You should definitely name your hot sauce August in Indiana. The way you described it, and then followed up with “Kinda like August in Indiana.” Was just too too perfect.
I said to myself: “Oh, John and I have the same socks!” Then I realized it’s because we both subscribe to the same sock club that helps build a maternal center of excellence in Sierra Leon
Wait, if someone wanted to subscribe to that sock club so they can also help build a maternal center of excellence in Sierra Leon, like... where would they do that?
john posted a video On hope before hank publicly annnounced his lymphoma diagnosis and it was the format. Now we're closing a chapter with the format after having REALized Hope(and it was filmed before hank published the good news). I find that beautiful and i wonder whether it was intentional
“And the other half I wasted” - John, you’ve written many things in your life, some of which I’ve even read, but none have come close to making me down right CACKLE as hard as that did - 5 stars ✨
I've over/under wrapped a 3000 foot TV cord. Words cannot express the despair I felt when I got to the end and realized it wasn't sitting flat enough for stowage and that I had to start all over again.
All I took from this is that I need to up my chilli game... Also maybe I need to pickle my chillies Dried um last year and that was fine, and I had enough to last through the winter... But even with doubled numbers this year I've only got like 10 so far and that's hardly worth 1 mason jar
This video was great. Idk if it was the return of The Format, the four chambered parts of the video, or the fact that you just seemed so happy in this and chill like we were casually talking to each other (even more so in this video than ones in the past)!! And huzzah to Hank's remission too! What a stupendous time to be alive and existentially aware of everything.
Use your 30m microphone cord to hide somewhere in the shot and then when you're like 70% through talking for that shot, you reveal yourself. It'll be like a Hide and Seek edition of The Format. Every shot we'll wonder, "Where is John hiding in this shot?"
Congratulations on your 100 harvested peppers and more to come!!! This year I harvested approximately 0.5 bell peppers. It was very reminiscent of the “how to cook eight peas” situation but a plant did grow so some success was had!
When John said "there isnt a word in the english language for when hope is realized and I think thats pretty telling." I actually had to pause the video and sit in stunned silence for a moment. I still dont even have words to express the feelings that sentence brought up in me. Thank you John.
Can someone please gather up all the "John speaks about tuberculosis " facts? Would love to see all of them together. The epidemiology college class we were forced to sign up for and ended up enjoying immensely.
Fun fact: it IS actually pronounced "habanero," *not* "habañero." "Habañero" is actually a hypercorrection, specifically a hyperforeignism. Check out the wiki page on hypercorrections, it's super interesting! In IPA, it's /ˌ(h)ɑbəˈnɛɹoʊ/, not /ˌ(h)ɑbəˈnjɛɹoʊ/.
Most Americans also pronounce "jalapeño" wrong, like "halapeeno" or some such abomination. The Ñ is a mystery to them. They put one in where there isn't one and when there is one, they ignore it! As a Spanish speaker, both mispronunciations drive me nuts!
You should name it "Taking it Up a Notch" to express your desire at the beginning of this year to take it down a notch but in fact, the universe had other ideas like making you the temporary and reluctant CEO.
Hot sauce name suggestion: TAKE IT UP A NOTCH (in honor of the video where you explained that you don’t always have a say in where the notch is set, and how many things in your life have been taken up a notch (or more) this year outside of your control)
I love this. I raise money for a charity called MercyShips with my channel and they are heading to Sierra Leone with their hospital ship next, everything I know about it comes from you. Appreciate this video and all of them! 🥰
Seeing this comment was like seeing behind the YT algorithm curtain and it makes me think did I discover you because you watch here and YT went "well he likes travel stuff and Vlogbrothers so recommend him this". and then I went on a cruise?
August in Indiana is like the perfect name for your hot sauce. However, as someone who cannot eat even the tinniest amount of spicy, I think I'm also gonna be avoiding actual August in Indiana for like, ever. P.S. So much love to Hank, so pleased for you guys. My dad unfortunately passed away from cancer in Nov 2021. Miss you dad.
I cannot begin to describe how surprised and thrilled I was to open this video and be welcomed with an opening of the format. John, you are a wizard. Best video I've watched in awhile
There were so many good parts in this video: one normal shot for the thumbnail, “I’ve spent half my life gathering up this 30 ft microphone chord and the other half I wasted”, living in the shadow of death sounds like a 3rd album of an obscure heavy metal band, the part with two Johns, and of course “oh no we have to go OUTSIDE for part four” Great video as always, got a lot of giggles out of me
I'm looking for salsa names in the comments. "The Other Half Wasted: A Green Family Salsa." "The Shadow of Death:... " "Oh No We Have To Go OUTSIDE:..."
