a little dog that I made to resemble our little dog, Red, and the doghouse that we never had. It doesn't actually fit inside the doghouse.
Oddly enough, one of the things that remind me most of my childhood in this place is the food. Mom made Shepard's Pie last night! And also, something I haven't seen since I left home...a Kraft American cheese individually wrapped single. It...ah...it smells like noth-I mean, it doesn't, it's not cheese; it doesn't look or smell like cheese, it doesn't...(laughs) cheese doesn't wobble like this, holy crap! There's really three ways I'd eat one of these, on a white bread sandwich with turkey, all by itself on a tortilla, microwaved, or folded in quarters (proceeds to do so, with sound effects) and then eat it. (eats it) Mmm, delicious cheese. Kinda. I enjoyed your survey, and hopefully I'll see more of it tomorrow.
Monday, November 1
Brotherhood 2.0: January 3rd
Hi John! Good morning! It's Brotherhood 2.0 with Hank and John Green!
Wow, that guy was having fun. It's seven o'clock in the morning and I'm about to get on a plane. Yesterday I was sledding down a hill at Lake Tahoe. That was fun, this isn't fun. I hope you don't mind if I make a suggestion as to how to begin our conversation on this video blog. Being your brother is kinda frustrating some times. This is because people walk up to me and they say, "Gosh, you look so much like your brother. Oh, your jokes are very similar to your brother's, except you're not quite as funny as him." Apparently some people even think that we look like the twin rock duo, The Proclaimers, which is admittedly better than people thinking that we look like the twin rock duo, Nelson. So, I would like to propose a list. We make a video blog list of all the ways in which we are very very different people.
Things like: in the last few years John Green has gotten kind of pudgy. Whereas, in the next few years Hank Green will get kind of pudgy. And also things like: John Green has never spilled a tiny amount of beer on his wife's MacBook, which then proceeded to not boot up. And also, John Green didn't almost ruin the video blog experiment by not having a computer that would work. And also, John Green didn't do the Happy Dance when his wife was in the shower, and he reinstalled the battery and tried to boot it up the next morning and it worked. (dances) And also, John Green probably would have told his wife about the incident instead of hoping everything would turn out OK. Sorry honey! And also, and also, and also. And also John Green doesn't constantly and vainly obsess about his hair, which apparently I do. On some level, performing a version of 500 Miles on this show actually does appeal to me. Punishment, project, or challenge?
Wow, that guy was having fun. It's seven o'clock in the morning and I'm about to get on a plane. Yesterday I was sledding down a hill at Lake Tahoe. That was fun, this isn't fun. I hope you don't mind if I make a suggestion as to how to begin our conversation on this video blog. Being your brother is kinda frustrating some times. This is because people walk up to me and they say, "Gosh, you look so much like your brother. Oh, your jokes are very similar to your brother's, except you're not quite as funny as him." Apparently some people even think that we look like the twin rock duo, The Proclaimers, which is admittedly better than people thinking that we look like the twin rock duo, Nelson. So, I would like to propose a list. We make a video blog list of all the ways in which we are very very different people.
Things like: in the last few years John Green has gotten kind of pudgy. Whereas, in the next few years Hank Green will get kind of pudgy. And also things like: John Green has never spilled a tiny amount of beer on his wife's MacBook, which then proceeded to not boot up. And also, John Green didn't almost ruin the video blog experiment by not having a computer that would work. And also, John Green didn't do the Happy Dance when his wife was in the shower, and he reinstalled the battery and tried to boot it up the next morning and it worked. (dances) And also, John Green probably would have told his wife about the incident instead of hoping everything would turn out OK. Sorry honey! And also, and also, and also. And also John Green doesn't constantly and vainly obsess about his hair, which apparently I do. On some level, performing a version of 500 Miles on this show actually does appeal to me. Punishment, project, or challenge?
Brotherhood 2.0: January 1st
Hey John,
I guess you've heard by now (beep beep) Auto Power off? Why the f- Still some glitches to work out. Hello John, by now you've received my message that we will no longer be communicating through any textual means. No more instant messaging no more emailing only video blogging. And possibly phone calls.
You can see my eye in my eye aaaahhhh.
OK, just try to ignore that. There, you can't see it now, can you?
Last night I sent you an email from a New Years Eve party in Lake Tahoe. The email outlined our plans. Staring on January 1st, today, I will send you a video blog. Tomorrow you will reply to that video blog. We will continue like this until the year is up. If one of us fails to send a video blog on a weekday there will be certain punishments. The punishments will be outlined later. I finished this email: cross my heart, hope to die, and I may very possibly be required to stick a needle in my eye. That's the kind of punishment I'm talking about.
(Crazy plays at party)
Brotherhood 2.0 commences today. Does that make us crazy? Probably.
Haaaaaaa mmmmmmm.
I guess you've heard by now (beep beep) Auto Power off? Why the f- Still some glitches to work out. Hello John, by now you've received my message that we will no longer be communicating through any textual means. No more instant messaging no more emailing only video blogging. And possibly phone calls.
You can see my eye in my eye aaaahhhh.
OK, just try to ignore that. There, you can't see it now, can you?
Last night I sent you an email from a New Years Eve party in Lake Tahoe. The email outlined our plans. Staring on January 1st, today, I will send you a video blog. Tomorrow you will reply to that video blog. We will continue like this until the year is up. If one of us fails to send a video blog on a weekday there will be certain punishments. The punishments will be outlined later. I finished this email: cross my heart, hope to die, and I may very possibly be required to stick a needle in my eye. That's the kind of punishment I'm talking about.
(Crazy plays at party)
Brotherhood 2.0 commences today. Does that make us crazy? Probably.
Haaaaaaa mmmmmmm.
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