John and Hank at the Cemetery

[@TessaBury]

In fairness, who among us isn't a little neoclassical & somber on the outside yet a leprechaun on the inside?

[@vlogbrothers]

This made me laugh for like 45 seconds.

[@ToriKo_]

Among us

[@shellh929]

Hey some of us are leprechauns inside and out. No, actually, I agree with you. Even the outwardly leprechaun-y are probably holding back somewhat.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

I'm more art deco, with a gnome on the inside.

[@vanessapierson4913]

i want to be all this! 🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏼‍♀️

[@vlogbrothers]

The last thirty seconds of this video contains the most surprising reveal I have ever encountered in my entire life, and I'm saying that as someone who has watched a LOT of home renovation TV programs. -John

[@shokoofehmms7477]

Why didn't you pin this comment?😂 it got lost

[@thesupermikey]

I gasped.

[@Lacillyn]

Still don't know how to pin comments, eh John?

[@heythisisminenotyours]

Here I am reading the comments before seeing the end fully expecting you find your own graves with a future date of death only a few days awa....oh hang on that's even weirder

[@confusedwhale]

@@shokoofehmms7477: Because part of the fun is hunting for extras.

[@Tim3.14]

I would totally endorse a "John and Hank at the [blank]" series. It doesn't even matter where. John and Hank at the supermarket... John and Hank at the bowling alley... John and Hank at the DMV...

[@somerandomguynumber111]

John and Hank at the purple tank

[@sophiagraceee]

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[@beckroberts4537]

John and Hank at the Rax outside Dayton Ohio?

[@allisonavery7273]

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[@Jesse__H]

I usually don't feel the pressure of your 4 minute time constraint, but this one could have been twice as long!

[@vlogbrothers]

I have great news...check the description.

[@ChronicallyCurious1]

@@vlogbrothers Yesss

[@Snowshowslow]

We also have twice the usual amount of vlogbrothers in this video so it seems only fair.

[@albasapri3265]

OUT-TAKES! YES. This comment ought to be pinned, would've missed em if not for it

[@djradost6524]

@@albasapri3265 i second this.

[@foreverjynxed]

Sometimes they’re just so completely brothers. So much brother energy. Chaos that could only be familial.

[@ivytarablair]

'chaos that could only be familial' made me crack up :D (also? the definition of every reunion video they've made i think!)

[@allisonavery7273]

++++++++++ and I love it all the same

[@danielyu021]

“So here’s what we decided to do. I was like, let’s go epitaph-hunting.” …you know, a totally normal thing to say

[@vlogbrothers]

I do love a good epitaph...

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Can you tell he's a writer?

[@Payhellbay]

@@vlogbrothers They're kinda like last words but usually more carefully chosen and not made up

[@IrisGlowingBlue]

As one does, y'know

[@MidnightArticuno]

Regardless of whether or not it's true, I do love the story of the woman who once said of a fiercely guarded recipe, "You'll have it over my dead body". And then the recipe was engraved upon her tombstone. Truly a legend.

[@evahanson5424]

I’ve seen this stone!!! (Or at least one with this story) It’s in a cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts, and there’s a full on recipe on the back of the stone!

[@kimmykimmie]

Hank and John videos where one of them rolls in saying gooood morning. Is the only thing I need to be happy.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

You hear "good morning," but then SURPRISE! There's a second "good morning!"

[@ewatsupofficial]

This content is beautiful. My tombstone will say. “Acted like a good person”

[@vlogbrothers]

"I don't know if I was good, but I tried to /act/ good."

[@idomandelman8905]

My tombstone would just say "Banana"

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

I like that. I might make my epitaph "Acted like a person."

[@syber-space]

How about "Acted like a human"

[@nachochips8090]

@@vlogbrothers tombstone, 2 words: "I tried"

[@WhitneyAvalon]

Ha, you could’ve given me 1000 guesses as to what was in there and I never would have gotten close!

[@adamscholze]

Heyo! awesome to see Whitney Avalon on a vlogbrothers video!

[@randomsandra4039]

Thanks, Adam! I was just about to say…👀

[@joshualane1716]

I feel like if literally had a thousand attempts, I would have at least stumbled onto Lucky Charms.