My favorite part of the format remains seeing new parts of Sarah and John's art collection. Like this week in part three I love the photograph of window with the blowing curtain above the credenza. PS I have the same Cy Twombly book sitting just below it.
Bro I read your books, then I goto depression for a week or so, but still i read more....What your book says" You laugh, then you cry then you come back for more" ITSSS SOOOO TRUEEEE!!!!! I just wanted to say "Thanks" For all you've taught me and all you will!
The talk of TB being a pervasive part of life globally being two human lifetimes ago reminded me that the mom in Hayao Miyazaki's masterpiece "My Neighbor Totoro" has an unspecified illness that is almost certainly TB (based on Miyazaki's mother having it and being hospitalized when he was young).
@@FelixTheAnimator For sure. I've only watched that one once because unlike Totoro the first time I saw it was as an adult who got that subtext and now it just makes me sad.
@audreybray1149 - You remind me of a boss I had in the early 2000s who was really into Eminem. She said (describing herself), "I don't think his intended demographic is a 50-year-old white woman from Grosse Pointe." It was funny, but I actually think he would've been just fine with that, even back then.
I like to think the word in English for when hope is realised is crescendo, because like with music, we feel hope in our body and our chest and we feel it coming and we want it to happen and when it does it's a feeling of ecstasy and release and it's amazing.
the format brings me the joy and bliss that is found in no other corner or pocket of this multiverse. also, good morning john and the rest of nerdfiteria.
As someone who works for that company... Finding out their presence in rap is so great, explains why they can't afford to give us raises. They're too busy paying off rappers. ☹️
Just imagine: If we didn't have UA-cam, John's ramblings would be relegated to just one person (presumably Hank, or a stand-in when he's not available) listening intently in a musky library or peaceful garden but who is constantly asking him to speak up a bit because John can't be bothered to raise his voice for almost any reason. But instead, we all get to enjoy him and his insightful thoughts in perfect clarity due to his fantastic mic and it's 30 foot cable.
This made me smile :) I'm really going through it today, migraine made me have to leave work and then I allowed myself to process some old grief about a friend who died in high school. I'm eating campbell's chicken noodle soup now and drinking gatorade (my brother in law bought both, he's the best) and saw that I hadn't watched the Vlogbrothers video yet. Made my day feel a little more normal. Thanks. DFTBA
God I love the format. And i also love that when I learned that George Washington's likely infertility which robbed us of a much more likely American monarchy is believed to have been caused by smallpox he caught while making his only trip outside of the US - to Barbados with his brother because his brother had tuberculosis - my first thought was that John would love this information.
Glad Hank is doing better. Activation of hope seems like strangely scintillating hot sauce name. Anyways, I hope you have many years with Hank driving him wild with your constant TB focus. Love from Oz
That is really exciting about the Maternal Center of Excellence. I'm pregnant right now, and I could deliver there. I have been following Vlogbrothers for about 10 years, and I remember so many updates along the way. I'm going to deliver closer to home, because I don't want to travel more than necessary. This morning, my spouse read my NIPT test results and is going to reveal the gender of our baby to me tonight. All the other more important results look good, too.
Growing up in Louisiana, it's reassuring that everyone feels the same way about humidity. It is indeed a hot air bath, made worse with the sudden adhesive properties that your clothes adopt.
My grandma was from New Orleans, & I remember her telling me how she had to have a fan blowing straight on her face to get her makeup on, & I wondered, "Why bother?" But it was the 1930s; I don't think women could exactly not bother back then.
I think I am writing "the other half, I wasted" on the next art journal I make. Such a good line. My grandfather lost both of his parents to Tuberculosis early - his mother in the early 1930's, when he was in arms, his father when he was 10. He never really got over losing them like that, and he missed them for the rest of his life. Grandpa got TB himself, when he was in his 20's - but for him, there was medication which worked, and he completely recovered from the illness. There is a painting one of his friends made of him, skinny and unshaven, crying, holding up a single poster stamp in a pair of tweezers, (he was a philatelic and ran his own poster stamp bulletin up until the day he died) which was in his office for decades, and was hanging on the wall beside him in the living room where he finally passed in his 90's. I'm here for each and every tuberculosis story you have to share.
