I said Barbara Dudek instead of Barbara Duden, which is why I should've scripted this. Two more things: 1. The p4a starts next Friday! Support a charity you care about by making an excellent project for awesome video explaining what the charity does and why our community should support it; then upload the video to UA-cam and submit it: projectforawesome.com/submit 2. Join the matching fund if you can donate $500 or more to help encourage donations during the p4a: projectforawesome.com/matching Thanks for being here with us. -John
@@threaruscamuwundra7417 I wonder if Barbara did the spaghetti legs before establishing a methodology of inquiry regarding the human body and disease as effective windows into history.
I feel like we’ve really come back around to the silliness of the 2011/2012 Vlogbrothers but with the earnestness of the 2020 Vlogbrothers?? And I’m loving it.
Right, Hank's not humping things and John's not waxing his chin for a punishment, but they hold on to the fun-loving parts of themselves and still let themselves be authentic and enjoy the light hearted or silly moments arguing about what shows to feature on the almost certainly upcoming streaming service DooblyDoo I've been here since 2009 and love that we are watching them get to live out the values and goals they formed years ago during all that silliness. Like even just from John first visiting Sierra Leone to now being a Board Member at PIH (we were briefly coworkers and I technically worked there first though he did not know i existed), and Hank going from wanting to make education more accessible through just posting Crash Course for free initially to now partnering with an acclaimed university to offer courses that can be claimed at universities if you want to pay a small fraction of the normal cost for a traditional college credit hour I love this community both because Hank and John create meaningful positive change in the world, and because they make dumb jokes and goof around online as well haha. Inside every man is two wolves, and if they're the Green brothers brand of humor and their genuine desire to better people's lives I think they should keep embracing both of them 😅
"I don't know if I've mentioned this..." is one of my favorite ways John starts a new topic that is actually a continuation of the same topic that he's been talking about for weeks and/or months.
My brain still has a weird time comprehending how the volume is the same when John is both close to and far away from the camera in The Format and I love it
This seriously messes up my head everytime, which is weird because it's not like microphones or actors moving in movies are anything new and no other videos cause this. Must be that this looks like a UA-cam Video, and they are filmed in the UA-camr Way with UA-camr Tier Equipment. Or maybe I'm used to audio doing wonky stuff when streamers move. But this combination feels so wrong and unexpected!
When I read volume I thought you were talking about spatial volume of the room, or Hank?!, and I was so confused until I read the reply and finally understood it was about audio, which makes sense, since it is quite unnatural for things far and close to be on the same volume level.
@@Pingviinimursu It's probably one of the things that causes huge headaches in the movie industry and they get around it in a myriad of clever, hacky ways the audience knows and cares very little about. Because sound engineering is one of those things you barely appreciate when done right, but has brain messing capabilities when it goes sideways or is handled in unexpected ways.
One of my favorite linguistic quirks involving breath is conspire - to breathe with someone. As my linguistics teacher said, Romans were so paranoid that if they saw two people who looked liked they were breathing together, eg. talking very quietly, they thought they were out to get them. On a positive note one of my other favorite quirks is that the word "comfort" shares the root 'fort' that is also found in fortitude and fortress, and means strength. Which means that to comfort someone is to give them strength. Something that is comfortable is able to give you strength. I think we should be more inclined to comfort each other. Can't wait for p4A!
@@m.w.kaplan447like: This model is also the *teeeeeeeeeek* kinda model and not the *duuuuuuuuuuuuii* kinda model that the more cheaper refrigerators come in..
"You don't know how loud the noise is until the noise goes away," is a phrase I feel like I'm going to remember for the rest of my life. I have a terrible track record for remembering things so we'll see how this goes. The Format is amazing - it feels introspective and intimate, but also feels like an existential crisis boiling just below the surface
Auspicious Asparagus - yes! I deeply resonated with this as well. This is why I’m a ‘night owl! 🦉 there is a delicious silence in the world after midnight. 3 am is a near perfect time of day . . . the silence is delicious
The Format is the way of the future. I imagine all Vlogbrother videos becoming more and more existential as the years go on until it's just John laying on the floor for four minutes
It always hits me in my blind spot when other UA-cam channels I love pop into anothers’ comment section. :> (I also did the thing where I heard the comment in Simon’s voice first ahah.)
Seriously, something about how he speaks quietly and calmly with the voice sounding really close but him being so far, it really feels like he's an inner monologue and the body his voice is attached to is just there in frame. Long live the Format, and long live John
I love the intimacy of the near field mic paired with the total lack of intimacy from just like walking around aimlessly. The Format is a huge success imo
I love how this fuzzy mic allows you to get exquisite sound and just be... literally anywhere in frame. idk something about this... I love this format.
I recently walked across the width of Spain from France. When I came upon the western coast, I felt this immense relief at seeing the ocean. I live on the east coast of the United States and I dont think I realized how much I longed for the sea until I saw it again. The space and immensity of the water washed over my brain and calmed me. I feel so grateful for every moment I had on that trip but I feel particularly in debt to the Atlantic ocean, for meeting me on each end of my trip like an old friend and keeping me steady as I walked across hundreds of miles of land.
thank you for commenting this !! i am from the east coast too and far from the atlantic now. it's like you don't realize that you've been waiting for it until you feel the anticipation fall away
I love how much fun you seem to be having lately. I said to my partner the other day that so many vlogbrothers projects have this energy lately of "quick, while no one is looking, let's have a good time" and I love it.
