An Ancient Apocalypse

[@marcellastname6862]

The curls are CURLING

[@AlexDings]

is this the new "puff levels are high"?

[@jennifersaar1611]

Right?! I was so distracted by the curliness I had to rewatch the first minute.

[@Gulgathydra]

I gotta say, cancer is a heck of a commitment just to try a new hairstyle.

[@Bugside]

He's got curls all the way down

[@radagastwiz]

Hurry! Hurry hard!

[@Idefilms]

I've heard us describe nerdfighteria in so many ways, but somehow, "A maniacally powerful secret society" is a new one for me

[@Naiadryade]

Sometimes I find myself telling someone that there's an "online community" that's been important to me for a long time... I might have to sub in this phrase next time.

[@placeholderdoe]

Days since Hank Green Started a new thing: 0 What was it: Starting the next illuminati

[@Idefilms]

@@Naiadryade Haha truly, the perfect way to articulate the essence of nerdfighteria to people who have never heard of it /j

[@Idefilms]

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[@dubhlinn2]

Ok so he WAS talking about Nerdfighteria. I genuinely wasn’t sure lol. Because I was thinking about the chat room that Andy hung out in in AART?

[@elizabethmunroe3676]

There is a paved path to this erratic rock, and all the way around it. This is an accessible erratic rock. The world is sometimes wonderful in small ways.

[@Idefilms]

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[@KFoxtheGreat]

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[@NinaDmytraczenko]

This definitely makes any future travel much easier for the rock!

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

this makes it slightly less erratic than certain rocks, yet still erratic enough to be of note.

[@elizabethmunroe3676]

No more having to wait for a glacier or flood to come along and take it any old place.@@NinaDmytraczenko

[@ronaldmartin2666]

That hair got Hank looking like he’s about to sell my data

[@MrDanielcarstea]

😂

[@BM5X5]

Zuck tease

[@craftinapahantasiaartist]

🤣

[@princesssshortie]

😂

[@AdaSoto]

Oof.

[@ChandloEnjoyer]

"Today's cataclysm is tomorrow's roadside attraction" is the exact kind of dread I needed today. Thank you, Hank.

[@nene_blimboblambo]

I can find in this some help in my phobias and mental health! Thank you! Been doing therapy and medication, but it's the little ideas like this one that have the potential to help me (and perhaps others) through my day! Hope you're ok! DFTBA!

[@kashiichan]

Personally I actually find it kind of reassuring? Like, the world will always recover, even when "apocalypse" happens. That's pretty rad.

[@3countylaugh]

Makes me think of the weird sci-fi of "Roadside Picnic" which could also bff described this way.

[@tkh22]

"You have a child! You must be so proud!" directed at the rock is so funny to me for some reason

[@wildflower1397]

It met another rock in college, and now their minerals are in the same pebble. 😂

[@afroceltduck]

One day I was walking and I found this big log, then I rolled the log over and underneath was a tiny little stick. And I was like, "That log had a child!"

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

In the context of Hank talking about how strange it is to be a human with a child, it's delightfully absurd for him to envision a rock with a child. Almost EEAAO-esque.

[@backwashjoe7864]

@@afroceltduck I came here looking for this quote! Seagulls! :)

[@chillsahoy2640]

@@afroceltduck As soon as I heard Hank say that, it made me think of the song. And then I started wondering what's the Venn diagram of people who will watch this video and people who have heard of the Seagulls song.

[@OnDVD]

A video in a video? This is more erratic than the rocks. The erratic rocks

[@Tim3.14]

It's like the video had a child! It must be so proud 😊

[@stanley9868]

I'm tellin ya, stuff doesn't get more erratic than erratic rocks

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

This rocks!

[@marcappiah6862]

Take my like, please!

[@slyasleep]

rock erotica

[@hugenerd97]

“Now our genes are in the same child” is the funniest way to explain having a kid

[@Tasorius]

Funny in an unnerving existential dread sort of way...

[@Piarou]

"Time heals all wounds, I guess. But usually just through forgetting." Wowsers. That is T-shirt-worthy!