Hot All The Way Down? Lol, loved the video, so excited for the Maternal Center of Excellence! It’s really cool getting to work with others to help make good things happen in this community, and putting our collective attention in important places.
There is no Panera. It's called Bread Co! (For those unfamiliar, it started as "St. Louis Bread Company" and remains branded as such in the St. Louis area; St. Louisans still refuse to acknowledge the 1997 rebrand.)
Big congratulations to our wonderful Hank for kicking Cancer's butt into remission. Was such lovely news to see on my Facebook feed today. Much love and high fives from the UK. ❤️
Jesus, I had to rewatch that right away because by the end of the first watch I realised I barely heard what you were saying, because I was so excited and preoccupied by the amazing video format - love it
The company I work for is developing a cheap and fast TB test, when I heard that was being worked on my first thought was "TB is still a thing outwith badgers?" and then John corrected me. Repeatedly. Thank you for righting this wrong that i thought.
I haven't seen that John video, but my understanding of the current science was that badgers were a scapegoat for bad practice by * some * farmers, which unfortunately included the most powerful members of the National Union of Farmers (NUF), who are advocating for badger culls... my information could be completely outdated.
@@jmackmcneill tb is absolutely rampant in badgers, it takes very little for a badger to pass it on to cattle, who for some reason can't be immunised, and they are being culled at an alarming rate. I don't know if culling badgers would help (I've heard that it could actually make things worse) but the current plan of test cattle constantly and cull any that catch it is extremely unsustainable.
The most obvious hot sauce name to me would be "Living in the Shadow of Death," but maybe that's for a hotter sauce, and "Living in the Shadow of Heat" might be more "fun." I was gifted two ghost pepper pepper plants this year, but it's been unseasonably cool this year in Canada, so all I have is foliage and not even any flowers, let alone fruits. Any pepper growing tips and/or hot sauce recipe tips?
Yes! I knew someone else had to have had the same thought as me. It's so obvious! I think the emphasis should be on the living though because when are you more alive than when you've had some hot sauce 😁 But you're also dying a little 😂
You're not wrong about the relative newness of things today. I'm 32 and my grandaunt died of TB at 10 years of age along with her mother. My grandfather told us about how his mother refused to let him into her room out of fear he'd contract the illness too so he couldn't say goodbye before she died. He would have been about 11 or 12 at the time and that was his only sibling. This was mid-1920s Ireland 😶🌫️
Always love your unabashed love for Indiana. It has inspired me to love my own state (and city) the same way even though it isn't particularly noteworthy a place.
I've been listening to The Anthropoene Reviewed for the last couple hours, and now I get a video too!? I could listen to you all day. Also, gimme some hot sauce pls.
Hi guys please read this and upvote so John might see this. Hi John, I’m going to be writing a 5000 word essay for my EPQ (part of A-levels in the UK) on tuberculosis and how it shows the development gap between richer and poorer nations. Are there any books or resources you recommend I get outside of your TB reading list video?
First of all, im proud of the community getting this updates as if we are watching in real time how hope turns real. Also August in Indiana is kinda fire 🔥
I would really love for John to know that I recently took a college course called Plague! and I did my final presentation on MDR-TB and my professor recommended Paul Farmer to me. I laughed very hard and then we had a good conversation about PIH and the efforts in Sierra Leone.
I love the return of the Format! Also, I just had to take a minute to say "proper pepper plants" out loud several times after you said it. It's such a fun phrase. 😂
I was still watching this about to mention something I read in a book published in 1903. Then you mentioned Prof and I smiled. I lost my train of thought. Thanks. I'm going to go back to reading.
I think this was your best format video, that I have seen, yet! I felt like I was connecting. Which is not normal for just listening to someone talking on the other side of a screen. Anyway - Thanks 👍
You should definitely name your hot sauce August in Indiana. The way you described it, and then followed up with “Kinda like August in Indiana.” Was just too too perfect.
i had the same thought!
I second the August in Indiana name
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Seconded!
i think thats why he said it
Being tricked into The Format is easily the best thing to happen to me today.
