Hey everybody. Ryan, you were the first person in chat. Here's a great Pizzamas shirt available at Pizzamas.com. Um, you might be wondering why I'm a little bit back-lit, what? Yeah. That's right. That's right! That's exactly right. It's because there's a sweet "neon" Pizza John sign available at Pizzamas.com right now. what else we have? How about this terracotta planter? That looks just like me. That looks just like me. I don't know. But it looks-- here, if you actually, if you take the glasses off, it looks a little more like me, weirdly. And then it's got a hole in its head. That you can plant chia seeds that come with it, or to plant anything else. (laughs). Melanie says, "Hi, I ordered that one." What a great decision, Melanie! You won't regret it! I mean, you'll grow a basil plant out of my head! IT's beautiful! And it's all at Pizzamas.com right now. Pizzamas.com. Your home for pizza stuff, only for the next 12 days. I don't have a favorite Pizza John shirt this year, but I think this one is very high up on the list. 

Henry with another one. Henry, show off yours! Your-- that actually fits you pretty well considering that it's a large,but I guess you're just gigantic now. Look at that shirt. Available at Pizzamas.com. Here, let's get that-- let's get the full... Look at- look at -- look at that. Show it off, Henry! Do a spin! There you go. Now people will be like "wow that is worth getting! You can spin!" 

Alright, make your sister go do the same thing. 

Henry: Ok.

John: We gotta raise money for tuberculosis research. Everybody says hi. 

H: (off screen, muffled)

J: He says 'mmkay.' 

H: Dad! 

J: Yeah. Yeah. Are you telling your friends? (pause) Are you sure? Cause it looked like you were going to text. Youtube.com/vlogbrothers, I'm not afraid to have a couple extra viewers. 

H: (inaudible)

J: It's ok if you are. Youtube.com/vlogbrothers. Pizzamas.com. P-I-Z-Z-A-M-A-S dot com. Ok, go tell your sister. Pizzamas.com, everybody, Pizzamas.com. That's where you go to get your Pizzamas gear, only available during Pizzamas.

Look at this! Look at that! Phenomenal! It's just absolutely phenomenal. You know? Who doesn't want that in their home? Those are actually gonna sell out. So I shouldn't sell them more.

I should sell these sweet terracotta planters that (laughs) you really gotta work on the glasses. It's easy to get the glasses crooked, just like it is in real life. But here's (laughs). It's incredible. But look, it's got a hole in its head so you can plant anything in there. I think I'm gonna do like a basil plant, or a mint plant, so I can force Sarah to look at my um, this statue of myself as a terracotta planter all throughout the year. Yeah. 

UntappedInkWell points out that there should be no screenshots. Alice, there's a Taylor Swift shirt if you want to wear that one. (pauses) Yeah, in the basement. You'll know which one it is. 

I don't think I can quite plant a tree in it. The -- maybe a bonsai? I don't know how that works. But I feel like the root bed for a basil plant would work, but not a pepper plant or a tomato plant. You look like you could but a candle on it so it looks like you have a great idea? I -- all of this is doable at Pizzamas.com, y'all. 

Um, just came from book club where we discussed the Anthropocene Reviewed. Stop everything, Ashley, what did y'all think of it, tell me the truth but also be nice. Um, you know like tell me the truth, but tell me the truth in a gentle way. But thank you for reading the Anthropocene Reviewed in your book club. Seriously, I appreciate that. 

Do you think it would work for a fish tank decoration? I mean, look, I'm not an expert. I don't wanna kill your fish, PastaMania, but yes. I think it would work for a fish tank decoration. My school just got TB. No, somebody in your school got TB.  You're fine, Simon. 

A third of all humans are infected with TB. So you're ok. It's just that you have to get tested and maybe you've been exposed. If you've been exposed, just get some antibiotics. You'll never get TB, you'll be alright. Hopefully. As long as you can access antibiotics. Right now, in India, there's a huge stock-out of antibiotics, it's a real crisis. But hopefully you'll be ok. But yeah it's a dire situation in India at the moment. 

Alice, come on! Are you going to show it off on livestream or no? (pause) Sure. Alright, we've got another model coming in. That actually looks really good on you too. Oh my gosh, you're doing a full walk. What is that called? A runway walk. 

