The story about John in the airport is just hilarious. "It's just too much. I can't take it anymore." If only kid John knew how many more airports he would be in.
Once my parents got snowed in and the electricity went out and they had to live in that room for like a week, which reminds me that I once made a ten part video sorta featuring snow. -John
Hmmm I think I found a bit of some sort of scavenger hunt I’m not a part of. I participated in the whole isnotid scavenger hunt a few years ago and that was amazing but I’m too busy now lol
And also the people on the beach XD "The people on the beach, they think that we're crazy. The people on the beach, they think that we're crazy." (from the "Naughty Professor" video)
Well i'd say John just effectively sceduled the "have a nervous breakdown at an airport" -moment of his life to a time where he and everybody else could easily live with the consequences. Imagine the news this would cause today! Very clever Mr. 5 year old John Green.
John might be detached from time like Billy Pilgrim in Slaughterhouse 5, so by the age of five he already had the memory of a lifetime's worth of airports.
ElectricMichaelangela oops right you are, wasn't paying attention while writing this ... fortunately I can now edit it and pretend it never happened lol first time i'm glad they changed something about youtube
I feel like John and his dad talk just alike and Hank and his mom talk just alike.. LOVE THIS! "John just calmly laid down on the floor...." best. moment. ever haha
"It's just too much. I can't take it anymore." !!! "One time you got tired of him yelling at you and you took a hammer to him. " "Where did I get a hammer?!" . . . "I don't know." "She's wearing Chanel."
Your parents are the coolest. I would totally watch them if they had their own channel, or just a regular segment on vlogbrothers. I want to learn where they get all the nerdiness from!
Apgar Scores are a scale of 1-10 to rate the ability of a baby to thrive on 5 different categories. High Apgar score: Healthy Baby. Low Apgar Score: requires intervention.
Good to know! I was unaware of this. Just figured I'd attempt to be funny and plug something said in the video to your comment :P DFTBA, by the way! :)
I assume someone else has already commented this, but on the off-chance that no one has and anyone cares, APGAR stands for Appearance Pulse Grimace Activity Respiration. Each of these five things is scored from zero to two and then that is summed up for a score out of ten. A score of three or below is a serious concern. Four to six needs to be watched and may need extra care but are not critical. And a score of seven or above is generally a nice, healthy baby.
John didn't even like airports when he was five, the gray speckled walls must have left quite the negative impression. Great video, I wish my parents were that awesome.
I don’t think I’m crazy so hear me out At 1:10 their father saying “perfectly fine” reminds me so much of how Hank would do it and then 2:48 with “encourage” it reminds me of John with the tense type way of giving a sentence and then just slowly exhaling. Obviously they grew up with their father, I find it funny though just how exact some of the mannerisms are, even in a four minute video clip.
::Standing ovation:: Yay Mom & Dad Green! i love how their friends "CLEARLY understand" what John does and think he's so much more famous than Hank. Lol! Only in some circles. And the fact that John was a "horrible" child gives me SO MUCH HOPE for one of my own kids.
"Youth is counted sweetest by those who are no longer young. Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed, and when I'm writing there are no bees to sting me out of my sentimentality. For me at least, fiction is the only way I can begin to twist my lying memories into something true." -John Green
Carlos Chism God I love that quote, it also made me and my niece to find the smoking hole when John was on the TFiOS tour in Birmingham. I was still smoking then so couldn't resist. :-)
I quite like videos in which people include their family. They tend to be full of the warm fuzzies and the funny moments that are just funny _because_.
My favourite part was the end. Where the 'thankyou for being my mum' had hugs and kisses, but the 'thankyou for being my dad' was just words and stern faces. I'm not trying to be funny, I just laughed at the familiarity of the fact that lots of sons and fathers seem to just KNOW they love each other.
This is one of the vlogbrothers videos that I come back and watch regularly. It's just calm and happy and you can just tell that they all really love each other.
Ah, finally we meet the parents. I think this relationship is finally going places. In all seriousness though it was nice to hear their thoughts and stories.
The next time someone asks the Green parents if Hank is okay with John's success, they should say "Well he used to have a problem with it, but then he WON AN EMMY."