I said to myself: “Oh, John and I have the same socks!” Then I realized it’s because we both subscribe to the same sock club that helps build a maternal center of excellence in Sierra Leon
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I had the exact same train of thought😂
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Wait, if someone wanted to subscribe to that sock club so they can also help build a maternal center of excellence in Sierra Leon, like... where would they do that?
john posted a video On hope before hank publicly annnounced his lymphoma diagnosis and it was the format. Now we're closing a chapter with the format after having REALized Hope(and it was filmed before hank published the good news). I find that beautiful and i wonder whether it was intentional
It was intentional! -John
@@vlogbrothers John Green is a mastermind.
It's a good time to talk about how much the healthcare system is contributing to keeping people alive, whether it's lymphoma or tuberculosis.
John and Hank's cleverness and this beautiful community never ceases to amaze me. Forever grateful!❤
"Activated Hope" hot sauce
THE RETURN OF THE FORMAT. Hank’s on remission, nature is healing.
^ name of the hot sauce right here ^
("Return of The Format")
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420th like and my back went out this morning. All IS back to normal!
@@MakeStuffDesign Ugh that's so much better than mine.
“And the other half I wasted” - John, you’ve written many things in your life, some of which I’ve even read, but none have come close to making me down right CACKLE as hard as that did - 5 stars ✨
everything about that shot was perfection. In fact, I paused the video immediately after to see if anyone commented it on it!! 🙃
FYI it's a reference to a famous W.C. Fields quote! "I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol, and wild women. The other half I wasted.”
This resonated with me: "I've spent half my life gathering up this thirty foot microphone cord and the other half I wasted."
One must imagine John Green happy (when he's gathering up the microphone cord)
Favorite part of the video, and there were so many good parts!
Gotta knowwhat the non-waste parts look like😂
Was honestly the funniest thing. Caught me so off guard.
I've over/under wrapped a 3000 foot TV cord.
Words cannot express the despair I felt when I got to the end and realized it wasn't sitting flat enough for stowage and that I had to start all over again.
John's sheer glee at the concept of tricking people with a format video is amazing
First hank is in remission and now the format returns - what a start to the week!
I missed it! Where did you see that about Hank?
All I took from this is that I need to up my chilli game... Also maybe I need to pickle my chillies
Dried um last year and that was fine, and I had enough to last through the winter... But even with doubled numbers this year I've only got like 10 so far and that's hardly worth 1 mason jar
@@Daymickey It's in the description. Also not sure where else the news would have been. Probably on the platform formerly known as twitter.
@@turoni314He did mention it in a post on twitter or whatever it's called now.
That’s wonderful to hear Hank is in remission I had no clue!
This video was great. Idk if it was the return of The Format, the four chambered parts of the video, or the fact that you just seemed so happy in this and chill like we were casually talking to each other (even more so in this video than ones in the past)!! And huzzah to Hank's remission too! What a stupendous time to be alive and existentially aware of everything.
His format was an intentional nod to Hank's remission
Use your 30m microphone cord to hide somewhere in the shot and then when you're like 70% through talking for that shot, you reveal yourself. It'll be like a Hide and Seek edition of The Format. Every shot we'll wonder, "Where is John hiding in this shot?"
Upvote this
A 30 metre cable would actually be 98 feet. John's cable is 9 metres long.
More of that Bo Burnham energy. A gorgeous mess of chords but are all the same chord in different shots.
I love this idea
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I think the word in english that best describes "when hope is realized" is deliverance - appropriate feeling to feel at a maternity hospital.
We already know that you don't just think about tuberculosis, John.
You also think about Dr. Pepper.
and 30 feet extension cords....
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Especially Diet Dr. Pepper, ever since it tastes more like regular Dr. Pepper.
"I Also Think About Dr. Pepper: A Green Family Salsa."
Slander and lies he thinks about Diet Dr. Pepper 😂
I admit, I was fooled by the thumbnail and then utterly delighted by the return of The Format. Thank you for brightening my day
Your description absolutely nailed the awful feeling of oppressive humidity
I once described the air of the Ohio Valley as "not just oppressive, but tactile."
I described the smoke in the air in the Cascades last weekend as "chewy." Somehow, August in Indiana sounds worse.
@@AllTheHappySquirrels 95 degrees with 80%+ relative humidity. You can't escape the heat. You simply become one with it.
Uncomfortable, yet therapeutic for pain relief.
