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  • When I first saw this video I had no idea what you were talking about with the scavenger hunt. Now that I have been subscribed to Kristina for a while, it seems so obvious.

  • Let it snow was the first John Green book that I read. I actually didn't know anything about nerdfighteria at the time. Later when I entered nerdfighteria I got excited about how that was one of my favorite books.

  • I'm reading Let It Snow! I like how you have one of them say "That would be a good name for a band." You must think about that a lot! Also, I think Maureen Johnson makes a reference to your hair in her story. I could be wrong. Also, you have an uncanny ability to create hilariously spastic characters. It's awesome.

  • Is it too late to get a copy of Let It Snow?

  • @OLLYtheMAGICdragon ....what? Why would it be "too late"?

  • what are the chances that you've only given away 4/5 of those let it snow books?

  • Looking for Alaska...in your pants.

  • "unstuck in time like Billy Pilgrim." god, with every video I love you even more.

  • when he said "let's get on with it!" I immediately thought of Monty Python and those scenes from holy Grail. Anyone? No? Fine.

  • hey hey! Have you heard about bee4biz (search on google)? It is a tiny url locker that pays. Its a lot better than other sites and they always pay on time. Check them out if you want to make good money shortening and sharing links online

  • i'd already heard of chess boxing... thankyou alltimetens

  • literal nerdfighter.... haha

  • @singxfilexisxlove Both of them grew up in Florida, I believe, and then they went their separate ways. Hank moved to Missoula, and John moved to Manhattan. And then John moved to Indianapolis during the first year of Brotherhood 2.0. Hope that helps!

  • I'm sad to say that it has taken me this long... I just finished reading Let It Snow... But, I did just get it a few days ago, so it's not like it took me that long to read it... It just took me a while to find it!

  • If John's hometown is Indianapolis, why is Hank's Missoula? Didn't they grow up together?

  • I gave that gum to my English teacher! Plus I live in St. Paul!

  • as I read sitzpinkler (-> those wacky germans - they have a word for everything) I had to laugh so hard (I'm German) :D and warmduscher :DDD

  • @godessshannon ok, leaving the first alone for the moment, German Nerdfighters, what's so wrong with hot showers?...is it wasteful? is one somehow less 'manly' for not wanting to be cold?

  • @oforth no there's nothing wrong with warm showers :D It's difficult to describe - you know, men are often known as "the stronger sex" so they "have to" (of course actually they don't have to) be hard. And it's harder to take a cold shower. But no man (and nobody) is not manly/mad when he/she takes hot showers. Maybe it's a bit like the word bitch: When s.o. is called bitch she's usually not a bitch but a bitch is kind of unlikely.

    Ok that was a bad description. Maybe you understood? :D

  • @godessshannon actually, yeah. thanks for being awesome.

  • @godessshannon I'm from Germany as well (BTW, where in Germany do you live?) and was sitting in a school bus with forty other students from my school, most of them not liking me cos I'm a nerd, and read that part to my friends. We had to bite our fists.

    Oh, also, we don't have a proper German translation of "Nerd" that doesn't start with "a person who".

  • @butterflyinwinter Can't you speak German? :D I'm from Brunswick (Braunschweig), Niedersachsen and you're right - there's no real German word for nerd, but there are many words in English you can't really translate to German very good ;) I like English better.

    And BTW- also a charlieissocoollike fan? :D

  • @godessshannon You're so right ^^ English rules! But German is a beautiful language as well ^^

  • @Sleepover137 =) besonders warmduscher und sitzpinkler natürlich :D

  • @godessshannon Hahahaha genau ^^ I's so cute how he sais that<3

  • @Sleepover137 yeeeaaaaaah =))

  • @godessshannon so you're from brunswick? that's cool! My Father was born there and my uncle aunt and cousin still live there ^^ But I was born and raised in Cologne. Findest du nciht auch das es einfach viel zu wenig deutsche Nerdfighter gibt?

