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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 มิ.ย. 2020
- In which John takes you to Wallet Island.
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"I named it Wallet Island because I once found a wallet here" - critically acclaimed author John Green
That reminds me of Regina Spektor's song "wallet" that starts with the line "I found a wallet... I found a wallet"
Was he saying wallet this whole time? I kept hearing Wallid. I was like, what's a Wallid?
At first I thought it was Waddle Island. Wallet makes more sense.
I was hearing something in between wallet and walled. This needs clearing up...
@@secretaltruism4174 it seems like a fancy name for doors.
i knew .. i KNEW even before the shoe shot that john would be wearing those dad all-purpose water adventure shoes. that was thrilling
lol. They're so comfortable. -John
Every middle aged man needs a pair of either Keens or Chacos.
Timestamp?
@@MalloryCorben 1:16
@@vlogbrothers They create awesome tan lines too! My summer coworkers always laugh at my "tiger stripes".
"Only gotten Giardia twice" is impressive considering John is drinking feral beers. Just all sorts of unsanitary
+ for Feral Beer
Seriously. Nothing on earth would have made me try to drink that beer.
Yes, you gotta watch out for feral beer, you never know what it might do! That's why you're only supposed to drink tame beer!
I got giardia once. We were out of water, so a couple people drank from the river. I was against it, but eventually caved. I was the *only one* who got sick.
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"Is that a bench?"
"It is a bench!"
We now require a bench update next time you go to wallet island. It probably won't be there but it's the thought that counts.
Is this Wallet Island?
39°49'04.5"N 86°11'24.2"W
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@@maxximumb leave his island alone.
Yes I need to know if the bench survives the rising tides!
"In 5 years of being on the White River I've only gotten Giardia twice." - New York Times Best-Selling Author John Green.
Edit: Why is this the top comment on a vlogbrothers video? You people can do better.
Also, Giardia is a parasitic bactrium found usually in fresh water. It's often cited as one of the reasons (not the biggest reason) why the old Disney waterpark on the lake, River Country shut down.
What's Giardia?
@@FreyjasFaceAndCo type of parasite
It's an intestinal parasite that causes lots of issue
I'm really surprised that John, a well-documented germaphobe, is fine with this
In a video about paradoxes, the fact that John can be so calm about a parasite is yet another contradiction.
"You're mostly fine" is a level of risk I am surprised you're willing to accept. #proudofyou
hahahahaha thanks! I've never really worried about toxicity of water. I worry about so many other things that it's a wonder I don't worry about that, but the river really is fine as long as you're not swimming in it. The problem is that if your kayak flips...you're swimming in it. :) -John
@@vlogbrothers Also, if your kayak flips, the computer you brought to write will have a rough go of it.
That and the consumption of the random beer......milestones in germaphobic growth
@@Think890 Oh I went back to read that Update I missed. I can almost not believe it!
As I always say "It builds immunity"
Hi from the future
john: is a NYT best selling author, has taught millions of kids english and history
also john: drinks expired beer that he found on an island in the middle of a very polluted river
"Wallet Island now has a seating area!" ~John 2020
The best
" It's both loud and very quiet" - aren't those the best places.
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Me hitting a bowl at night
Me tumbling down the stairs at 3 in the morning
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There is a long, linear cliff called the Niagara Escarpment running through Hamilton, Ontario. Because it's so steep, it's basically a linear nature reserve running through a dense, busy city. This is exactly how I feel about that place. :)
John : has constant anxiety about germs and diseases.
Also John : I've only got giardia [here] twice.
Also John: * Drinks expired beer from sewage lake *
Most interesting people are full of contradictions.
The person who wrote Turtles All the Way Down is unusually chilled out about germs in this video. It is an island of contradictions indeed!
What having ocd is like in a nutshell (at least in my experience)
I was wondering if he was teasing us
John Green: “I’m a hypochondriac who is deathly afraid of getting sick.”