[@amberbydreamsart5467]

yeah that line GOT me

[@KandyLamb]

@@amberbydreamsart5467 Oh, wow. Me, too, cause my cat died this week and I'm so emotional right now. I don't want to ever forget her.

[@scal2025]

And Hank just casually dropped that one at the end of a video with another video inside it, wild.

[@361Openwounds]

Or socks

[@eric7591]

Yeah, here I was watching a pretty light hearted video within a video, and then, bam, I got ROCKED there at the end!

[@SalokinQuagsire]

4:10 “Flowing with 10x the combined annual volume of all of Earths rivers” *Horrified and exasperated giggle*

[@graemebloodworth8991]

Hank's hair is become what John's hair used to be. the puff is returning, newer, stronger, more prepared for the modern world.

[@k1tkat-kate]

The Rise of The Puff? Son of Puff? Puff 2: Electric Boogaloo?

[@alexiuscastrum]

That which was dead rises again, harder and stronger.

[@andrewmcquade9413]

There’s a line from one of David Attenborough’s nature documentaries that sticks with me, they’re talking about biodiversity loss and climate change, and they say something like “there are mini apocalypses happening all the time.” I think about that a lot.

[@steggopotamus]

Feels like a "nice" time to mention the widespread death/bleaching of coral reefs going on right now. Similar to last year's, but worse because ocean (surface) temperatures are even higher than last years, which were record high temperatures when they happened.

[@ericvaninwegen6384]

Did you know there is a unit in Oceanography that is roughly equal to the flow of all rivers into the ocean? That unit is a Sverdrup!

[@vlogbrothers]

WHAT

[@geeksdo1tbetter]

When does that unit show up in a calculation?! So cool!!

[@ericvaninwegen6384]

@@geeksdo1tbetter Oceanic currents are HUGE! The Gulf Stream starts off at ~ 30 Sv, but, due to entraining more water as it goes, accounts for ~ 150 Sv by the time it's far to the East (well off of Cape Cod, MA).

[@angryface01]

I did not know this. THAT IS SO COOL!!! Although, I think my limited imagination in this is making it difficult to get a handle on what this volume means.

[@MrMasterprocrastinat]

*The* Hank Green visited my favorite local Erratic Rock park?? The same place I visit literally every other week??? I thought I was going to be one of the only people to know about and fully appreciate this place??? What???

[@Ddonaldson9]

I spent 4 1/2 years within 5 minutes of that family of rocks and never even knew they existed!

[@kimmykimmie]

The video inside the video has strong 2011 VB vibes

[@sams1982]

Yeah it cannot be the first time this happened like Hank said..

[@AlexDings]

I also feel like it's the first time since about 2011 that Katherine appeared in a vlogbrothers video!

[@kashiichan]

​@@AlexDingsRight?! Remember when she was known by everyone as "The Yeti"?

[@avakining]

@@kashiichanthat was Sarah, John’s wife.

[@LeoTheMonts]

Love the Vlogducken

[@IrisNebula7023]

"We're going to the erratic rock!" [erratic rock music playing] Yeah, that was a good one! 🤟

[@mirnder]

Oh man the rock music on top of the trip footage gave me some INTENSE nostalgia for some old Hank videos

[@runningcow]

Love the rock soundtrack for the erratic rock. It could have been more erratic, but still fitting.

[@alissa6380]

​@@runningcow yeah, i was expecting it to have, like, a SUPER weird/disorienting beat like what i would assume math rock sounds like (without having ever heard math rock), or if a child knew a few chords really well but had absolutely no sense of rhythm

[@jessv2572]

I was waiting for Hank to come in with lyrics about the erratic rock lol

[@kaypgirl]

​@@alissa6380 The beginning was the intro from Hank's song "Hug Scream." Though the last part of it I didn't recognize.

[@misterscottintheway]

"Time heals all wounds, I guess. But usually just through forgetting." You got all Ze Frank on us there for a sec.

[@misterscottintheway]

God I miss Ze Frank though.