  • @Sleepover137 Yes I am from Brunswick :) WOW it's so awesome that relatives of you live here, that's such a coincidence!!!! Imagine I knew them hahaha :D Oh there could really be more German Nerdfighteria yeah but there are quite a lot, I saw a lot of comments from German Nerdfighters when a vlogbrothers-video was not available in Germany!

  • @godessshannon hey du sprichst deutsch oder? :DD

  • @godessshannon ging der kommentar an mich oder redest du mit dir selber?

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  • @godessshannon und ja ich spreche fließend deutsch ^^ But I thinks it's polite to speak English so the others will understand ^^

  • @Sleepover137 ah okay =D by the way, I was randomly looking at your favourite videos and saw a song from radical face, I already knew and loved "Welcome home" and so I clicked on the video and I absolutely LOVED it!^^ Finally downloaded the album so I actually have to thank you for that xD

  • @godessshannon Hahaha great ^^ My favorite song is Wrapped in piano strings which a very good friend of mine told me about and it always makes me shiver because of tension!

    But mainly I listen to WRock ^^

  • @godessshannon year that would be great! And you can't imagine how furious I was when this stupid GEMA thing came up-.-

    I wish they'd come here again-.- All those cool things like wizardrock or nerdfighteria is in the USA or at least in England-.-

    naaaaw toooooooo far-.-

    You could possibly know them ^^ their last name is Zöllner ^^

  • @butterflyinwinter So where do YOU come from? (Hi German Nerd!)

    I'm from Cologne^^

    Oh and I know this not being liked problem-.-

    They used to call me witch and asked me if I'd curse them just because I like Harry Potter that much-.- I wish I was able to turn them into toats XD

  • man you're awesome (in your pants)!

  • random :D

  • MY SISTER HAS THE SHAKESPEARE INSULT GUM!

  • Warmduscher FTW

  • Since you obviously love Berlin very much I suggest you come here more often. Just sayin'.

  • My birthday! :D

  • your view never ceases to excite me and make me jealous (in Berlin). You were in one of my FAVORITE places in the world. I'm so incredibly jealous. I want to be there...

  • LET IT SNOW IS AWESOME! I juste read the whole book :D (i know... i'm a little to late but..yeah yeah)

    GOOOSH! IT'S SUPER NICE AND SWEEET!

    Jubliee <3 Stuart

    Tobin <3 The Duke

    Addie <3 Jeb

    :D

    (only the once that have read it understands that... i guess ^^)

  • @RCH17560 I just finished it too.

    It was awesome.

    :D

  • @HarryPotterTrio91 SUPER MEGA AWESOME! :)

  • church was partially demolished in WWII during the american day raids then it was turned into a monument

  • It must be awkward to sit there while someone else reads your book. I would cringe.

    Also I would swoon because it would mean I had written and published a book.

  • I've heard of Chessboxing before.

    Sounds awesome.

    Wonder how the majority of games are won... Chess or boxing?

  • "That's a German flag."

    I literally said that when I saw the beginning of this video. My mom gave me a really weird look XD

  • I THINK THAT WAS MY SISTERS GUM!

  • this video combines everything I love: actual literal nerdfighting, free books, and shakespearean insults in gum form (which match my shakespearean insult widget I have affectionately named Shake n' Sult)

  • Chess boxing works much better if you "forget" to tell your opponent that it's not just a normal game of chess.

  • German insults! I got someone to teach me how to say "You're an onion" in German. And then I met someone who would call people "sleeping bag" in german.

  • I knew this video will show up eventually

    It's so annoying, I have been at John's book presentation in Berlin, but I just recently discovered the "Vlogbrothers"

    Anyway DFTBA, I surely did forget it...that day...

  • I have the gum at home and I haven't eaten it yet because I want it to be there forever!

  • I'm good at the chess part. The boxing, meh.

  • Chess boxing FTW!!!

  • @Philoishness Your Doctor Who reference just made my day.