Also John Green: “Don’t mind me, I’m kayaking down an open air sewer. I’ve only gotten Giardia twice. What’s that? A can of beer that’s been soaking in sewage for a year? DELICIOUS!”
Me to Friend: "Pack up the car and kayak, we are going to Wallet Island."
Friend: "What? Why? Where is Wallet Island?"
Me: "Indiana. We leave in 20... They have a bench."
I have canoes, let's find it! If I leave now I can be there in 15 hours.
Ah, the White River, one of the most metaphorically resonant rivers ever.
omg they noticed me I'm cryingggg 🥺🥺🥺
@Jason Starlight
Congrats 😊
Good grief. This is truly the content I needed right now.
“Is that a bench. It WAS a bench. Wallet Island now has a bench!” Is the most wholesome laugh I’ve had in good long while.
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It really makes me smile that Wallet Island is on Google Maps now, and one of the only pictures is of the bench
The bravery needed to get a LAPTOP there. Amazing.
I love how John Green, a 42 (soon to be 43!) year-old-man, found an unopened budwiser that had been floating in a river, and, like a 15-year-old, saw fit to attempt to imbibe it.
Always stay young at heart
animal crossing island tours: real life edition
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yess 😂😂
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I just finished Turtles all the way down so this is pretty dope.
@Autistic Perspective What a cute story
I just read the first chapter today!
Aza goes to this island in the book!! I wasn't sure but I just checked she goes to this island!!! It's on chapter 3!!!
@Autistic Perspective I wanna read that
I'm glad you went with the name Wallet Island, that sounds more inviting than Pee Bottle Island.
"you're mostly fine" is just a better way of saying 2020.
This channel has been such a source of joy, encouragement, and hope for me since 2010. Thanks so much to you both.
Edit: Could we adapt the Theseus's ship thought experiment to Wallet island..... How much new driftwood can appear before it is a different island?
Thanks, Graeme! -John
Graeme Bloodworth vlogbrothers Truly, one never sets foot on the same litter-covered sometimes-island twice
I KNOW THE UPLOAD SCHEDULE. WHY AM I ALWAYS SURPRISED WHEN I GET THE NOTIFICATION.
Exactly!
Tuesdays feel like anything but Tuesdays sometimes
SAME!
This is incredibly true thank you for saying it!!
Its because no one knows what day it is anymore
"I was going to pick up that bottle but there's pee in it..."
And yet you still picked up the unopened can of Bud.
Based on past experience, I would surmise that the contents of the can and the bottle were roughly equivalent. 🙊
@@LorrainePorcello Hey, you take that back.
Pee is sterile and perfectly drinkable, compared to Bud
That's what I meant.
Well it was unopened
Mr_Mew Lol! You’re right; my bad! 🤣
"Wallet Island now has a seating area!" *for now
I really fear the day they run out of lyrics.
Nice pfp
I’ve calculated they’ve got about 25 more potential titles. Maybe. I might be wrong. Feel free to correct me. So that’s another 12-1/2 weeks of this max.
@@cathrynross9045 docs.google.com/document/d/1_ieE5_tGv7lstXFTA_CplMDRWoFMgcXnEWjI6AJfh08/edit
@@lvlychvz This is so good!!!! 😂
This is the first one where I legit had to check the lyrics, I couldn't just sing my way to them.
Wow, I just found out it's Tuesday. Thanks John.
Letting the vlogbrothers be your calendar is a big 2020 mood. -John
Like a broken clock that is right twice a day, the vlogbrothers channel can accurately tell you what day it is twice a week.
Oh, yeah. Calendars exist. That explains why my unemployment hit my bank today.
John: Discussing how he likes a place for it's privacy.
Also John: Unintentionally creating a new place of gathering for his massive online community.
Thus begins the story of Wallet Island.
I want to find it, go secretly and clean it so that John can enjoy it
To be fair, there are probably several islands along the river which are pretty indistinguishable from the constant flooding, and he also pointed out that the river and island are fairly gross. I think he still has a reasonable chance of his peace there not being disturbed.
