 Good morning, Hank. It's Tuesday. I've said those words on video something like 1200 times in the last 17 years And you've said good morning John even more often because you've taken fewer vacations But just to state the obvious I'm not always going to be saying good morning Hank. It's Tuesday because Everything ends or at least everything that we've observed seems to end I'm gonna look at this through two metaphorical lenses that of the professional athlete But first that of the television show most TV shows last for like one or two seasons Grey's Anatomy has been around for 19 years making it about a year and a half older than vlogbrothers Law and Order SVU has been on the air for 25 years, but those are exceptions Even very successful shows often don't last that long friends lasted 10 seasons the office 9 the West Wing 8 Everything ends and not only that I would argue Everything should end so there's been a lot of attention on youtuber retirements this year Which I think is basically good news like in a very new medium We need to figure out how people say goodbye or at least how they say goodbye to this or how they say goodbye For a while, but thank you and I've been on YouTube long enough to know this isn't exactly new like most Successful creators of their moment move on from making YouTube videos in fact of the crop of featured creators at the first ever VidCon in 2010 almost none of them today make their living on YouTube people move on from the platform to other Opportunities or their audiences shrink to the point where it's no longer fulfilling to make videos or whatever else things end and having a show That runs for seven or eight seasons is not some failure or tragedy It's a tremendous success in the comments of Tom Scott's last video I wrote congrats Tom and a lot of people replied. Why would you congratulate him on stopping making videos? I guess I wanted to congratulate him because of course it was a carefully considered decision and the right decision for him but also because He finished he finished his run of ten years of weekly videos He completed the project and this brings me to my second metaphor professional athletics So most pro athletes play between one and four seasons before retiring a few get ten Very few end up like Tom Brady playing for 23 seasons Hank in this metaphor You and I are in that lucky few who are able to hang around for many years in the league But of course just to state the obvious we are not Tom Brady Mr. Beast is Tom Brady and I wish him so much luck with that. It seems like a very very stressful job We are like second string offensive linemen who are kind of personality hires like we're good in the locker room And so we're allowed to hang around but we've managed to stay in the league since 2007 which is amazing and most amazing of all We still love it here. I do think a lot about how vlogbrothers will end I mean, maybe it will end in death And I guess I would be okay with that if this became like an archive of what two people were thinking and Experiencing while they were both here that said I'm not convinced that vlogbrothers ideal ending would would be death I think the ideal ending is that like Tom Scott we complete the project I just don't know exactly what completing the project looks like. I used to think it looked like finishing Brotherhood 2.0 on December 31st 2007 I used to think that it looked like finishing the maternal center of excellence, but I didn't feel finished on December 31st 2007 and frankly I don't feel finished now because I do think and worry about this a lot I talk with my friends a lot about it and I have a friend who's a recently retired professional athlete And so I asked him like how did you know it was time and he told me the game tells you when you're done I love the game so much and I respect it And it told me when I was done Hank We're in our 18th season of vlogbrothers and I would be lying if I told you I thought this was the first half of the project But I love this youtube game. I respect it And it hasn't told me I'm done yet. It seems to me like the game still has a use for us So I'll see you on Friday