Life Is Like Pizza

[thatUberEpicGuy]

im having pizza tonight

[RandomLyrics6]

Pizza is Roman

[powergal13]

Italian pizza is the best pizza in the entire world, but only when eaten in Italy and followed by Italian icecream.

Nuff said

[phaabpheebz197]

I really want some pizza now...

[Gatomon97]

from 3:09- 3:32 you almost made me cry like you did in The Fault in Our Stars. Then right after you made me laugh so hard

(how do you do that?!?!?!)

[brady9599]

I actually know a Jew of Irish descent. His great-grandfather was the first Jewish Lord Mayor of the city of Cork.

[allysuffyrox]

I love one of you to do a video on Ireland, and its complications. There's so much more than people think.

[inurenton]

pizza is both american and Italian technically speaking if u look back in history to origins :3 BUT mainly italian

[epicunderwater]

Sodium is a metal

[idonthatesandwiches]

mmmmmmmmm pizza

[CommanderOrion732]

Oh gad, James Joyce is the most perverted author...ever...

[weinbergrocks]

Apparently pizza is a vegetable.

[GildedWildebeest]

Currently eating pizza. I can get a top-quality 12" pizza with any topping for £3.50 from my local independent fast food place, and for that reason I deduce that pizza is, in fact, Indian.

[EarthLaughsAtYou]

I'm Irish and Catholic and Blonde shoot me for the sterotype jokes!

[Jeenias]

John, you made me feel so good about myself for eating a slice of leftover pizza. It's like I just ate the meaning of life while watching an intellectually stimulating philosophical video.

[birdeelikeaboss]

pizza orgasm

[megannancy23]

I'm suddenly craving pizza for some odd reason...

[CrazyHorse493]

So I'm in Ireland, ate a whole pizza today and the last vlogbrothers video I saw also mentioned Ulysses. Coincidence? Somebody quick, check if the planets have aligned!!!

[muise1150]

i live in a very very very small town. it serioulsy only has 1 main steet....and yet there are 4 pizza shops on that one tiny street. -____-

[schmidtcs]

John, have you read Roddy Doyle's collection of stories, *The Deportees*? I think you'd love "57% Irish." Just saying.

[shadowofthecandle]

Man, I wish I had seen this before high school English class (let alone college). It would have saved me so very much mental anguish.

[joejoe8743]

i thought pizza was from the aztecs

[WorldInLithuania]

Damnit, John. Now I want pizza. -_-

[sillymihh]

We brazilians do love pizza.... huuum pizza :D

[amyevekeegan]

I love you.

[MsPiplette]

We tried pizza in Ireland that had barbeque sauce and sweet corn.... it was pretty good.

[MrChickenZombie]

na·tion/ˈnāSHən/

Noun:

A large aggregate of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory.

[sssjjjggg28]

an abundance of pizzas!

[jrtavarez]

literally having pizza right before this episode started! awesome.

[fredanria]

"The job of reading is not to understand the author's intent."

Tell that to IB English.

[MrSpazzyunicorn]

John, I wouldn't mind as much if we weren't reading historical novels. I should not have to learn history in English because if the facts aren't right then it just confuses me during history. also if we don't read boring books like Johnny tremain it was like watching grass grow. I think we should read one of your books.( sorry for any miss spelling or incorrect grammar I can't spell ).

[Kierpm96]

Hi everyone! Enjoy english!!!

[TheReliquarian]

2:16 I only regret that I have but one thumb-up to give for Nerdfightaria.

[hrmmmmmmmmmm]

be my english teacher please

[xxsaranghaeyo]

lol i just finished my english exam.....T___T

[0verdarainbow0]

Like... favorite... aaand share. Done.

[Rithene]

Mmm....pizza.

You know, Pizza John shirts are not very good for your health. You find yourself feeling somehow obligated to eat pizza, and therefore you do eat pizza twice a day, and you would also eat pizza for breakfast were it not for the fact that your first class is at eleven and you don't get up in time to eat breakfast (okay, that's just me).

[Kelmacd9]

My first vlogbrothers video <3



[benjibunny14]

@Kelmacd9 welcome DFTBA!

[IVlogBecauseICare]

There's a lot you can get out of this video... but even if you don't, at least there's pizza.

[bubble992]

And this question is one of the reasons I'm studying Socrates...

[crazycookie76]

no. i don't like see-food. but i love pizza!!! don't eat pizza in ecuador. you will be disappointed.