[@IrisGlowingBlue]

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[@rbb9753]

Since Notre Dame (the university, not the cathedral) is in Indiana, the leprechaun may be a reference to that overrated institution

[@Ani]

Hank's delightfully innocent "Yeah, he's Mooning!" absolutely made my day. Thanks :D

[@grantbaugh2773]

Saw this one when going through a cemetery: "Two things I love most. Good horses and beautiful women. And when I die I hope they tan this old hide of mine and make it into a ladies riding saddle, so I can rest in peace between the two things I love most." It's a good thing I was in a cemetery when I read that because I died laughing.

[@miriamrosemary9110]

🤣

[@fernandoavila3929]

I heard that in a song. It was in Spanish. I don’t remember the title of it though.

[@colonelb]

My favorite epitaph was from a person named B.P. Roberts that had "I told you I was sick" on their tombstone. Legend.

[@sam-the-moomin]

John: what’s that? are you mooning? Hank: yeah he’s mooning! John: now, what is your understanding of the verb “to moon”? Hank: walk upon the moon John: oh ok I don’t know why but this made me lose it 😂🖤

[@alusha1791]

He clearly didn't learn that verb from Bart Simpson 😁

[@Shrooblord]

This is some legitimately little-bro-big-bro energy from two grown men and I'm here for it

[@arrow2589]

came to the comments right after they said that, its to cute

[@mugginsthejinx1037]

So innocent 😁

[@ninamarie177]

Yes, this is the kind of content I’m down for on a Friday night. Also, I want Hank‘s ‚mooning‘ to become the next TikTok dance trend.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Didn't Michael Jackson already do something pretty similar?

[@ninamarie177]

@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 yes, but I don’t think you can compare the Moonwalk to Hank’s mooning (sorry, Hank).

[@lonestarr1490]

@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 There's always room for more moon related dances.

[@erinw1566]

ok, I kind of love "the sober one is currently on tour," kind of because it's totally inscrutable--to us. Obviously this is just conjecture but it really sounds like an inside joke this person had with close friends or family, and now etched into their memory is a little piece that only the ones closest to them get to have access to. It's okay if we don't get it, it's not *for* us. A graveyard is so public and we all get access to this part of a person's legacy, and I think it's really charming for someone to say "no, you don't get to understand everything about who I was, you never *knew* me. That part of me is only for the people I love." I really like that perspective, and I hope the people who get the joke got a good laugh out of it.

[@Kfroguar]

Honestly I love the idea of putting an inside joke on your tombstone. It feels so intimate and loving, because every time your family sees it they're going to remember a happy moment with you.

[@francescakyanda9182]

seeing Hank sitting in John's spot and my brain went "that's the wrong one! the other one is supposed to be sitting there!"

[@confusedwhale]

That's right; it goes in the square hole.

[@MMallon425]

"The sober one is on tour"

[@IrisGlowingBlue]

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[@oskare5289]

John: "if you have the money to spare a few extra words onto your tombstone, I think it adds a lot" hank: "yeah, or even just one... Bananas!"

[@ernestvanophuizen461]

Don't you mean chom-choms?

[@lauren8135]

The way that “oh gosh someday” had just a hint of wistful consideration just food for thought, I would 100% book a cemetery tour with John Green and I think I’m not alone in that.

[@maxsummers]

I smell a P4A perk!

[@knitterknerd]

I would pay at least five extra of my dollars to have a live Policy Genius ad in the middle of the tour.

[@LadyNekoshema]

My grandfather died before I ever met him. I'm told he was a warm and funny guy and I'm a lot like him. We spend a long time saving for a tombstone and when we finally had it installed we looked in awe at the words "always remenbered" and just laughed. We've debated on fixing the spelling mistake but we feel grandpa would have loved it.

[@MalloryCorben]

"I am very fond of the idea that even the things we etch in stone are not necessarily... etched in stone" would make a great epitaph.

[@ivytarablair]

TRUTH!

[@ToniHinton]

Thank you for calling this out. It slipped by me on my first viewing, and it's worth keeping.

[@TheApple176]

I always forget the magic that happens when Hank & John are physically together. Their love for each other is so clear and infectious.

[@alexreid1173]

Cemeteries are some of my favorite places. The older the better. They’re always so quiet and strangely peaceful. I rate them 5 stars.

[@shandiw7749]

I do as well. I could spend all day at one. Someday I will spend everyday, all day at one.

[@raganstory675]

The amount of real estate that damn cemetery owns in my head because of John Green. I was just thinking about it on my walk 5 minutes ago. 🤦‍♀️

[@Melanie_M]

You two together in front of the same camera and in the same room is what the world needs right now. The best videos on this channel are the videos where both vlogbrothers are in them.