[@osmia]

He's still posting on his channel. You might want to re-subscribe

[@misterscottintheway]

@@osmia I'm aware of the crazy animal voiceovers

[@MuJoeTheMean]

​@@misterscottintheway I came to the realization that all that my Ze subscription was doing was inserting gross pictures I don't want to see into my feed the other day and decided to pull the plug 😢 (Not that I begrudge anyone that's into that content, it's just not for me.)

[@misterscottintheway]

@@MuJoeTheMean yeah. We all get old and need to make money at some point. I don't begrudge him that but I do miss him.

[@dragonflies6793]

That discussion about grief at the end really hit hard, about the human loss that doesn't get told as a story of human loss but as a story of rocks and glaciers.

[@bloomnights]

"Cause most people aren't like /this/" GOD i felt that

[@Idefilms]

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[@AndreaCrisp]

I want to like this, but it's at 111. 🥰

[@angryface01]

Yes but the coolest and most interesting people are. 😊

[@mrafflin]

hank green: that guy with the child and the marriage

[@michaelmicek]

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[@QuestionableCheez]

There's a quote from "Sleepless in Seattle" that I like on handling those kinds of wounds. "Well, I'm gonna get out of bed every morning... breathe in and out all day long. Then, after a while I won't have to remind myself to get out of bed every morning and breathe in and out... and, then after a while, I won't have to think about how I had it great and perfect for a while."

[@CWorgen5732]

Yeah. A student's mom told me, in a much less eloquent but very impactful way, "It sucks. And it sucks for a long time. But then one day, it sucks a little less."

[@blarblablarblar]

based on how happy the old people at diners wearing party cones seem to be, I wholeheartedly believe the idea that birthdays are indeed celebrations of not being dead yet

[@realspacemodels]

As I head toward my 65th birthday later this year I enjoyed Hank's assessment that as you get older birthdays celebrate that you are still alive. We lost my father and both of my wife's parents in the last few months, so mortality is kinda on my mind. Also, I would be one of those people who would be excited to see Hank or John in the wild. I've seen practically every video from them since 2008.

[@esobelisk3110]

“it’s not a secret secret society, anybody can join up, but most people choose not to, because most people aren’t like this.” i am running away with this quote and using it for worldbuilding purposes. you have been alerted.

[@angryface01]

We do need t-shirts!

[@mohe3439]

It is important to remember that there have been several apocalypses, some natural and some manmade. I'm sure if you asked someone living through the 30 Years War, they would definitely say the world has either ended or is in the process of ending.

[@AdamYJ]

Yeah, and people thought World War I was “The War to End All Wars”.

[@Frellnikky]

@somethingsomeone4359 For now. One day it'll end for good, when the sun expands and boils off our planet's biosphere. Probably between then and now there'll be an apocalypse big enough to take humans out of the equation, so that's maybe not something for us to worry about. But human ingenuity is also the only force we know of that is potentially capable of forestalling that final apocalypse, so if we go it really might spell the end of all beautiful things.

[@iiiiitsmagreta1240]

smth smth all Indigenous literature is post-apocalyptic literature

[@SilverLikeStarlight]

I imagine living through the fall of the Roman Empire must have felt like an apocalypse. Suddenly the government you knew is gone, warlords are divvying up everything, and trade has fallen apart.

[@Naiadryade]

Speaking of erratic rocks, my collection from the SciShow Rocks Box is growing and it delights me so much!

[@rosianna]

matryoshka vlogbrothers!!

[@rosianna]

erratic rock! cake on an erratic roooock! erratic rooooock! cake on an erratic roock! (to the tune of guantanamera)

[@Idefilms]

@@rosianna I can't believe you buried this gem in the replies! I just sang it to myself and it's so catchy. +++ more like matryoshka Rosianna gags

[@The8BitPianist]

Hank is now the one poetically talking about death. Love it

[@christianwagner6357]

Hey! You were passing through my neighborhood, hope you enjoyed the Willamette Valley! My soil professor (also a rockin musician) James Cassidy at OSU taught us about how these flooding events (yes there were more than one) made the valley the fertile place it is today because of the deposition of silt at the bottom of what was then a lake. If you travel through the Willamette Valley and think of it as a dried up lake bed, the geography makes a lot more sense!

