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Register 2007: hedges and bits

Statements from 2007 that are not plain sincere assertions: sincere claims the speaker hedged or marked as uncertain (with the hedge words quoted), and statements made as a bit. Plain sincere, unhedged statements are on the video pages. Back to the overview.

John

1270 statements · sincere 50% · playful 45% · other bits 5% · hedged or unsure 16%

Sincere but hedged (123)

Split by hedge type (derived from the quoted hedge words with a fixed word list — see the overview): epistemic doubt 50 · wish / hope 13 · opinion marker 39 · other hedge 20 · hedge words not recorded 1.

Epistemic doubt (50)

real uncertainty about whether it is true

  • 2007-01-02 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 2nd — Recalling the agreed punishments for missed videos, John proposes the brothers also periodically give each other challenges. — hedged: “I've been thinking that we could” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:19)
  • 2007-01-02 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 2nd — John tentatively suggests Thursdays and Fridays as challenge days and leaves the choice to Hank. — hedged: “Maybe we can make Thursdays and Fridays challenge days? I don't know.” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:53)
  • 2007-01-04 · Brotherhood 2.0: Eating Toilet Paper — As an example, John says he did not recycle until he watched An Inconvenient Truth and is still somewhat iffy on it. — hedged: “sort of” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:00)
  • 2007-01-04 · Brotherhood 2.0: Eating Toilet Paper — John announces a Brotherhood 2.0 viewer's wife has had a baby after 32 hours of labor and suggests letting the viewer pick a project or challenge for the brothers as a present. — hedged: “I was thinking maybe we could” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:05)
  • 2007-01-12 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 12, 2007 — John suggests the happy-dance idea might be a project rather than a punishment: the brothers intersperse their happy dances, 35 each, and he asks Hank if he is interested. — hedged: “Maybe we could” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:50)
  • 2007-01-24 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 24, 2007 — Asked for the best book he's read this year (2007), John names the best he read last year (2006): probably The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:59)
  • 2007-01-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 — John thinks his first concert was The Cure in ninth grade, with a friend; he liked The Cure a lot. — hedged: “I think it might have been” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:00)
  • 2007-01-27 · Week 2 Condensed Highlight Reel — John suggests the happy dance might instead be a project, interspersing their dances, 35 each, and asks Hank's interest. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:05:58)
  • 2007-02-15 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 17, 2007 — Now that Hank has completed the Strawberry Hill Challenge, John says it is time for more challenges and invites Hank or viewers to start suggesting some. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:33)
  • 2007-02-23 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 23, 2007: Books — John concludes that writers, at least the 'extremely scientific sample' of himself and Maureen Johnson, are pretty much in favor of used bookstores and libraries. — hedged: “seems to be” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:47)
  • 2007-03-29 · Brotherhood 2.0: March 29th: JUDGMENT FOR HANK — John says his eye still looks jacked up and probably will for a week or two, and hopes the Nerdfighters will understand. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:00)
  • 2007-04-10 · Brotherhood 2.0: April 10th: Role Models — John introduces 'noted American nerdfighter' Ethan Youngerman, creator of The Sublet Experiment, a play that will probably be performed inside John's apartment. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:10)
  • 2007-04-10 · Brotherhood 2.0: April 10th: Role Models — John considers himself a role model in some ways, aware that young people, even three-year-olds, watch the show. — hedged: “kind of” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:33)
  • 2007-04-10 · Brotherhood 2.0: April 10th: Role Models — John argues modelling behaviour is far more complicated than imitation: that Britney Spears seems addicted to methamphetamine makes him less likely to use it, not more. — hedged: “seems” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:16)
  • 2007-04-24 · Brotherhood 2.0: April 24: Moving — John liked Hank's EcoGeek podcast animation intro so much that he thinks Brotherhood 2.0 could maybe have a shorter, more visual animation that doesn't spell communication wrong. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:59)
  • 2007-04-24 · Brotherhood 2.0: April 24: Moving — John suggests Hank or a Nerdfighter make it; he'd do it himself but is bad at animating and must work out moving to Indianapolis with all his books. — hedged: “Maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:59)
  • 2007-04-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: April 26: Hollywood Meetings — John's most important meeting of the day is with people who might want to make An Abundance of Katherines into a movie. — hedged: “might” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:59)
  • 2007-05-08 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 8th: House Hunters — John reports Maureen Johnson's The Bermudez Triangle seems halfway unbanned: the school administration now says it only recommended a ban and removed the book from the shelf. — hedged: “seems to have been sort of” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:12)
  • 2007-05-08 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 8th: House Hunters — John says the letters seem to have worked; it now depends on whether the school superintendent agrees the book should stay on the shelves. — hedged: “it seems like” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:12)
  • 2007-05-10 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 10: House Hunted? — John shows Hank a quick tour of the house they may live in if the owners accept the offer, and asks whether he likes it. — hedged: “we may live in” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:04)
  • 2007-05-18 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 18: How to Write a Book Proposal — John says he might get to meet some Brotherhood 2.0 viewers who live in the Netherlands. — hedged: “possibly” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:00)
  • 2007-05-31 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 31: Yogurt eating — John says Obama is smart, and that, maybe biased as a nerdfighter, he values intelligence. — hedged: “Maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:41)
  • 2007-06-20 · Brotherhood 2.0: June 20: Moving — John asks Nerdfighters who are YouTubers to give the June 4th video a high rating so it might be featured again. — hedged: “might” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:28)
  • 2007-06-27 · June 26: The American Library Association Parties — Unsure how his own speech went, John plays its funniest snippet: against the shy-librarian stereotype, a story of a drunk librarian at a New Orleans casino holding a galley. — hedged: “I don't know how I did” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:33)
  • 2007-06-28 · June 28: How to Be a Microfinancier — John proposes that over the next week (to 5 July 2007) he and Hank give several gifts to Kiva.org, and hopes the Nerdfighters may join. — hedged: “Maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:36)
  • 2007-07-02 · Brotherhood 2.0: July 2nd: The Law of Compound Nerdfighting — John suggests that the opposite of a nerdfighter might be 'Decepticon' and asks Hank if he likes it. — hedged: “I've been thinking that maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:28)
  • 2007-07-02 · Brotherhood 2.0: July 2nd: The Law of Compound Nerdfighting — John says they probably could have started a microfinance bank after all, because people were extremely generous. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:28)
  • 2007-07-02 · Brotherhood 2.0: July 2nd: The Law of Compound Nerdfighting — John says the Nerdfighters are probably getting tapped out, so what is needed is more nerdfighters: there is an 'acute nerdfighter shortage', and many are nerdfighters without knowing the term. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:57)
  • 2007-07-02 · Brotherhood 2.0: July 2nd: The Law of Compound Nerdfighting — John points to a conversation about post-colonial theory in the comments and suggests such topics could be discussed in the forum, 'my pants'. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:03:27)
  • 2007-07-05 · July 5th: The Regions Bank Freedom Blast — John explains that during Indianapolis's official display a local radio station kind of plays a soundtrack, 'like an officially sanctioned thing'; the show is the Regions Bank Freedom Blast. — hedged: “kind of” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:24)
  • 2007-07-09 · July 9: The Punishment Fiasco — John says nobody has settled on his own punishment and asks Hank to go into the forum and help pick something particularly harmful to him. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:12)
  • 2007-07-11 · Brotherhood 2.0: Harry and the Potters are Nerdfighters! — As bad news for his punishment, John says he seems to have thrown away all his academic decathlon medals. — hedged: “I seem to” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:49)
  • 2007-07-13 · Brotherhood 2.0: July 13: Outside — John says that since moving to Indiana his distaste for outside is beginning to wane; he is starting to enjoy working outside, on a screened-in porch. — hedged: “kind of” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:39)
  • 2007-08-02 · August 2nd: Airports and Box Fans — John congratulates Hank on another brilliant song, possibly his best yet, and says it inspired a song of his own ('It's quite jokes in here'). — hedged: “might have been” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:09)
  • 2007-08-02 · August 2nd: Airports and Box Fans — John says hard-working Nerdfighters have found a textual communication he apparently sent Hank on January 11, 2007, so he, not Hank, is about to be punished. — hedged: “apparently” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:49)
  • 2007-08-08 · August 8th: The Lawn and the Fury — Looking back, John no longer sees it as him good and them bad; it seems more like 'thank God I ended up with the Yeti', and maybe they've been through enough. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:47)
  • 2007-08-20 · August 20th: Winner, South Dakota — 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: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:58)
  • 2007-08-20 · August 20th: Winner, South Dakota — John says Brotherhood 2.0 is starting to make him believe in humanity again; he catches himself saying outlandishly optimistic things. — hedged: “sort of” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:58)
  • 2007-08-22 · August 22nd: Um. Uh. IN YOUR PANTS — John says he had to temporarily suspend the wiki and people may have to watch the videos on YouTube for a couple of days, but Brotherhood2.com will be back and more awesome. — hedged: “there may be” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:12)
  • 2007-09-04 · September 4th: Negative Suck Cubed Equals Awesome — John says the site now goes down only rarely, maybe a couple of times late at night for a minute, and asks viewers to be patient. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:17)
  • 2007-09-10 · September 10th: Airports and Whitman — With little time for Brotherhood 2.0, John takes up Nerdfighters' suggestion that he read Paper Towns excerpts on Wednesday and Friday, which would also give him feedback. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:49)
  • 2007-09-18 · September 18: In Defense of Chris Crocker — John says a world that constructs gender so dichotomously so early makes discomfort around people who don't fit gender expectations understandable, but that is not their fault. — hedged: “it seems to me” [epistemic doubt] (00:03:32)
  • 2007-10-04 · October 4th: Happy Dances, Feuds, and Raccoon Infestations — John asks Hank to suggest more feud topics if none of his work. — hedged: “perhaps” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:56)
  • 2007-10-26 · OCT. 26: DISCUSSING NEPAL WHILE EATING TOILET PAPER — John reports a long-standing theory that the uncle who survived and became king might have done the shooting himself; John calls the prince's suicide 'a little bit suspicious'. — hedged: “might have” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:33)
  • 2007-11-05 · November 5th: John's Not Happy about Pakistan — John suggests a count might show fewer genuinely democratic countries now than when 'democracy started marching'. — hedged: “you might find out” [epistemic doubt] (00:03:03)
  • 2007-11-07 · November 7: Discussing the Political Situation in Pakistan — John says that in 1999 Sharif's government was seen as corrupt and there were rumours of a military takeover, which had happened many times before in Pakistan. — hedged: “kind of” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:33)
  • 2007-11-07 · November 7: Discussing the Political Situation in Pakistan — John says a quasi-independent judiciary kept Pakistan from full dictatorship; in early 2007 Musharraf asked the Supreme Court's leader to resign, he refused, which symbolized Musharraf's weakening. — hedged: “kind of” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:25)
  • 2007-11-28 · November 28th: Amy Winehouse and Brain Liquefication — John says he wants to talk about Christmas on Friday, and is thinking he could answer Nerdfighters' questions early next week (week of 3 December 2007). — hedged: “I was thinking maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:37)
  • 2007-11-30 · Nov. 30th: A CHRISTMAS RANT — John suggests that maybe the policy should be to give gifts only to people who need gifts. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:36)
  • 2007-12-26 · Dec. 26th: Christmas, Manga, and Goat Poop — John says his favourite Christmas present is probably the book he got from Wynflete. — hedged: “Probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:46)