I only discovered this channel a few weeks ago and have started watching from the very beginning (2007). The camera quality has improved and I sense that slightly depressed wisdom that comes with age in them, but these guys have largely gone unchanged for nearly fifteen years. And that's not a criticism or diminishing the updates to their format; it's a testament to their spirit. Their earnest desire to see the world suck less has not been tarnished by fame, fortune, or the unambiguous evil life has shown us all. They gave soul to nerd fighters and breathed life into awesome. I have so, so much respect for this.
@@joeybrown9952 Oddly enough, I stumbled across them multiple times in January of this year (2023). I saw a few UA-cam shorts they both did on their own channels and noticed they shared another one (Vlogbrothers). Also found their subreddit just before this year's Project for Awesome (randomly on Reddit) and ended up talking to people about science, philosophy, and coffee over there. It is so interesting. I've watched Healthcare Triage for years and I know what Sci Show and Crash Course are, but never knew 'who' they were. I even knew the Brain Scoop! But somehow this channel and what they're about completely got past me. So here I am, a month later watching their videos chronologically, wishing the world would suck less and hoping more people find this corner of the internet. It's nice here. And their coffee *is* awesome. How about you? How did you find them?
@@verity3616 That's so lovely! We're happy to have you. I started watching them in 2014 on and off as a teenager after I saw my sister watching Vlogbrothers. She stopped watching them then but I continued and then binged all there videos in 2017. I've watched most videos since then and love their podcast and tiktoks. I always love finding new nerdfighters, I hope you have a good time going through their catalogue and meeting others!
@@joeybrown9952 Thank you! I'm very behind the times in social media so it's always nice to discover interesting people who share your values. I do wish I had stumbled across this when I was younger though. Looking at some of these videos I can't help but think, "yeah, this probably would have cheered me up in 2013." Better late than never, right? You're lucky you got in early and I hope you've enjoyed all of it!
I just wanna say that I love how Hank and John show themselves openly enjoying what their doing and letting themselves be silly while simultaneously raising so much awareness and funds to save lives Like Hank's not humping things and John's not waxing his chin for a punishment, but they still hold on to the fun-loving parts of themselves and still let themselves be authentic and enjoy the light hearted or silly moments arguing about what shows to feature on the almost certainly upcoming streaming service DooblyDoo I've been here since 2009 and love that we are watching them get to live out the values and goals they formed years ago during all that silliness. Like even just from John first visiting Sierra Leone to now being a Board Member at PIH (we were briefly coworkers and I technically worked there first though he did not know i existed), and Hank going from wanting to make education more accessible through just posting Crash Course for free initially to now partnering with an acclaimed university to offer courses that can be claimed at universities if you want to pay a small fraction of the normal cost for a traditional college credit hour I love this community both because Hank and John create meaningful positive change in the world, and because they make dumb jokes and goof around online as well haha. Inside every man is two wolves, and if they're the Green brothers brand of humor and their genuine desire to better people's lives I think they should keep embracing both of them 😅 *I posted this as a comment but it turned into a post length love letter to the history of nerdfighteria so adding it here separately
@@resourceress7 thank you so much! Your username made me laugh for a different reason bc the notification came across as "no body replied to your comment" and I was like damn UA-cam you don't have to rub it in haha
@@FirstNameBunchANumbers Yes, grammar fun! When I sign up for email newsletters I really like to tell them that my first name is me. I love it when I get an email that says "Dear me" - I like to think of the nameless faceless email clutching its pearls. Oh, my!! Also in the UA-cam app, it says your username is FirstNameBunchANumbers. I liked it. Sometimes mine shows up as "no body" and sometimes it shows something else. I have no idea how UA-cam decides which username to show.
There’s also a higher likelihood of these authors being neurodivergent/autistic, which most of these traits can be manifestations of. I’ve been “sensitive” my while life, extremely creative yet overwhelmed by surprisingly simple tasks. As I enter my early 40’s, I’m now dealing with new chronic health conditions that are likely triggered by the constant stress on my nervous system. That book from the 1800’s is on to something. ❤❤❤
Being haunted by high pitch humming sounds coming from light fixtures happens to me so often. My parents are now just used to me emerging from my room to turn off random lights around the house sometimes, I'm glad I'm not alone in this 💜
My parents have clocks that tick loudly in almost every room of the house because they just love clocks. It drives me up the wall when I visit home lol
@@WouldntULikeToKnow. One time I was sitting next to my mother and started feeling really weird because there was a subtle but persisting ticking sound, I looked all around for the clock I thought it was coming from and when I came back it turned out that IT WAS HER WRISTWATCH ALL ALONG.
@@asfodelos3225 One time, my parents had the invisible fence turned way up somehow, and I could hear the warning noise (that only dogs are supposed to hear) in the kitchen. They didn't believe me, but I would hear the sound and see the dog react.
@@WouldntULikeToKnow. last time I stayed at my parents' house (when they weren't there) I very carefully collected the (non-synced!) ticking clocks and muffled them in a basket of blankets in the closet. before I left I very carefully put them all back
I live in a rural place and sitting outside between 1 am and 3 am, is close to bliss 😌 wind in trees, drops of rain, total darkness . . . Heaven on earth, s i l e n c e
I can't see well enough to get what this "format" is, but I kind of had the same feeling watching 3Blue1Brown videos for the first time. Like, "How did you get in my thinking room!?"
I watched you standing outside in a sweater, and then you commented on how windy it was in your part of the world. Living in a part of the world where you can *feel* the wind just by looking out your window, I'm always struck by how comfort is a relative concept. Anyway, hope you're doing well. Cheers from Newfoundland.
A simile I like to use in reference to light, is that you never notice how dark the room has gotten until you turn on the light. I often use this to describe what taking the right antidepressant is like.