[kentclarkocoumiroku2]

WOAH!! 2:13 Without your glasses, you look JUST like Hank

[elmbergstrom]

This was my first vlogbrother's video. And it got me hooked immediately. Last night, thanks to TFIOS, Little Shop of Stories and Agnes Scott College, I saw John and Hank in the flesh. They are actually real people! I'm so happy to be a part of such a interesting community the accepts conversations like this one.

[CrazyHPjvdub123]

ATTENTION ALL NERDFIGHTERS: I just saw a comercial for the movie Journey2 where there were, in fact, PUPPY SIZED ELEPHANTS!!!

[egirleagle]

2:11, that's what my glasses looked like when i did that.... lol

[MrxB4UX]

Sodium tastes best when it's not bumming around with Chloride. Tasty, and explosive!

[wolfiegirl81]

Only John would find a philosophical meaning in pizza.

[jackskellington6277]

i had pizza for lunch today... also i find this 2 be a very interesting metaphor i never thought how people could be could be like pizza but i understand it because like pizza we are all collectively the same because we r all human because we are so diverse. pizza is collectively the same but there are many forms of pizza. i could go deeper but i think this is what he was trying 2 get at.

[ColaKitty9595]

And from this, a meme was born, a shirt created, and a dietary buttfire lit.

[LMNOP1214]

You know, I'm only 14, but I found myself to be like... the total opposite of the 15-year-old John was addressing. Being a nerdfighter has driven me to really value critical reading more than most things. Even in English, if I have to read a book for a grade, I don't feel like I'm being forced to do that, because, (to para-phrase Colin Singleton), it'll change me, even the slightest bit. In fact, I think I might want to be an English teaher, so I can teach kids what John and Hank have taught me.

[XxXxOddFeverxXxX]

Snookie (Nicole) Is From Chile

[TheCjcornelius]

Is that Papa John's?

[ariearenonagela]

Now that I am not in high school English classes anymore, I appreciate critical reading much more. I think my issue was being forced to read a book I didn't want to, while instead I could be reading a more exciting book I happened to have on me.(Not to mention almost every teacher believing I had to understand the author's intent waaay too much...) Now I have been going back and rereading books from my English classes and end up admitting I really do love all of them. :) DFTBA

[MrBagofchips69]

possible new nerdfighter perminent homepage video, starting at 3:28, ending at 3:40

just saying, they would get much more viewers

[iamafridgedealwivit]

Do you have any sodium? Na

[mtwin91]

pizza is an open-fasted sandwich invented by the Greeks but some stores say that the lost Atlantis signalization invented the 1st pizza 

[Rayne0804]

is it bad that when john started talking with the pizza in his mouth, my first thought was, "John, is that any example to set for Henry for good table manners?!"

[Anonymiter]

This made me want to order a pizza... damn you John and my empty wallet!

[badpojken90]

there is ONLY 6000 pizzerias in brazil in a country of 192 000 000 people? I live in Sweden and we have 2687 pizzerias and about 9 million people. maybe the wrong thing to focus on here but still

[Ellisaphant]

When there are no outsiders, and there are no insiders; there is only us.

[ouiseylou]

I go to a Catholic school and my RE teacher (who is Irish) managed to convince his head of department that his dad is Jewish so that she would give him some of her posters on Judaism for the classroom. We told him to try and get days off for extra religious holidays. It works because Jewishness (??) is passed on through the mother. Thing is the ratio of Jews to Catholics in Ireland is so low that his dad would pretty much be it!

[saltymessage]

But John, 15 year old Hank wouldn't know what Nerdfighteria is. Or Snooki. He would probably be quite confused by a few parts of this letter.

[uiruu]

I like that "by the way hank I am now an author. huh?". cracks me up.

[ilovecookies1100]

I really want pizza now... and I have no pizza :(

[ilove2run89]

Sodium is an alkali metal. :-D

[violasbeamazingable]

@Ignelux It's kind of like interpreting a message in bottle that's both in a different language and blurred with ink smears everywhere. Everyone has their own interpretation because the script isn't legible and some words don't translate directly. Those interpretations are not wrong, but the only way to get the full, intended message is to ask the source. Which is why I don't agree with John that authorial intent isn't important. It's very important.

[TheInspirationExpert]

Pizza styles that originated in Italy are Italian. Pizza styles that originated in the USA are . . . USAan. Same for all other countries. Controversial question . . . PWNED.