Wish / hope (13)

a wish about the future, not a claim about what is true

  • 2007-02-19 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 19, 2007 — John says he hopes Hank will match his $20 pledge. — hedged: “I hope” [wish / hope] (00:01:48)
  • 2007-03-27 · March 26th: Thanks — John hopes to see Hank's video tomorrow from the hospital, and says Hank will see him on Thursday at 88th Street. — hedged: “Hopefully” [wish / hope] (00:01:45)
  • 2007-05-14 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 14: The Evil Baby Orphanage — John says something has to be done with the evil baby orphanage idea but he doesn't know what, and hopes Hank or someone else has ideas. — hedged: “Hopefully” [wish / hope] (00:01:12)
  • 2007-05-14 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 14: The Evil Baby Orphanage — John hopes people will also improve the Wikipedia entries for him, Looking for Alaska and An Abundance of Katherines. — hedged: “hopefully” [wish / hope] (00:02:47)
  • 2007-05-22 · May 22: Brotherhood 2.0 in Amsterdam — John has very limited internet access but hopes to see Hank tomorrow. — hedged: “I hope” [wish / hope] (00:01:49)
  • 2007-06-06 · June 6th: Lindsay Lohan's Bikini and My Pants — John and Sarah are hopefully closing on their house today, which will make them official homeowners; the purchase will take all day and night. — hedged: “hopefully” [wish / hope] (00:00:10)
  • 2007-06-08 · Brotherhood 2.0: June 8: Studying the Clues — John thinks it's a great house and hopes Hank will visit; they have carved out a bedroom just for him. — hedged: “I hope” [wish / hope] (00:01:45)
  • 2007-07-09 · July 9: The Punishment Fiasco — John hopes to see Hank's recreated picture by Thursday (12 July 2007). — hedged: “hopefully” [wish / hope] (00:03:16)
  • 2007-08-10 · August 10th: Bears!!!! — John is still happy that his punishment can help decrease world suck and hopefully help get Daniel elected. — hedged: “hopefully” [wish / hope] (00:02:10)
  • 2007-08-28 · August 28th: Starring Mom — Relaying a forum question on the difference between a nerd and a geek, John admits he doesn't know and hopes he and the Nerdfighters can work one out. — hedged: “I'm hoping” [wish / hope] (00:01:13)
  • 2007-09-10 · September 10th: Airports and Whitman — John is seven days from turning in what he hopes will be the biggest revision of the book; after that he thinks he will show it to Hank and Katherine. — hedged: “hopefully” [wish / hope] (00:00:11)
  • 2007-11-19 · November 19th: HOORAY HOORAY HAPPY HOORAY! — John says that several years ago he and his writer friend David Levithan started writing a book together, and today he hopes to learn whether, by whom and for how much it will be published. — hedged: “hopefully” [wish / hope] (00:00:03)
  • 2007-12-10 · Dec. 10: MY BOOK IS GONNA BE A MOVIE!!! (someday) — John keeps saying the film will happen 'hopefully one day eventually' because these things take a long time; he hopes its smaller budget than Beowulf's will make it faster. — hedged: “Hopefully one day eventually” [wish / hope] (00:01:12)

Opinion marker (39)

marks a view as the speaker's own; not doubt

  • 2007-01-04 · Brotherhood 2.0: Eating Toilet Paper — Continuing Hank's list of differences, John says Hank is excellent at living in line with his values while John is not. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:00)
  • 2007-01-23 · Week 1 Condensed! — Continuing the list, John says one of the most important differences is that Hank lives in line with his values and John does not. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:50)
  • 2007-01-24 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 24, 2007 — Answering the survey, John says he has known Hank since Hank was born and Katherine since, he believes, 1999. — hedged: “I believe” [opinion marker] (00:00:00)
  • 2007-01-24 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 24, 2007 — John says he believes 'Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone' is an old Carter Family tune, and sings it with 'from your pants'. — hedged: “I believe” [opinion marker] (00:03:00)
  • 2007-02-23 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 23, 2007: Books — John thinks most writers would rather have an audience than great riches; if they wanted to be rich they would do something else. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:27)
  • 2007-03-01 · Brotherhood 2.0: March 1, 2007: Sophistication. And balls. — John thinks Brotherhood 2.0 should endorse a candidate, and in the primary, naming Barack Obama. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:19)
  • 2007-03-19 · Brotherhood 2.0: March 19th: Urban Exploration — John says viewers shouldn't break into abandoned buildings, especially without professional assistance, as it is unsafe, asbestos-laden, terrifying and generally illegal. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:01:15)
  • 2007-04-10 · Brotherhood 2.0: April 10th: Role Models — John says behaviour is inevitably shaped by people around us, physically or virtually (e.g. Lindsay Lohan, Cristiano Ronaldo), so one must be aware how one's behaviour shapes others and is shaped. — hedged: “I do think” [opinion marker] (00:00:33)
  • 2007-04-10 · Brotherhood 2.0: April 10th: Role Models — John agrees with Hank that a simplistic notion of role modelling is stupid: nobody will be driven to drink by Hank's Holy Saturday party and Easter Sunday hangover. — hedged: “I don't think” [opinion marker] (00:01:16)
  • 2007-04-10 · Brotherhood 2.0: April 10th: Role Models — A year-long vlog about nothing but the perils of drunk driving would suck: whether people should drive drunk is an important question, just not an interesting one. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:21)
  • 2007-04-10 · Brotherhood 2.0: April 10th: Role Models — Many important things are not good subjects for books (proper push-up form, the price of a food item); John thinks what is true for fiction is broadly true for video blogs. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:51)
  • 2007-04-10 · Brotherhood 2.0: April 10th: Role Models — John thinks all nerdfighters are role models, but not in boring ways, and that all need to remember the importance of decreasing world suck. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:51)
  • 2007-04-16 · Brotherhood 2.0: April 16: Brotherhood of Traveling Shirts — John says (via his poster) he feels he too is not doing enough in the fight against climate change. — hedged: “I feel like” [opinion marker] (00:00:38)
  • 2007-04-24 · Brotherhood 2.0: April 24: Moving — John is a little worried: he has no friends in Indianapolis and thinks he will miss New York. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:01:29)
  • 2007-05-02 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 2: Book Banning — John doesn't think novels should be removed from high school libraries simply because they have homosexual characters. — hedged: “I don't think” [opinion marker] (00:01:38)
  • 2007-05-16 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 16: Beating the EBO into the ground — John thinks it is a pretty good screenplay even though it is way different from the book, and hopes the film gets made. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:40)
  • 2007-05-16 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 16: Beating the EBO into the ground — John says that, so far as he can tell, Evil Baby Orphanage creator Brooke has not officially permitted making it into a movie, novel, graphic novel or whatever, but he thinks they should move ahead with the project. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:40)
  • 2007-05-31 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 31: Yogurt eating — John thinks Brotherhood 2.0 needs a forum because the comments are too many and too confused to follow, and challenges Hank to make one if viewers favour it. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:01:45)
  • 2007-06-04 · Brotherhood 2.0: June 4th: The First Nerdfighter Wedding! — John says both brothers are happy about the first Nerdfighter marriage and hope for many more; the couple is honeymooning in Banff. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:03:26)
  • 2007-06-14 · Brotherhood 2.0: June 14: Good News/Bad News — John thinks they learned a lot about microfinance, poverty and real life in the Dominican Republic, and look forward to making those videos back home. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:01:48)
  • 2007-06-14 · Brotherhood 2.0: June 14: Good News/Bad News — John says the trip could only have been better with their grandparents and Katherine there. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:35)
  • 2007-06-20 · Brotherhood 2.0: June 20: Moving — John says Brotherhood 2.0 was 'sort of halfway' featured on YouTube last week (week of 11 June 2007), and one video, he thinks the June 4th one, got many comments from YouTubers. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:01:41)
  • 2007-06-28 · June 28: How to Be a Microfinancier — John says microfinance is an awesome idea. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:36)
  • 2007-07-09 · July 9: The Punishment Fiasco — John accepts that the brothers cannot veto their own punishments but proposes that their wives may veto punishments nerdfighters suggest, and hopes Hank agrees. — hedged: “I do think” [opinion marker] (00:02:47)
  • 2007-07-17 · Brotherhood 2.0: July 17: Topless Dancer — John got green spray-on hair dye but thinks his green hair will have to wait until Thursday (19 July 2007), since Hank hasn't done his green hair yet. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:40)
  • 2007-08-16 · August 16th: Finding — and Licking — a Cat — John still thinks the Evil Baby Orphanage has tremendous potential as some kind of creative project, and that Nerdfighters are discussing it well in the forum. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:57)
  • 2007-08-16 · August 16th: Finding — and Licking — a Cat — John says it speaks well of Indianapolis that perfect strangers welcomed him into their home and let him lick their cat. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:08)
  • 2007-08-22 · August 22nd: Um. Uh. IN YOUR PANTS — John says another Nerdfighter shaved off all her hair except a mohawk and gave it to Locks of Love, which he thinks is pretty awesome. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:01:26)
  • 2007-09-06 · September 6th: The Book Club Returns — In New York John had only what he thinks everyone should have: an apartment, good public transportation, affordable food, an independent bookstore; in Indianapolis he owns a car. — hedged: “I think everybody should have” [opinion marker] (00:02:00)
  • 2007-09-18 · September 18: In Defense of Chris Crocker — John says laughing at Chris Crocker for caring too much about Britney is fine, but laughing at him for being different gains nothing; all nerdfighters have been on the wrong side of that laughter. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:03:32)
  • 2007-10-08 · October 8th: Zombies v. Unicorns — John says he likes John Edwards, thinks he is a bit of a schmuck, but could happily vote for him. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:39)
  • 2007-10-08 · October 8th: Zombies v. Unicorns — John believes politics, especially presidential politics this cycle, matter, but that smart, thoughtful people can honestly disagree, which is why there are Republican and Democratic nerdfighters. — hedged: “I do think” [opinion marker] (00:00:39)
  • 2007-10-10 · October 10th: A Spoilerific Attack on Unicorns — John thinks this is why a politician's character matters: so voters can be reasonably sure they will do what they say they will. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:39)
  • 2007-11-26 · Nov. 26th: Writing Advice (And Notes on Surnameless Tiffany) — John says that as a child he had not read many books; reading is as important as writing for a would-be writer because it is the only apprenticeship. — hedged: “I really think” [opinion marker] (00:02:44)
  • 2007-12-06 · Dec. 6th: Peer Pressure and the Green Green Manifesto — John says that in a lot of ways peer pressure is healthy and good. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:00)
  • 2007-12-10 · Dec. 10: MY BOOK IS GONNA BE A MOVIE!!! (someday) — John says he has always wanted to write a screenplay, thinks it would be fun to spend time with Hassan, Lindsey and the other characters, and, like many authors, wants creative control over the film of his book. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:11)
  • 2007-12-12 · Dec. 12th: w00t is the WORD OF THE YEAR?! — John feels woot was not the perfect word of 2007, since it peaked in 2006; the word of 2007 should have been one invented in 2007. — hedged: “I feel like” [opinion marker] (00:01:04)
  • 2007-12-28 · Dec. 28th: John's Last Brotherhood 2.0 Video — John thinks that for many people today siblinghood is mainly a childhood relationship: adult siblings talk mostly about family matters and stay stuck with their childhood image of each other. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:01:01)
  • 2007-12-28 · Dec. 28th: John's Last Brotherhood 2.0 Video — Busy grown-up siblings living across the country lack time for games like adding 'In Your Pants' to book titles; John calls knowing your siblings as adults an increasingly rare pleasure. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:01:20)