I never knew about Hank's brother, until a week ago. Heck, I didn't know that Hank had a different channel until I watched youtubers react. Hank, youtube know's you're famous. Great job on your shows!
***** Wow, that was so stereotypical it hurts. You might have noticed nerdfighters in general aren't your stereotypical girly-girls and manly-men (I'm sure som are, but a smaller percentage than the general population). So there really isn't much of a good base for your reasoning.
It's really cool to get to know some of the other people who make Nerdfighteria possible. Thanks for appearing in front of the camera, Mom and Dad Green!
You both are so much like your dad! And your dad's story about John in the airport, sounds a lot like John's stories about Henry. And your parents should be in more videos, vlogparents! AND THAT IS A PRETTY FIREPLACE!
Too much reading and screen watching probably. www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2015/02/05/383765377/why-is-nearsightedness-skyrocketing-among-chinese-youth
John mentioned that their dad once asked him to move a pile of clothes, and John said, "dad, that's Hank." So yeah, I'm thinking he must wear contacts.
"It's just too much, I can't take it anymore." That's a little early to be having an existential crisis, John. At 17 this is how I feel most of the time.
I love the fact that Father Green has one word tips on life. Parenting: Encourage, Marriage: Persistence, I half expected to hear Educating: Discipline straight from Sister Act 2 lol
I was born blue. I was legally dead for four minutes. I wouldn't breathe and I had a faint, irregular heartbeat because my valves hadn't formed completely. I was also almost two months early.
Oh my God, John's non-tantrum in the airport is my favorite John story ever.
It feels like it could have been a story about him just last week.
"the people in the airport think that I'm crazy the people in the airport think that I'm crazy"
***** omg that is so trueee!!!!!!!
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It's the most John Green thing I've ever heard.
"It's just too much, I can't take it anymore..." I pictured grown-up John doing this...
I can picture a slightly more melodramatic Henry doing that :)
KTGetc YES!
I think that should be the next punishment for John. next time he's in the airport he has to do that.
Yay social anxiety!
John's age really doesn't change that image all that much.
John: Having existential crises even at 5 years old.
Baby's first exsistenal crisis
chantelvdveen idk why I laughed so hard at this comment
@@user-kn7bc9ej7j LMAO
The story about John in the airport is just hilarious. "It's just too much. I can't take it anymore." If only kid John knew how many more airports he would be in.
I think that incident set the tone for ever airport he was or would be in for the rest of his life.
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"John's grades were higher, even then." This is the most parent-y thing ever said.
That impression of John at the airport was ON POINT and I could totally see him saying that.
Love that story!
John hasn't changed at all since he was 5. That's incredible.
Once my parents got snowed in and the electricity went out and they had to live in that room for like a week, which reminds me that I once made a ten part video sorta featuring snow. -John
okay, this one i don’t get
Hmmm I think I found a bit of some sort of scavenger hunt I’m not a part of. I participated in the whole isnotid scavenger hunt a few years ago and that was amazing but I’m too busy now lol
@Maddie 99 oh cool! Thanks for the info!
Airports have been oppressing John from an early age.
"John was always into...embellishing the truth"
He's a novelist. It's like his job to lie ;)
@@KyahTheAuthor more like it's his job to hide the truth in a "lie"
"so you used math" "we're such nerds" i can see where you guys get it...awesome parents are awesome.
The airport story though... so the people in the airport have ALWAYS thought he was crazy.
YES
And also the people on the beach XD "The people on the beach, they think that we're crazy. The people on the beach, they think that we're crazy." (from the "Naughty Professor" video)
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@@EllaIngram I love that video
Even as a child, John knew that he would be spending all of his time at an airport, and it was just too much.
You....you made my day.
Well i'd say John just effectively sceduled the "have a nervous breakdown at an airport" -moment of his life to a time where he and everybody else could easily live with the consequences. Imagine the news this would cause today! Very clever Mr. 5 year old John Green.
Thing is you can totally see John as a really annoying child. Partly because that sounded exactly like something he'd do now.
haha. i didnt think of that. so true
John might be detached from time like Billy Pilgrim in Slaughterhouse 5, so by the age of five he already had the memory of a lifetime's worth of airports.