  • I laughed my head off when you said warmduscher...cuz I'm german and I think it's incredibly funny when someone says anything in german.

    like the one special from doctor who were martha lefts to germany for setting free the osterhagen key and the daleks talk german, a very baad german with a bad accent. I hardly understood a word

  • it sounds so funny when you say sitzpinkler and warmduscher (germany FTW even though there used to be some evil people here trying to take over the world and killing people. that was no good)

  • i cant believe i actually understood that billy pilgrim refrence

  • I love you for the Kurt Vonnegut reference and chess boxing is the most badass thing ever.

  • I'm a guy and I like the Let It snow cover.....

  • Heh, this is how I knew the sitzpinkler/vondoosha (spelling?) fact on Truth/Fail.

  • @CordyBear1 It´s "Warmduscher"^^

  • @DieRabenLady Oh ok. I have selective hearing, I can only hear certain things.

  • ...chessboxing sounds epic...

  • The Last Good Kiss... In My Pants.

    sorry, i jsut saw an opportunity there... :L

  • why is eventful thier new enemy?? i really want to know

  • this is such an old vid but i'd like to point the even bigger irony when you said the he was "an actual LITERATE nerdfighter". Not only is he a nerd, for the chess thing, and a fighter, for the boxing, but he's also LITERATE!! beacause of the book reading and stuff! How awesome is that? ^^

  • Wizard rock?!??!?? You people are my heroes. I. LOVE. Wizard Rock. :)

  • I SAW THAT CHURCH!

    I thought it was kinda sad and kinda beautiful :)

  • Please come to Berlin again! I live there now!

  • Warmduscher yay...

  • Damn, I want me one of those Shakespearean Insult Gums too

  • random comment

  • I love the obscure reference to Slaughter House 5

  • german insult - haundschuschnibalwerfer : man who wears gloves to throw snowballs

  • 1:55

    Hahahahahaah!

  • chess boxing sounds like a good sport for me

  • italktosnakes

    Seatle, Wizard Rock, Snakaes.

  • AHA so sarah is the yetis name?

    it says on your FAQ to watch a video on why you call her the yeti but i can't find the video has it been deleted??

    Why is she called the yeti?

  • Because she "factors prominently in [their] mythology but is rarely seen"

    That was in one of the very very first brotherhood 2.0 videos.

  • She's very hairy, apparently.

    BUT WE WILL NEVER SEE HER....

  • o.o We talked about Chess Boxing in my honors English class once.

    What is wrong with the world?

  • im a random commenter

  • Your pronounciation is amazing John!!!! Love it when you speak German!!

  • Nerds are hot! Could you please ask your wife if she would be willing to trade YOU for a jedi mickey statue?Its a good deal, its a very nice statue. i could even throw in my signed copy of bone, comic 1, first edition? eh?

  • i am a nerd :D

  • Greetings from Germany! I just want to let you know that as far as I can remember I've never used the words Sitzpinkler and Warmduscher before... My favourite insult, though it's a rather weak one, is "Scherzkeks" for a silly person (literally "joking cookie"), if you're able pronounce that ;-)

  • the last good kiss in your pants

  • haha warmbader ^^

    and you shouldn't go to TSHÖRMENY you should come to Switzerland! It's way cooler I tell you...and we have complete churches ;)

  • I need some nerdy books ;) :D

  • Books! Free books for random people!

    Books by John Green!

    Woo!

  • You're going to send them to random people, huh? Now, is that randomly selected people, or people who are random, because I can be random... =]

  • I WANTZ THE BOOKZ

  • It makes me happy everytime to hear John mention me :D It was so awesome meeting him

  • i want that gum!

  • i want tha

  • OH MY GOD I wana chess box =D

  • oh, I wish i had been able to see you in germany!!

  • i all redy have that book andit is alsome like u.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx­xxxxxxxxxxxxlove u

  • I had that gum!

    The gum was a bit bouf, but the insults were amazing! Shakespeare's a genius.

