Mindblowers with Hank and John
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- In which Hank and John, in their final reunion video for now, discuss the facts that blow their minds--from the lack of time before the Big Bang to the astonishing newness of recorded music.
Fuller version of the conversation, if you're interested: • the semisecret long ve...
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Hi. If you liked this video but wished it were longer, less organized, and rambly: You're in luck. Here's an 18 minute version: czcams.com/video/b65D6i7K8is/video.html -John
p.s. The Anthropocene Reviewed just had its FOURTH week on the NYT bestseller list?!?!?! Thank you.
You're really spoiling us with all this content with you both together. ❤️
Thank you!
I'm subscribed to hankschannel, so...
tHANK YOU
Thanks muchly!
John loves to say that he doesn't understand "young people" today but then says things like "welcome to my TED talk" which makes me firmly believe that he does understand them
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Or that we're equally out of touch with young people these days but still hold ourselves up to that concept, whereas we'd shun the idea of someone our age being young a decade ago.
But maybe that's just me.
Who's Ted and why do people want to hear him talk?
"Space and time continue to bang, but matter does not"
Sounds like my 2020 TBH.
This is a hell of a good joke. -John
I went looking for this comment because I knew I couldn’t be the only one.
@@Hippopotalust
Nope, you guys aren't the only ones! 😉
In that case I must be the Higgs boson.
I appreciate that I scrolled down and saw this comment exactly when it was being said, thank you
John knowing the timelines of historical facts in relation to the creation to Dr. Pepper is VERY on brand for him
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Yep, his era is B.Dr.P. and A.Dr.P.
But what about diet Dr. Pepper?
Read his new book! He reviews Diet Dr. Pepper lol
Dr. Pepper is the drink of true intellectuals after all
John looks really uncomfortable about the idea of matter.
Super uncomfortable. -John
Not only what or how is matter but why it matters
Everyone should be. I think Hank even kind of underestimated how unlikely the existence of matter is in his description of it. I'm surprised more religious people don't point to it as evidence for their faith because when you look at the math it's miraculous that the universe has matter in it.
@@vlogbrothers Perhaps applying the anthropic principle will make you feel better. The reasoning goes something like this: in a universe without matter, there cannot exist any conscious beings to wonder why there is or isn't any matter. Then again, I guess it lies in the nature of conscious beings to never be quite satisfied with that explanation. (Which is good for the employment prospects of physics students - full disclosure: I am one)
Or perhaps it would help to become even more uncomfortable about a different fundamental physical concept, in which case I highly recommend Carlo Rovelli's book "The Order of Time".
Edit: Never mind, you already mentioned the anthropic idea in the extended version. I stand by the book recommendation, though.
Who isn't? It is the sort of thing that I need to stop thinking real quick lol
"this whole thing is weird" - the most accurate and concise TedTalk i've ever heard
Came here to say this
"that's not a fact about pi, it's a fact about humans" why did that hit me so much, I want to write a poem about it
hi skyler
ooo! do it!
@@Carebearritual hi cara sorry I commented so many times on this video (if you saw them whoops)
Pie poem? Yum
@@skylerwitherspoon woah you have more than 500 Comments on this channel
Mindblowers with Hank and John: NO. EDGE.
haha yesss
This phrase makes me feel so happy
FRENCH THE LLAMA! that's an old reference!
@@YellowTissueBox It's been so long since I've heard "French the Llama." Love it.
Dude!
This video could also be titled: John has a series of existential crises while Hank speaks for 4 minutes.
I'm not sure John thought through this concept enough, lol
This video is just John giving me beautiful facts about humanity while Hank changing my whole world view as I know it. They balance eachother so beautifully.
CONGRATS BEST FRIEND
That “recorded music is younger than doctor pepper” fact got me SHOOK. What a Tuesday
Yeah, I had to fact check that one. Dr Pepper was sold nationally in the US from 1904. The long-playing album wasn't created until 1910 in Europe and didn't really appear in the US until the 1920's.
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Oxford University is older than the Aztec civilization.
Before their 2016 win -- the last time the Chicago Cubs won a World Series the Ottoman Empire still existed and was still ruled by a Sultan.
I believe the 'album of' part of that statement is important. The earliest recorded music according to a rushed Google was made in 1860
This was the point where I paused the video to fact check because my mind could only handle that in stages.
John Green did not even say "Thank you for coming to my TEDTalk" at the end of his actual TEDTalk.
seeing u two together makes me happy it’s like the world is going back to normal 🥺
Nature is healing 😊
Vaccines are working :D
Yeesss
Woooo
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“We don’t really know why I’m here”? John, we’re here because we’re here because we’re here because we’re here
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I love that super obscure reference from the twilight zone.