[violasbeamazingable]

@TheInspirationExpert But that's not the point of the controversial question. The point of the question is not to identify whether different kinds of pizza styles are owned by their places of origin, but to show that it doesn't matter that those styles are created in other countries and that they now belong to the world, or specifically the pizza creating/nomming community. Identifying a pizza is like identifying a nationality. There are Italian style pizzerias in Italy and in America.

[TheInspirationExpert]

@violasbeamazingable I totally agree with you. Really, I was jokingly trolling by answering the question like that. But I think the real question is how we can keep our own identities, and still merge into a whole. The barriers created by different countries often stop us from connecting with one another, but they also give us a sense of place, an home. If Italian pizza doesn't have a home in Italy, then where? There's a huge universe out there, and it has no edge. Where in it do we belong?

[TheInspirationExpert]

@violasbeamazingable By the way, by looking at your username, I'm guessing you play viola. I'm actually a violinist (and a fiddler), and if you're into it, I think you might like some videos I've uploaded of my dad and me playing. If you have the time, or the inclination, feel free to listen to a bit - you seem like an intelligent person, and I'd love to get your feedback. :)

[jcmik]

"Italians in Italy (Silvio Berlusconi), Italians in America (Martin Scorsese)..." John, what are you saying?

[spontaneouslyME71]

this may be the coolest literary analysis ever. even though it's not really a literary analysis. :D

[strandednotlost]

I have been dragged into a vlogbrothers marathon. By myself.

[louisfoulkes]

Argh I'm stuck in a VlogBrothers marathon! I can't stop!

[MySupermario69]

@louisfoulkes yaaaay louis!!!! I'm a fan :b

[NerdMonkey42]

@louisfoulkes ONE OF US! ONE OF US!

[Ignelux]

I hate reading something in class and then being asked why something is a symbol for something else. Reading, to me, is sort of like a deck of Tarot cards. There is no set meaning, you have to contort it and twist it around until you get an answer that applies to you and makes sense with what you're asking. It doesn't matter what the author's initial intent was, it should matter what conclusion you draw from the piece and what you think it means.

[violasbeamazingable]

@Ignelux But the author does have some intent in writing the piece, some message they intend for the reader to receive, or else why write it? Reading is less like Tarot and more like finding a message in a bottle with the handwriting in another language. The translation slightly changes the meaning but the original message is still there.

[Ignelux]

@violasbeamazingable That is also true. I think what I meant was that there can be many meaning's, the author's being one of them. Reading was always a sanctuary for me, so I suppose I tried to find meanings in the books that would help me. Sometimes I did, even when it wasn't the intentional one(s). Authors do try to get a point across, but different readers will see different meanings, mostly variants on the author's intentional message.

[majorfannatic]

Hank you should tell my teacher that! The books that I read for fun I read so i can understand the true character portrayed in the story. But it seems i can't do that when im forced to read a book in a certain amout of time.

[NinjasAreRainbows]

John I've decided that when I'm your age I want to live a life as awesome as yours.

[junglekiity]

This is the video that introduced me to Nerdfighteria. It's nice to come back once in a while.

[YouThinkWho]

Im currently in highschool, i enjoy my english class simply because i love to write poetry. I also like reading for pleasure, yet i expletive hate the curriculum! Just because of this type of reading, not for answers or a POV but something that was not written down..

[RealUpStaged]

I really wish I saw this video in highschool. Now I'm reading critically just for, you know, fun.

[WithYouImHome]

Sometimes it's a vegetable ;)

[BrewHahaMocha]

Are those wine corks in the backround?!



[Ace4929]

Pizza may have been invented by the Romans, Italian pizza is very, VERY different from American Pizza or any other kind of Pizza

[LauraDaysSmiles]

We love pizza here in Brazil ^.^

[sherbertpandainspace]

I'm allergic to pizza. :c

[Aeryn7Sun]

omg pizza in a bucket 0.o I MUST TRY IT 8D

[RaynaOfSunshine]

You know what I just realized? John is a papa, and Papa John's is a pizza shop O.o

[Shabeckful]

mmm pizza

[SuperChalek]

Nerdfighteria will be listed as my nation from now on. John Green said I could.

[Tahonamaya]

I clicked on a random vlogbrothers' video, cause I'm sick, and John and Hank's videos always make me feel better. Pizza video. Bad idea.