Other hedge (20)

a hedge that matches none of the word lists

  • 2007-01-08 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 8, 2007 — Besides finishing it, John's problem is that the novel has no title; he is thinking of taking one from Shakespeare or the Bible. — hedged: “I've been thinking of” [other hedge] (00:01:27)
  • 2007-01-08 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 8, 2007 — John says he hopes Hank can come up with a title for the novel. — hedged: “I'm hopeful” [other hedge] (00:02:34)
  • 2007-02-01 · Brotherhood 2.0, February 1, 2007 — At the Savannah airport John must record in one take: he left his computer's power charger at home, has 23 minutes of power and may not get back to New York by midnight. — hedged: “it's looking increasingly like” [other hedge] (00:00:13)
  • 2007-03-15 · Brotherhood 2.0: March 15: Decreasing Suck — John says the worst thing one can do is not try to decrease suck levels, which he says is what the first Brotherhood 2.0 book club book was about. — hedged: “the thing I'm thinking” [other hedge] (00:02:15)
  • 2007-03-27 · March 26th: Thanks — John expects to get out of hospital fairly soon, either tomorrow or Thursday, if things keep progressing as they have. — hedged: “provided things continue to move along as they've been moving along” [other hedge] (00:01:18)
  • 2007-05-16 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 16: Beating the EBO into the ground — John proposes also posting the Evil Baby Orphanage videos on Brotherhood 2.0 over weekends so the Nerdfighters can see them, if and when they do this. — hedged: “if and when” [other hedge] (00:01:39)
  • 2007-06-08 · Brotherhood 2.0: June 8: Studying the Clues — John thanks New York Times reporter and high-school friend Cam Robertson for the illustrations and wants Cam to illustrate the Evil Baby Orphanage book, if and when it exists. — hedged: “if and when it exists” [other hedge] (00:01:16)
  • 2007-07-09 · July 9: The Punishment Fiasco — John reports that the forum has set Hank's punishment, which will involve recreating a picture shown on screen; he doesn't know the other details. — hedged: “It looks like” [other hedge] (00:02:12)
  • 2007-07-11 · Brotherhood 2.0: Harry and the Potters are Nerdfighters! — John announces his new book will definitely be called Paper Towns, unless he changes his mind again. — hedged: “unless I change my mind again” [other hedge] (00:00:11)
  • 2007-08-08 · August 8th: The Lawn and the Fury — After forum talk on minors and foreigners contributing to Biss's campaign, John tends to agree with Hank that under-18s should be allowed to contribute more to politics. — hedged: “I tend to agree” [other hedge] (00:02:17)
  • 2007-09-06 · September 6th: The Book Club Returns — After calling Daniel, John says that if everyone in the world owned cars at the American rate, there would be about five times as many cars as now. — hedged: “like five times greater” [other hedge] (00:01:30)
  • 2007-09-18 · September 18: In Defense of Chris Crocker — John tells Hank he really liked what Hank read yesterday, thinks it has great potential, and hopes Hank finishes it one day. — hedged: “I thought” [other hedge] (00:00:10)
  • 2007-09-26 · September 26th: Norbert Wiener — John tells nerdfighters in or around Richmond, Virginia, that he will speak at the University of Richmond tomorrow at 7 p.m. — hedged: “If the good Lord's willing and the creek don't rise” [other hedge] (00:02:55)
  • 2007-10-08 · October 8th: Zombies v. Unicorns — John says that right now he likes Barack Obama a little more than Edwards, but it is early. — hedged: “but it's early” [other hedge] (00:00:39)
  • 2007-11-01 · November 1st: When Nerdfighters Fall in Nerdfighter-Like — The project will cost around $100; Nerdfighters who want to contribute can do so at Brotherhood2.com. — hedged: “somewhere around” [other hedge] (00:02:53)
  • 2007-11-05 · November 5th: John's Not Happy about Pakistan — John says it looks like Pakistanis will be less free tomorrow than today, as they are less free today than yesterday. — hedged: “it looks like” [other hedge] (00:03:19)
  • 2007-11-07 · November 7: Discussing the Political Situation in Pakistan — As evidence, John recalls that radical Islamic parties won about 6% in the late-1990s free elections, while analysts now say they could win up to 40%. — hedged: “as I recall” [other hedge] (00:02:25)
  • 2007-12-10 · Dec. 10: MY BOOK IS GONNA BE A MOVIE!!! (someday) — John says his first novel, Looking for Alaska, has been in movie development for about a year and a half and is still in development. — hedged: “like a year and a half” [other hedge] (00:01:12)
  • 2007-12-28 · Dec. 28th: John's Last Brotherhood 2.0 Video — John has come to think a lot of life is about doing things that don't suck with people who don't suck, which is why he enjoyed the Happy Dance Project and the Project for Awesome. — hedged: “I started to think” [other hedge] (00:03:11)
  • 2007-12-28 · Dec. 28th: John's Last Brotherhood 2.0 Video — John says that, as he recalls, people who don't suck doing something that doesn't suck together is the point of the scavenger hunt. — hedged: “as I recall” [other hedge] (00:03:26)

Hedge words not recorded (1)

marked as unsure, but the hedge words were not quoted

  • 2007-08-10 · August 10th: Bears!!!! — John wonders what his experiences would be like if he didn't mediate all of them through a video camera. — speculative (hedge words not recorded) (00:00:43)

Satire (2)

a mock position (e.g. a fake moral panic) — the opposite of what is meant

Fiction (15)

a story or novel read aloud; the words belong to characters

Joke (39)

a gag; not a claim

Hypothetical (4)

a thought experiment or "what if"

  • 2007-02-15 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 17, 2007 — John imagines Nerdfighters as a video game mixing Mortal Kombat and Mike Tyson's Punch-Out: players pick nerd characters with special powers and fight popular people, with the high-school quarterback as the final opponent. — hedged: “It could be like” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:51)
  • 2007-02-21 · February 21st, 2007: The Wikipedia in Your Mind — His example: looking up Sarah ('the Yeti'), whom he loves and is married to, his brain-Wikipedia should show her picture and an entry on all the ways she's awesome. (00:01:13)
  • 2007-02-21 · February 21st, 2007: The Wikipedia in Your Mind — If his fourth-grade girlfriend, still holding a candle for him, edited the entry to make the Yeti a horrible hairy Himalayan monster, he would stop loving Sarah — not by choice but because of the edit. (00:01:45)
  • 2007-08-20 · August 20th: Winner, South Dakota — 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. — hedged: “could potentially” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:54)

Playful (571)

a real point made in a joking way; the paraphrase records the meant core

Hank

1241 statements · sincere 59% · playful 38% · other bits 3% · hedged or unsure 20%

Sincere but hedged (154)

Split by hedge type (derived from the quoted hedge words with a fixed word list — see the overview): epistemic doubt 64 · wish / hope 8 · opinion marker 55 · other hedge 23 · hedge words not recorded 4.

Epistemic doubt (64)