[@martino.3487]

I had a guest lecture from James Cassidy in my environmental capstone class at OSU!!!!! What a great teacher. I live in the Gorge now and I get to teach kids that the floods took the fertile soil that used to be here and deposited it in the Willamette. It's so neat to see my area of study and work being talked about in a Vlogbrothers video!

[@akshatdubey7904]

this video is now how i think about rocks

[@twojuiceman]

As soon as you started talking about the erratic I knew it would be about the montana glacier floods. Here's another river-based historical fact that not a lot of people know: the Red and Atchafalaya rivers in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas were clogged by an enormous log jam called the Great Raft from about the 12th century until the 1830s when it was removed to make the rivers navigable. It was 160 miles long and caused the formation of many lakes, including Caddo Lake, the only natural lake in Texas.

[@caitlindonovanwest9192]

Whatttttttttt 🤯🤯

[@seejayyou4462]

I'm a lifelong Texan and longtime Nerdfighter and have somehow never known this?! Wow!

[@wildflower1397]

There is only one natural lake in the entire state of Texas??

[@twojuiceman]

@@wildflower1397 It's a little more complicated than that, mostly because there's a lot of gray area about what constitutes a lake. Caddo Lake is arguably more of a swamp than a lake, and there are lots of smaller natural bodies of water that could be considered lakes or just big ponds. There's lots of brackish bays and inlets along the gulf coast that could be called lakes. But generally, almost every body of water in Texas that we'd call a lake is man-made.

[@seejayyou4462]

@@wildflower1397 Yup!

[@Rockskipper859]

There's a really awesome episode of Glacier National Park's podcast about glacial lake missoula, and the humans alive in the area during the ice age! The podcast is called Headwaters, and the episode is "Becoming | Unfrozen"

[@semjart]

Omg thanks for the rec!! I’ll be thinking about this for weeks

[@silverandexact]

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[@resourceress7]

​@@semjart ditto

[@amberbydreamsart5467]

i love that a national park has a podcast. I think all national parks should have at least a limited podcast run, it's such a lovely way to share information and all national parks have a story to tell

[@leela9003]

oh my god thank sounds so cool thank you!

[@srakin9528]

Hank, can you please teach us more about the Missoula Floods? It's absolutely wild that I've never heard of floods with more than ten times the annual volume of all earth's rivers. This event seems war more extreme than a 2-minute video-in-a-video can possibly encapsulate.

[@casualevils]

Nick Zentner is a professor of geology at Central Washington University and has done tons of great videos about the ice age floods kzbin.info/www/bejne/pKvUoWOboteFm80si=zYvfTFVFQGX3JdjB

[@zebedeesummers4413]

May I ask where you are from, not for anything nefarious only that I imagine you mustn't be from the US and I'm always curios about nerdfighteria. if you image google search "ice sheet united states map of glacier routes" you'll get an idea of the scale.

[@savorymarshmallows]

Hank didn't host it, but Eons and SciShow did one already: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j4i9mJmGfNmEe9U And Eons also did one on the Glacial Lake Agassiz flood: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p365mYVoa7OFqc0

[@angryface01]

Friend, it’s likely you have heard of it, just not in this context. The volume was so great, that cultures affected in far away locations never even knew that the water came from North America! Big BIG flood!!! BIG FLOOD.

[@okayheykae]

Memorial Day will be my 13th (thirteenth!) anniversary of watching Vlogbrothers. I'm glad we're both (all?) still here doing this so many years later. 💜

[@untappedinkwell]

Happy 13th nerdfighter-versary!!! I'm so glad you've been here with us for so long!

[@okayheykae]

@@untappedinkwell thank you!!

[@Mai-Gninwod]

"Time heals all wounds I guess, but usually just through forgetting" ya KNOW John's gonna love that one

[@Idefilms]

What a wild journey this one was, Hank. Thank you for sharing it with us. (It was nice seeing a bit of Katherine too! Like a mini Delete This, video version.)

[@Nino-xp5df]

Yes! I thought the same.