2:48 Number 1 parenting tip: Encourage - so, so, so deep and simple. Felt a lot of emotions with that one single word - encourage
I agree with you.
Being a nerd runs in the family.
I want to hear more stories about John and Hank as kids!
Me too!
I'm so glad to know that John's problems with airports started so early.
Imagine the IQ of this family combined
mia a big number
Don't forget to add Katherine and Sarah's IQs. They're also very smart.
Above 9000
Can we scrap the 4 minute rule just for this interview thing, french the llama this is freaking awesome
2:52, papa Green looks EXACTLY like John. I love when you can see a child in their parent's face, even if just for a second! :D
He reminds me of Hank and John at the same time.
Haha John having existential crises at 5 - yeah sounds about right LOL Mom and Dad Green thank you for raising such awesome human beings :)
it was John :)
ElectricMichaelangela oops right you are, wasn't paying attention while writing this ... fortunately I can now edit it and pretend it never happened lol first time i'm glad they changed something about youtube
Clearly those gray speckled walls bothered John from an early age
I feel like John and his dad talk just alike and Hank and his mom talk just alike.. LOVE THIS! "John just calmly laid down on the floor...." best. moment. ever haha
"It's just too much. I can't take it anymore." That is the best John Green story that has ever landed upon my ears.
"It's just too much. I can't take it anymore." !!!
"One time you got tired of him yelling at you and you took a hammer to him. " "Where did I get a hammer?!" . . . "I don't know."
"She's wearing Chanel."
Heather J. Chin “look, she’s got bloomers!”
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm not even a parent (yet?) but I'd love to read a book concerning the parenting of Hank and John by Mom and Dad Green.
A family of writers. So cute.
Or a The Great Brain style book about their childhood antics
Your parents are the coolest. I would totally watch them if they had their own channel, or just a regular segment on vlogbrothers. I want to learn where they get all the nerdiness from!
OMG THE HAMMER STORY RETURNS AFTER YEARS. WOAH MIND BLOWN
I can clearly imagine young John laying on the floor and saying it was all too much, I can imagine he would do that now too
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Such a drama queen !!!
Hank that was probably the most solid sequence of claps I've ever heard. Such crispness and rhythm it soothes the mind.
John Green: A Fan of Airports since 1977
Hank Green: Taking 0% of John's BS since 1980
'Hank Tried to Kill Me with a Hammer' is one of my favourite Vlogbrothers videos! :D
"I can't take it. It's just too much." Even then John? Even then?
Haha oh how I laughed at this part.
*applauds Green parents*
This was adorable. Also, good to know that John's hatred for airports started early.
Aww. Next question Tuesday you have to answer: "How did you and John raise such perfect parents?"
OMG IS THERE GOING TO BE A BLOOPERS REEL FOR THIS?! I WOULD LIKE ONE PLEASE!
Hii, 8 years later.
"We're such nerds"
Clearly it runs in the family :P
Apgar Scores are a scale of 1-10 to rate the ability of a baby to thrive on 5 different categories. High Apgar score: Healthy Baby. Low Apgar Score: requires intervention.
I figured it was more complicated than a color wheel.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apgar_score
"John even had better scores then." Gonna need some burn heal there, Hank.
The airport story is superb.
"It's just too much."-5 year old John Green.
"John's grades were higher even then"
Isn't it like an established fact that Hank's grades in school were MUCH higher than John's were?
Maybe John embellished the truth on how high his grades were in school, haha
It's possible but John has shown report cards on this channel before and Hank had like all A's, and John's were much lower than that.
Good to know! I was unaware of this. Just figured I'd attempt to be funny and plug something said in the video to your comment :P DFTBA, by the way! :)
DFTBA!!!! :)
Ashley Meijer That bothered me too! Maybe she was being sarcastic? :p
"no. 1 parenting tip: 'encourage' " i like that so much
I clicked on this video by mistake only to be jumpscared by Hank's hair. I am scarred
"It's just too much. I can't take it" LMAO!
Your parents seem like wonderful people. Thanks for sharing them with us.