real uncertainty about whether it is true

  • 2007-01-11 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 11th — Hank sings a line of 500 Miles and says it is not a punishment to him; they need to come up with better punishments. — hedged: “I don't know” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:54)
  • 2007-01-15 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 15th — Hank says the book club is still a good idea, but he must avoid John's 'genocide book' for less than a week and will probably start it for Friday. — hedged: “I'll probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:05)
  • 2007-01-25 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 25th — Expecting he may well be the first punished, Hank proposes that the unpunished brother choose the punishment, so the punished one can't take the one he'd most like; viewers see the other's pick. — hedged: “may very likely” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:05)
  • 2007-01-31 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 31st — As the email wasn't really a personal communication, Hank allows some leeway and won't give John the worst punishments possible. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:34)
  • 2007-02-06 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 6th — Hank has found the babies rather adorable and, having met a few, now kind of likes them. — hedged: “kind of” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:21)
  • 2007-02-14 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 14th — Hank returns home to a corrupted hard drive and thinks he may need a new computer, but feels bad about taking his wife to Best Buy on Valentine's Day. — hedged: “I think I might” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:04)
  • 2007-02-16 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 16th — Hank expects to do web development for life and hopes to write as long; he is doing exactly what he wants, a first; he hopes for fame but expects 'contented obscurity'. — hedged: “I'll probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:46)
  • 2007-03-14 · March 14: Becoming a NerdFighter — Hank proposes there should be a way to become a nerdfighter, possibly a series of tasks. — hedged: “Possibly” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:17)
  • 2007-03-16 · March 16th: Mom, ZeFrank, and Stock Options — Hank says Ze Frank likely inspired much of what the brothers are doing in Brotherhood 2.0, maybe more than they realise. — hedged: “likely” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:03)
  • 2007-03-16 · March 16th: Mom, ZeFrank, and Stock Options — Hank says it seems wrong that people can pour so much energy into a person who then does whatever they want with it, and asks whether Mom shouldn't get something back. — hedged: “it seems somehow” [epistemic doubt] (00:03:18)
  • 2007-03-22 · March 22nd: Book Club and Business Cards — Hank says he considered assigning John The God Delusion but thought it might be a little too inflammatory. — hedged: “I think maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:42)
  • 2007-03-22 · March 22nd: Book Club and Business Cards — Because he runs EcoGeek, Hank is getting a free copy of Deep Economy; he will read it too, as he will probably interview the author for his website, and hopes to discuss it with John first. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:42)
  • 2007-03-22 · March 22nd: Book Club and Business Cards — Hank wants to see viewers' heads and suggests setting something up so people can send pictures and videos of stuff on their heads. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:03:11)
  • 2007-03-28 · March 28th: Taxes — Hank is excited to hear John is feeling better and says it seems John is doing a lot better; he admits that after looking up John's disease online he was at times really worried. — hedged: “it seems like” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:13)
  • 2007-04-09 · April 9th: Is it OK to Party? — Hank has heard there may be problems with discussing certain aspects of the brothers' lives, and doesn't know if he's okay with that; there was discussion of them as role models and binge drinking. — hedged: “I don't know” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:36)
  • 2007-04-17 · April 17th: Stepped Up — Hank says one day without power was pretty hard and more would be much harder; he doesn't know how John will manage it for an entire week. — hedged: “I don't know” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:46)
  • 2007-04-19 · April 19th: For Sale?! — Moving out would be a huge pain; Hank thinks the most likely scenario is a buyer glad to keep a renter and the rent income. — hedged: “Most likely scenario” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:42)
  • 2007-05-03 · May 3rd Extended Edition — Hank is happy to learn that the word 'yeti', literally translated, apparently means 'that thing over there'. — hedged: “apparently” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:10)
  • 2007-05-03 · May 3rd Extended Edition — Hank reports that They Might Be Giants are apparently doing the soundtrack for the Coraline movie. — hedged: “apparently” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:12)
  • 2007-05-03 · May 3rd Extended Edition — Hank thinks he may buy The Bermudez Triangle to see what all the fuss is about. — hedged: “I think I may” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:17)
  • 2007-05-03 · May 3rd: Yetis, TMBG, Weeds and MoJo — Hank is happy to learn that the word 'yeti', literally translated, apparently means 'that thing over there'. — hedged: “apparently” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:10)
  • 2007-05-03 · May 3rd: Yetis, TMBG, Weeds and MoJo — Hank reports that They Might Be Giants are apparently doing the soundtrack for the Coraline movie. — hedged: “apparently” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:12)
  • 2007-05-03 · May 3rd: Yetis, TMBG, Weeds and MoJo — Hank thinks he may buy The Bermudez Triangle to see what all the fuss is about. — hedged: “I think I may” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:17)
  • 2007-05-11 · May 11th: Heroes — Hank thinks time travel would probably be the hardest superpower to have, because the more power a hero has, the harder it is to deal with. — hedged: “I think that that would be probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:38)
  • 2007-05-25 · May 25th: FreeMonkey's Tour — Hank concludes the feeling is not wishing anyone dead but realising there is a lot of future still to come that he will see, which makes him hopeful. — hedged: “kind of” [epistemic doubt] (00:03:04)
  • 2007-06-01 · June 1: Barack Saabama — Hank says Brotherhood 2.0 may not be able to endorse a candidate in the 2008 elections because the brothers might not vote for the same person. — hedged: “might” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:09)
  • 2007-06-01 · June 1: Barack Saabama — Hank would vote for Obama against Mitt Romney but might not against John McCain. — hedged: “might” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:59)
  • 2007-06-01 · June 1: Barack Saabama — Hank grants that other issues matter and maybe should matter more to him than global warming, but it is what he does and cares about most. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:23)
  • 2007-06-07 · June 7: Weather and My Pants — Hank doesn't know whether it will happen: the Weather Channel is finicky about him living in Montana, calling it a daunting task, which it wouldn't be if he lived in LA. — hedged: “I don't know that that's gonna happen” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:16)
  • 2007-06-13 · June 13: Dominican Debacles — Without his guitar, Hank used GarageBand for the first time to make the music; he is unsure he is good at it yet. — hedged: “I don't know that I'm very good at it yet” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:39)
  • 2007-06-15 · June 15: AIRRRRPORRRTS!!! — Hank says a week of face-to-face contact made Brotherhood 2.0 somewhat redundant but highlighted how textual, video-blog and face-to-face communication differ, which is what the project is about. — hedged: “I guess” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:31)
  • 2007-06-25 · June 25: Dum De Dum De Dum De Readn' a Book — Comparing a neighbour's adult-marketed book with a 13-year-old protagonist and his kids' book with a 12-year-old one, Hank says the adult book was more believable, the kids' book more fun. — hedged: “To me, it seems like” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:01)
  • 2007-06-25 · June 25: Dum De Dum De Dum De Readn' a Book — Hank says he will try to break past the barrier Cameo cannot, though he doesn't know if he will make it. — hedged: “I don't know if I'm gonna make it” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:28)
  • 2007-06-29 · How to be a Microfinancier Part 2 — Hank says he oddly felt grateful for the experience; he had expected to feel sad, guilty or scared, and did not, though at first he felt awkward and out of place. — hedged: “I guess” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:11)
  • 2007-06-29 · How to be a Microfinancier Part 2 — Hank says he probably felt less scared because they had an armed guard with them the whole time. — hedged: “I guess I probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:11)
  • 2007-07-06 · July 6: Ooooooops — Hank explains that in Missoula, when it gets too hot, people go tubing on the river instead of using air conditioners; probably his favorite part of summer, possibly the year. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:37)
  • 2007-07-06 · July 6: Ooooooops — Hank shows three nerdfighters who wrote 'Nerdfighters' across their apartment complex's huge driveway, probably used by about 300 people, with letters roughly 10 feet tall. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:02)
  • 2007-07-10 · July 10: Embarassing Photographs — Hank offers the choice only because he is not sure John can find a golden bow tie, without which that picture won't work. — hedged: “I'm not entirely sure” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:58)
  • 2007-07-16 · July 16: Goth — Reflecting, Hank says the lipstick felt strange ('a girl thing... I'm a boy'), but once he stopped poking himself, the eyeliner was fun and he kind of liked it. — hedged: “I kind of like doing that” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:09)
  • 2007-07-20 · July 20: Green Mohawk — Hank asks everyone to do what they will with the song; since it is only good until the book comes out tomorrow, it would probably be good to get as many people as possible to hear it in the next 12 hours. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:39)
  • 2007-07-24 · July 24: More Harry Potter?! — The New York Times contacted John to answer a question about Harry Potter; John passed on Hank's name, so Hank is kind of contributing 200 words on why Harry Potter is special. — hedged: “kind of” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:05)
  • 2007-07-26 · July 26: The Price of Fame — Hank finds the comments stressful - half seem to call him gay, half want his babies - but has tempered it by seeing that most people are very nice and supportive. — hedged: “kind of” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:22)
  • 2007-07-30 · July 30: Mystery Lyrics and Paying Rent — Hank says the found lyrics may end up in a song someday, but probably not in Wednesday's. — hedged: “Maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:50)
  • 2007-08-07 · August 7th: Curd Fighter Nurt — Hank says he is kind of in favor of excluding citizens of other countries from the US political process, as that would be weird. — hedged: “kind of” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:14)
  • 2007-08-13 · August 13: The Fair!!!! — Asked whether Colbert stole them, Hank says maybe but probably not: he and John are pretty sure the show is filmed well before Hank put his video online. — hedged: “maybe. Probably not.” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:57)
  • 2007-08-16 · Re: Vlog 6: Secret Siblinghood! — Hank says he now feels part of the larger YouTube community, a 'big, amazing, crazy thing called YouTube'. — hedged: “sort of” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:03)
  • 2007-08-16 · Re: Vlog 6: Secret Siblinghood! — Hank thinks he may have had Ninja Turtle Shrinky Dinks as a kid. — hedged: “I think I may have” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:22)
  • 2007-08-31 · August 31: Copyright and Airports — Sound from submitted happy dances won't be used, since music will likely play over the whole project, hopefully music that doesn't violate copyright. — hedged: “likely” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:43)
  • 2007-09-07 · September 7th: Fatalities, Dances and Thanks — Hank says he is bad at guitar, is lucky to have an audience few musicians have and probably doesn't deserve it, applies 'musician' to himself loosely, and is maybe more a stand-up comedian with a guitar. — hedged: “I don't know” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:40)
  • 2007-09-07 · September 7th: Fatalities, Dances and Thanks — Hank says he should have discussed John's points about Deep Economy but spent the time on Scorpion; maybe they will do it next week (week of 10 September 2007). — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:03:10)
  • 2007-09-21 · September 21: Court and Apples — Hank felt uncomfortable paying $10 while others, mostly there for drinking offences, faced fines of hundreds or thousands of dollars; he seemed to intrude on a serious world. — hedged: “Seems like” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:15)
  • 2007-10-05 · October 5th: Feuding, Goonies and Politics — Hank says there could be a real feud if John Edwards becomes a more substantial candidate, because he likes Edwards a lot. — hedged: “could” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:39)
  • 2007-10-05 · October 5th: Feuding, Goonies and Politics — Hank says Brotherhood2.com and the forum 'my pants' may be down this weekend because they are moving to a new server. — hedged: “may” [epistemic doubt] (00:03:08)
  • 2007-10-23 · October 23rd: Some Explaining to Do… — Hank says science starts from the factors and works toward a solution, while creationism starts from a solution someone came up with centuries ago and makes everything explain it. — hedged: “sort of” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:04)
  • 2007-10-29 · October 29th: It Just Isn't Fair — Hank realizes his song day falls on Halloween; his song is not about Halloween and he doesn't know if he can write a Halloween song in time. — hedged: “I don't know if I can” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:03)
  • 2007-10-29 · October 29th: It Just Isn't Fair — Hank says there will certainly be a Halloween surprise, though it may not be his song. — hedged: “may” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:51)
  • 2007-11-20 · November 20th: A White Thanksgiving — Hank says he likes being cold: he keeps his house around 60 degrees, works better and is more comfortable, and likes winter, which surprised him. — hedged: “kind of” [epistemic doubt] (00:03:00)
  • 2007-11-23 · November 23rd: BLACK FRIDAY! — Hank went to the mall to sort out his feelings about Christmas: he is 'kinda over it', finds it hard to care, and doesn't think he's alone. — hedged: “kinda” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:21)
  • 2007-11-29 · November 29th: sXePhil, Leaky Brains and a Secret Project — Because the eyes connect to the nose through the tear ducts, and the nose to the mouth and stomach, Hank says the brain would probably exit via nose and mouth, some dripping into the stomach. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:11)
  • 2007-11-29 · November 29th: sXePhil, Leaky Brains and a Secret Project — Hank reports that, from a variety of sources, a liquefied brain would most likely come out through the eyes. — hedged: “most likely” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:11)
  • 2007-12-11 · Dec 11: Secret Project...And More Punching — Hank asks those on the list to keep December 17 as clear as they can, since the project may need a significant amount of time from all of them. — hedged: “possibly” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:50)
  • 2007-12-13 · December 13: Mailing Shopping Thanking. It Must Be Christmas — Hank says he doesn't know why the ranking matters to them, but it really does, and thanks everyone who makes Brotherhood 2.0 something they surprisingly love to do. — hedged: “I don't know why” [epistemic doubt] (00:03:33)
  • 2007-12-19 · December 19: The Day that the Nerds Took Over YouTube — Hank says it is the first Song Wednesday in which he does not sing alone: Katherine sings with him and wrote about half of the song. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:26)
  • 2007-12-19 · December 19: The Day that the Nerds Took Over YouTube — Hank says the Secret Project was exciting and made him kind of hopeful, seeing so many people promote organizations doing good simply because it is right. — hedged: “I guess” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:44)