Alice: Yeah.

J: You have a good runway walk. You really -- Look at that. Look at that! Nice spin, let's see the full thing. What's it-- what does it remind you of? 

A: Taylor Swift. 

J: And are you a fan of Taylor Swift?

A: Yes.

J: Do you want this -- do you want me to buy you this shirt in a slightly smaller size? 

A: Yes.

J: You do? 

A: Mm-hm!

J: Ok. Yeah. Um, see it's got me with a mustache. I have a mustache in every single picture. Like that's me from high school but I still have a mustache. That's me as a kid when I was your age, but I still have a mustache. That's the joke, do you get the joke? 

A: Mm-hm. 

J: It's like I always have a mustache. But. It's all my eras. There was my Pizza John era, there's my pizza era, there's my little kid era when I liked pizza. It's all my major eras. What do you think my major eras are? Pre-dad and post-dad? 

A: I don't know. 

J: Yeah. Um, are you doing good.

A: Mm-hm.

J: I hope we sell a lot of these at Pizzamas.com right now. Good job, everyone is saying hi. (high five)

A: Bye.

J: Ugh, she's so cute. Audrey says "be right back, buying that." Good job Alice, you sold a t-shirt to Audrey. (pause) She says thank you. Yeah. So, um, anyway it's good to see y'all. I'm doing a live show every day during Pizzamas, but some of them are -- Henry's here? Like in the chat? 

H: No.

J: Oh, you're not? Are you sure. Someone said "Henry's here." 

H: No, I'm not. 

J: You're not? Cause you don't have a YouTube channel. 

H: Nope.

J: Do you? 

H: No.

J: Do you have a log in? 

H: No. 

J: Are you sure? 

H: Yeah. 

J: You don't have a channel? 

H: No.

J: Ok. You can comment if you want. 

H: I know. 

J: Um, oh! Henry Reider is here! Say hi! 

H: Hi.

J: Hey, Henry! Uh, I thought you meant um, Henry my son, who's right here! But no, it's Henry Reider, Henry Reider, hi hi hi! Everybody who isn't subscribed to Henry Reider should go subscribe to him. Hey Henry Reider. It's good to see you. Good to see -- good to see you. The Henry Reider from Sierra Leone. Yeah. So, Pizzamas.com. Henry says "buy me one." Um, I don't know if we can ship to Sierra Leone, Henry, but maybe we can! It's hard, as you know, it's really hard to get mail there. That's why we keep having to go through Dr. Berry.But we'll work something out, I'll bring you some sweet Pizzamas stuff next time. 

Everybody says hi to both Henrys. How are you doing? 

H: Good. 

J: Where do you go to get that shirt. 

H: Um, Pizzamas.com. 

J: What happens to all the money? 

H: Goes to Partners in Health. 

J: Yeah, but actually it goes to independent-- the artist who designed that gets a cut, and then the rest of it goes to Partners in Health. Our money goes to Partners in Health. So that's the deal, right? 

Please turn on super chat. Wildflower, I would love to turn on super chats, I literally don't know how to. Does anyone know why I can't turn on super chats? Do you think I got in trouble with YouTube? Did I get in trouble with the law? 

H: I dunno

J: I don't know either. I can't turn on super chats, I don't know what the issue is. I looked for super chats everywhere while I was setting up the livestream. Um. Henry, people are saying you look like me. But I don't know. 

H: People say I look like more like Uncle Hank. 

J: Nooo, you look like Dada. Ohhh! You're just a tiny little baby. You were just born. 

H: Okay. 

J: Okay. Alright, that's enough. It's just the glasses, somebody said. Well we do have glasses in common. Here, are we switching? 

H: Yeah

J: Alright. Whoah, your vision is much better than mine. 

H: Yeah, I can tell. 

J: But your glasses are dirty. Jesus. It's got scratches? What happened? 

H: A lot.

J: You gotta clean these up, brother. 

H: I know. 

J: Alright. Without your glasses, they say you do look like Hank. Alright, I'm gonna read. And usually that means you want to leave. Do you want to stay for my reading? 

H: no. 