  • I SO wish there were videos every day. The Brotherhood 2.0 should have gone on FOREVER. But at least there are still these videos :DD

  • Oh my God! How awesome's this! John is talking German words - that is kind of creepy for me (as a German)! O.O

    Nerdfigthers Without Borders ftw!

  • Chess Boxing sounds awesome. I can't imagine how this would have ever come about other than that there must have been a particularly hotly contested game of chess that spilled over into the aisles.

  • Your story in Let it Snow was by far my favorite!....probably cause the nerdy guy was so sweet :-p

    Nerdfighters FTW!

  • isnt it DDR?

  • @pnksbl: DDR is the German abbrevation (for Deutsche Demokratische Republik), while in English it is probably German Democratic Republic and therefore GDR.

  • all you need to know about snakes in your pants?

  • pareslmouths!!!! find them! oh wait...this was like, a year ago :Pmy bad jk

  • Warmduscher= somebody who takes his shower luke-warm, because he's too much of a whimp to shower really hot or really cold.

  • Comment 339:

    There's no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune!

    from Shakespeares' MacBeth

  • I mean Henry V

  • chess boxing?!?! HOW AMAZING IS THAT??

  • German insults, huh... How about "Turnbeutelvergesser"? You know the one kid in P.E. that always forgets his sports bag? That's him, as a way of life. Or "Beckenrandschwimmer" which literally means to never leave the side of the swimming pool and to stay in the swallow parts; figuratively I'd say it's someone who never tries anything in life because he/she is afraid to fail.

  • Shakespearean insult gum? I don't car what i must do i WILL get some.

  • @boviewan1 just google "Shakespearean insult gum" and it's the first result. It's only $3

  • I wish I was a cool enough Nerdfighter to be a chessboxer. And Seattle ftw! Love it there. And the never leaving smell of piss adds a nice touch to the city.

  • i like the little vonnegut reference

  • Ooooh Nerdfighets HOOOO! I now want to go to Minneapolis to get Shakespearean insult gum.  That is epic stuff.

  • hahaha i call my friend a warm shower ALL the time.

  • Literal Nerdfighter, ftw!

    Very awesome!

  • Chess boxing? Seriously?  That is amazing!

  • hahahahaha thats an actaul literal nerdfighter

  • I love how you noted Threadless in Let It Snow. :]

  • Dude. Chess boxing? AWESOME.

  • OMG!!! I WANT THAT BOOK! Please? I love you guys you are so funny!!! Please John? I'll do my happy dance and videotape it for you to see if you just please send me your book!

  • That vlog is very much unstuck in time.

    Chess-boxing FTW!!

  • *random commenter*

    Too bad I'm probably late *sniff*

    Me and my stupid self for thinking I should stop watching *SHAME ON ME!!!!*

    DFTBA wewt

  • i so want tht book - (damn me being in the uk) :(

  • hooray for slaughterhouse five references!!!

  • Paper Towns is so far incredible, and to show my hardcore dedication im spending my night watching every vlogbrothers video:D YESS. coffee will be needed.

  • RIP James Crumley. I'm sorry if I mispelled his name.

  • Translate it into Spanish, eh?

    Not print it in Britain, eh?

    GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

  • lalala

    I want Let it Snow.

    :D

  • LOL, what camera does dis dude use?

  • Come to Ireland next we need a larf! And Tommy Tiernan (hilarious comedian) has disappeared somewhere probably looking after his children or something he should prioritise!! Whats important a fan who wants to laugh a little or feeding his children I mean I dont know how he sleeps at night!

    Random....

  • lol, love ur german spelling warmduscher xD

    we have drunken dogs all around here in austria^^

  • I love to read cant wait to get my hands on your books

    Glasses really suit you!

    OMG SNAKES ..... most guys i know cant stand snakes i personally Love them

    I think i have taken enough of your time Have a good night!

    salamat sa pakikinig

  • That's a lot of parts in under 4 minutes! Orlando is ready to see you, John!