Agreed humidity is horrid
Congratulations on your 100 harvested peppers and more to come!!! This year I harvested approximately 0.5 bell peppers. It was very reminiscent of the “how to cook eight peas” situation but a plant did grow so some success was had!
When John said "there isnt a word in the english language for when hope is realized and I think thats pretty telling." I actually had to pause the video and sit in stunned silence for a moment. I still dont even have words to express the feelings that sentence brought up in me. Thank you John.
I asked chatgpt using Hank's full name and got "Whillmerry" and "Greenever".
« Consummation » is close to a single word for a positively realized hope.
'Victory' is the word you are searching for.
The Germans probably have a word for that.
What about fulfilment?
Can someone please gather up all the "John speaks about tuberculosis " facts? Would love to see all of them together. The epidemiology college class we were forced to sign up for and ended up enjoying immensely.
Fun fact: it IS actually pronounced "habanero," *not* "habañero."
"Habañero" is actually a hypercorrection, specifically a hyperforeignism. Check out the wiki page on hypercorrections, it's super interesting!
In IPA, it's /ˌ(h)ɑbəˈnɛɹoʊ/, not /ˌ(h)ɑbəˈnjɛɹoʊ/.
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Giving IPA is becoming a little bit more common, and I am welcoming this.
Yeah but standardized spelling and pronunciation aren't real.
Language rules are descriptive not prescriptive, yo
@@jonmiller6787 well yeah, language is determined by the people who speak it. and spanish speakers by and large say habanero.
Most Americans also pronounce "jalapeño" wrong, like "halapeeno" or some such abomination. The Ñ is a mystery to them. They put one in where there isn't one and when there is one, they ignore it! As a Spanish speaker, both mispronunciations drive me nuts!
You should name it "Taking it Up a Notch" to express your desire at the beginning of this year to take it down a notch but in fact, the universe had other ideas like making you the temporary and reluctant CEO.
I feel like, right now, the world needs more videos where John Green talks about rap. Do it for humanity, John. Do it for Biggie.
Do it for Biggie 😅😄😁
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I wasn't expecting John Green to be where I get my takes on rap... ever... but I'm for it.
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John!! There's an Australian UA-cam rapper, called Van Vuuren: he was hospitalized with Tuberculosis in 2009! His channel is Van Vuuren Bros, John!
Hot sauce name suggestion: TAKE IT UP A NOTCH (in honor of the video where you explained that you don’t always have a say in where the notch is set, and how many things in your life have been taken up a notch (or more) this year outside of your control)
I love this. I raise money for a charity called MercyShips with my channel and they are heading to Sierra Leone with their hospital ship next, everything I know about it comes from you. Appreciate this video and all of them! 🥰
That's lovely to hear. I am a big fan of EmmaCruises! -John
Seeing this comment was like seeing behind the YT algorithm curtain and it makes me think did I discover you because you watch here and YT went "well he likes travel stuff and Vlogbrothers so recommend him this". and then I went on a cruise?
Wait. Vlogbrothers and Emma Cruises know of each other's existence???? I'm screaming.
Mercy ships rocks! Cheers for supporting them!
Right back at ya! Thank you lots. ❤@@vlogbrothers
Late to this, but the casual namedrop of Fazoli’s both shows your age and is absolutely perfect
August in Indiana is like the perfect name for your hot sauce. However, as someone who cannot eat even the tinniest amount of spicy, I think I'm also gonna be avoiding actual August in Indiana for like, ever.
P.S. So much love to Hank, so pleased for you guys. My dad unfortunately passed away from cancer in Nov 2021. Miss you dad.
Me, too!! 🤦🤔🤷🙄💋💖💋💖👵🐺🌵🎉
Sorry about your dad. It's never easy to lose a loved one and grief is very much not linear.
I came here to say the SAME THING!!!
John, please consider “August in Indiana.”
I cannot begin to describe how surprised and thrilled I was to open this video and be welcomed with an opening of the format. John, you are a wizard. Best video I've watched in awhile
There were so many good parts in this video: one normal shot for the thumbnail, “I’ve spent half my life gathering up this 30 ft microphone chord and the other half I wasted”, living in the shadow of death sounds like a 3rd album of an obscure heavy metal band, the part with two Johns, and of course “oh no we have to go OUTSIDE for part four”
Great video as always, got a lot of giggles out of me
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I'm looking for salsa names in the comments. "The Other Half Wasted: A Green Family Salsa." "The Shadow of Death:... " "Oh No We Have To Go OUTSIDE:..."