1:39 "It's weird that you can see my body, but you can't feel what's happening inside of it" made me stop eating my breakfast without realising it. That statement captures the reason I hate going to the doctor, the reason I freak out about my body doing different stuff, the reason I feel so humanly lonely. I'm on my own when it comes to experiencing life and my own body, and it's such a huge responsibility. I'm ultimately alone in taking care of myself, because I must decide from whom and for what I need help, and then explain my experience with words that inherently are not enough.
The "air" words don't stop there, and they're all great. To conspire is to breathe together; to aspire is to breathe toward; to perspire is to breath through; to respire is to breathe again; and etc.
I've been thinking a lot about happiness recently since finally coming out of a long spell of depression, and it's nice to me to see someone like John appear happy for some moments of his life (I, of course, don't know that he's actually happy, but after watching vlogbrothers videos for many years it seems to me he's much happier than he was). For a long time I thought that the fact I approach things very logically and think everything through probably too much before I take any action meant that I was destined to exist in a low level of misery. But now, through watching John do this, I realise that the secret to getting out of my own head is to focus on and appreciate the very small details of the world around me and especially details about human society and the particular human beings I choose to spend my time with. My newfound happiness scared me when it first appeared because I was afraid I would lose it again, but I think that even if it does go away I can always find it by noticing and searching for small moments of joy and contentment and letting them fill my day when they arrive.
I so feel "you don't realize how loud the noise is until it stops". My partner and I hear things VERY differently for a lot of reasons, and I consistently hear noises from power sources that he doesn't. So when I'm in a testy mood and I can't figure out why, he usually asks me, "well, what can you hear right now" and them I'm able to identify the noise that's been driving me up a wall. Can't wait for the P4A!
Reading into the Hebrew origins is quite fascinating. 'Spirit' comes from the word 'Ruach', which translates to both 'breath' and 'the wind'. And so when the Bible says the Spirit of God, it's the air, the 'breath of life' that surrounds the world and gives us life. Or how there's a connection between "throat" and "soul" in the word Nephesh. "My soul thirsts for you” the original meaning is Hebrew is “my throat thirsts for you.” Just something to look into. Hebrew is such a fascinating language that gives a lot of perspective on how things were perceived back then.
on the subject of breath, I still remember that the first full sentence we learned in GSCE Latin was "dum spiro spero" which means "so long as I breathe, I hope" and I still think about it 6 and a half years later.
I just wanted to say that, before continuing into the video, I paused at 6 seconds in to quietly freak out about the giant MF Doom painting on the side of your room there. Of COURSE John would appreciate one of the greatest and strangest wordsmiths in the history of rap. Respect.
OK YES I immediately dove through the comments looking for mentions of the incredible DOOM painting and frankly, not enough mentions! This just makes me so happy. It all makes sense now!!
The Format is beautiful- I think it could be combined with educational videos or "thoughts from places' and still be amazing. Thoughts From The Format!
This precise form and format of media is currently tied with the song for my favorite manner of being stimulated and entertained. I would very much appreciate more, please.
I love The Format Also 'You don't even know how loud the noise is until the noise goes away' is something that hits quite hard with somebody who has recently become afflicted with tinnitus (like me)
RE the sound of light bulbs: my favourite band has a low humming in the background of every song, a synth sound from a Juno 106, and they do this bit in their shows where they play it, just that hum, and then take it away and leave complete silence instead. Even in a venue with thousands of people, I gasped the first time I heard it live. It has such a strong impact, even while it's hidden in the back of everything, or maybe *because* it's hidden in the back of everything.
I am immensely enjoying this back and forth format in 2023 so far :D I appreciate the deep and the superficial episodes too, and I just love them answering each other. More please!
John is giving strong ‘weather guy who has been sent on location to experience storm conditions that were predicted to be much worse than they actually were’ vibes and I GREATLY appreciate it. Might be my new favourite vlogbrrothers format
Hey John, I have always been under the illusion that you made your videos at a desk that was up against a wall. The room, I now know is a rather large room, has me questioning what I think I know. Seeing you sitting in the corner of your set with the camera zoomed out has got me thinking of our perspectives and how can we ever claim to know or see or understand anything. I do know that you are awesome, extremely intelligent, and thought provoking. You will always be a roll model to me!!
Along a similar vein; I used to have social anxiety disorder, but I didn't know how much fear I had (and how much it had hindered me) until I no longer felt it.
Recently got noise canceling headphones for the first time and the relief I felt when I first turned them on and blocked out the humming was unbelievable. I had no idea how much sound there was until I “turned it off” and then I felt peace. Highly recommend
when I was younger I related so much to Hank and as the years go on I find myself relating more and more to john. this video was a jewel, so much to appreciate
The best part of this video for me was "you can't feel the cold I feel", while I could in fact feel the cold while waiting for my bus to school(although likely not in the same way)
I feel you w the noises!! I'm a mental health counselor n we have noise machines on all day to cope w our less than soundproof walls. And when i get to turn the last one off@ the end of the day it brings such peace to my soul!!!!
These moments help me know I'm not the only one having these thoughts. It makes the world feel more grounded and real that I am not the only one hunting the lights that are humming. Thank you for these. Thank you for reminding me I'm real.
I’ve already watched this video like…three times. I love the format. Also, the phrase “metaphorically resonant” is so apt for so many things, it’s beautiful, and since hearing you say it for the first time (I think on DH&J?) I now say it *all the time*
I love everything about this video. The commentary on being cold, the Barbara Duden quote, the language lesson about breath and breathing... Thank you for this.
2:45 Fascinating! This makes me think about the memoir "When Breath Becomes Air" by Paul Kalanithi, which we read for my Creative Nonfiction class in college. He was a neurosurgeon dying of cancer and he wrote it knowing he was dying. I feel like the title becomes even more darkly poetic with this linguistic background in mind...