Wish / hope (8)

a wish about the future, not a claim about what is true

  • 2007-01-25 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 25th — Hank tells John he enjoyed his survey answers and hopes to see more of them tomorrow. — hedged: “hopefully” [wish / hope] (00:03:30)
  • 2007-04-27 · April 27th: Bad Day,,, — By Monday (30 April 2007) they'll know what happened at the LA Times Book Award, whose winners are announced at 8 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time; Hank hopes John smuggles in a camera. — hedged: “Hopefully” [wish / hope] (00:03:19)
  • 2007-05-23 · May 23rd: Miniature Soccer Team — Hank hopes John and Sarah are having a marvelous time in the Netherlands. — hedged: “I hope” [wish / hope] (00:02:45)
  • 2007-07-10 · July 10: Embarassing Photographs — Hank hopes to see John's recreated picture by Friday (13 July 2007). — hedged: “hopefully” [wish / hope] (00:02:58)
  • 2007-07-12 · July 12: Pizza, Punishments and Potter — Hank hopes he won't have to make a video on the book's release day, because he will be reading Harry Potter. — hedged: “I hope” [wish / hope] (00:02:20)
  • 2007-07-24 · July 24: More Harry Potter?! — Hank is sure John will feel better soon and hopes to see John's green hair tomorrow; he wishes John had bought the Mountain Dew sign. — hedged: “hopefully” [wish / hope] (00:02:35)
  • 2007-09-27 · September 27th: Bionic Woman v. Helen Hunt on PCP — The video is short because Hank must get back to writing; he hopes to feel better before Wednesday, when he would hate to have to sing with this voice. — hedged: “Hopefully” [wish / hope] (00:02:48)
  • 2007-11-16 · November 16th: Green Cars at the LA Auto Show — Hank hopes the Volt's disappearance from the show is not a sign of things to come. — hedged: “I hope” [wish / hope] (00:03:00)

Opinion marker (55)

marks a view as the speaker's own; not doubt

  • 2007-01-11 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 11th — Hank proposes suggesting more punishments so the brothers can choose between them, and letting people suggest punishments too. — hedged: “I think that we should” [opinion marker] (00:01:11)
  • 2007-01-11 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 11th — Hank says the only punishment so far is the 500 miles punishment, which he would be totally okay doing and thinks would be fun. — hedged: “I think it'd be fun” [opinion marker] (00:01:11)
  • 2007-01-15 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 15th — In a 'Brotherhood 2.0 agreement moment', Hank backs John's idea of doing their happy dances for 3 minutes 30 seconds as a perfect Brotherhood 2.0 project. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:01:05)
  • 2007-02-12 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 12th — The video goes out while Hank is on the plane, probably the short leg from Denver to Missoula; he is in Denver now. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:43)
  • 2007-02-16 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 16th — Hank says he has lived his life going with the flow, but now, for the first time, he feels he has to paddle. — hedged: “I feel like” [opinion marker] (00:00:46)
  • 2007-02-16 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 16th — Hank calls himself an optimist about human extinction: he thinks humans will eventually tire of procreation and find new ways of existing without mass slaughter or resource depletion. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:01:29)
  • 2007-02-22 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 22nd: Where Do Books Go? — Hank thinks that because John is a semi-famous author, a large share of their fan base are book readers, so many share the problem of too many books. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:03)
  • 2007-03-02 · Brotherhood 2.0: March 2nd: Politics and Butt Explosions — Hank says the brothers cannot keep politics out of Brotherhood 2.0: both are politically active, and not talking about politics would be lying. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:35)
  • 2007-03-02 · Brotherhood 2.0: March 2nd: Politics and Butt Explosions — Hank, agreeing with a commenter, says it is too early to endorse a presidential candidate because the primary field may not be complete; he would wait and see. — hedged: “I think we should wait and see” [opinion marker] (00:00:35)
  • 2007-03-08 · Brotherhood 2.0: Giving Away Peeps — Unsure people will accept being filmed, Hank hides the camera and then keeps it running in his pocket to approach a group of punk rockers. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:01:03)
  • 2007-03-14 · March 14: Becoming a NerdFighter — First task: figure out what kind of nerdfighter you are; second: write a lyric for the nerdfighter song from that nerdfighter's perspective. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:01:17)
  • 2007-04-03 · April 3rd: Seattle! — Hank thinks wind turbines are pretty and doesn't understand people who find them ugly and don't want them on mountain ridges. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:09)
  • 2007-04-17 · April 17th: Stepped Up — Hank thinks it is good sometimes to try to understand life without electronics, but doesn't think it would be better, so he works on how to go forward: no way out of this mess without many good ideas. — hedged: “I don't think” [opinion marker] (00:03:18)
  • 2007-04-17 · April 17th: Stepped Up — Hank thinks it is good that John hasn't decided to just offset his carbon with 'some strange scheme'. — hedged: “I think it's good” [opinion marker] (00:03:18)
  • 2007-04-19 · April 19th: For Sale?! — Hank is reading The God of Animals, about a 12-year-old girl; he thinks it is kind of young adult but marketed as adult fiction, and likes the first couple of chapters. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:58)
  • 2007-05-03 · May 3rd Extended Edition — Hank thinks John's book-banning video has drawn more comments than any other Brotherhood 2.0 video; people care more about book banning than his Helen Hunt obsession, which he calls a good thing. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:01:53)
  • 2007-05-03 · May 3rd: Yetis, TMBG, Weeds and MoJo — Hank thinks John's book-banning video has drawn more comments than any other Brotherhood 2.0 video; people care more about book banning than his Helen Hunt obsession, which he calls a good thing. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:01:53)
  • 2007-05-11 · May 11th: Heroes — Hank thinks a time-stopping hero, if he did not age, could save everybody in the world: the most power of any superhero, but a hard power to have. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:01:26)
  • 2007-05-11 · May 11th: Heroes — Hank thinks a superhero's awesomeness depends on the size of his city: with few people to save, a superhero in Missoula would be very part-time. — hedged: “I think actually” [opinion marker] (00:02:58)
  • 2007-05-15 · May 15th: A Bit More EBO and Wikipedia — Hank says John grew up in Indianapolis, living there until he was 'like, three', and that he doesn't feel John has mentioned this. — hedged: “I don't feel like you've mentioned that” [opinion marker] (00:00:27)
  • 2007-05-15 · May 15th: A Bit More EBO and Wikipedia — On the Evil Baby Orphanage, Hank says there is only one option: the brothers have to do this. — hedged: “I really think” [opinion marker] (00:00:56)
  • 2007-05-15 · May 15th: A Bit More EBO and Wikipedia — Hank says he is not saying there will be a Hank and John Green book called Evil Baby Orphanage, but thinks the idea is pretty fertile ground for storytelling. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:01:27)
  • 2007-05-17 · May 17th: Wikeeeeeepedia...and Happy Birthday Katherine — Hank says he has no idea how to write a book proposal for fiction (list characters? propose situations?) and asks John for help, feeling John must know. — hedged: “I feel like” [opinion marker] (00:01:03)
  • 2007-05-21 · May 21st: Comment Bashing, Anniversaries and EBO Ladies — Hank says the no-text-communication rule makes keeping the proposal secret harder, but he thinks they can, though he doesn't know how. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:49)
  • 2007-05-21 · May 21st: Comment Bashing, Anniversaries and EBO Ladies — Hank wants female characters and leads in the Evil Baby Orphanage and says the brothers must work out where evil female babies and the love interests come from. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:03:17)
  • 2007-06-01 · June 1: Barack Saabama — Hank says the worse problem is that there are so many cars in America; we don't need them all, and he thinks he needs one less. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:01:58)
  • 2007-06-15 · June 15: AIRRRRPORRRTS!!! — Hank thinks the brothers are realising there may be long stretches between seeing each other; normal nowadays, he says, but uncomfortable. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:01:02)
  • 2007-06-19 · June 19: GOOD LUCK JOHN — Hank appeared on The Weather Channel's Forecast Earth in an episode about heat that starts with John Kerry; it was his first national TV appearance and he thinks Brotherhood 2.0 was mentioned. — hedged: “I believe” [opinion marker] (00:02:19)
  • 2007-06-27 · June 27: Good Morning John, it's Wednesday — Hank reports that spammers bombarded the forum and that he thinks he has deleted all the extremely gross posts, so the forum should be spam-free. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:11)
  • 2007-07-03 · July 3: Decepticons — Hank says people are really excited about the Kiva lending idea, which he thinks they should be. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:49)
  • 2007-07-03 · July 3: Decepticons — Because the enemies of nerdfighters operate in teams without henchmen, Hank thinks 'Decepticons' is, so far, a pretty good name for them. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:34)
  • 2007-07-12 · July 12: Pizza, Punishments and Potter — Hank likes the spray-on green hair idea but thinks it is a fun challenge rather than a real punishment, especially if it washes out after a day. — hedged: “I don't think” [opinion marker] (00:00:43)
  • 2007-07-12 · July 12: Pizza, Punishments and Potter — Hank is excited about the next Harry Potter book, which he thinks comes out in 12 or 13 days. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:01:36)
  • 2007-07-12 · July 12: Pizza, Punishments and Potter — Hank suggests a good challenge is simply wearing Nerdfighter shirts in public: people stare or ask, and you get to explain Brotherhood 2.0; maybe they need business cards. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:20)
  • 2007-07-18 · July 18: Accio Deathly Hallows (no spoilers) — Hank thinks that in the end it won't matter whether Snape is good or bad, because the weight of the world rests on Harry. — hedged: “I don't think” [opinion marker] (00:01:57)
  • 2007-07-30 · July 30: Mystery Lyrics and Paying Rent — Hank thinks he will have a song ready on Wednesday. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:03:19)
  • 2007-08-27 · August 27th: Thanks Yous and Cameos — Hank says it probably won't be the last secret project: he and John are working on an idea, with more later this week (week of 27 August 2007). — hedged: “I don't think” [opinion marker] (00:02:28)
  • 2007-09-07 · September 7th: Fatalities, Dances and Thanks — Hank thinks the happy dance project is a very good idea: a five-minute video of happy dances in cool places, like Where the Hell is Matt but carbon neutral because Nerdfighters are already everywhere. — hedged: “I just think” [opinion marker] (00:01:44)
  • 2007-09-11 · September 11th: Floorcats, Recycling Bins and Memories — Hank asks John, who he thinks never told him, and everyone else where they were on September 11. — hedged: “I don't think” [opinion marker] (00:02:46)
  • 2007-09-13 · September 13th: HA! I read from MY Novel :-p — Hank says his novel is about a third of the way to normal novel length and that he began by simply writing down its first line. — hedged: “I'd say” [opinion marker] (00:03:02)
  • 2007-09-27 · September 27th: Bionic Woman v. Helen Hunt on PCP — Hank thinks he is getting sick: raw throat, sinus headache, drippy nose, and it hurts to speak. — hedged: “So I think that I'm getting sick.” [opinion marker] (00:00:10)
  • 2007-10-05 · October 5th: Feuding, Goonies and Politics — Hank enjoys listening to Barack Obama but feels his priorities, though matching Hank's, are in a different order. — hedged: “sometimes I feel like” [opinion marker] (00:02:39)
  • 2007-10-17 · October 17th: The Man Who Throws The Tetris Piece — Hank tells John he will probably recognize this song, since John likely spent about as much time listening to it as Hank did. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:10)
  • 2007-10-23 · October 23rd: Some Explaining to Do… — Hank says a tattoo puts you in a club that people make judgments about, and he hopes to minimise the visual cues by which people can judge him, though his t-shirts and glasses fall short. — hedged: “I feel like” [opinion marker] (00:01:35)
  • 2007-10-23 · October 23rd: Some Explaining to Do… — Hank would rather people judge him by what he says and how he acts than by his looks or tattoos. — hedged: “I feel like” [opinion marker] (00:01:35)
  • 2007-11-02 · November 2nd: John Green at the Young Author's Award — Hank is willing to help and thinks the brothers' foundation can cover the $100 train fare. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:43)
  • 2007-11-06 · Nov — Hank says he doesn't understand John's Pakistan update and asks him to explain what is happening, who the bad guy is and why, while consuming something inedible. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:40)
  • 2007-11-16 · November 16th: Green Cars at the LA Auto Show — Hank thinks it is important for him not to be afraid to get excited at events like the auto show, because they are exciting. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:03:00)
  • 2007-11-23 · November 23rd: BLACK FRIDAY! — Hank thinks that in America now people want less stuff, not more. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:37)
  • 2007-11-27 · November 27th: Eagle's Nest, Blogger's Choice and Shopping — Hank thinks the director wants Nerdfighters to stop calling; she was not angry, said the camp can't share such information and couldn't answer every request. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:00)
  • 2007-11-27 · November 27th: Eagle's Nest, Blogger's Choice and Shopping — Hank says the competition wasn't very stiff because he doesn't think many people knew about the awards. — hedged: “I don't think” [opinion marker] (00:00:39)
  • 2007-11-27 · November 27th: Eagle's Nest, Blogger's Choice and Shopping — Hank recommends a Bill McKibben article, linked in the video, that he thinks hits all the bases on this subject. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:47)
  • 2007-11-29 · November 29th: sXePhil, Leaky Brains and a Secret Project — Hank says the brothers have finally come to respect the power of the Nerdfighters, who took the Tiffany search more seriously than expected and found the owner of a Los Angeles Corvette plated 'Shazam'. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:01:31)
  • 2007-12-07 · December 7th: Fight Night with the Green Bros. — Hank says the brothers have given up physical communication, but it is a form of communication and can be very effective and in some cases appropriate. — hedged: “in my opinion” [opinion marker] (00:03:27)
  • 2007-12-21 · December 21: Hank Accepts His Punishment — Hank says that, after the dream, it's obvious he has some anxiety about this. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:01:22)