[@foxesinsockses]

"Time heals all wounds, I guess... But usually just through forgetting." got an audible "WOOF, WHAT THE F* HANK." from me

[@jaclynkurtz9808]

That ending though... Chills

[@semjart]

Ikr… what a sign off 😳 I suppose he’s right though…

[@nene_blimboblambo]

"Time heals all wounds, i guess. But usually through forgetting" Damn.. yeah, it's only been otherwise in recent times! I'm from Madeira, and to make now famous "levadas" (like, mini man made rivers for agriculture) it took a lot of lives! The places that my family lives in were built and habited by people who experienced a lot of trauma! Being away from home for a long time makes you think. Also, the big economical change happened in my grandparents generation. They are the, for the most part, the last people to have lived in a very different way we live today!

[@frenchw1nter]

Loving (on a narrative level) the idea of "I generally find myself of the opinion that the apocalyse has not happened, but it happened for them - simply an instantaneous winking out of everything that was there, caused by nothing more than a fluke of geology". Gonna think about that one for a bit. Thanks for this video, Hank. It was a small improvement in my day.

[@ornitorrinco_en_la_caverna]

I can't express enough how much I admire you, Hank. I have always wanted to be a "science person that explains science things (a.k.a. teacher)" myself, I just didn't think I could, but discovering your channels and several occupation makes me hopeful. You do whatever you want, something I didn't realise I could do until recently, thank you for showing that life can be lived being unapologetically yourself and doing what you want.

[@MinurielVilquen]

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[@Wrappedinhair]

Having been a member of the Secret Society since before membership was a thing, I would like to toast to the President. It's been my honour having witnessed your growth as a person; a brother; a husband; a father; As a musician; a writer; a content creator; As a businessman, an entrepreneur, an philanthropist; As a teacher, a warrior and a survivor. You have changed the world, you have changed the future, and you changed me. Thanks for sharing your life with the rest of us. None of us would be the same without you. Here's to Hank Green 💚 May he live long and prosper 🖖 DFTBA 🖖

[@rohanhansen471]

Ive been going to that rock since i was little, and is awesome to see you enjoying it too. Its an anchoring landmark of my life. Im glad to share it.

[@jayylad38]

i live in the channeled scablands. there are remnants of the missoula floods everywhere. i step outside my front door and i see them, in the hills to the south and the caves to the north. my valley is described as "barren" and "relatively soil-free" on google. the channeled scablands also grow 70% of the world's hops. we have a thriving apple and onion agriculture economy. we have the second largest wine production in the united states, just after napa, california. time has taken destruction and given us life and prosperity. there is no forgetting what happened here - gouges cut by the water can be thousands of feet tall in some places. we remember, but we also move forward.

[@itsDaedrin]

"Aren't like THIS." Wow, personal attack. I'm astonished. Aghast. Not really surprised though. I am like this.

[@cypriennezed5640]

Fresh deep dive unlocked! And happy birthday, Katherine! 🎉

[@Alice_Walker]

Happy Birthday Catherine, thanks for sharing Hank with us all 💜

[@chillsahoy2640]

"Time heals alll wounds, usually through forgetting" is such a beautiful quote. Melancholy, slightly hopeful, and nerdy. I love it.

[@malcolm32]

Idk Hank, maybe it's different when you are the parent, but looking at my nieces and nephews' first few birthdays I'd say it's a "you're not dead" party right from the start. Lots of "we did it" energy coming from my older siblings.

[@summergardens]

Wow the finale of that vid was like several consecutive punches to the gut

[@Izandaia]

Jesus christ "Time heals all wounds, but usually just through forgetting" was a much more true and deep sentiment than I was expecting at any point of this video. I was unprepared.

[@AnnaFoyt]

This video just made me uncover a memory I didn’t know I still had. When I was in college, there was construction on campus, part of that construction was the removal of an erratic. The construction company started to jack hammer this rock. A professor took his class to go ask the construction company what was going on. The students ended up sitting on the rock in a sort of protest to keep it from further damage. They were able to explain to the college its importance and the college ended up agreeing and relocating the erratic rather than demolish it.

[@geeksdo1tbetter]

Hooray!!!