The best format is back!! Another problem I've run into about taking about struggles with mental illness is that people say that you can't use it as an exuse when your just saying it's a bigger struggle with said mental illness. I told someone that my ADHD makes it hard to be good with money sometimes, which is a true statement. I'm not saying it isn't something that I can work on, I'm saying it's harder to work on it because of my ADHD.
The Format brings me so much joy, and I cannot explain why. It's something about the environment taking up more space that somehow makes it seem more intimate-that we're just in a room together. Or perhaps it's the additional stimulation of the changes in location that helps my brain stay focused, like when I listen better in class if I'm allowed to occupy my hands, doodling in the margins of my notebook. Or maybe it's just very silly, and I enjoy silly things.
I've just gotten back into The "Hank and John experience." I don't know how you reach into my soul with nearly every single word you speak John but it's extremely helpful. Knowing that I'm not alone in my crazy thoughts and feelings. Hearing someone else say things you've only heard in your head is.. powerful.
You can hear that range! Cool; not many of us do. But that pressure you implied is just *there* from those electronics - I firmly believe everyone feels it, even if their ears can't hear it (EM pressure). And that relief, that visceral relief, from turning off the noisy device? It's why heading outside, into the forest, into a field, feels so good and is such a relief. We're getting away from the noise and jangle of all our contemporary electronics. Love your 'stream of consciousness' videos, btw. It's one of my favorite SF writing techniques. Happy Tuesday!
I said Barbara Dudek instead of Barbara Duden, which is why I should've scripted this. Two more things:
1. The p4a starts next Friday! Support a charity you care about by making an excellent project for awesome video explaining what the charity does and why our community should support it; then upload the video to UA-cam and submit it: projectforawesome.com/submit
2. Join the matching fund if you can donate $500 or more to help encourage donations during the p4a: projectforawesome.com/matching
Thanks for being here with us. -John
The Liverpool fan in John comes up subtly again
@@threaruscamuwundra7417 I wonder if Barbara did the spaghetti legs before establishing a methodology of inquiry regarding the human body and disease as effective windows into history.
Will the Awesome Coffee Club’s unpaid intern be making a P4A video?
I am glad to be here with you
John, can you share the books you’ve been reading about TB?
I feel like we’ve really come back around to the silliness of the 2011/2012 Vlogbrothers but with the earnestness of the 2020 Vlogbrothers?? And I’m loving it.
might be a sign of entering into a new golden age of internet content. It will be no 2015-2016 internet but it will still be a lot of fun.
Right, Hank's not humping things and John's not waxing his chin for a punishment, but they hold on to the fun-loving parts of themselves and still let themselves be authentic and enjoy the light hearted or silly moments arguing about what shows to feature on the almost certainly upcoming streaming service DooblyDoo
I've been here since 2009 and love that we are watching them get to live out the values and goals they formed years ago during all that silliness. Like even just from John first visiting Sierra Leone to now being a Board Member at PIH (we were briefly coworkers and I technically worked there first though he did not know i existed), and Hank going from wanting to make education more accessible through just posting Crash Course for free initially to now partnering with an acclaimed university to offer courses that can be claimed at universities if you want to pay a small fraction of the normal cost for a traditional college credit hour
I love this community both because Hank and John create meaningful positive change in the world, and because they make dumb jokes and goof around online as well haha. Inside every man is two wolves, and if they're the Green brothers brand of humor and their genuine desire to better people's lives I think they should keep embracing both of them 😅
I also love that we've had Vlogbrothers for long enough to recognize certain vintages.
@@ruadhbran no exactly :) I’ll be watching since 2011 and like… there are for sure phases hahaha
So, we're earnestly silly now? Or sillily earnest?
"I don't know if I've mentioned this..." is one of my favorite ways John starts a new topic that is actually a continuation of the same topic that he's been talking about for weeks and/or months.
It makes us feel like we know John really well
I can't help thinking and talking about the topic I'm devouring that's devouring my brain. Very relatable ♥️
😂
I don't know if he's mentioned it much but once, John Green abstained from the social internet on the DL
I have a feeling he _does_ know if he's mentioned this.
My brain still has a weird time comprehending how the volume is the same when John is both close to and far away from the camera in The Format and I love it
I gotta get my full value out of this 30-foot cord I bought just for The Format. -John
This seriously messes up my head everytime, which is weird because it's not like microphones or actors moving in movies are anything new and no other videos cause this. Must be that this looks like a UA-cam Video, and they are filmed in the UA-camr Way with UA-camr Tier Equipment. Or maybe I'm used to audio doing wonky stuff when streamers move. But this combination feels so wrong and unexpected!
When I read volume I thought you were talking about spatial volume of the room, or Hank?!, and I was so confused until I read the reply and finally understood it was about audio, which makes sense, since it is quite unnatural for things far and close to be on the same volume level.
@@Pingviinimursu It's probably one of the things that causes huge headaches in the movie industry and they get around it in a myriad of clever, hacky ways the audience knows and cares very little about. Because sound engineering is one of those things you barely appreciate when done right, but has brain messing capabilities when it goes sideways or is handled in unexpected ways.
Omg I love that we're now spelling "The Format" with capital letters. Makes it sound like it's got a mind of its own...
One of my favorite linguistic quirks involving breath is conspire - to breathe with someone. As my linguistics teacher said, Romans were so paranoid that if they saw two people who looked liked they were breathing together, eg. talking very quietly, they thought they were out to get them. On a positive note one of my other favorite quirks is that the word "comfort" shares the root 'fort' that is also found in fortitude and fortress, and means strength. Which means that to comfort someone is to give them strength. Something that is comfortable is able to give you strength. I think we should be more inclined to comfort each other. Can't wait for p4A!