Other hedge (23)

a hedge that matches none of the word lists

  • 2007-01-03 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 3rd — Hank says performing a version of 500 Miles on the show appeals to him and asks whether it should be a punishment, project or challenge. — hedged: “On some level” [other hedge] (00:01:56)
  • 2007-01-11 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 11th — Hank asks John or viewers what to do with business cards he had printed online for Detroit, which did not come out like his Kinko's sample. — hedged: “I was hoping” [other hedge] (00:01:43)
  • 2007-02-16 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 16th — Asked what's wrong with the world, Hank first says overpopulation, then, not wanting everyone to die, blames brains hardwired for local concerns in a world with global consequences. — hedged: “I'm thinking” [other hedge] (00:03:04)
  • 2007-03-20 · March 20th: Dancing and the Idiocy of Age — Hank is seriously considering that people get stupider every year as they age: after bad experiences or misplaced values they consciously avoid anything that might be fun. — hedged: “I'm starting to very seriously consider the prospect” [other hedge] (00:01:42)
  • 2007-04-03 · April 3rd: Seattle! — Hank says the pass home was covered in about two inches of ice, which was very stressful even though he wasn't driving. — hedged: “pretty much” [other hedge] (00:02:34)
  • 2007-04-11 · April 11th: EcoGeek Podcasting — Hank asks John what he thought: he is thinking about doing a podcast for EcoGeek, is trying it out, and appreciates any opinions. — hedged: “Thinking about” [other hedge] (00:02:58)
  • 2007-04-13 · Friday the 13th: Step It Up! — Hank feels corporations are more on board than government, which he calls just screwed up. — hedged: “it feels like” [other hedge] (00:00:58)
  • 2007-04-13 · Friday the 13th: Step It Up! — Step It Up events are everywhere: one each in Missoula, Glacier and Corvallis (for Montana, three block parties on one block) and about 400 in New York City alone. — hedged: “like 400” [other hedge] (00:01:32)
  • 2007-04-23 · April 23rd: Celebrity — Hank says this is how the project works: he thanks viewers for the $30,000 of time and says the brothers will use it to decrease world suck, somehow. — hedged: “Somehow” [other hedge] (00:01:22)
  • 2007-04-27 · April 27th: Bad Day,,, — Hank says a Nerdfighter made an album of their songs, and he is thinking of a new song for next week (week of 30 April 2007) because songs are fun. — hedged: “I'm thinking of” [other hedge] (00:02:47)
  • 2007-05-21 · May 21st: Comment Bashing, Anniversaries and EBO Ladies — Hank worries about discussing the Evil Baby Orphanage proposal publicly: for him the biggest thrill of a book, movie or TV show is secrets assembled slowly. — hedged: “I worry a little bit” [other hedge] (00:02:20)
  • 2007-05-25 · May 25th: FreeMonkey's Tour — Thinking of national mourning for a president, Hank realises that, being much younger than George Bush, he will probably live to see him die, which briefly makes him happy, then ashamed. — hedged: “chances are” [other hedge] (00:02:40)
  • 2007-06-05 · Jun 5th: S-S-S-Somethin From the Forum — Hank says the forum won't replace the comments but adds to them, and viewers need not use it, though he expects interesting things there. — hedged: “I'm fairly sure” [other hedge] (00:02:35)
  • 2007-06-21 · June 21: Gotta Get Outside! — Hank strongly suggests John not keep the grass: people don't need green lawns, they need green vegetables, though he allows it is just his opinion. — hedged: “But that's just my opinion.” [other hedge] (00:02:48)
  • 2007-06-25 · June 25: Dum De Dum De Dum De Readn' a Book — Hank says the book he is finishing was, he is fairly sure, written for kids, and that it is really good (title not given). — hedged: “I'm fairly certain” [other hedge] (00:00:35)
  • 2007-07-10 · July 10: Embarassing Photographs — Since the brothers broke the rule more or less simultaneously, Hank wants a simultaneous punishment in which each does a similar one. — hedged: “I've been thinking” [other hedge] (00:00:11)
  • 2007-09-21 · September 21: Court and Apples — Hank says they are going to see They Might Be Giants on Sunday and he will try to smuggle in the camera for footage, with no guarantees. — hedged: “I'm going to try” [other hedge] (00:03:22)
  • 2007-10-01 · October 1st: Stuff on Heads...dot com??? — Hank says he is considering launching a website called stuffonheads.com, 'coming soon'. — hedged: “I'm considering” [other hedge] (00:01:15)
  • 2007-10-09 · October 9th: The Feud Continues — Hank tends to believe the environmental crisis is the biggest problem humanity has ever faced, so he favors the candidate with strong environmental policies, John Edwards; he is 'an Edwards man'. — hedged: “I tend to believe” [other hedge] (00:01:17)
  • 2007-10-11 · October 11th National Coming Out Day — Hank relays a point from a Seth Godin interview: about 175,000 books are published in America each year, but the average person buys about one book a year. — hedged: “like” [other hedge] (00:00:09)
  • 2007-10-23 · October 23rd: Some Explaining to Do… — Hank assumes this is what John meant by calling young-earth creationism anti-intellectual in the comments, and says that, unlike on zombies and unicorns, he agrees with John. — hedged: “I'm assuming” [other hedge] (00:02:40)
  • 2007-10-29 · October 29th: It Just Isn't Fair — Hank, their mom and dad, Katherine, Jessalyn and Brian went up a mountain Hank calls 'Mount Craggy'; it was windy but beautiful, and their time in Asheville is ending. — hedged: “or something like that” [other hedge] (00:00:03)
  • 2007-11-29 · November 29th: sXePhil, Leaky Brains and a Secret Project — Hank says that next week (week of 3 December 2007) he wants to announce a final Brotherhood 2.0 project, the ultimate test of awesome, needing every Nerdfighter's combined efforts to make the awesomest thing happen. — hedged: “I want to” [other hedge] (00:03:03)