[gogovideo10]

it's pronounced "you-la-says" btw

[wolvesveil]

It originates from Egypt. Your mind=blown

[mokshalovely]

@wolvesveil wait, actually? that is SO AWESOME!

[BreChristie]

BLINK BLINK BLINKITY BLINK!

[tylamasta]

1:05

YOU BLINKED, JOHN! YOU BLINKED!

[Lezhara]

Watching this video made me realize that I am hungry. ;A; I shall now warm up some dinner while, with utmost determination, I keep my gaze away from the frozen pizza because I have eaten too many unhealthy "make it yourself" things recently. [BUT. THE PIZZA. SO GOOD.]

[laughalltheway1]

my dad's from Brazil and so my grandparents and aunt and cousins and uncle live there. We go every year and yes, the pizza is amazing:)

(also, my family and I speak portuguese)

[laughalltheway1]

@laughalltheway1 wow. looking back at my comment it really seems like im bragging:( i swear im not. IM SO SORRY! nerdfighters forever <3

Dftba



[klkigar]

you lied. back in like the 13th century, marco polo brought the CHINESE recipe for pizza to italy.where in italy they had never seen pizza before. and the same thing with noodles.

[SeaOfWisdom18]

if you want me to understand literature, why isn't this guy my english teacher?

[realrealwarpet]

@SeaOfWisdom18 Probably because he doesn't have the proper education to teach...or maybe he does and just doesn't like highschoolers *lord knows I don't...is a self defeating statement because I am a highschooler.*

[electricalsun11]

@Vlogbrothers John, is there any chance you could pick apart some of the craziness in "As I Lay Dying" as you did with "Ulysses"?

[Dragonwing16]

that is pretty true

alot of pizzarias here in Brazil

[EllieBeeElite]

off to read that book now :)

I love that you provide me with books to read (Especially yours. looking for Alaska is Splendiforous) xxx

[BlackLabelEric]

The problem with English as a school study, John, is that it's not about actually thinking for yourself so much as passing tests by thinking like the people who wrote them.

[xxBoyMeetsGirlxx]

My two closest friends weren't born in America, but I still consider them Americans. I feel that where you come from shouldn't effect how you are considered now. They are still Chinese and Brazilian, but I am also Irish-Italian, I was just born here. That shouldn't change how we view someone as American. You shouldn't have to be "white" to be American.

[antisnotabug]

I am eating pizza while watching this video. Feels good, man.

[HirilAredhel]

My English teacher said: "Jeans are like pizza, crappy pizza is better than no pizza." He was wearing jeans that he had to pay to wear, and he said that weren't very comfortable, and he was still wearing them.

[scholar5212]

John, you just made me not hate english class anymore. Thank you.

[AmyPondWilliams]

I was watching this for about three minutes before I realized that i was eating pizza too, and I flipped out.

[verboselie]

You make me want to read, MORE! :)

[TheProjectWeird]

I think one of the things that attracted me most to the channel and to become a nerdfighter, is John's love of pizza. Because my feeling are mutual for pizza.

[DIMEISDEAD]

@TheProjectWeird you can't start a sentence with the word "because". why is everybody trying to use proper grammar and punctuation? i doubt john green gives a shit how you write on his comment board

[CappyRed]

"The job of reading is not to understand the author's intent"

... if only more of our fifteen-year-old selves' English teachers felt that way...

(beautiful turn of phrase)

[2gigapuppies]

I'M MOVING TO BRAZIL! WHO'S WITH ME?

[gemmaisboring]

Very late, but shirt WANT.

[Saddangel]

John, you are making me want to read. Wow.

[CiaraHasNoCleverName]

I want pizza now

[StefanAjax101]

I think I have a better idea for a definition of a nation, John. A group of people who share common ancestry, a common destiny, and a sense that we are all connected to each other.

[FuzzyFilmltd]

@StefanAjax101 But wait, John is right it's not that simple! We in the nation of America (the "melting pot") come from all sorts of different ancestries. If Melissa wakes up without a throbbing psychic signal of connectedness, does that mean she's not American?

The message I get is that we should act graciously towards people from any nation because nations are so arbitrary and squishy!

[supertester500]

@FuzzyFilmltd more like a salad bowl instead of the melting pot

[FuzzyFilmltd]

@supertester500 Yeah, you got me there I guess lol. Maybe its a melty salad, but that doesn't even sound as appealing. Hopefully we are one of those awesome salads with fruit and chicken and olives and feta cheese or something.