Thank you for sharing this! :)
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Those are lovely linguistic quirks
I love this, thank you!
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Mind blown for the better. 🤯
i fucking love 'the format'
Me too this is the most fun I've had in years. -John
I love the fuzzy mic
@@jobriq5 me too! it looks so soft and comforts me for some reason
@@sylvy16 If it were blue, I'd give it a cookie.
It's so good. Don't know why! The 30 foot cable, the random cuts, and the giant fuzzy mic help, though
Can't wait for The Format to become the new The Bit.
It bits all right
Commit to the Format
Can it? It's a difference of magnitude, it would need to operate in a different meta.
Come back to the Format?
Idk, i feel like it should rhyme, which to me was one of the more underrated (but more important) aspects of that phrase.
*touches soil* deep lore hides in this comment
The look my wife gave me when I told her I wish I could pre-listen to refrigerators before I bought them.
it should be in the specs or something fr
@@m.w.kaplan447like:
This model is also the *teeeeeeeeeek* kinda model and not the *duuuuuuuuuuuuii* kinda model that the more cheaper refrigerators come in..
This is my favorite format. Loving this era of vlogbrothers.
I really like making videos in the format. -John
@@vlogbrothers it makes you seem like you're more relaxed and makes the videos feel very conversational 😊
@@vlogbrothers committing to the bit
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@@vlogbrothers That sounds like a good reason to do it ...
Nothing makes me feel so seen as The Format
Which is a) totally relatable and b) really weird, since The Format is actually you (we) seeing someone who can´t see you.
@@CL-go2ji This was read in the tone of The Format. Well done
I absolutely love this off-brand Bo Burnham format I hope to see it more throughout the year
Bo? I know who you’re talking of, just not what you’re referencing.
@@CrazyPenguin-cf3tg He made a special called "Inside" during the pandemic inside his guest house
@@pygmalion0451 Oooh I see ty
"You don't know how loud the noise is until the noise goes away," is a phrase I feel like I'm going to remember for the rest of my life. I have a terrible track record for remembering things so we'll see how this goes. The Format is amazing - it feels introspective and intimate, but also feels like an existential crisis boiling just below the surface
Auspicious Asparagus - yes! I deeply resonated with this as well. This is why I’m a ‘night owl! 🦉 there is a delicious silence in the world after midnight. 3 am is a near perfect time of day . . . the silence is delicious
The Format is the way of the future. I imagine all Vlogbrother videos becoming more and more existential as the years go on until it's just John laying on the floor for four minutes
I would watch that multiple times
omg that would be AWESOME 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
@@Max_Matrix soooo many times!!
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John could do a rendition of "4'33"."
I love your videos normally, but the couple you've done in this format, just another level. :-) I love everything about them. :-) -Daven
Oh hey, I love your guys' videos too. The Format of these is another level, agreed.
lol I read this in Simon's voice at first then had to go back and read it in Daven's voice.
@@AJGoff110 As Daven, you should definitely just read it in Simon's voice and accent anyway. I'll sound way cooler in your head that way. 😋 -Daven
It always hits me in my blind spot when other UA-cam channels I love pop into anothers’ comment section. :>
(I also did the thing where I heard the comment in Simon’s voice first ahah.)
@Today I Found Out Please do not adopt The Format it would break me
I find The Format so comforting?? No idea why but it’s like you’re in my brain because this is how my inner monologue talks to myself.
Seriously, something about how he speaks quietly and calmly with the voice sounding really close but him being so far, it really feels like he's an inner monologue and the body his voice is attached to is just there in frame. Long live the Format, and long live John
It feels like my inner monologue, but I don't have to do any of the thinking myself so it's easier.
Thoughts from places but the place is the basement and living room. Although, as always the thoughts are insightful.
We stand on the shoulders of Giants, and maybe The Format is only another example in a long chain of Vlogger Innovation
The Format is soothing and interesting, which I feel like is an exceptional balance to strike
Exactly what I wanted to express but better
I need an entire Anthropocene Reviewed style podcast, completely in this format.
Walking around the things he's reviewing
I would very enthusiastically watch this
So good to see you taking it down a notch but also killing it with the new format.
I love the intimacy of the near field mic paired with the total lack of intimacy from just like walking around aimlessly. The Format is a huge success imo
I love how this fuzzy mic allows you to get exquisite sound and just be... literally anywhere in frame. idk something about this... I love this format.
Mother of pearl, not only has The Format returned and nestled it's way into my heart, we got some more TB talk. Exceptional.
I recently walked across the width of Spain from France. When I came upon the western coast, I felt this immense relief at seeing the ocean. I live on the east coast of the United States and I dont think I realized how much I longed for the sea until I saw it again. The space and immensity of the water washed over my brain and calmed me. I feel so grateful for every moment I had on that trip but I feel particularly in debt to the Atlantic ocean, for meeting me on each end of my trip like an old friend and keeping me steady as I walked across hundreds of miles of land.
thank you for commenting this !! i am from the east coast too and far from the atlantic now. it's like you don't realize that you've been waiting for it until you feel the anticipation fall away
I love how much fun you seem to be having lately. I said to my partner the other day that so many vlogbrothers projects have this energy lately of "quick, while no one is looking, let's have a good time" and I love it.
Hahaha what a great way to put it
I only discovered this channel a few weeks ago and have started watching from the very beginning (2007). The camera quality has improved and I sense that slightly depressed wisdom that comes with age in them, but these guys have largely gone unchanged for nearly fifteen years. And that's not a criticism or diminishing the updates to their format; it's a testament to their spirit. Their earnest desire to see the world suck less has not been tarnished by fame, fortune, or the unambiguous evil life has shown us all.