[@danielarthur04]

This is going straight in the vlogbrothers favourites playlist, special mention to 01:23 “most people aren’t…like this!!”

[@martino.3487]

Oh hey! I'm a science educator in Oregon and I teach kids about the Missoula Floods and the glacial erratics all the time!

[@seifyk]

John is making a science podcast and Hank is uploading sentimental philosophy essays. Pigs are flying!

[@geeksdo1tbetter]

Cats and dogs, living together!

[@katem.9479]

Wait, was that "Hug-Scream"? That song gets me so psyched! Also, erratics are just so cool :)

[@sarahgetman5717]

I like the erratic rock as the background music for the erratic rock!

[@shiny_x3]

Thanks for the topsoil. - Oregon

[@Adrian_Grey]

I love that people saw a big rock and were like “wow what a cool rock” and found out the history of the rock and put up a bunch of signs to go see the cool rock and other people saw the signs and took a detour to see the cool rock and film a video to put in the internet to show off the rock!! Humanity is wonderful!! We like to show off cool rocks!!

[@ashtaylor4107]

Why is it so funny to me that sign exists naming rocks erratic?. The erratic rock. 😂 I know there’s a reason, but it’s still hilarious to me.

[@lethargogpeterson4083]

I had a similar thought. The rock is erratic, so it must be unpredictable. People should visit on multiple days so they can see the rock doing different things every time.

[@TerriBlanchard-nh7xy]

Appreciate the realness in your content, it's like a dose of authenticity

[@culwin]

I appreciate your not just copying existing comments, it makes your porn spam bot feel more authentic.

[@grapemac]

Soooo conflicted! This was a wonderful video Hank! Thank you for sharing it! The vid within the vid had such old school Vlogbrothers video energy! Especially the smash to music/montage opening! It was so great to hear from Katherine! Both of you owe me nothing, in fact, I’m in your debt, but I do very much miss ‘Delete This’! Thanks Hank, this was lush!

[@MasterCrander]

I like how certain rocks can be in certain places that make a too-smart ape go, "hold on…either _we_ did this and collectively forgot - or *some shit* happened.

[@Chiamex]

There are lots of erratic rocks in the Adirondack mountains...not from a dam breaking, but from being carriedǰ by glaciers from northern areas (i.e. Canada) and dumped along the way as the ice melted.

[@joanhall3718]

I was about to say “We have one of those in Oregon “, but then I realized that was where you were 🤣. We actually have lots of those in Oregon, but only 1 that I know of has an informational sign. In Portland all the yards that face the Columbia River have “Montana potatoes “ or various sizes of erratics that dropped in the multiple Lake Missoula floods.

[@catalystcomet]

There's an excellent Nova documentary covering that event, or I suppose those events. I was able to visit the scablands in Eastern Washington to see what used to be ancient river beds, massive, that were carved out within 24 hours. Absolutely phenomenal, and really neat to see one of those all the way over there. We have one in a local skate park in an area just north of Seattle. I was taking my son and was pretty excited to go to the skatepark, but then I saw that rock and just ran over and started geeking out.

[@bananatassium7009]

that line at the end was god damn beautiful wow

[@YippyZippyZingZing]

…today someone will ask me “how are you?” …I am going to reply, “A bit erratic rock-ish, thank you.” I too feel as if I was arbitrarily drop in a big rush. 😂

[@pamcakes1234]

Hi Hank and fam! I'm glad you were able to take some time for a normal family vacation, but I also SO appreciate you taking the time to share Erratic Rock with us. Good stuff. Also huge shoutout to Katherine. As much as I respect her suggestion to not worry about it, I adore when she makes an appearance. Happy birthday + another year of not being dead to you both!

[@AuraReadsBooks]

This is my favourite corner of humanity.

[@afroceltduck]

I'm glad you decided to give us the Erratic Rock, because it felt very much like a Brotherhood 2.0 video and I wish we could return to that version of KZbin once in a while.

[@oiitsoranglee]

past hank: what are you doing? current hank: having an existential crisis past hank: let me try! past hank: past hank: that's terrifying! current hank: i know past hank: id rather eat waffles current hank: me too

[@TheRockyBoulders]

We could use exponentially more "Katherine explains geologic phenomenon on site with desserts" content. Sincerely, a geologist.