I sang it
Here’s a fact I enjoy: the human brain is basically curled up into itself to fit inside our skulls. The brain is this remarkable self repairing computing system that rooms full of processors still can’t quite match, and it’s shoved into our meat case like a 5th graders gym clothes in an overstuffed backpack
The way I like to think about it is that the brain is a super advanced alien computer that does things we couldn’t dream of, except the only example we have to work with is a 14 year olds homemade gaming rig. All of the parts are dirt cheap, it’s jury rigged in a thousand ways, if you hit it wrong it starts speaking French for some reason, but it’s still incredible. Brains are ridiculous and I love them.
"The brain is the most important organ in the body" -- The Brain
This is my favorite comment. Ever. 💕
Not mine. I have a smooth brain.
This is now my favourite fact of the video
“This whole thing is weird” is the best description of pretty much everything.
The more I learn about everything, the weirder it gets. Thanks, internet.
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“Do you not wake up in the morning
and your first thought is of me and my needs?” If only more people in the world said/thought this as sarcastically as John did just now, I feel we would have fewer problems.
this gave me the ultimate older younger brother vibes
That was the crowning jewel of this video
“This whole thing is weird” really captures the human experience
Whenever I hear sayings like that I think about Neutral Milk Hotel: how strange it is to be anything at all
Have we ever sent out a giant "Thank You" to the parents of these two for raising such stupendous human beings? We should throw them a party. Just a thought.
As someone recovering from a fair amount of parental trauma. The Green brother parents are literally the reason I even consider being a parent.
It’s largely just chance bro. You don’t get to decide if your kids end up awesome or not.
I think John is the first person to use the “thank you for coming to my TEDTalk joke” and has actually given a real TEDTalk.
So my school hosted a TED event (I gave a talk!) and my friend, who was a high school junior at the time, ended her ACTUAL TED TALK with “thank you for coming to my TED talk” 😂😂😂
Woah, why hasn't he boasted about that around here? I had no idea. They have had such fascinating lives.
The dislike ratio is undefined
As it should be
Let’s see how long we can make it last!
I think you just applied quantum mechanics, at the moment you stated it was undefined it was inevitably no longer going to be undefined. Sort of...?
About 18 minutes apparently
@@creesch when I commented, there were 0 dislikes, so I meant undefined in the mathematical sense of divided by 0, but your interpretation is funny too
John’s “...wut???” at 2:23 has the same energy as that GIF of a guy blinking repeatedly in confusion
that was awesome
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Jesus!
I truly do not know how or why, but everytime I see one of your comments I chuckle at the same thing everytime, like the fact that JC is verified on YT is hilarious to me
Doesn't the big bang theory go against your Dad's book?
Why are you here dad? I mean why am I here?
The most mind blowing fact that I know is that sneezing isn’t normal
My favourite sneezing fact is that light can cause people to sneeze. If the nerve from their eye is too close to another one connected to sneezing, a change in light levels which sends a signal down their optic nerve can accidentally trigger the nerve connected to sneezing and so they sneeze.
I *never* sneeze.
please explain
@@Ross_mo It’s from one of the recent episodes of the Dear Hank and John podcast, where a doctor told a patient that sneezing wasn’t normal and that she (the doctor) never sneezes.
Omg, so yesterday I had to get an MRI, and as I’m lying there inside of the giant loud machine trying not to move so that the pictures of my brain aren’t blurry all of a sudden I had to sneeze So. Bad. and my first thought was, “I never sneeze, sneezing isn’t normal,” and my second thought was “this has got to be the worst possible place to have to sneeze.” I don’t know how, but somehow I managed to not bust out laughing and kept my head still!!!
I love not only the mind blowing facts, but also seeing the Greens together again
I miss Dave though
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This is like a comedic spin on The Anthropocene Reviewed and I love it.
Oh well if you haven't listened to scishow tangents you're going to love it
The Anthropocene, Improvised
What I love that’s happening now, is you guys are repeating things you’ve already told each other in the past. The sky being white thing was shared on a Dear Hank and John I think over a year ago. The equal parts of matter was also on a more recent episode. Repeating stuff is also happening in conversation on the podcast itself. It’s such dad energy in the best way - excitedly sharing something you’ve said before and the other not realizing it.