At 1:40 I can really hear and see John in their dad and it FREAKED ME OUT the first time I heard it
i think John still does that in airports
I assume someone else has already commented this, but on the off-chance that no one has and anyone cares, APGAR stands for Appearance Pulse Grimace Activity Respiration. Each of these five things is scored from zero to two and then that is summed up for a score out of ten. A score of three or below is a serious concern. Four to six needs to be watched and may need extra care but are not critical. And a score of seven or above is generally a nice, healthy baby.
What is 'grimace' a measure of?
Response to physical stimuli - pinching their toe makes them cry out, etc.
Haha, they math'ed their way into their home...looks like nerdiness runs in the family! I bet it's regulated by the Awesome gene :D
Your Mom looks PRECISELY EXACTLY the way I imagine Mrs. Weasley from the Harry Potter books. WOW!
thank you!
"Encourage" awwwww. That's the best.
Your parents are charming, intelligent seeming people, and noticing the various family resemblances is thoroughly, THOROUGHLY fascinating.
"It's just too much, I can't take it anymore."
I laughed so hard at this (:
John didn't even like airports when he was five, the gray speckled walls must have left quite the negative impression. Great video, I wish my parents were that awesome.
they are, you just don't see it because you are around them everyday.
garky247 :)
garky247 I love and appreciate mine, but they are not that awesome. Seriously.
garky247 Assuming you've never met Kerstin's parents, you have no idea whether that's true or not. Unfortunately, some parents are fartbags.
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My parents are great, they are just not that awesome.
I don’t think I’m crazy so hear me out
At 1:10 their father saying “perfectly fine” reminds me so much of how Hank would do it and then 2:48 with “encourage” it reminds me of John with the tense type way of giving a sentence and then just slowly exhaling.
Obviously they grew up with their father, I find it funny though just how exact some of the mannerisms are, even in a four minute video clip.
::Standing ovation:: Yay Mom & Dad Green! i love how their friends "CLEARLY understand" what John does and think he's so much more famous than Hank. Lol! Only in some circles. And the fact that John was a "horrible" child gives me SO MUCH HOPE for one of my own kids.
I want to hear more about John's childhood. I feel this could be one of his next books.
I suspect, in a way, it's ALL of his books.
"Youth is counted sweetest by those who are no longer young. Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed, and when I'm writing there are no bees to sting me out of my sentimentality. For me at least, fiction is the only way I can begin to twist my lying memories into something true." -John Green
Carlos Chism God I love that quote, it also made me and my niece to find the smoking hole when John was on the TFiOS tour in Birmingham. I was still smoking then so couldn't resist. :-)
c'mon.. it's ALL his books :)
The airport story is literally John.
I quite like videos in which people include their family. They tend to be full of the warm fuzzies and the funny moments that are just funny _because_.
My favourite part was the end. Where the 'thankyou for being my mum' had hugs and kisses, but the 'thankyou for being my dad' was just words and stern faces. I'm not trying to be funny, I just laughed at the familiarity of the fact that lots of sons and fathers seem to just KNOW they love each other.
yup that's pretty accurate for me with my parents
This is one of the vlogbrothers videos that I come back and watch regularly. It's just calm and happy and you can just tell that they all really love each other.
UPDATE from 2021: this is still true
"I can't take it anymore!" is my new favorite quote from John Green.
The Green parents are even more awesome than I expected. They are so wonderful. Also, the story of 5-year-old John in the airport made my day.
Ah, finally we meet the parents. I think this relationship is finally going places. In all seriousness though it was nice to hear their thoughts and stories.
Mom: Looks like John, acts like Hank.
Dad: Looks like Hank, acts like John.
well, that's the impression that I got.
I noticed that too! his dad looks exactly like him!
"It's just too much. I can't take it anymore" KILLS ME
The "It's just too much, I can't take it anymore" story has to be the best thing ever. I died laughing.
It's a good thing you had that high level cleric and pile of diamonds just lying around.
I want John to reenact lying in the airport.
Yes! That would be amazing.
The next time someone asks the Green parents if Hank is okay with John's success, they should say "Well he used to have a problem with it, but then he WON AN EMMY."
good advice. 'Hank won the f'ing Emmy! not John!' he screams... but not really. they're both awesome. lots of awesome to go around, eh?
Well now, it is obvious to me where all the awesome comes from.