They gave soul to nerd fighters and breathed life into awesome. I have so, so much respect for this.
Welcome!
welcome! how did you find the channel? i’m always curious as to how they get new viewers
@@joeybrown9952 Oddly enough, I stumbled across them multiple times in January of this year (2023). I saw a few UA-cam shorts they both did on their own channels and noticed they shared another one (Vlogbrothers). Also found their subreddit just before this year's Project for Awesome (randomly on Reddit) and ended up talking to people about science, philosophy, and coffee over there.
It is so interesting. I've watched Healthcare Triage for years and I know what Sci Show and Crash Course are, but never knew 'who' they were. I even knew the Brain Scoop! But somehow this channel and what they're about completely got past me.
So here I am, a month later watching their videos chronologically, wishing the world would suck less and hoping more people find this corner of the internet. It's nice here.
And their coffee *is* awesome. How about you? How did you find them?
@@verity3616 That's so lovely! We're happy to have you. I started watching them in 2014 on and off as a teenager after I saw my sister watching Vlogbrothers. She stopped watching them then but I continued and then binged all there videos in 2017. I've watched most videos since then and love their podcast and tiktoks. I always love finding new nerdfighters, I hope you have a good time going through their catalogue and meeting others!
@@joeybrown9952 Thank you! I'm very behind the times in social media so it's always nice to discover interesting people who share your values. I do wish I had stumbled across this when I was younger though. Looking at some of these videos I can't help but think, "yeah, this probably would have cheered me up in 2013." Better late than never, right?
You're lucky you got in early and I hope you've enjoyed all of it!
I just wanna say that I love how Hank and John show themselves openly enjoying what their doing and letting themselves be silly while simultaneously raising so much awareness and funds to save lives
Like Hank's not humping things and John's not waxing his chin for a punishment, but they still hold on to the fun-loving parts of themselves and still let themselves be authentic and enjoy the light hearted or silly moments arguing about what shows to feature on the almost certainly upcoming streaming service DooblyDoo
I've been here since 2009 and love that we are watching them get to live out the values and goals they formed years ago during all that silliness. Like even just from John first visiting Sierra Leone to now being a Board Member at PIH (we were briefly coworkers and I technically worked there first though he did not know i existed), and Hank going from wanting to make education more accessible through just posting Crash Course for free initially to now partnering with an acclaimed university to offer courses that can be claimed at universities if you want to pay a small fraction of the normal cost for a traditional college credit hour
I love this community both because Hank and John create meaningful positive change in the world, and because they make dumb jokes and goof around online as well haha. Inside every man is two wolves, and if they're the Green brothers brand of humor and their genuine desire to better people's lives I think they should keep embracing both of them 😅
*I posted this as a comment but it turned into a post length love letter to the history of nerdfighteria so adding it here separately
Beautiful post/comment.
Also your username made me smile.
@@resourceress7 thank you so much! Your username made me laugh for a different reason bc the notification came across as "no body replied to your comment" and I was like damn UA-cam you don't have to rub it in haha
@@FirstNameBunchANumbers Yes, grammar fun!
When I sign up for email newsletters I really like to tell them that my first name is me. I love it when I get an email that says "Dear me" - I like to think of the nameless faceless email clutching its pearls. Oh, my!!
Also in the UA-cam app, it says your username is FirstNameBunchANumbers. I liked it. Sometimes mine shows up as "no body" and sometimes it shows something else. I have no idea how UA-cam decides which username to show.
There’s also a higher likelihood of these authors being neurodivergent/autistic, which most of these traits can be manifestations of. I’ve been “sensitive” my while life, extremely creative yet overwhelmed by surprisingly simple tasks. As I enter my early 40’s, I’m now dealing with new chronic health conditions that are likely triggered by the constant stress on my nervous system. That book from the 1800’s is on to something. ❤❤❤
Being haunted by high pitch humming sounds coming from light fixtures happens to me so often. My parents are now just used to me emerging from my room to turn off random lights around the house sometimes, I'm glad I'm not alone in this 💜
My parents have clocks that tick loudly in almost every room of the house because they just love clocks. It drives me up the wall when I visit home lol
@@WouldntULikeToKnow. One time I was sitting next to my mother and started feeling really weird because there was a subtle but persisting ticking sound, I looked all around for the clock I thought it was coming from and when I came back it turned out that IT WAS HER WRISTWATCH ALL ALONG.
@@asfodelos3225 One time, my parents had the invisible fence turned way up somehow, and I could hear the warning noise (that only dogs are supposed to hear) in the kitchen. They didn't believe me, but I would hear the sound and see the dog react.
@@WouldntULikeToKnow. last time I stayed at my parents' house (when they weren't there) I very carefully collected the (non-synced!) ticking clocks and muffled them in a basket of blankets in the closet. before I left I very carefully put them all back
I live in a rural place and sitting outside between 1 am and 3 am, is close to bliss 😌 wind in trees, drops of rain, total darkness . . . Heaven on earth, s i l e n c e
The current John Steals Hank's Idea bit is one of my favorite things, and it gives me something to look forward to all week.
You walking into and out of frame in different locations, I have no idea why, but that is like the peak of humor to my brain. Huge fan of The Format.
The format sometimes attacks me because this is very much what thinking in my head looks like
I can't see well enough to get what this "format" is, but I kind of had the same feeling watching 3Blue1Brown videos for the first time. Like, "How did you get in my thinking room!?"
John speaking to us in this format is exactly what I needed today
John, this is a master class in explaining a mid-morning existential crisis.