Hedge words not recorded (4)

marked as unsure, but the hedge words were not quoted

  • 2007-05-11 · May 11th: Heroes — Hank asks whether it would be okay to kill baby Hitler ('he's just a baby'), says he doesn't know, and calls this why time-traveling heroism would be so hard. — explicitly uncertain (hedge words not recorded) (00:01:26)
  • 2007-08-17 · August 17: Hmmm...A Secret Project? — Hank says they are working on the problems people report with the website, but he doesn't know when it will be fixed. — explicitly uncertain (hedge words not recorded) (00:01:28)
  • 2007-08-17 · August 17: Hmmm...A Secret Project? — Hank adds that it is 'about viral marketing' (what 'it' refers to is unclear). — explicitly uncertain (hedge words not recorded) (00:02:12)
  • 2007-12-11 · Dec 11: Secret Project...And More Punching — Hank is not sure what the brothers will do on the last day of Brotherhood 2.0; it is his day, and he wishes John could be there, but John will be in Chicago. — explicitly uncertain (hedge words not recorded) (00:02:12)

Parody (1)

imitating a genre or a person (mock documentary, mock critic)

Fiction (13)

a story or novel read aloud; the words belong to characters

Joke (19)

a gag; not a claim

  • 2007-01-05 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 5th — Hank is glad he did not get the Nepal challenge, saying he knows nothing about Nepal except maybe that there are rocks. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:31)
  • 2007-01-19 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 19th — With mock reassurance, Hank teases John that there is nothing wrong with his being shelved right in the middle of the 'Tales of Love and Romance' end cap, 'among giants'. (00:03:07)
  • 2007-01-23 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 23rd — Hank then says they could start faking things, and demonstrates 'fake time', claiming to sit by the fire in his 'girlfriend's' coat because they aren't married. — hedged: “might” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:21)
  • 2007-01-23 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 23rd — Hank applies the suffix to books in the cabin: The Dance of the Dissident Daughter, Present Moment Wonderful Moment, Stumbling on Happiness, The Left Hand of Darkness and a student bible. (00:02:28)
  • 2007-02-14 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 14th — In a mock etymology Hank says 'Valentine' joins 'tine' (a point or pinnacle) and Valen, Babylon 5's Minbari leader, who he 'believes' visited Earth in the early 11th century. — hedged: “I believe” [opinion marker] (00:00:47)
  • 2007-03-02 · Brotherhood 2.0: March 2nd: Politics and Butt Explosions — Hank jokes that Dennis Kucinich's wife is attractive, cites Daniel Biss calling her the Democrats' one success of 2004, and says he could 'dig' her as First Lady. (00:01:04)
  • 2007-04-27 · April 27th: Bad Day,,, — Hank jokingly asks anyone who knows 'a professional' to email him their contact information. (00:01:20)
  • 2007-05-21 · May 21st: Comment Bashing, Anniversaries and EBO Ladies — Hank jokes that the commenters are jealous of his face on Gizmodo and not yet ready for his craft. (00:01:36)
  • 2007-06-01 · June 1: Barack Saabama — Today's Hank calls yesterday's Hank a jerk for selling the Saab John loved, and sides with John's anger. (00:03:13)
  • 2007-06-01 · June 1: Barack Saabama — In return Hank jokingly challenges John to move to Indianapolis, since John has nothing else on his plate right now. (00:03:42)
  • 2007-08-09 · August 9th: Anagramming Guide to the 2008 Elections — Hank announces he will choose whom to vote for by anagramming the candidates' names, with John's An Abundance of Katherines in mind. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:58)
  • 2007-08-09 · August 9th: Anagramming Guide to the 2008 Elections — Democrats: Albert Gore (not running) yields 'retro bagel'; John Edwards 'jihad drowns'; Hillary Clinton 'lynch a trillion'; Barack Obama 'maraca kebab' and, with Hussein, 'Bushmania Cobra Sake'. (00:01:28)
  • 2007-08-09 · August 9th: Anagramming Guide to the 2008 Elections — After the Republicans (Ron Paul 'Lunar Op', Mitt Romney 'Metro Minty' and 'Are Not My Time', Rudy Giuliani 'Godly I Ruin'), Hank ends with his favourite: Joe Biden, 'I need job'. (00:02:31)
  • 2007-08-21 · August 21: Hairy Hairy Head Hair — Hank jokes that long hair would first impede his hearing and then, like Devil's Snare, grow into his brain and kill him, so he keeps it trimmed. — hedged: “I'm pretty sure” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:23)
  • 2007-08-21 · August 21: Hairy Hairy Head Hair — Hank thinks he may have permanently damaged his hair, which might stop its ear-invading and help in a scissor apocalypse; he admits that wasn't funny. — hedged: “I think I may have” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:01)
  • 2007-08-28 · August 28th: Starring Mom — Asked for wisdom for the Nerdfighters, Hank offers 'The only problems worth solving are solutions'. (00:00:27)
  • 2007-09-05 · September 5th: I'm Gonna Kill You — Hank sings a comic song threatening to kill people who annoy him: an express-lane customer who argues over coupons, an SUV-driving neighbour, and noisy upstairs neighbours. (00:00:32)
  • 2007-11-29 · November 29th: sXePhil, Leaky Brains and a Secret Project — In a cold open Hank tells Phil he dreamed Phil was in a bizarre kinky club where people dressed as cartoon characters, then finds Phil's defensiveness weird. (00:00:10)
  • 2007-12-03 · December 3rd: 10,000 Subscribers! and secret project — As a mock favor, Hank asks 22 subscribers to unsubscribe for an even 10,000, or else '9,988 of you, 78' more people to subscribe for an even 20,000. (00:00:59)

Hypothetical (3)

a thought experiment or "what if"

  • 2007-03-16 · March 16th: Mom, ZeFrank, and Stock Options — Hank proposes that people could own stock in people: a child owns 51% of itself, parents 49% they may sell (e.g. 10% to a college), and the child may buy stock back. — hedged: “This might seem a little bit stupid or callous or maybe even inhuman, but I think” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:26)
  • 2007-05-11 · May 11th: Heroes — As a time-traveling superhero Hank would probably not change the past, since stopping the Holocaust, for example, might erase his own existence. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:26)
  • 2007-07-18 · July 18: Accio Deathly Hallows (no spoilers) — Hank sings his fears about the ending: what Ron would do if Hermione died, Voldemort killing Hedwig, or Harry's brain being a horcrux. — speculative (hedge words not recorded) (00:01:08)

Playful (467)