[@Josh-Ethridge]

This video reminded me of an epitaph that struck me. I read it on a grave in a cemetery in Yosemite. According to the gravestone, the person in question had drowned and I found the epitaph hauntingly beautiful. "Ah, that beautious head if it did go down it carried sunshine into the rapids"

[@tegan6554]

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[@snowybowietheadventurecollie]

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[@Gouldsonuk]

I recently went to a funeral for an old relative. She died having very many ailments but really didn’t like to complain and she asked for no eulogies. We honoured her wishes and her son explained the reasoning by quoting the phrase he said he’d most often here her say on the phone…. ‘Anyway, enough about me. How’re you?’ And if that’s not a sweet epitaph I don’t know what is.

[@secretforreddit]

My great grandparents have "We put up a hell of a fight" on their tombstone. The thing is, no one knows why it says that. The cousins who ordered the tombstone didn't request it. We don't believe my great grandmother requested it (or if she did, she never told us). It's just there, on the back of the stone, almost hidden by grass. Very odd.

[@krank23]

Hanks understanding of the verb "to moon" is so innocent and wholesome

[@bernier42]

“He filled his niche and accomplished his task. He left the world better than he found it.” What more could any of us want others to say about us when we die.

[@TheBellemark]

“Bananas” -Hank Green is what’s gonna go on my gravestone

[@jasminu4971]

I very nearly dropped my food, when he said that

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

I'd want mine to be a bit more personal. Like "apples." Those were always my favorite fruit.

[@ajjones8013]

One of my favorite places I ever toured was a cemetery in Hugo, Oklahoma that was reserved for the local circus. So many genuinely joyful headstones celebrating people who were clearly deeply missed. It was amazing, and I highly recommend stopping there if you are ever in the area.

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

"Here lies John Albertson, 104 years old. The good die young."

[@BLNChrisCross]

1:05 Am i the only one that does not think of mooning the way Hank and John did? The "I am mooning" with so much joy gets me every time.

[@nolen_void]

There’s something really lovely about these “immortalized” monuments to people that often go unnoticed being truly appreciated

[@NavyHamster901]

Dear John and Hank, I’m writing you today with some exciting news! There is a Rax Restaurant in Joliet, IL - a mere 3 hours and 7 minutes from Indianapolis, IN. I felt compelled to share this exciting news so you don’t miss out on a chance to visit this restaurant once again.

[@Oli.V]

This is the most important news I’ve heard all year, thank you for sharing

[@clairehirano5889]

I hope they see this!!!

[@vlogbrothers]

Oh, we thought about going. We were like, "We could just do it while everyone is sleeping" but then we realized it would be closed...

[@NavyHamster901]

@@vlogbrothers oh yeah that would be an issue.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

I would watch the full 3 hours and 7 minutes of them going there.

[@sophielouise1094]

I like the matching brother shirts. Loving the progression here (progressing from young weird men to middle aged weird men)

[@viewsandrates]

The leprechaun stained glass window is awesome! Of course there's room for that! Please, a patch of sunlight in an otherwise somber downcast place. More of this.

[@simsamsammie]

I used to walk in my local cemetery like every day of the summer because I would play pokemon go there. Summer of 2020 my dad started walking with me as an excuse to get out of the house. We've had some of our best conversations there. Nothing like a cemetery and a pandemic to bring you closer to your dad

[@Fairly-odd-kel]

How can a video about a cemetery be so uplifting! Bless those cemetery residents and bless John and Hank for uplifting us ☺️

[@kmaylone810]

I love cemeteries and walking them. The families stop going to visit and I think that if I can at least appreciate the stones they aren't totally forgotten. Also its a quiet place to walk. Glad you made this.

[@azizulislamashiksm-1842]

When asked in an interview what Paul Eddington would like his epitaph to be, he said, "He did very little harm." I think if we can say that at the end of our life then that would be something, cause it is not very easy to be able to say we have done very little harm.

[@johnchessant3012]

John Green, last word and epitaph connoisseur

[@thecrb1579]

there is a very special kind of chaotic good energy that happens when you two are together. It feels very nourishing to my well-being and my good vibes just to see you two having fun.