You have a knack for being satisfyingly existential without throwing in a gallon of pessimism and it's really refreshing
I watched you standing outside in a sweater, and then you commented on how windy it was in your part of the world. Living in a part of the world where you can *feel* the wind just by looking out your window, I'm always struck by how comfort is a relative concept. Anyway, hope you're doing well. Cheers from Newfoundland.
Hello fellow Newfoundlander!
The Format brings me such joy. I had surgery last week, and my stitches are killing me. This video is helping with my irascibility.
Rest up! Nothing wrong with a bit of irascibility while recovering from surgery. -John
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"You don't even know how loud the noise is until the noise goes away..." *refrigerator motor stops running*
A simile I like to use in reference to light, is that you never notice how dark the room has gotten until you turn on the light. I often use this to describe what taking the right antidepressant is like.
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John, I am loving The Format! It feels like I'm wrapped in a fuzzy blanket, drinking calming tea, and having an existential crisis.
1:39 "It's weird that you can see my body, but you can't feel what's happening inside of it" made me stop eating my breakfast without realising it. That statement captures the reason I hate going to the doctor, the reason I freak out about my body doing different stuff, the reason I feel so humanly lonely. I'm on my own when it comes to experiencing life and my own body, and it's such a huge responsibility. I'm ultimately alone in taking care of myself, because I must decide from whom and for what I need help, and then explain my experience with words that inherently are not enough.
John is training for his elderly man who derives flag inspiration from the sky days and I dare say it’ll fit him beautifully
The "air" words don't stop there, and they're all great. To conspire is to breathe together; to aspire is to breathe toward; to perspire is to breath through; to respire is to breathe again; and etc.
Inside, but make it more Tuberculosis and less eggplant emoji
"_______, but make it more Tuberculosis" is my whole thing. -John
The Format gives me such old-school vlogbrother vibes, and I’m here for it. Such a nice soothing way to end a hectic day.
I've been thinking a lot about happiness recently since finally coming out of a long spell of depression, and it's nice to me to see someone like John appear happy for some moments of his life (I, of course, don't know that he's actually happy, but after watching vlogbrothers videos for many years it seems to me he's much happier than he was). For a long time I thought that the fact I approach things very logically and think everything through probably too much before I take any action meant that I was destined to exist in a low level of misery. But now, through watching John do this, I realise that the secret to getting out of my own head is to focus on and appreciate the very small details of the world around me and especially details about human society and the particular human beings I choose to spend my time with. My newfound happiness scared me when it first appeared because I was afraid I would lose it again, but I think that even if it does go away I can always find it by noticing and searching for small moments of joy and contentment and letting them fill my day when they arrive.
Thank you. I relate - a lot! - and the "it scares me, but if I lose it I can find it again by focusing on the small moments" idea helps.
I so feel "you don't realize how loud the noise is until it stops". My partner and I hear things VERY differently for a lot of reasons, and I consistently hear noises from power sources that he doesn't. So when I'm in a testy mood and I can't figure out why, he usually asks me, "well, what can you hear right now" and them I'm able to identify the noise that's been driving me up a wall. Can't wait for the P4A!
I really enjoy The Format! As an anxious person myself I appreciate the chill vibes. Also the fuzzy mic is fun to look at.
Agreed
I love the fuzzy mic. It adds to comforting vibe.
Another spectacular installment. Thank you John.
John standing with like 15 feet of cord bunched in his hand kills me 😂
John. Real talk. Never stop being you. You above all. You John. Always be you. Sincerely. Me.
this has all the vibes of sitting on the floor with your best friend at 2 am discussing everything and nothing all at once
Reading into the Hebrew origins is quite fascinating. 'Spirit' comes from the word 'Ruach', which translates to both 'breath' and 'the wind'. And so when the Bible says the Spirit of God, it's the air, the 'breath of life' that surrounds the world and gives us life. Or how there's a connection between "throat" and "soul" in the word Nephesh. "My soul thirsts for you” the original meaning is Hebrew is “my throat thirsts for you.”
Just something to look into. Hebrew is such a fascinating language that gives a lot of perspective on how things were perceived back then.
on the subject of breath, I still remember that the first full sentence we learned in GSCE Latin was "dum spiro spero" which means "so long as I breathe, I hope" and I still think about it 6 and a half years later.
I feel so understood about the becoming aware of an omnipresent humming sound from a light fixture
I hope that we see both you and Hank using *The Format* much more often
Man I love this format. John sounds like the constant background of my brain.
Aspire: to breathe upon
Transpire: to breathe through
Perspire: to blow
Conspire: to breathe together
Suspire: to sigh
I still find it so weird that I don't know you, despite how well I know you. John, of all the people I don't know, but who I know, you're my favorite.
I just wanted to say that, before continuing into the video, I paused at 6 seconds in to quietly freak out about the giant MF Doom painting on the side of your room there. Of COURSE John would appreciate one of the greatest and strangest wordsmiths in the history of rap. Respect.
I'm sure the video contained other information, but all I perceived was that DOOM painting and went searching the comments for mentions of it.
OK YES I immediately dove through the comments looking for mentions of the incredible DOOM painting and frankly, not enough mentions! This just makes me so happy. It all makes sense now!!
@@NicholasWellcome Thanks for using ALL CAPS when you spelled the mans name.
John absolutely KILLS this format. This gave me so much serotonin.
The Format is beautiful- I think it could be combined with educational videos or "thoughts from places' and still be amazing. Thoughts From The Format!
John Green out here dropping quotes that force me to rethink my entire world
This precise form and format of media is currently tied with the song for my favorite manner of being stimulated and entertained. I would very much appreciate more, please.
I love The Format
Also 'You don't even know how loud the noise is until the noise goes away' is something that hits quite hard with somebody who has recently become afflicted with tinnitus (like me)
I'm glad John is enjoying The Format so much.