  • Das war wunderbar!

    I love the daily videos and I'll be needing to buy that gum.

    Tschüs!

  • ich liebe deutschland! i went their for te christmas markets, which are wunderbar but iv never been to berlin. ja.

  • is paper town and/or let it snow on sale in ireland?

  • Who doesn't love snakes?!

  • Thank you for referencing SH5

    I love you!

  • Can I still get an author's copy? I'm getting Paper Towns and I really want your other works too!

  • I would really like an author's copy! :D That would be fabulous! :]

  • can i still get a copy.....haha. i am absofuckinlutly broke, living in england for ten months, and depressed that i will miss your tour.

  • hello hero. [:

    at debate camp,

    we named our 'team' nerdfighters.

    our leader jessica introduced us to these videos.

    we watched these instead of working. [:

  • You should send me one because I survived hurricane Ike, was out of power for 10 days. All that kept me sane was An Abundance of Katherines and Looking for Alaska *cough* and work *cough*

  • please send one to me john! i'll give you my picture of johnny depp drinking gatorade! ( long story). well, i won't really but PLEASE!

  • I'm going to camp out in front of Barnes And Noble waiting for Papertowns.

  • yay wizard wrock!

  • I want a copy of let it snow! :)

  • GAHH!! CAN'T WAIT FOR YOUR NEWW BOOK!

  • i can't wait for paper towns

  • Im feelin random today

  • I'm so freaking excited for the Seattle tour stop.

    Did you mean comments on the youtube video or on the Ning?

    Book please!!

  • I'm going to the nyc event :-)

  • randomrandomrandomrandomrandom­randomrandomrandomrandomrandom­randomrandomrandomrandomrandom­randomrandomrandomrandomrandom­randomrandomrandomrandomrandom­randomrandomrandomrandomrandom­randomrandomrandomrandomrandom­randomrandomrandomrandomrandom­randomrandomrandomrandomrandom­randomrandomrandomrandomrandom­randomrandomrandomrandomrandom­randomrandomrandomrandomrandom­randomrandomrandomrandomrandom­randomrandomrandomrandomrandom­randomrandomrandomrandomrandom­.

    Was that random enough to get a book?

    random

  • JOHN! My favorite local independent bookstore employee, Laura, informed me that you offered to come to my school and talk about your books, but they shot you down! So now you're going to speak at the local private school. So I'm thinking about paying $70,000 a year to go there just so I can see you! For one day... *Realizes the complications of this plan* Come to Tampa!

  • Let it snow!

  • John, you are fun...in my pants

  • Is it too late for a chance to win Let It Snow???

  • gueees wat?? im a random COMMENTER!!!

  • sitzpinkel!!

    ...i probably spelt it wrong :\

    you got back from berlin the same day as me, feels strange that someone i have no idea about couldve been sitting on the same plane as me wondering "what does sitzpinkel mean?" at the same time

    ...i may be a little drunk as i write this

  • Great Videos!

    If you enjoy comedy videos that are mature, our channel is not the place for you.

    But, if you enjoy videos that are immature with a strong taste of crazy, visit us now!

    Luke & Jamie

  • Damn...why don't they have chess boxing in America?!

  • i know how to say I am a pen, you are a pen, I am a toilet, and you are a toilet in German. :D

  • 10 parts.

    Epic.

    Awesome.

  • Where's the clue, I don't get it?

  • vonnegut references

    very cool

  • How do you breathe? Doesn't the awesome just spill out of your ears, mouth and nose? Wow, that sounds grotesque...

  • i live in seattle <3

    i feel so special

  • Did he give away the Let it Snow books yet? I want one

  • Must get Let It Snow. <3

    And speaking of books by John Green, guess what I got in the mail today! *eyes Margo suspiciously*

  • I hadn't watched these in a while, and I went to

    Barnes & Noble today and saw Let It Snow and was like why did John not say anything on the blog. . . but nevermind. Anyway, I bought it. Looking forwaerd to reading it.