J: Ah, figured. Alright. Pizzamas.com. Look at that. Look at what you can get at Pizzamas.com. Sweet. Amazing. And oh yeah, this is only available in the United States because it comes with chia seeds that you can put in here to grow my hair as chia seed hair, you know? Like chia, like chia pudding or whatever. But you can use it as a planter for anything. You can use it for basil, you can use it for whatever you want. That's a cool shirt, John. Thank you, I know. It's only available for the next few days and only at Pizzamas.com. Thanks for noticing. Yeah. 

Pizzamas is just  the best. It's exhausting, but it's the best. I'm gonna put this over here so it doesn't-- there it's just sort of lighting the left side of my face now. That's only a little weird. You got this shirt, it's your favorite design? I like all of the designs. I don't like to pick favorites, but I definitely like this one a lot. It's great. So yeah thank you to everyone who's ordered from Pizzamas. 

Just an update for how things are going, great. It's the best Pizzamas ever. 

H: What happened to your sign? 

J: I moved it. You wanna actually put it over there for me? So that it's kinda, its light is kinda coming toward me? Yeah but like up against the-- yeah exactly. Exactly, thank you. So it's definitely on track to be the biggest Pizzamas ever, we are uh.. Every day has been like, Monday has been the biggest day 1 we've ever had, Tuesday was the biggest day 2 we've ever had, etcetera. And today will be... let me look. Almost certainly -- yeah already it's the biggest day we've ever had. Um, the biggest day 4 we've ever had. Thank you to everyone who has-- I mean I think it speaks to the quality of the merch, also to the quality of the team at DFTBA who make everything happen every year. I just think they did an amazing job this year and when the merch is really good, that means more sales, on a very basic level. So that's been good. 

John please straighten your picture frame on the wall. It is straight, look. See? Compare it to the window. It's just tha the angle was weird. This is a photo-- this is a picture-- it's not a photograph. It's a painting by an -- a Carribean artist who painted landscapes on reclaimed pieces of wood. He has since passed away. But um. but yeah it's a function of the angle, not a function of the picture. But I know that's annoying, and I feel bad. 

Alan says, "should I get a chia John?" Well first off, we can't say that, Alan. Because that's copyrighted. But should you get a terracotta planter John, yes. You should. Hard stop. Oh, UntappedInkWell says "only if your budget can handle it." Which is a great point. Don't spend money you can't afford to spend on Pizzamas, of all things. But you know. Don't spend money you can't afford to spend on anything other than necessities. Um, I have a Kenough shirt, like that I am Kenough. Does it grow a mustache? I think it might if you rub the -- if you water the chia seeds and -- chia seeds can kinda grow anywhere. So I think it might. But it would be a bit of a stretch. But I wish you luck with that. Yeah. The word "Chia" is not copyrighted. but um, implying the Chia associated with terracotta planters is copyrighted. So we don't say that, right? 

Izzy says, "Pizzamas is a necessity to me." Which is fine. But you know, still make good choices. Alright y'all. Um. I'm gonna read to you a little bit about tuberculosis. I think. I don't think, I don't know if Henry is still here anymore, but Henry is actually in this story, but he's not in this part, so. Um.

Sarah is trying to get me to change the title. I'll just tell you the title-- you know like, titles are always really hard for me. Like, until very late in the process, The Fault In Our Stars had a bunch of different titles before I settled on The Fault In Our Stars. The same is true of Looking For Alaska. Paper Towns and An Abundance of Katherines kinda had titles early on, but, and Turtles All The Way Down kinda had an obvious title. This is not a story with an obvious title. So I don't know. We're going back and forth on what the title should be. The current title I have is "Where The Cure Is Not" and the title that Sarah likes is "Tuberculosis Is About Everything, and Everything Is About Turberculosis." Which is not short. But it is a good title. Are you going to listen to me read for a little while? Great. This is the introduction, it's about my great uncle whose name was Stokes Goodrich, and--

H: Oh yeah, I remember that! 

J: Stokes Goodrich?

H: Yeah

J: You know what Stokes died of? 

H: Um.. wasn't it... tuberculosis? 

J: It was tuberculosis. And it's also about James Watt's son, Gregory.