[supertester500]

@FuzzyFilmltd and bacon crumbs. mmmm

[andrewkeohane]

The Breakfast Club!

[BritishAlienCompany]

Planning to show this to my english hating acquaintance! Then she will see how english can fit in with her view of science.

[TheBurningMan98]

people come in buckets without crusts! :O

[ReallyJustHope]

Craving pizza now :S

[Flashfire97]

The irony: John Green says "We don't have a better definition for a nation", a better definition was provided by Hank in his second most recent video (the message to aliens video)

[lanasofiya]

John u just proved y teachers shouldnt do those stupid book activities

[taradrama]

OMFG I READ HIS BOOKS WHITHOUT EVEN KNOWING IT WAS HIM!!! I LOOOVE AN ABUDNANCE OF KATHERINES!!!!!!

[deeyoyo1]

Life is like a box of pizza's.

[slythylia]

"The job of reading is not to understand the author's intent. The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves..." <- please tell that to the writers of the SAT <3

[ATHFguy]

Not only was this posted up on my Birthday, but this was the day i found out about the Vlogbrothers AND I was eating the exact same pizza as John was while I watched this video for the first time. I feel special! 

[MissTheMae]

Haha, it's kinda like the shades of grey speech my teacher gave us last year. Thank you john :)

[NedISMcGregor]

Watching this video...now I want pizza

Also, Scorcese!

[ellencradd10]

i love how 15 year old hank will be sat there like 'nerdfighters?'

[Lovetofave]

yeah brazilian pizza rocks ass its so damn good

[GingerAndProudOfIt]

Why did i not see this at the start of my english GCSE? John Green become an english teacher!!!!

[jimijimi1029]

greatest. rant. EVER

[mechasmokey10]

@fluffandstuf that's snookie...please tell me you were sarcastic...

[fluffandstuf]

the girl at 2:53 is really pretty

[fluffandstuf]

theres a pizza add on your right

[musicmakesmysoulfeel]

This video kind of makes me ill... SO MUCH CHEWED UP FOOD IN HIS MOUTH WHILST HE OPENS AND CLOSES IT AND SOUNDS COME OUT D:

[YoshiLebrax]

Oh man. At the ending I imagined it being like,

"Can switching to Geico save you 15% or more on car insurance?"

John: "Did I make that entire video so that I can eat that one piece of pizza on my diet? Maybe"

Sounds legit to me.

[ggennav]

And now, I must go eat pizza.

[dorkyarg]

OhMyGoodness.

Pizza comes in a bucket?

[WPWB87]

The fact that hundreds of thousands of young people are watching videos like this and finding them entertaining makes me feel less hopeless about the youth of our nation.

[msPanicMoon]

@WPWB87 Why thank you (Accepting on behalf of 'our nation's youth'), and the fact that hundreds of thousands of the not-so-youthful/youthful of our nation (And other nations) are watching this and finding it entertaining makes me feel less hopeless about the human species as a whole.

[Cakevspie94]

@WPWB87 Glad to hear someone has respect for the youth of the world and isn't dismissing them as future failures :)

[HarryPotterIsLife109]

Now I want pizza.. :/

[shoney]

readin is 4 nerdz. I ain't no nerd! I'm hard mothafucka

[Taterzoid]

I'm confused. 

[NuroXS]

Pizza is good for you? Haha. Enjoy being fat.

[thepauloapo]

6000 pizzerias in são paulo alone. Not all of brasil :D

[TheMetalSeeker]

He's so damn high right now, hence the pizzia.

[phancci]

I was a nerd that did all my summer reading until I was in about 11th grade. There were maybe 2 or 3 books that I can think of that really made me think about our world and my perception of it differently. The rest were either writing styles that I couldn't follow or written in such a way that reading was like eating vegetables.

[piousbeadsman]

new criticism: the hideous bastard child of elitist pedantry and the triumph of ignorance

[ArbitraryOrangutan]

We need more people with this kind of enthusiasm towards math instead of english.

[pinkyporkfaceplum]

Will you marry me? This is a serious proposition.

For you I would learn how to make pizza and make a different kind every day.

[lespaul82391]

rule of thirds

[Snowyjoe66]

This sounds like a Theory of Knowledge class rather than a English class. Thank god I don't have to do IB again! WOOHOO! YEAH!

[zzzIdividedbyzerozzz]

@Snowyjoe66 one more goddamn year for me.