My twin sister and I do this all the time lmao
Hank: "space and time continue to bang, but matter does not"
me: "I am matter"
Matter: the original third wheel
I was not aware I'd get an existential crisis with my lunch today, but you both provided, so thank you
Most mindblowing fact I learnt recently is that there’s a moon in our solar system that is only 3km (1.86 miles) across. There’s a moon smaller than the radius of the distance I was allowed to travel in Stage IV lockdown. I DID NOT KNOW MOONS COULD BE THAT SMALL
Another favourite fact: an atom is surrounded by a begative field of electrons, which repel like charges. This repulsion makes it impossible to touch two atoms together, so when you touch something, your atoms never actually touched the object’s atoms; and that whenever two objects touch, there is this minute, nano-scale distance that will never be bridged. The feeling of touch is generated by the repulsion of forces that are specifically avoiding touching.
Well natural satellites are whatever orbits a planet before humans put something there, there's no definition more precise than that.
@@sion8 Astronomers probably do use some common sense (well, at least to them) size boundaries when talking about them, because otherwise every particle in the rings of Saturn would be a moon.
@@sion8 or.. maybe, remembering the Pluto situation, they just prefer not to express their opinions about Saturn's rings' particles being moons, because they realise it's too controversial 🤔🤔🤔
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Nah, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) just hasn't come out and decided on a definition.
They've help their guns on Pluto, I don't think they care about popular opinion. However, the definition they came up with for ‘planet’ is actually exclusive to the Solar System, not the rest of the Universe, something often missed.
So, exoplanets aren't bound by the same definition that “demoted” Pluto, at least not yet. I'm, sure they'd be eager to update their definition to encompass all planets in the Universe, not just make it a Solar System-centric definition.
However, I've heard some astronomers have wanted to update the definition so that Pluto is once again a planet, but that would also mean we would have more than 9 planets. Frankly, I'm a fan of the current definition.
The chuckle before John says "assuming we knew all of the other numbers"
John's face whenever Hank is talking about matter o_o
This is the first time I've heard a person who has an actual Ted Talk say "Thank you for coming to my Ted talk"
The music one… why does that feel so insane???
Seriously. I guess maybe because music is such an essential part of being human, and for all us, recorded music has always just been a way we experience music, so it feels like it should be something that’s been around much much longer.
The part that got me for that was recorded music being younger than Dr Pepper.
I had to re-listen to Henry Reich's fact a few times because my mind was so blown
I really appreciate how you can see in John's face at 2:44 that he's, like, teetering on the edge of the rabbit hole but manages not to fall down it
my mind blowing fact is that bees don’t have lungs
Wait, what ?
@@raemills3089 actually all insect have a system with 'pipes' that transports the oxygen where it needs to be. I am sorry, I am bad at explaining this since I'm not a native english speaker, but since it's actually 8th grade school stuff, there must be a good video about it.
Here it is: czcams.com/video/l79FuGuk1qE/video.html
(At around 1:56 it gets explained)
@@_the_ That makes perfect sense. (Your English is great, better than a lot of native English speakers I know haha) they're like little air sack things, right ? It does ring a bell but 8th grade was longer ago than I would like to admit hahah
Thanks !!
My mindblower is that dust from the Sahara Desert gets swept up in air currents, travels across the Atlantic ocean, and the minerals and nutrients in that dust fertilizes the Amazon rain forest. This is mind blowing for two reasons 1) that enough dust can get carried that large of a distance to actually make a significant difference. 2) That one of the most desolate places on earth is essential for life in one of the most fertile places.
That's cool.
Still can’t fathom ✨no edge✨
The most mind blowing fact in this video is that Hank’s first thought in the morning is not John and his needs
“It big bangs and then it big smoops” is my mood for the week
I’ve so enjoyed these reunion videos. I didn’t realize just how much I missed them. Glad you were able to gather as a family!
I need to send this to my friend. He refuses to believe that one of the Green brothers isn't dead. He also doesn't believe in Sun-sneezing - which is a thing I do.
Maybe that's what happened to David Green. RIP Dave.
Yep definitely Dave
Hmm. So he thinks it's a faux-tic reflex?
it's not normal to sneeze. i never sneeze.
Mindblowers is an interesting way to spell “existential crisis.” 😂
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I felt John's point at 3:39 though the feeling doesn't have to be negative: it can be a cozy smallness and excited wonder at the bigness. It was a relief to me to hear someone else feels that way, since other people seem to react with "existential crises" and I worry I'm feeling wrongly (like I'm too shallow or too heartless to "get it")
You two should DEFINITELY do more Mindblowers like this, it was great!
My partner recently explained to me (a 28-year-old) that the reason pasta gets soft when cooking it is not the water, but the heat. I found that so unbelievable that I put some noodles into a cup of cold water and waited for a few hours. Mind = blown
Oh my god, so that is why oven pasta dishes work! And dont turn the pasta all crispy!
this is... inaccurate. It's a result of water being heated. You still need water.
