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Winner, South Dakota

city · in 5 videos (2007–2020)

South Dakota town of just over 3,000 people that secret brother Tom calculated in 2007 as the midpoint between Hank in Missoula and John in Indianapolis. John joked about buying it for a Nerdfighter commune and outlet mall, and Hank called it the Nerdfighter Center of the Universe.

Videos by year: 2007: 4 · 2020: 1

Also known as: Winner

Threads

Also named in the threads: Hank asks viewers to put stuff on their heads (2007) · Stuff on Heads: viewers send pictures and videos of stuff on their heads (2007) · Brotherhood 2.0 scavenger hunt (2007)

Often together

What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

Brotherhood 2.0 (2)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2007

  • 2007-08-20 · August 20th: Winner, South Dakota — John: Secret brother Tom calculated the midpoint between Hank in Missoula and John in Indianapolis: a town called Winner, South Dakota. (playful) — 00:00:09
    • John muses that the brothers and the Nerdfighters could pool their resources, buy Winner and build a Nerdfighting commune of sustainable buildings where everyone sleeps in race car beds. (hypothetical, hedged) — 00:00:54
    • Citing Wikipedia, John says Winner has a population of just over 3,000 and lies in south-central South Dakota. — 00:00:54
    • John reads Winner's Wikipedia history - a French fur trader and magician hunting a non-existent giant beaver, later rich in canned chicken - and asks whether Wikipedia will ever tell him true facts. (joke) — 00:01:24
    • For the first time John feels the world may contain more nerdfighters than nerdhaters; having long thought himself suited to 'Loser, South Dakota', he now thinks maybe nerdfighting is for winners. (hedged) — 00:02:58
  • 2007-08-21 · August 21: Hairy Hairy Head Hair — Hank notes that the Nerdfighter Center of the Universe is at a place called Winner. (playful) — 00:02:01
  • 2007-10-02 · Oct. 2nd: Brotherhood 2.0 on the Road (Literally) — John imagines building a Nerdfighter outlet mall in Winner, South Dakota, with a Put Stuff On Your Head outlet, a Peeps outlet and a pants outlet. (joke) — 00:01:14
  • 2007-11-13 · November 13: You Can't Scare Me. I'm Stickin' to the Union. — announcement: John gives today's scavenger hunt clue, warning it is a doozy: a South Dakota place name (heard as 'Winter'; probably Winner, South Dakota). — 00:03:52

Also named in other years (nothing said): Thank God It's Over and PIZZAMAS IS HERE!!!!!!! (2020-10-05)