My favorite part of the format remains seeing new parts of Sarah and John's art collection. Like this week in part three I love the photograph of window with the blowing curtain above the credenza. PS I have the same Cy Twombly book sitting just below it.
4 minutes, the format, video in parts, Hank in remission!! Is this what down a notch feels like? If so I Love It
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Just want to say I really enjoy this format from the audio perspective
Gotta love the format. Even if you don't love it. You have to.
Bro I read your books, then I goto depression for a week or so, but still i read more....What your book says" You laugh, then you cry then you come back for more" ITSSS SOOOO TRUEEEE!!!!! I just wanted to say "Thanks" For all you've taught me and all you will!
The talk of TB being a pervasive part of life globally being two human lifetimes ago reminded me that the mom in Hayao Miyazaki's masterpiece "My Neighbor Totoro" has an unspecified illness that is almost certainly TB (based on Miyazaki's mother having it and being hospitalized when he was young).
The Wind Rises also heavily features tb. It's a sad one.
@@FelixTheAnimator For sure. I've only watched that one once because unlike Totoro the first time I saw it was as an adult who got that subtext and now it just makes me sad.
2:39 I need to know about that adorable little CRT on the shelf.
The number one thing I can’t get past from this video is that John listens to rap music.
I have surprisingly good taste in music. -John
@audreybray1149 - You remind me of a boss I had in the early 2000s who was really into Eminem. She said (describing herself), "I don't think his intended demographic is a 50-year-old white woman from Grosse Pointe." It was funny, but I actually think he would've been just fine with that, even back then.
@@vlogbrotherscan we get like a current music favorites list sometime? Any time would be fine.
There's poetry in those lyrics. I mean, some of the words they can string together and the connections some rappers can make never cease to amaze me.
I thought he only listened to the Mountain Goats.
I like to think the word in English for when hope is realised is crescendo, because like with music, we feel hope in our body and our chest and we feel it coming and we want it to happen and when it does it's a feeling of ecstasy and release and it's amazing.
the format brings me the joy and bliss that is found in no other corner or pocket of this multiverse.
also, good morning john and the rest of nerdfiteria.
good evening, John and the rest of Nerdfighteria
As someone who works for that company... Finding out their presence in rap is so great, explains why they can't afford to give us raises. They're too busy paying off rappers. ☹️
I work for the company that supplies your parfait yogurt! Enjoy our gurt friend.
And secure that bag...
Just imagine: If we didn't have UA-cam, John's ramblings would be relegated to just one person (presumably Hank, or a stand-in when he's not available) listening intently in a musky library or peaceful garden but who is constantly asking him to speak up a bit because John can't be bothered to raise his voice for almost any reason.
But instead, we all get to enjoy him and his insightful thoughts in perfect clarity due to his fantastic mic and it's 30 foot cable.
Sometimes, the universe gives us exactly what we need.
😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁💋💖👵🐺🌵🎉
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* its 30 foot cable *
(sorry)
"... because John can't be bothered to raise his voice for almost any reason." That is such a vibe, I love it.
This made me smile :)
I'm really going through it today, migraine made me have to leave work and then I allowed myself to process some old grief about a friend who died in high school. I'm eating campbell's chicken noodle soup now and drinking gatorade (my brother in law bought both, he's the best) and saw that I hadn't watched the Vlogbrothers video yet. Made my day feel a little more normal. Thanks.
DFTBA
God I love the format. And i also love that when I learned that George Washington's likely infertility which robbed us of a much more likely American monarchy is believed to have been caused by smallpox he caught while making his only trip outside of the US - to Barbados with his brother because his brother had tuberculosis - my first thought was that John would love this information.
"American Monarchy: A Green Family Salsa."
Glad Hank is doing better. Activation of hope seems like strangely scintillating hot sauce name.
Anyways, I hope you have many years with Hank driving him wild with your constant TB focus. Love from Oz
That is really exciting about the Maternal Center of Excellence. I'm pregnant right now, and I could deliver there. I have been following Vlogbrothers for about 10 years, and I remember so many updates along the way. I'm going to deliver closer to home, because I don't want to travel more than necessary. This morning, my spouse read my NIPT test results and is going to reveal the gender of our baby to me tonight. All the other more important results look good, too.