And yet, it's never the same island twice
I live quite close to there, but since I don't own a kayak I have literally no way of going even if I wanted to. I think he's pretty safe.
Just keep in mind the paradox of broccoli tree. I'd say we should just let John have his island
The way the natural world "refreshes" over time has always been really interesting to me. In rural Arizona where I grew up, there are all of these little canyons carved into the ground by runoff from seasonal rains. During the monsoons, they can become almost river-like, and the distribution of flora and fauna (and random detritus) is always different after they've been flooded. Revisiting them again after they dry up has that exact mixture of sameness and newness.
My brother and I hiked and rode horses through those arroyos in Arizona. Ah...childhood memories. Today's children are missing out on the kind of freedom we had to go exploring.
I love the Carbon River on Mt. Rainer in WA for the same reason. They call it a braided river. The riverbed is 2 mi wide even though there's not nearly that much water. It carries so much silt and rocks downstreamthat it builds up in different places in the path of the river changes constantly. A log bridge will be in one day and out the next because the water has changed direction. It's magical!
This reminds me of the river I imagined in my mind when I was reading Turtles All The Way Down
thanks for reminding me that despite buying it, i have yet to read it. #salute
It is the same river! (And even the same stretch of river. I kayaked past Davis Pickett's estate on my way to Wallet Island. -John
@@vlogbrothers It is one of the weirdest feelings being told that something that I existed only in headspace was passed by in real life
Sammme. Videos from Africa by the way! I hate being this loud but this comment will drown in the internet anyway
Jindorek READ IT!!! i adore that book
somehow this is EXACTLY what I thought it would look like when I read Turtles All The Way Down.
I am constantly amazed by how good John is at describing Indianapolis.
Me: "Haha I wonder if I can find that island on Google maps"
47 Nerdfighters before me: *somehow got Google maps to officially call it 'Wallet Island' and left reviews*
Oh it's incredibly easy to add stuff to Google maps. My friends once changed my house to a mine open 24 hours a day lol
We need more of these videos. Just let's the brain relax
I briefly felt some calm and quiet, sitting here in my cramped apartment..thanks john!
Agreed! It seems very peaceful
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John: *finds an abandoned can of unopened beer that should probably not be drunk by anyone*
Also John: *drinks the beer*
Can't say I'm surprised that didn't go well... :P
thhhiiiiiiiisssssss. OTL. JOHN. WHY.
Also John: is an intense germophobe.
He contains multitudes.
That’s how he’s getting the Giardia
At least it wasn't pee. ...right?
He slaked my curiosity; John, I salute you!
I'm having the worst day full of just incredibly petty problems that won't stop coming and I'm on the verge of tears and then the notification pops up. "Save me, John!" I cry. And John has uploaded a video that makes me feel like even when things are awful and you're surrounded by mess, things can still be pretty cool. Thanks, John.
Raina Ramsay Same. Take care friend. You deserve to be happy.
I didn't know what giardiasis was so I looked it up and it's also known as BEAVER FEVER! Sometimes practicing gratitude is hard, but sometimes you read the phrase BEAVER FEVER and the gratitude just overwhelms you. Ah, small blessings.
Genuine respect for the All Star titles that are still going.
‘Only gotten giardia twice’, still two times too many for me
anyone else finds themselves sighing at the end at the calmness john exhudes?
i’m livid that i’m incapable of naming my Animal Crossing island Wallet Island
Not gonna lie, there's something about this particular John look that takes me back to 2008 all over again.
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it indeed looks like a cool place
John Green: New York Times Best-Selling Author
Also John Green: “I named it wallet island because i once found a wallet here”
Not relevant to this video, but I understand the importance of mental health better due to you guys.
We had a Hindi remake of TFIOS about to be released recently and the lead actor in the movie committed suicide because he was depressed. This made me immensely sad and made me rethink and revise a lot of my own goals for my life.
I love the fact that what you've built here is not a yt channel, but a community. Thank you for it.
RIP Sushant❤️
RIP Sushant Singh Rajput
"I've only gotten girarida twice" - well then...