Hank and John come from some pretty fine stock.
For a second I was like "I hope John does one of these too with his parents" and then I was like "Oh...yeah. Whoops."
Why?
@@JatPhenshllem John and Hank are brothers who share a set of parents, so it would be the same people lol
@@ZacharyArneson Oh, I misunderstood that statement a bit. Makes sense :D !
This is great, Hank!! Such a cool idea for a video.
1:19 "John's grades were higher, even then"
hahaha
I feel like John's done videos where he shows old report cards and Hank did better in school though? Still hilarious
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yeah, it was a joke. Hank always got higher grades in HS and College anyway :)
This a new favorite video... I love the Green parents! Thanks for having such awesome kids!
Wait, John is more famous? I guess I watch Sci show more than crash course, so I see Hank a lot more.
john's books are pretty popular and idk if you know this but one is actually gonna be a movie like a big deal movie
I never knew about Hank's brother, until a week ago. Heck, I didn't know that Hank had a different channel until I watched youtubers react. Hank, youtube know's you're famous. Great job on your shows!
***** Wow, that was so stereotypical it hurts. You might have noticed nerdfighters in general aren't your stereotypical girly-girls and manly-men (I'm sure som are, but a smaller percentage than the general population). So there really isn't much of a good base for your reasoning.
It's really cool to get to know some of the other people who make Nerdfighteria possible. Thanks for appearing in front of the camera, Mom and Dad Green!
I started clapping before Hank after he said, "everybody, my dad." Glad I'm on the same wavelength.
Me too.. hahahaha.. :)
You both are so much like your dad!
And your dad's story about John in the airport, sounds a lot like John's stories about Henry.
And your parents should be in more videos, vlogparents!
AND THAT IS A PRETTY FIREPLACE!
What are the odds that both boys wear glasses and neither parents do.
you're right, that is weird, maybe the parents wear contact lenses?
i swear their dad was seen with glasses in a brotherhood 2.0 video
Too much reading and screen watching probably.
www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2015/02/05/383765377/why-is-nearsightedness-skyrocketing-among-chinese-youth
John mentioned that their dad once asked him to move a pile of clothes, and John said, "dad, that's Hank."
So yeah, I'm thinking he must wear contacts.
Aw this was so incredibly sweet! :') I had no idea his real name wasn't Hank!
"It's just too much, I can't take it anymore." That's a little early to be having an existential crisis, John. At 17 this is how I feel most of the time.
Your parents make everything make more sense about you and John.
Mom & Dad Green are pretty cool.
Love the applause at the end
I literally applauded at the end.
aw, they seem so lovely. enjoyed this very much!
I've watched this so many times and just realized how alike you guys are to your father.
John is the spitting image of his dad, and strangely I think Mama Green and Katherine seem really similar. Such a great video:)
Denirka Quiles Freudian psychology suggests that men often find women similar to their mothers to be attractive, coincidence?
I love the fact that Father Green has one word tips on life. Parenting: Encourage, Marriage: Persistence, I half expected to hear Educating: Discipline straight from Sister Act 2 lol
"Gosh we're such nerds"- Mom Green
ughhhh hahahah perfect
omg their dad's story about 5 year old John made me laugh so hard! xD even as a little child he was the brooding, sensitive creative author type.
Even at 5 years old, John could jot handle the airport. Classic.
If only he had known, twas only the beginning...
Your parents are so lovely, thanks for involving them in this question Tuesday!
Daddy Green is one of my favorite humans ever.
I'm oddly reminded of the BBC Holmes family.
Yes.
OH MY GOD STOP 😂
John really looks like his dad!
Speaks like him to.
Mr & Mrs Green Senior, you have raised two wonderful children to become interesting, accepting and intellectually talented men. Parenting done right.
I was born blue. I was legally dead for four minutes. I wouldn't breathe and I had a faint, irregular heartbeat because my valves hadn't formed completely. I was also almost two months early.
Glad you made it!
Deliciousbutter actually, i seem to be the only person in my family who isnt... :p
"Do they understand what John does?"
"Yes,"
"What about me?"
"No,"
Poor Hank, sorry I mean William. I love your parents. They are so cute.
John has not changed.