For your next experiment, try cooking pasta in a pan with no water or oil. Good luck.
@@Ross_mo Right - that was what was meant. I was just surprised that the water wasn't enough, I though the warming up was done just for the taste!
@A. Dings Technically your partner is correct that the heat makes the difference, but realistically you were correct in the general idea that "water alone" would work for how we normally think of water (i.e. being at room temperature).
Dry spaghetti rehydrates in about ten minutes in boiling water, and in around two hours in room-temperature water, so you can soak your spaghetti for a couple of hours to complete the first half of the process without using energy to boil water.
In cold water, which you attempted (not freezing cold, though), it will take several more hours, but the pasta will soften ... eventually. The water would need to be above freezing though, as frozen water is a solid and would therefore keep the spaghetti in a hard, solid state (frozen).
Basically, the warmer the water is above freezing, the faster the rehydration process will go, but "water alone" does work as long as it's not freezing cold. You just needed to apply more time to allow the process to complete. :)
@@xzonia1 oh that's interesting, thanks!
These last few videos have been just lovely. Truly. Not to say that there has been zero silliness in the past few years because there has been, but these "old school" feeling vlogbrothers style videos feel like such a breath of fresh air and exactly what is needed...right now. It's caused me to feel a sort of sense of nostalgia and also made me smile from ear to ear with a warm fuzzy feeling inside. The two are you together are just...awesome. Thank you per usual. (P.S. - The Anthropocene Reviewed is incredible John. What a way to encapsulate what it means to be a human!)
my mindblower: foxes in south america aren't actually foxes. they're another subgenus completely and actually closer to wolves in taxonomy
Another animal fact: Red and giant pandas are not in the same family of animals
Subgenus facts are my favorite kind of facts
The mongoose-like Rock Hyrax is the closest living relation to the elephant.
@@Yurt_enthusiast7 Thank you for calling them Red Pandas. I hate the name Lesser Panda.
That's pretty common - some European sees a thing and says "that looks like that other thing in Europe." Same with robins.
"This whole thing is weird" is a pretty good way to describe a lot of things.
I just watched in real-time John's OCD dread growing exponentially while he was listening to Hank talk about banana radiation.
I have watched this video many times and will continue to watch it again and again
The sheer joy when y’all make videos together is infectious ☺️👏🏼
“space and time continue to bang” me too 😎
jail
Wow, always a great start to the morning is Facts with Vlogbrothers. Brings some extra fun to my workday.
Good morning Hank and John, I hope y'all have a great day!
I love the vibe of John looking at Hank and saying "WHAT!"
"That feeling of wonderful smallness". That's strangely comforting. Thanks John!
“This whole thing is weird” was the only part my brain was able to fully comprehend in this 4 minute video.
We know why John is here, we just don't know why he exists.
We’re here because we’re here!
The white night sky fact made me miss the music fact so I had to go back, pause, and sit for a while before I was able to continue meaningfully in the video.
*Mind blown*
I know they've been doing it for over a decade but I am so thankful and happy to have the Green Bros educating us in such a way. They make really large complex concepts tangible and even fun which is so hard to do. Thanks Green Bros
John constantly hyping Hank's book just makes me so happy
I wasn't quite prepared for an existential crisis on a Tuesday afternoon but here we are... Then again, is it really a good Tuesday without one?
Yeah, I mean, to be fair, John serves up existential crises on the regular, so ....
@@RainaRamsay so true. But for some reason I thought that since they were having a reunion video, I thought it would be all silliness
@@authorrin7086 That's fair -- Existential Crises are usually a solo-John thing
a mindblower of my own: i have now been part of nerdfighteria for over five years. who better to tell than you guys!
I love when you two are together in person. There's such amazing energy there. Thank you for putting a smile on my face
in conclusion, humans are cool and we know a lot of stuff but mostly we know nothing. also one thing we do know is that it’s really nice to see you two together again 😊
This had a very pleasant 2013 energy. I feel the need to reblog this and fancast the TFiOS movie
Seeing them together and look at each other and smile together makes me feel so warm and happy. This is the whole and we usually only get to see the halves.
"I'll continue to see you right now" is, for some reason, the most heartwarming thing. I can't explain why.
OH HECKIN YASSS NEW VLOGBROTHERS HI GUYS HOPE YOU’RE BOTH WELL
Just remember Bill Murray's great quote from the movie "Meatballs": "It just doesn't matter, IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER"
I often wonder if I will ever get to see or hear you guys talk where I don’t smile, laugh, think, learn something and/or have my mind blown! And this video did all of that and more.
