J: Ok, we’re recording, and we’re almost out of battery, so we don’t know how long this video’s gonna last. Um, cheers.

H: Cheers. Good morning John.

J: Good morning, Hank, it's. 

H: Is this your video or mine because it’s my camera?

J: It’s my video, but you’re gonna edit it.

H: And then upload it on Friday?

J: No no no.

H: I don’t love this.

J: It’s gonna be the first ever, we’re drinking Tingalings.

H: Which is Ting and rum.

J: Yeah a-

H: Ting, Ting is like grapefruit soda from Jamaica.

J: Yeah, which is where we are. We're in Jamaica on vacation and we were thinking, "What's the most radical countercultural thing that two content creators could do in 2023?" And that was to go on vacation and not make content about it.

H: Yeah, we haven't made a single TikTok. I took four pictures and they're all of cats. One, two three, four.

J: Yeah.

H: There they are.

J: Which is, wait, hey who's editing this? Yeah whoa, whoa! I thought we were takin' it down a notch in 2023. Now you're gonna make me put pictures of cats in the video? 

H: Yeah I'll DM them to you.

J: Alright, I'll put a picture of, like, what the ocean looks like, which I think is even bigger news than cats.

H: They're really good cats.

J: Yeah, H-hank and Katherine will look away from a beautiful sunset across the Jamaican 

H: Yeah.

J; horizon to be like, "Look at the kitty."

H: No apologies. 

J: It's great. Um, we've had an awesome time. This is, but yeah, we have not collabed at all. 

H: We have not made any content.

J: Instead we've been making a different kind of content called "Life."

H: Yeah, well, I'm tryna- I'm also just tryna- it's intere- it's perspective-making. And also

J: Perspective-making

H: I just really like John and Sarah.

J: Yeah.

H: So does Katherine.

J: It's been a good hang.

H: We've just had a lot of fun hanging out.

J: Yeah, that's one of the things that surprises me sometimes is that we don't fake it for the camera. Uh, we genuinely get along.

H: It's so fun.

J: We've had, like, two fights since we became professional partners.

H: You- a lot of them have been forgotten over the years I think

J: I guess we had a fight like two weeks ago, but it was just you being so annoying. I wasn't even like mad at you about anything.

H: You were-, you-, you hadn't slept in like 48 hours. I'm gonna put that on, a little bit on you or the situation.

J: I feel like you were being a little annoying.

H: Earlier,

J: but I was really tired.

H: John bet Sarah a million dollars that this course swung like, uh, 

J: Yeah.

H: like a little, like, uh, a little, like a fun outdoor swing.

J: I asked her-

H: It doesn't .

J: I asked her if she wanted to bet a million dollars and said no because I was so confident.

H: You seemed very confident.

J: And that's part of my trick. It does not swing as it turns out, it's a stationary outside bed, but it's still pretty nice. 

H: Yeah, this, we have now been going for 2 minutes and 52 seconds

J: Yeah.

H: This battery light is blinkin' red .

J: I mean, it's, this is exciting for the viewer and for us 

H: Uh-huh.

J: except they actually know when the video's 

H: Yeah.

J: gonna end.

H: Yeah, yeah. You should probably just say, "Hank, I'll see you on Friday," just in case.

J: Hank, I'll see you on Friday.

H: Ok, we'll keep going though

J: Ok.

H: until

J: Alright.

H: what happens.

J: I thought this was gonna be a no-cut video, and you've now been making me do the end in the middle and the middle in the end-

H: No you just end it, it doesn't make it, you just cut there and that's the end.  

J: Ok.

H: Yeah.

J: Alright. A- I feel like I'm gonna have to put at least three cuts in this thing, 

H: I'm definitely-

J: four cats, and some ocean.

H: Definitely cats are important

J: The Project for Awesome starts on Friday, we're extremely excited about that. Part of the reason we've been on vacation is to center ourselves,-

H: Get ready.  

J: calm, come to the Project of Awesome from a place of lots of energy because it both takes energy and gives it, uh, so it's gonna be intense. 48-hour livestream extravaganza, starts noon on Friday.

H: You've missed it.

J: What did I miss?

H: It's four minutes and one second now .

J: Oh, a- we're already gonna have to do cuts.

H: Ok, I thought you were really gonna try to do a no-cut spectacular.