Congratulations!
Congratulations!
Wonderful news. Xx
@@silverlinedheart that is correct! XX chromosomes. We're having a girl!
The Format is always one of my favorite parts about John's videos, it's just so romantic and writerly and uniquely John.
Growing up in Louisiana, it's reassuring that everyone feels the same way about humidity. It is indeed a hot air bath, made worse with the sudden adhesive properties that your clothes adopt.
My grandma was from New Orleans, & I remember her telling me how she had to have a fan blowing straight on her face to get her makeup on, & I wondered, "Why bother?" But it was the 1930s; I don't think women could exactly not bother back then.
I think I am writing "the other half, I wasted" on the next art journal I make. Such a good line. My grandfather lost both of his parents to Tuberculosis early - his mother in the early 1930's, when he was in arms, his father when he was 10. He never really got over losing them like that, and he missed them for the rest of his life. Grandpa got TB himself, when he was in his 20's - but for him, there was medication which worked, and he completely recovered from the illness. There is a painting one of his friends made of him, skinny and unshaven, crying, holding up a single poster stamp in a pair of tweezers, (he was a philatelic and ran his own poster stamp bulletin up until the day he died) which was in his office for decades, and was hanging on the wall beside him in the living room where he finally passed in his 90's. I'm here for each and every tuberculosis story you have to share.
Hot All The Way Down? Lol, loved the video, so excited for the Maternal Center of Excellence! It’s really cool getting to work with others to help make good things happen in this community, and putting our collective attention in important places.
I freaking love a format video. The ultra long microphone cord is just the icing on a consistently and delightfully weird cake.
John!! More of this style! We love a part video but i need more of john lounging in the comfy chair or talking to himself with the fluffy mic!!
There is no Panera. It's called Bread Co!
(For those unfamiliar, it started as "St. Louis Bread Company" and remains branded as such in the St. Louis area; St. Louisans still refuse to acknowledge the 1997 rebrand.)
Hank is on Dimension 20, and John has been here the whole time.
took the words right out of my mouth!
You should name it "Pack A Lunch With No Lack Of Punch" in tribute to Prof's summer banger...
Gotta love The Format™
Big congratulations to our wonderful Hank for kicking Cancer's butt into remission. Was such lovely news to see on my Facebook feed today. Much love and high fives from the UK. ❤️
"Grew from seeds in my bathtub" almost sounds like you found them there as remnants from bathing.
‘Hopecoming’
Not for the hotsauce (unless you want it), for hope fullfilled.
Jesus, I had to rewatch that right away because by the end of the first watch I realised I barely heard what you were saying, because I was so excited and preoccupied by the amazing video format - love it
I just got home from a long Night shift feeling half delirious. Idk what I just watched but it was big vibes 🫠
The company I work for is developing a cheap and fast TB test, when I heard that was being worked on my first thought was "TB is still a thing outwith badgers?" and then John corrected me. Repeatedly.
Thank you for righting this wrong that i thought.
I haven't seen that John video, but my understanding of the current science was that badgers were a scapegoat for bad practice by * some * farmers, which unfortunately included the most powerful members of the National Union of Farmers (NUF), who are advocating for badger culls... my information could be completely outdated.
@@jmackmcneill tb is absolutely rampant in badgers, it takes very little for a badger to pass it on to cattle, who for some reason can't be immunised, and they are being culled at an alarming rate.
I don't know if culling badgers would help (I've heard that it could actually make things worse) but the current plan of test cattle constantly and cull any that catch it is extremely unsustainable.
you forgot to add this to the "the format" playlist!!!!! :O
The most obvious hot sauce name to me would be "Living in the Shadow of Death," but maybe that's for a hotter sauce, and "Living in the Shadow of Heat" might be more "fun."
I was gifted two ghost pepper pepper plants this year, but it's been unseasonably cool this year in Canada, so all I have is foliage and not even any flowers, let alone fruits. Any pepper growing tips and/or hot sauce recipe tips?
Living in the Shadow of Heat is a seriously great suggestion
Yes! I knew someone else had to have had the same thought as me. It's so obvious!
I think the emphasis should be on the living though because when are you more alive than when you've had some hot sauce 😁 But you're also dying a little 😂
I honestly love the format videos. Something about them makes a spring that's been pulled to taught inside my brain ease up a little.
spent the morning watching old crash course literature videos and now the format is back ❤ Hank and John, I’m so grateful for your gifts to the world.