[@kaitlynpetersen5278]

Hearing the two of you talk in this video makes me miss the days watching you play Mario together on Hank Games. As a parent myself I fully understand that you have to manage your time together well, this just brings warm nostalgia.

[@avowitharms]

Came here from the newsletter, now im crying about erratic birthday cake rocks

[@colew6921]

Hello hank! Love ya!

[@JasonBairdandhisamazingquagga]

1:51 “At one particular moment, a thing occurred…” that feeling just sums up everything that’s gone wrong

[@dacelikethefish587]

@3:42 "...and that's how they started to build the story..." fascinating choice of words.

[@DevlynKeith]

Awww you were in my neck of the woods! The Missoula Floods were super wild. it would be so sooo cool to be able to go back in time to watch them from far above.

[@noahgolan603]

The next time someone asks me what is vlogbrothers, my answer will be a maniaclly powerful secret society

[@faithfuljohn]

The apocalypse has happened... to the indigenous of the Americans when the Europeans came. Their society collapsed, the population got decimated and they STILL haven't recovered their population to pre-columbus times. I always think about that when someone mentions about apocalypse possibly happening.

[@jojo02114]

Glad you got to get some time together to celebrate. Also, this video has some massive OG vlogbrothers vibes and I'm totally here for it.

[@ceballard1215]

There’s a hammer hanging up behind Hank! I don’t remember that so I may have to go back and see when it appeared. Glad you both had an interesting trip!

[@sabbapixie]

Your hair looks great curly! I am so glad ya'll got to take a vacation! The erratic rock was very cool!

[@seattlegrrlie]

I've been watching you (and a few other KZbinrs) for like 10yrs and it never really hit me that like... yeah... you're famous. You were just a guy who did some videos that I liked and now you're famous and we're old

[@cynhanrahan4012]

Happy Birthday(s)! I love that you follow random weird things marked on the road. I do that a lot, well I did when I roadtripped.

[@LizzyNerd]

I love seeing Katherine! It's fun to listen to someone and be like "yeah it totally makes sense they're together" 😂

[@MrTeethpaste]

Thank you for brightening up my morning that consumed more rage bait than my anxiety can tolerate. I freaking love rocks. Anyway, you said in a video that freezer ice aren't rocks, then what are lab grown diamonds? Or opals?

[@juicyjuice671]

Oooh, that's a great question

[@lanagomisc.6005]

Humanity has been through hundreds of apocalypses. Time, place, and scale determine if it will be considered one decades later. We seem to think history ultimately determines if it was even an apocalypse in the first place, but it doesn't really because people love asking questions about what truly happened.

[@kennyb3325]

A) Happy Birthday to both of you! B) You are very close to where I consider home! (Although I don't live there anymore.) Maybe I'll go check out Erratic Rock the erratic rock sometime. C) Geoscience is so cool!

[@KooblayKhan]

The idea that theories are just good at explaining things, rather than about "proof" is a wonderful way to say it!

[@catherinesoph954]

Most people aren't like this (*points at self) So relatable

[@charger875]

this is probably my favorite vlogbrothers video in some time! love me some erratic rocks.

[@adamnewton1616]

it's such a treat to have the hug scream instrumentals in here

[@ayushchaudhary4360]

hank looking fresh

[@GhostsOfThings]

There is a town near me named after a glacial erratic - a decently large white boulder left on the beach. It was used as a beacon by sailors because it was kept a bright white by the bird poop (it's now routinely painted because of graffiti). Growing up we had all sorts of kid urban legends about it haha. If you're interested in what it looks like the town name? Is White Rock, BC.

[@SamanthaRichardsonWP]

"Time heals all wounds... but usually, just through forgetting" is a powerfully relevant statement in our own lives 😬

[@penina8438]

I wonder if those people have really been forgotten. People traveled then too, so there were probably other communities that visited them, traded w them, etc. It’s very possible that even to this day they tell stories of “yeah, we used to go there all the time, but one day everyone disappeared.”