J: Well you-you, once I've got to put in a picture of a cat, Hank, I might as well just spend 4 hours editing a YouTube video. You know what? Cancel the vaca-

J: Good morning Hank, it's Tuesday, and- 
H: Would you like a chippy butty? 
J: Ohhh, he made a chippy butty. Ohhh, he really did it. 
H: Chippy butty, chippy butty. It's not chippy butty. It's just chip butty
J: But it feels like it should be chippy butty. It's just mayonnaise, bread-
H: You didn't have any brown sauce, so I put fish sauce on.
J: [Groan of disgust]
H: [Squelch]
J: [More groans of disgust] God that looks awful. It's just carb on carb on carb.
H: It needs more mayonnaise.
J: What do you think of platypuses?
H: Bfft, I think they're fantastic.
J: For me, it's a take it or leave it thing.
H: Like if you could kill the last platypus...
J: No, Hank! Of course I would not kill-
H: It's just like walking slowly toward a garbage disposal-
J: And I-
H: You could either save it or not.
H and J: [Laughs]
H: And you're like- "Ah, take it or leave it."
J: It's like the trolley problem, but if you flip the switch nothing bad happens. Can't believe you're still eating it. I can't believe it's still happening.
H: There was a hair.
J: Can I identify whose it is? That's-that's Sarah's. 
J: Hank, do you believe "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger"?
H: Um. No.
J: No.
H: I think it can go either way.
J: Yeah, sometimes things that don't kill you make you stronger. 
H: Yeah.
J: Like exercise. 
H: [Laugh]
H:I think it's really a person-to-person situation this situation.
J: I don't know about you, but lots of bad things have happened to me that didn't me stronger at all. Like labyrinthitis. It just made my life worse.
H: For a while.
J: No still, like a little bit worse.
H: Oh right, right. I was thinking of cellulitis. Sorry, you have a lot of diseases.
J: Ohhh. I have a lot of -itis'. I'm heavy on the -itis.
H: Heavy on the -itis is going to the name of your memoir. Man, that's great.
J:  [Laugh]
J: Hank, what are your thoughts on the upcoming F1 season?
H: Pbbbb. I think that, I think that is a car thing.
J: Oh, that's impressive. I didn't think you would know that.
H: In my head, here's what I have. Somewhat dependent on Russian oligarchs?
J:To be fair, it relies on dirty money from all over the world.
H: I see, gotcha.
J: Have you every heard of the following names: Louis Hamilton?
H: I knew a guy named Louis who was actually from a town called Hamilton. He was like a biking advocate.
J: And indeed, Louis Hamilton also enjoys...
H: transportation.
J: ...wheeled transportation.
H: [Laugh]
J: Have you ever heard of Max Verstappen?
H: Max Verstappen though, unlike that other guy, sounds like an F1 driver.
J: He does.
H: I'm just saying. If I heard his name, Max Verstatten, or whatever, I'm like yeah, that guy sounds like an F1 driver.
J: All right. 
H: It's like the guy who operated my hand when I got my tendon...
J: Yes
H: ...was named Dr. Hand
J: I had a doctor, an anesthesiologist...
H: Uh huh. Dr. Sleepy!
J: ... named Dr. House.
H: Oh wow.
J: Like House MD.
H: Yeah yeah.
J: And he's like putting the anesthesia in, and he says I'm Dr. House or whatever, and I'm like Hey do you know there's also a doct-- ohhh.
H: [Laugh]
J: And I assume that's why he became an anesthesiologist.
H: Just like: I don't want to hear this.
J: I don't want to hear that joke over and over and over again. Y'know. He's like, that other anesthesiologist haves you count back from 10. I have you tell me you've seen a show called House.
H: [Laugh]
J: Please don't- You just got it near my face on purpose. I would really wish vlogbrothers had smell-o-vision so that everybody could be in the boat I'm in right now.
H: They're good chips.
J: Yeah yeah, no they're really good. They're from- They're local french fries. [Laugh]
J: Hank, what are some things that you do when you don't feel inspired?
H: Read? 
J: Mmm.
H: Always helps, though it's hard to make myself do it.
J: What I do is I yell at myself, and I say like, "YOU IDIOT! GET TO WORK!", and that is totally ineffective, but I've been doing it for 40 years. So it's hard t- it's hard to break the habit.
H: We have to make a lot of stuff and I regularly am like: It's Thursday. I need to make a video and I don't what I going to make my video about. And having gone from the place of "I think this is a disaster, and it's not going to happen", to "The next day there is a video, and it's good." I've had that happen enough times that it doesn't freak me out as much as it used to. I'm sorry that you didn't get to try any of my chippy butt. 
J: You keep making the name of it worse. The name was terrible to start, and it just gets worse.
H: I'm glad that we have a lot of British fans. They can feel... insulted?
J: I'm a big believer in cultural humility, but that is a bad sandwich.
H: [Laugh]
J: Hank, I will continue to see you right now. I'm gonna go hang out with your son.