I FORGOT THERE WAS A VIDEO TODAY THIS MADE ME SO HAPPY
Why is everyone trying to be first, It's harder to be last! (Also Read My Username)
I sub to everyone who subs to me well I genuinely was really excited about this video and also, you commented even before I did
Uwuu. Videos from Africa by the way! I hate being this loud but this comment will drown in the internet anyway
@@WintaAssefa are u sure
""It's both loud and very quiet"
So Schrodinger's silence.
Vlogbrothers is my favorite corner of the internet. This has been true for years, but each video seems a kind of re-centering, a deep breath in the swirl of information, an island (if you will). I really needed it today.
That is the best bench reveal I've ever seen.
This pleased my brain because it felt like I got to go on a small adventure outside while actually remaining at my desk.
I might go on an outdoor adventure soon now... in like, three weeks after I move.
The exclamation of “there’s always a lot of trash!” at 2:06 seems more like a brief and fleeting tangent on the current state of the world even on such a beautiful little island rather than a literal observation, and I am here for it
My FAVORITE vlog brothers video. BY FAR. So much to discover (a bench, a chair and a terrible beer WHICH YOU TRIED)
Wallet Island is now one of my favorite places that I’ve never been to
I just wanna say that I really appreciate you and your amazing books.
Thanks :) -John
I am gonna literally freak out you will probably never read this but your books has taught me so much and I am thankful for you and your beautiful, amazing and sometimes so simple thoughts that light up worlds
This is probably one of the best vlogbrother-esque contents ever. A perfect blend of the quirky and the insightful. Heading to bed now and this is all the nightcap I need. Thank you John.
Most middle-aged men play golf. John Green kayaks down a river to pick up trash. I think I like that better. Thanks for adding awesome to the the world John (and Hank!)
Can we make Visit Wallet Island shirts or posters? I'm imagining in a vintage style. I loved the video!
This is a great idea! ++++
Yes! I am here for Wallet Island merch!
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Like an idyllic vintage travel poster but with a plastic chair half buried and an unopened can washed up on the shore...
I stayed on a river-island during a canoeing trip on the Rio Grande. Since it was in between two countries, it felt like we had our own sovereign nation. Anyways, a very beautiful and relaxing video!
I love it when John takes us on these little adventures into nature.
Things I didn’t know I needed to see today: John Green finding a bench on an unpopulated island
I used to love playing on river islands! It was always like a portal to a different world
I was just looking online for a bench like that when I got the notification. I need that bench!!
It's just south of 38th Street if you don't mind the trip. -John
@@vlogbrothers Well, I live in Zaandam (near Amsterdam), so...
“i like it because nobody goes there” pretty much sums up most of my favorite places
Thank you VERY much for including the sounds of the water as you paddled.
The titles just don’t stop coming, do they?
But if you don't like it you can always hit the ground running : )
You know, I suppose via the fact that this island occasionally floods, they do in fact say that it gets colder.
I would watch an hour long video of John walking around on that island
love how calming that was.
John's destination videos are making this quarantine much easier and my heart much warmer
The white River reminds Me so much Of Turtles All the Way Down
Sammme. Videos from Africa by the way! I hate being this loud but this comment will drown in the internet anyway
I thought I recognized the place!
Yeah. And going back from the island is then Turtles All the Way Up.
Thank you, White River and thank you Wallet Island for providing John the inspiration and peace of mind for him to do his writing!
I always love these walkabout in nature videos. Also, can I just say the latest episodes of the Anthropocene Reviewed are just amazing. They’re always good, but the latest ones? Damn. 👏👏👏 I think the segment on You’ll Never Walk Alone might be my favourite yet!
I could use some quiet kayaking time. Some of my favorite memories as a kid was canoeing and kayaking with my dad out to an island on a lake, picking wild blueberries, looking for loons, and just exploring the small island. It small island that people would often camp on. However we rarely ever saw anyone else there when we were there. Theres something so comforting about being out on the water that feels to me like being apart from everything else.