I feel like "taking it up a notch" would be both an apt and topical name for your families hot sauce, if no one else has suggested it yet.
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The pain of realizing you have to go outside into the humidity of a Midwestern summer is one of my least favorite things
Thank you so much for bringing back the format. Fantastic.
You're not wrong about the relative newness of things today. I'm 32 and my grandaunt died of TB at 10 years of age along with her mother. My grandfather told us about how his mother refused to let him into her room out of fear he'd contract the illness too so he couldn't say goodbye before she died. He would have been about 11 or 12 at the time and that was his only sibling. This was mid-1920s Ireland 😶🌫️
This is one of my favorite videos you have made. Please continue.
Always love your unabashed love for Indiana. It has inspired me to love my own state (and city) the same way even though it isn't particularly noteworthy a place.
I love the format. Every time I see it I gain a little bit of joy, thank you format.
Hank is in remission, the format is back, all is good with the world :)
Also, petition to name the hot sauce "August in Indiana"
Alternatively, you could just call it "More Light than Heat"
I've been listening to The Anthropoene Reviewed for the last couple hours, and now I get a video too!? I could listen to you all day.
Also, gimme some hot sauce pls.
Hi guys please read this and upvote so John might see this.
Hi John, I’m going to be writing a 5000 word essay for my EPQ (part of A-levels in the UK) on tuberculosis and how it shows the development gap between richer and poorer nations. Are there any books or resources you recommend I get outside of your TB reading list video?
it fills me with great joy to see the garden's progression over the years!
I vote that John buys a 50 foot cord
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The format brings me such delight. These videos are such beautiful little pieces of thought and art and wonder.
we need a word for hope that is realized - i find that for the many terrible ways it is mis- and overused, love is a pretty good fit in this case.
Hope That Is Realized would be a good name for a hot sauce
I asked chatgpt using Hank's full name and got "Whillmerry" and "Greenever".
No lie, I was just thinking about how much I needed one of these JG 30ft mike videos. Thank you! You made my week!!
First of all, im proud of the community getting this updates as if we are watching in real time how hope turns real. Also August in Indiana is kinda fire 🔥
Such a lovely phrase - "...watching in real time how hope turns real." Of course, that watching is not a passive activity.
i was indeed expecting a regularly and was (very pleasantly) surprised by the format!!
Love you, John. So needed to hear you today ❤
I was literally just about up to enough guts to request the return of the format but you already understood we all needed this, thank you ❤
So excited and happy for you and Hank! Also very impressed by your pepper plants. My vote: Hot Socks
Thank you for going outside and showing your lovely garden. I still remember the video of you harvesting the grand total of 10 peas
I was literally just saying yesterday that I missed the Format!!! This video could not have come at a better time!
Man, i love the format. And seeing your books. And the lovely peppers!
This is my favorite John video in a WHILE
I would really love for John to know that I recently took a college course called Plague! and I did my final presentation on MDR-TB and my professor recommended Paul Farmer to me. I laughed very hard and then we had a good conversation about PIH and the efforts in Sierra Leone.
I love the return of the Format! Also, I just had to take a minute to say "proper pepper plants" out loud several times after you said it. It's such a fun phrase. 😂
love the format. always a treat.
UGH! These have become my favorite. Thank you for the sweet bamboozle
1:55 I'm in love with the painting(?) of the blowing curtain! Had to pause the video to gaze at it for a while.
that was a ride , from TB to rappers and panera to hot sauce
I was still watching this about to mention something I read in a book published in 1903. Then you mentioned Prof and I smiled. I lost my train of thought. Thanks. I'm going to go back to reading.
As much as I love The Format, it just makes me more and more jealous of the MF Doom painting. It's so GOOD!
I think this was your best format video, that I have seen, yet!
I felt like I was connecting. Which is not normal for just listening to someone talking on the other side of a screen.
Anyway - Thanks 👍
John has spent half his life gathering up his thirty foot microphone cord, and the other half saying "thirty foot microphone cord"
Lmao the part about rappers talking about Panera was so funny 😅 yay for the format being back, it brings all the joy!
Yup totally saw through that thumbnail close-up ploy, saw the fuzzy microphone and was pleased.
John, you've alluded to being a rap fan for years and I LOVE that you're talking about it more!