[@gwynething]

CEMETERIES ARE THE BEST - recently visited some ancestral family graves and found out about a family member we didnt know existed! And found some slokavian written on the headstone for my great-great grandparents! And cleaned their headstones of all the lichen ❤

[@Books_Makeup]

Love them. Puts daily problems in perspective. I hope cemeteries are around forever.

[@theannaliviams]

My dad passed away, but before he did he instructed us that his tomb should have “death shall have no dominion” by Dylan Thomas. And so it does. I cry everytime I see this poem

[@tiktokfan5000]

only the green brothers would go "epitaph hunting" as an activity after months apart

[@literarycircle]

Highgate cemetery was one of the first secular cemeteries in London. That meant people could use whatever design they wanted for their mausoleums and gravestones without church approval, and they really went for it. My favorites are the life-size statue of a beloved dog and the Circle of Lebanon.

[@ernestvanophuizen461]

Dear John, if ever through some twist of fate I find myself at Crown Hill Cemetery, I can't think of a greater delight than you showing people around as some Virgil of Indianapolis. And if you're ever around my neck of the woods, I will gladly do the same. Best, a fellow tour guide.

[@juliabogajo]

Can you imagine giving birth to not one but two exceptional human beings such as Hank and John? If I have children one day, I want them to be as awesome as these guys, or at least be as good brothers as they are.

[@georgiakuchinsky]

Based on this video, I have to share a book recommendation. Waiting for Gertrude by Bill Richardson is a book based on the cemetery Pere Lechaise in Paris, where many famous artists and creatives are buried. The premise is all of the artists (Chopin, Jimmy Morrison, Oscar Wilde, Alice Toklas, Maria Callas, and more) are reincarnated as the feral cats who live there. Delightful, fun, and very macabre.

[@QsPhilosophy]

Ok, but if John gets buried there eventually, and the epitaph says "Tour guide of Crown Hill" that's the most metal thing ever.

[@viveladecadence]

'what is your understanding of the verb “to moon”?' - 'walk upon the moon!' Hank. you sweet summer child.

[@SumoPirate]

You should definitely record a video in each other's office at some point. Just a normal video by yourself and no mention of how you're not in your own place. Just imagine the comment section. 100% worth it

[@bwaycatherine]

these reunion videos getting me through until i reunite with my sisters

[@kujasan]

Ah you think whimsy is your ally? You merely adopted the cemetery. I was buried in it, mausoleumed by it.

[@V.Hansen.]

It’s my favorite when you continue to see each other now- instead of Tuesday or whenever. I have siblings I love to see and so it always makes me happy for you when you get together.

[@Books_Makeup]

Cemeteries, gothic creativity at its best. This is my favourite video from vlog brothers.

[@slwann]

My mom is buried in this cemetery in the section across from the art museum, it’s a lovey spot. I’ve spent a lot of time walking through the cemetery and I always find something new.

[@connierobinson1090]

Even what is written in stone is very of its time!! Woah

[@KathyTrithardt]

I used to run tours in Edinburgh, Scotland, which took me into two different cemeteries on the regular, and they were fascinating, peaceful, and full of wonderful names and messages.

[@finngirl4021]

Greens, both Hank and John: Just wanted to say how much I appreciate you guys. Also, when I saw the video title I didn't expect to laugh this much. Who knew a jaunt to the cemetery could be so entertaining. And, I so love what a safe brain space the comments section of Nerdfighteria is. ❤️

[@Boots_293]

I love it when John and Hank are reunited ❤️

[@lynneslates2136]

My grandmother is a historian and visiting graveyards was a very normal event in my childhood, usually hunting for some distant family member or finding the burial place of one of her soldiers (her area of expertise was a particular cavalry unit from the Civil War era). Watching this brought back fond memories! Thanks!

[@sam-the-moomin]

ANOTHER REUNION VIDEO?!?!?!!!! LET’S GOOOOOO!!!

[@abdullahenani9670]

only Hank and John can make talking about cemeteries fun

[@samplesandtests]

Reunion videos should be allowed to be twice as long!

[@bricknercj]

In researching geneology, I found an aunt a few generations back. Under her name on the gravestone it said, "She did the best she could." Man...

[@JosephWillingham]

This is an instant classic

[@ThatOneIrishFurry]

As someone who recently lost 2 loved ones this was very comforting

[@foolish-child]

my favorite epitaph is from my friend's uncle and aunt, who, when they die, will have a bench placed above their bodies with a plaque reading: "Have lunch on us!"