Truly love seeing you in the same shot! Thank you for all you do !!!
"we're amazing. I can't get enough of us." this is why I'm inspired to learn by these two great men
Fun fact: there are more Grammerly ads on CZcams than grains of sand on all the beaches of the Earth.
I started watching John and hank because of Charlie McDonnell (may he live long and prosper)
It brings me such joy to see these two together.
Omg!!! A reunion video…!
You guys just made my day!
John: let’s discuss fun facts. Dr Pepper is older than album music.
Hank: okay, now let’s make you doubt your existance.
"We don't know why matter exists at all "
"So we don't really know why I am here"
Uh oh, I marvel at Hank's capacity to be so casually cruel in the name of being honest 😂
But will John remember it all too well?
this was one of the most pleasant conversations i've ever witnessed
I feel like they don't even have to try when they're together, they just record their normal conversations. Which are amazing conversations.
I'm pretty sure the "the night sky would be white" thing isn't true, and also Steven Hawking discusses it in a brief history of time
I’m sorry, but Dave matters the most 😌✋🏼
Here’s a mindblowing fact: I was introduced to Nerdfighteria in January 2021, and as of today, I’ve now seen EVERY vlogbrothers video!! As if I weren’t already completely lost in the timeline since COVID hit, I’ve now experienced 14.5 years of Nerdfighter Time, in 6 months of Earth Time. (And apparently “time” isn’t what I think it is anyway, so… 🤯)
This content and community have been soooooo good for my soul through a really difficult time! It’s meant so much to have this steady diet of passion, compassion, deep thought, and deep laughs. My understanding and commitment have grown around topics I was already passionate about…. and I’ve discovered interest in topics I never thought I’d care about! (Mars? The third tier of English football? Neither of those were on my 2021 vision board, but here we are.😂)
THANK YOU, John, Hank, and Nerdfighteria, for making me a better person, and the world a better place. 💜
This is my favorite vlog to date! Much love, guys.
The fact that the universe isn´t infinite freaks me out way more than it should. Like you get to a point in the universe and then you just can´t get further? Weird
It is possible that the universe is infinite in distance (also a weird thing to think about), but it isn't infinitely old. Based on our current understanding of physics, of course (subject to change as we learn more).
We're not entirely sure what happens, but there is most likely no edge (if there were there would also be a center, and that's not consistent with our observations). So most likely it's finite by you can go on and on forever in the same direction without ever stopping, kind of like those old arcade games where you leave one side of the screen and reappear on the opposite side.
Also, the farther apart two galaxies are the faster the distance between them expands. That implies two galaxies could be moving apart faster than the speed of light, in which case it would be impossible to reach one from another even in a finite but very large universe, which in a sense would make space infinite.
4:01?
I think sometimes it adds on an extra second? It’s 4:00 on my phone
@@phoebelambdon7954 I’m on a tablet and the thing before I clicked said 401 but the actual video says it’s just 4 so idrk
CZcams rounds videos up by 1 second. So while the preview says 4:01, the video itself is 4 minutes.
As you guys said on your podcast “welcome to stoned John and Hank where we’re just like… ‘Wow… the universe man.’”
The way you two enjoy eachother is so heart warming. I love you guys.
since i’m here early, hello fellow NFTS (nerdfightwt friends, for those uninitiated)
hiiii
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Omg am I actually? FIRST
I THINK I WAS
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@@chadretrofilms7824 IN MY 12 YEARS OF WATCHING VLOGBROTHERS I HAVE NEVER BEEN FIRST THIS IS A GOOD DAY
GO MOLLY
I missed these reunion videos so much!
Watching you guys speak to each other is fascinating
All of creation is an analogous reflection of God, though any knowledge we obtain about his nature and attributes can only ever be ectypal.
John, it's so heartwarming to see how much more you smile when Hank is around.
“feeling of wonderful smallness” truly one of the most beautiful phrases i’ve ever heard, lowkey wanna get it tattooed/turned into art
That Big Bang thing about time is the best response I've ever heard to a question I thought was dumb in the first place. Bravo!
I also love how much brighter you get together (smiles, not just I.Q.s).
These brothers cannot get enough of each other ❤️
Hank & John together?!?
My mind is blown.
I would think the world would tip over with such intellect & nerdiness in one place.
I may not show it...but this week of videos of them together is giving me more hope than I've felt in a long time
"Wonderful smallness", thank you for expressing a feeling I've often had when looking at the night sky, but could not put into words nearly as eloquently.