‘The Format’ is my favourite Vlogbrothers arc since Singamajigs.
RE the sound of light bulbs: my favourite band has a low humming in the background of every song, a synth sound from a Juno 106, and they do this bit in their shows where they play it, just that hum, and then take it away and leave complete silence instead. Even in a venue with thousands of people, I gasped the first time I heard it live. It has such a strong impact, even while it's hidden in the back of everything, or maybe *because* it's hidden in the back of everything.
What band?
@@mallowtonmouse Bleachers, they usually do it before a song called Rollercoaster if you're looking for a video.
I am immensely enjoying this back and forth format in 2023 so far :D I appreciate the deep and the superficial episodes too, and I just love them answering each other. More please!
i really hope this format never ends
John is giving strong ‘weather guy who has been sent on location to experience storm conditions that were predicted to be much worse than they actually were’ vibes and I GREATLY appreciate it.
Might be my new favourite vlogbrrothers format
this is a new wave of videos. everyone’s gonna be doing the format now lmfao
Mr. Beast Format video when??? -John
Hey John, I have always been under the illusion that you made your videos at a desk that was up against a wall. The room, I now know is a rather large room, has me questioning what I think I know. Seeing you sitting in the corner of your set with the camera zoomed out has got me thinking of our perspectives and how can we ever claim to know or see or understand anything.
I do know that you are awesome, extremely intelligent, and thought provoking. You will always be a roll model to me!!
I love melancholy stand up comedian John Green
why is this the most comforting thing I've heard all week? Thanks, John.
THE FORMAT
Along a similar vein; I used to have social anxiety disorder, but I didn't know how much fear I had (and how much it had hindered me) until I no longer felt it.
Yes! Exactly!
Also: Congratulations.
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Recently got noise canceling headphones for the first time and the relief I felt when I first turned them on and blocked out the humming was unbelievable. I had no idea how much sound there was until I “turned it off” and then I felt peace. Highly recommend
this!!!!! putting them on and then listening to this video... transcendental experience
when I was younger I related so much to Hank and as the years go on I find myself relating more and more to john. this video was a jewel, so much to appreciate
This is the most John video we’ve had for a while, it’s lovely.
I've been sick for the last several days, on top of the regularly scheduled mental sickness, and this video was nice
hope you are doin alright!
So many nuggets of gold in this one. Thank you, John 💖
The best part of this video for me was "you can't feel the cold I feel", while I could in fact feel the cold while waiting for my bus to school(although likely not in the same way)
same! it's wild to be cold while someone else is cold and know that you'll never have each other's experience of it
I feel you w the noises!! I'm a mental health counselor n we have noise machines on all day to cope w our less than soundproof walls. And when i get to turn the last one off@ the end of the day it brings such peace to my soul!!!!
These moments help me know I'm not the only one having these thoughts. It makes the world feel more grounded and real that I am not the only one hunting the lights that are humming. Thank you for these. Thank you for reminding me I'm real.
I’ve already watched this video like…three times. I love the format. Also, the phrase “metaphorically resonant” is so apt for so many things, it’s beautiful, and since hearing you say it for the first time (I think on DH&J?) I now say it *all the time*
SAAAME, john made a dangerous addition to my vocabulary 😂
Love Live The Format!
This vibe was incredibly comforting, the subject matter made me feel far less lonely in my life experience and I really REALLY did not want it to end.
I love everything about this video. The commentary on being cold, the Barbara Duden quote, the language lesson about breath and breathing... Thank you for this.
I really needed John's soft and gentleness today, thank you
I’m not bright enough to know what metaphorically resonate means but I love how relaxing your babbling is. Thanks for being our friend!
2:45 Fascinating! This makes me think about the memoir "When Breath Becomes Air" by Paul Kalanithi, which we read for my Creative Nonfiction class in college. He was a neurosurgeon dying of cancer and he wrote it knowing he was dying. I feel like the title becomes even more darkly poetic with this linguistic background in mind...
The best format is back!!
Another problem I've run into about taking about struggles with mental illness is that people say that you can't use it as an exuse when your just saying it's a bigger struggle with said mental illness. I told someone that my ADHD makes it hard to be good with money sometimes, which is a true statement. I'm not saying it isn't something that I can work on, I'm saying it's harder to work on it because of my ADHD.
This is so poetic. You should be an author.
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I cannot believe that this much format innovation is happening in this channel more than a decade in. Incredible
The Format brings me so much joy, and I cannot explain why. It's something about the environment taking up more space that somehow makes it seem more intimate-that we're just in a room together. Or perhaps it's the additional stimulation of the changes in location that helps my brain stay focused, like when I listen better in class if I'm allowed to occupy my hands, doodling in the margins of my notebook. Or maybe it's just very silly, and I enjoy silly things.
One of my favorite videos ever. Just a gem.
*Italian hand thing
*chef kiss
I've just gotten back into The "Hank and John experience." I don't know how you reach into my soul with nearly every single word you speak John but it's extremely helpful. Knowing that I'm not alone in my crazy thoughts and feelings. Hearing someone else say things you've only heard in your head is.. powerful.
I could listen to John finding metaphorically resonate things all day.
You can hear that range! Cool; not many of us do. But that pressure you implied is just *there* from those electronics - I firmly believe everyone feels it, even if their ears can't hear it (EM pressure). And that relief, that visceral relief, from turning off the noisy device? It's why heading outside, into the forest, into a field, feels so good and is such a relief. We're getting away from the noise and jangle of all our contemporary electronics. Love your 'stream of consciousness' videos, btw. It's one of my favorite SF writing techniques. Happy Tuesday!