[@lafaire06]

The energy in these reunion videos and this week's podcast is GREAT, so contagious, all giddy laughter and unexpected turns.

[@SallyThames]

"let's go epitaph hunting" is THE MOST hank and john thing i've ever heard hands down

[@ScottyT9933]

I can only hope for a brotherhood as deep as what they have

[@KillCoMentalMusings]

I know there is a certain sadness when it comes to cemeteries, but you have to admit they are peaceful places as well. Due to certain mental issues that make me highly anxious, cemeteries have been places I keep note of simply to get away from the noise that in ever present in our society. In short, you can go there to be alone in silence and somehow those who are long gone will share that silence with you.

[@SirNeutral]

Are you currently musing this over whiskey?

[@KillCoMentalMusings]

@@SirNeutral No, but I should be!

[@mollydugan6144]

“To live in the hearts of others is not to die.” I love that. That’s how I want to live my life

[@radhabele2973]

Hi John! Was reading Amy’s “Encyclopaedia of an ordinary life”, right after i read Auld Lang Syne the 5th time, when i got this notification. Just wanted to tell you, the whole time I was reading that book i could feel you narrating those little essays. I don’t know how this makes you feel but i’m sure Amy wouldn’t have it any other way :) Have a good day.

[@local_crackpot]

I don't often "like" videos, however, I did with this one because it was both light hearted and serious. Delightfully dancing between somber and silly. But also because of John's sweet display of core strength! 💪

[@StardustScribe]

Cemetary walks are the absolute best! My all time favorite was a grave which the family had come and decorated for Halloween. We're talking glittery spiders, spiderweds, and gel clings to look like bloody hands.

[@okayheykae]

Seeing the inside of that last one made me actually gasp out loud

[@jesstucker6201]

videos of the two of them together really are a breath of fresh air. they contain so much good.

[@bizmen81]

Only John and Hank could make a visit to a cemetery sound fun. Thank you!

[@kyliesparks1435]

Oh hey! Crown Hill Cemetary is gorgeous, and just down the street from where I lived my last year of grad school. Glad you guys were able to go visit!

[@mathildem6714]

I thought this was going to be a really sad video. Glad it was a positive one 🥰.

[@katieclyburne7978]

My favourite epitaph is one of 2Lt Hugh Langton, a soldier of the Great War. He is buried in a war cemetery in Belgium. He was a skilled violinist, and his epitaph is a short piece of music, a far cry from the “canned” First World War epitaphs.

[@sirleebutler]

omg, whenever i visit the town where i went to college, i always take time to visit the cemetery. there are some truly amazing stories and epitaphs there.

[@x3airhead7]

I was really hoping that "The Bane One" was referring to someone's epitaph quoting the Batman villain Bane.

[@alexanderklepp]

John and Hank are fun to watch together. They really feel like brothers.

[@ottercai]

I love you guys and so nice to know that someone else appreciates and walks through Crown Hill Cemetery.

[@clairehirano5889]

I know the trend is over, but i would still like to see you guys do the "you can really dance" dance :]

[@vlogbrothers]

Oh yeah, this is never happening.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

@@vlogbrothers Okay, now it HAS to happen.

[@whistletoe]

"Things that are edged in stone aren't necessarily Edged In Stone". Thanks, John. This is the best quote I've heard in a while.

[@archbr8072]

This is why, after many years, I still come back here. John and Hank feel like home.

[@TheGinger336]

This is one of my favorite Vlogbrothers videos. For some reason, it made me really happy. Thanks guys

[@buckysrevenge]

Watching you together makes me miss your "Dear Hank & John" podcast since it's been 2 1/2 weeks since you uploaded one (but feels like FOREVER)

[@Ginnydvich]

My grandma passed away today and this was surprisingly what I needed to watch ❤️

[@ivytarablair]

I love reunion videos SO MUCH - but this one is so fascinating, too! The spouse got drawn in and had to watch, i've seen it over and over...fascinating + Green brothers = Awesome!

[@laurilaira]

I love how they wear the same style shirts

[@IceMetalPunk]

I think I would like my gravestone to say, "Empathy is not a superpower; it's the only power."

[@yankldoodl8096]

I once encountered a grave whose epitaph read simply "she hath done what she could" . I quote it on a near daily basis.

[@dustinfocus]

John just minted his epitaph..... "I am very fond of the idea that even the things we etch in stone are not necessarily 'etched in stone'. It's been fun; I'm going MOONING!"