I am in love with this man, genuinely. just pure, hug you till the fuzzy feeling goes away love.
I was gonna saw "I wish I could go here" but then I remembered that even if I lived in Indianapolis, I'd still have to go through a literal river-full of sewage water... yeah, I think I'm fine right here in this sofa.
This is some great content and honestly it’s just what I needed to see this week. Would love to see more stuff about your outdoor adventures. This is some dad energy.
Over the past couple of years I've struggled to focus while reading and avoid distractions, but after deleting Twitter from my phone last week I surprised myself with how I've been able to find that ability to focus again. I finally finished reading TAtWD last night, and I really loved it. Thank you for taking the time to write a story that I very much needed to read.
I love this thoughts from places kind of video (especially when I can't physically go to places)
I just like to see John living his best life
thanks, this brought some peace to my day and sort of makes me want to go hiking later
This video was just really cool and sweet, having you show off your favorite get away to us at this...less than relaxing time. Thanks for being here for us all and for showing us your favorite place. Stay safe!
Indiana has been on my mind quite a bit, lately. As it turns out....Indiana and Illinois Compared, coming Friday.
But the real question is:
What's your favorite BRIDGE across the White River?
I relate to there being things that just don't scare you, even though most things do. There's something to this idea that I can't quite articulate. But it's powerful, when you're so used to all the ways your anxieties hold you back. I would not go anywhere near that water. But I love high ropes courses. Anxieties and trauma have changed every last bit of my personality from when I was a kid, but a love of climbing and feeling strong and fearless in high places apparently is something I still have inside me. And it's the strength of a child that just parts the red sea of adult fears.
Tracie Irene I am both so sorry and inspired to hear that. I can totally relate. I am afraid of pretty much everything except “logical” fears like heights. I love rollercoasters but am extremely afraid of any of the people riding them or attending the park. I’m so glad you find comfort in climbing. You are so brave and strong. Take care
Both loud and quiet places are some of my favorite spaces to be in.
Even reading that you attempted to drink the beer gave me intense anxiety, not because it had been on the ground and was slightly out of date and I have diagnosed moderate OCD, but because Budweiser is just literally the worst.
Anyway, thanks for bringing us along!
Apparently you never tried Berger Beer. My local liquor store in college sold it by the keg and threw in a roll of toilet paper
@@rbb9753 I haven't, and thankfully so it sounds! I've never seen that out here in the UK, but honestly we have some pretty dodgy beers out here too 😅
"a cool place hardly anyone knows about" - me: is it the island?
this is so sweet and i’m glad that john is still having these innocent and positive moments. we all need some of those right now.
I love this! Thanks for sharing your favorite place, John.
This was such a lovely escape from the rest of the world- thank you for sharing.
(But also, what possessed you to drink that beer? That is terrifying.)
it really takes 2020 being itself to make you think that 'I only got giardia twice" is a reasonable statement
I love how you can see how johns environment influences his writing.
This is the greatest video I've seen in a long time! So many great one- liners, beautiful scenery and my favorite: a (slightly more) relaxed, happy John Green!
When you think you couldn't fall even deeper in love with John, you watch this video and realise how profoundly wrong you were.
Those shots of the river relaxed me in a way I haven't felt relaxed for, like, 4 months.
This whole video filled with so much charm that I screamed of amazement at the end
This is such an old school vlogbrothers vlog and i really needed that right now
2:20-the end is some of the best joy I’ve had today. Thanks for sharing a view into wallet island.
Thank you for sharing such a beautiful place with us
Thank you for this video. It really reminds me of my childhood, exploring woods and finding cool things. I used to spend hours sitting near a small stream I found in the woods, enjoying the sunlight that scattered through the leaves above me and reflected beautifully off the water. I think it was in an episode of Dear John and Hank when John said that nothing is more relaxing than the sound of running water, and I couldn't agree more.
I love these mini travel vlogs. It feels so good to just _go somewhere_ with you guys.