a real point made in a joking way; the paraphrase records the meant core

  • 2007-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 1st — Hank declares that Brotherhood 2.0 commences today and admits the plan probably makes them crazy. (00:00:43)
  • 2007-01-03 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 3rd — Hank says being John's brother is frustrating: people tell him he looks like John and jokes like him, only less funny. (00:00:13)
  • 2007-01-03 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 3rd — Hank says some people even think the brothers look like the twin rock duo The Proclaimers, which beats being likened to Nelson. (00:00:54)
  • 2007-01-03 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 3rd — Other listed differences: John has got kind of pudgy in recent years whereas Hank will in coming years, and Hank, unlike John, vainly obsesses about his hair. (00:00:54)
  • 2007-01-03 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 3rd — Through the list Hank confesses he spilled beer on his wife's MacBook, which would not boot, nearly ruining the project, until reinstalling the battery worked; he hadn't told her. (00:01:21)
  • 2007-01-05 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 5th — Hank is back home in his basement, surrounded by things he loves: orange juice, Mental Floss magazine, Benjamin Franklin, old college collages including a map of Narnia. (00:00:10)
  • 2007-01-05 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 5th — Hank says they don't actually have Strawberry Hill 'here', which he had never looked for until today, so Sutter Home White Zinfandel will have to do. (00:00:56)
  • 2007-01-05 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 5th — Following a commenter's suggestion, Hank says he will drink a glass of the wine and then say the Nepal challenge phrase really fast without vomiting. (00:01:56)
  • 2007-01-05 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 5th — Hank says eating corn dogs is the only way he can chug an alcoholic beverage without puking; he guesses his stomach holds on to the corn dog. — hedged: “I don't know why. I think maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:56)
  • 2007-01-05 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 5th — Hank notes the wine cost only $3.65, toasts 'To Brotherhood', drinks it and says the phrase, declaring it was not that hard. (00:02:46)
  • 2007-01-09 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 9th — Hank points out fake lichen, fake fire, a fake waterfall that spells things and a jeep stuck to a wall, and calls GM's hot-dog giveaway lame. (00:01:16)
  • 2007-01-09 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 9th — On the Brotherhood 2.0 Book Club, Hank sarcastically welcomes the chance John gives him to read so many books about genocide. (00:02:30)
  • 2007-01-09 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 9th — Saying viewers all want John to write rather than read, Hank makes John's only book-club option the book John is writing. (00:02:30)
  • 2007-01-11 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 11th — Hank says he is paying the price for not living by his values in Detroit: he is sick, which he blames on a tiny chicken whose hatchlings eat his brain. (00:00:00)
  • 2007-01-11 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 11th — Hank suggests three punishments: grow facial hair for a week then wax the chin, the 'stick-a-needle-in-my-eye provision', and giving yourself a mohawk, which he has always wanted. (00:01:43)
  • 2007-01-15 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 15th — Hank says he is feeling better but not great; his voice is reduced to popping noises, which makes him perhaps a bass rather than his usual baritone. — hedged: “I guess” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:00)
  • 2007-01-15 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 15th — Hank went to Barnes & Noble and had to ask the clerk for 'We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families' by its title; she called it catchy. (00:00:38)
  • 2007-01-15 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 15th — Hank says John got the math very wrong, and Daniel Biss commented within seconds of the video going up to say so; he jokes about wanting a personal mathematician. (00:02:37)
  • 2007-01-17 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 17th — Hank greets Maureen Johnson and E. Lockhart and wonders whether that Maureen is the one who told him to build a house out of his misprinted business cards; if so, he has a surprise for her. — explicitly uncertain (hedge words not recorded) (00:00:10)
  • 2007-01-17 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 17th — Hank, still sick, says he blew his nose for 15 straight minutes the night before, joking that he turned six ounces of toilet paper into two pounds of goo. (00:00:38)
  • 2007-01-19 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 19th — Inspired by John's morning walk around Manhattan, Hank walks around Missoula; with no nannies or rich kids for John's game, he plays 'picnic table park bench' in an abandoned park. (00:00:09)
  • 2007-01-19 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 19th — Later questions turn whimsical: how humans will go extinct, feelings about kids these days, what Ambrozzo tastes like, which cliché he would be, invisibility or time travel, what's wrong with the world; the last asks to post the survey online. (00:02:05)
  • 2007-01-19 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 19th — Hank plays another game, going to Barnes & Noble to see who is on the young adult romance shelf, and finds John Green, whom he serenades with 'Lady, lady, lady'. (00:02:35)
  • 2007-01-23 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 23rd — Hank explains he is blowing on his wine glass because it holds tea; he needed something to toast with. (00:00:03)
  • 2007-01-23 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 23rd — Hank congratulates John on his Printz nomination and toasts the award, An Abundance of Katherines, and Katherine herself, sitting nearby and waving, then 'silver medals', teasing that it falls short of last time. (00:00:03)
  • 2007-01-23 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 23rd — At a bookstore a woman recognised Hank as John Green's brother; Hank jokes that he is famous now. (00:00:30)
  • 2007-01-23 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 23rd — Hank says the bookstore owner might be John's biggest fan, with several (small) sections devoted to him, and had heard he won the Printz. — hedged: “might very well be” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:57)
  • 2007-01-23 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 23rd — Hank jokes that John is racking up Printz Awards and asks what one does with two: a statue, a sticker on every book (which he likes), or more money? (00:00:57)
  • 2007-01-23 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 23rd — Hank notes John didn't do his happy dance on hearing of the Printz and asks whether it is real or just to entertain viewers: if the latter, 'this thing isn't real', and it has to be. (00:01:21)
  • 2007-01-23 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 23rd — Hank says he was recently at Maureen Johnson's blog, about a long conversation John, Johnson and Lockhart had on the suffix 'in your pants': every book title gets better with it. (00:01:57)
  • 2007-01-23 · Week 1 Condensed! — Hank finds being John's brother frustrating: people say they look alike, some even liken them to The Proclaimers, which beats being likened to Nelson. (00:01:52)
  • 2007-01-23 · Week 1 Condensed! — Via the list Hank jokes that John has got pudgy while Hank will, and confesses spilling beer on his wife's MacBook, which wouldn't boot until reinstalling the battery worked next morning. (00:02:20)
  • 2007-01-23 · Week 1 Condensed! — Hank is home in his basement surrounded by things he loves: orange juice, Mental Floss magazine, Benjamin Franklin and a map of Narnia. (00:04:32)
  • 2007-01-23 · Week 1 Condensed! — Finding no Strawberry Hill where he lives, Hank substitutes Sutter Home White Zinfandel, and takes a commenter's variant: drink a glass, then say the Nepal phrase fast without vomiting. (00:05:21)
  • 2007-01-23 · Week 1 Condensed! — Hank says eating corn dogs is the only way he can chug an alcoholic beverage without puking, guessing his stomach won't let go of the corn dog. — hedged: “I think maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:05:21)
  • 2007-01-23 · Week 1 Condensed! — Noting the wine cost only $3.65, Hank toasts 'To Brotherhood' and says the tongue twister. (00:05:58)
  • 2007-01-25 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 25th — Hank notes John said yesterday was Thursday and Hank says today is Thursday: one of them is wrong. (00:00:09)
  • 2007-01-25 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 25th — Correcting John's belief that their parents' house was the last US residence with dial-up, Hank says an entire Gulf Coast town in Florida has no broadband, and he is going there. (00:01:05)
  • 2007-01-25 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 25th — Agreeing with John that Asheville is full of childhood memories, Hank recalls the little critter cages someone made them for catching grasshoppers, which never worked very well. (00:01:53)
  • 2007-01-25 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 25th — Hank shows a little dog he made to resemble their childhood dog Red, with a dog house they never had. (00:02:21)
  • 2007-01-25 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 25th — Hank says the food most reminds him of childhood: Mom made shepherd's pie, and there are Kraft American cheese singles, which he hasn't seen since leaving home. (00:02:21)
  • 2007-01-25 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 25th — Hank says a Kraft single isn't cheese: it doesn't look, smell or taste like cheese, and cheese doesn't wobble. (00:02:49)
  • 2007-01-25 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 25th — Hank lists three ways he'd eat one: on a white-bread turkey sandwich, microwaved alone on a tortilla, or folded in quarters. (00:02:49)
  • 2007-01-27 · Week 2 Condensed Highlight Reel — Contrasting the show with his values ('This is not my values'), Hank shows a fake waterfall that spells words and calls it lame. (00:01:05)
  • 2007-01-27 · Week 2 Condensed Highlight Reel — Hank sarcastically welcomes John's book-club suggestions as chances to read so many books about genocide. (00:02:02)
  • 2007-01-27 · Week 2 Condensed Highlight Reel — Hank says he is paying the price for not living by his values, comically blaming a tiny chicken whose chicks feed on his brain, their poop coming out his nose. (00:03:25)
  • 2007-01-29 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 29th — Hank opens on top of Little Pisgah Mountain, as John did, then reveals that footage was filmed three days earlier: 'movie magic'. (00:00:11)
  • 2007-01-29 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 29th — Hank says Dad insisted he use a plane clip in the video, and he does not know why. (00:00:11)
  • 2007-01-29 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 29th — Hank says John will get to see his wife Katherine, who, unlike John's wife the Yeti, occasionally comes out in public. (00:00:50)
  • 2007-01-29 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 29th — The project is a performance of 'Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone From Your Pants', the old song with the 'from your pants' suffix. (00:00:50)
  • 2007-01-29 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 29th — Like DVDs, Hank says, Brotherhood 2.0 has bonus features: he shows the first take of the song, which took more than one take. (00:02:10)
  • 2007-01-31 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 31st — Hank greets John from the bulldog figures covering Athens, the University of Georgia's mascot, by sitting on them: 'I cover their bulldogs with myself'. (00:00:00)
  • 2007-01-31 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 31st — In keeping with 'movie magic', the bulldog footage was filmed on the day of his last video, whose intro he had already shot in Asheville; he is now in Orlando. (00:00:39)
  • 2007-01-31 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 31st — Hank welcomes John to Orlando, 'where everything sucks', then relents: not everything, or he wouldn't be there; some of the people are very cool. (00:00:39)
  • 2007-01-31 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 31st — Since John is playing the Wii, Hank assumes he has finished the first draft of his unnamed third book (no finishing it after a Wii) and calls both very exciting news. — hedged: “I can only assume” [other hedge] (00:01:07)
  • 2007-01-31 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 31st — Hank says someone suggested John send Hank his Wii as punishment, but he is not that much of a jerk; he has many punishments to choose from. (00:01:34)
  • 2007-01-31 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 31st — Some call John a stand-up citizen for agreeing to the punishment before being told it, but Hank says John phoned him arguing the email wasn't punishable. (00:01:34)
  • 2007-01-31 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 31st — Agreeing with most commenters, Hank rules 'in my pants' funnier: 'Everyone Poops in My Pants' is a sad story, and sad poop stories are funnier than funny ones. (00:02:13)
  • 2007-01-31 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 31st — Hank gives John a choice of two punishments: grow his facial hair for a week and then wax his chin, or fill a large bowl with Ben & Jerry's ice cream and watch it melt. (00:02:13)
  • 2007-01-31 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 31st — Hank says he awaits the picture book 'Everyone Poops in My Pants' in great anticipation. (00:02:41)
  • 2007-01-31 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 31st — A closing Brotherhood 2.0 'special feature', which Hank calls slightly disturbing, shows him with a bulldog figure. (00:02:41)
  • 2007-02-02 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 2nd — The rest of the video shows what Hank did this morning going forward in time, the opposite of his backward-running 'Movie Magic' videos. (00:00:29)
  • 2007-02-02 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 2nd — Told by friends that his hair is sometimes messy on Brotherhood 2.0, Hank went to bed with wet hair, shows the result, and touching it makes it much worse. (00:00:53)
  • 2007-02-02 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 2nd — As an apology to Orlandans upset by his comments that Orlando sucks (though no one seemed upset), Hank lists reasons Orlando doesn't suck. (00:01:45)
  • 2007-02-02 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 2nd — First reason: a friend has Guitar Hero; Hank plays David Bowie's 'Ziggy Stardust', sliding up and down the neck. (00:01:45)
  • 2007-02-02 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 2nd — Hank suspects playing Guitar Hero may be another of those things that feel cooler than they look. — hedged: “may be” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:14)
  • 2007-02-02 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 2nd — Listing what is different in the Little Vietnam stores (language, religious icons, fish, smells, eggs, lunch meat), Hank says he usually just ends up buying candy. (00:02:37)
  • 2007-02-06 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 6th — Seeing John's clean chin, Hank apologises: he didn't realise the waxing would be quite that horrible; apparently wax is not made for facial hair. (00:00:10)
  • 2007-02-06 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 6th — Recalling John's survey answer on babies (he wants lots of them but doesn't know where to put them), Hank says space is not his only problem with babies. (00:00:44)
  • 2007-02-06 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 6th — At Katherine's parents' house Hank shows 'baby Shingy', a scary-looking 'baby' that makes noises when shaken (apparently a talking toy). (00:01:21)
  • 2007-02-06 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 6th — Hank is still very excited about John having a baby, especially because then their mom may stop bothering Hank about it so much. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:07)
  • 2007-02-06 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 6th — Hank hopes both brothers are fertile and that neither of them ever has to be punished again. — hedged: “I hope” [wish / hope] (00:02:48)
  • 2007-02-06 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 6th — Hank asks how John's baby plans are going and hopes John will let him know as soon as there is news. — hedged: “I hope” [wish / hope] (00:02:48)
  • 2007-02-08 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 8th — Hank says it is very hard to vlog in this house: there is nowhere private, so he talks quietly from a corner of the living room where he sleeps on a sofa bed. (00:00:11)
  • 2007-02-08 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 8th — Someone (name unclear) took Hank to an event where about 400 old people watched about 30 old people play banjos badly: patriotic songs, Take Me Out to the Ball Game, military songs. (00:01:34)
  • 2007-02-08 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 8th — Having thought a lot about babies, the beginning of life, Hank found the event made him wonder whether any of the old people would die while he watched. (00:02:19)
  • 2007-02-08 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 8th — Hank says he loves 'B.O.N.' calculations, back of napkin. (00:02:19)
  • 2007-02-08 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 8th — Assuming an average age of 70 and about 400 people, Hank calculates half would be dead in 13 years (113,000 hours); 1,200 old-people hours give a 0.53% chance someone died within eyeshot. (00:02:44)
  • 2007-02-08 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 8th — Hank very much enjoyed John's children's book and is considering doing its illustrations himself. — hedged: “I'm considering” [other hedge] (00:03:31)
  • 2007-02-08 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 8th — Hank accepts John's challenge and will answer his survey; the 3-minute-30-second limit will be quite a barrier, but he will do his best. (00:03:31)
  • 2007-02-12 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 12th — Hank says he is back in Montana, then admits he made the video early in Florida, kayaking with Katherine, on the most beautiful day he expects to see for a long time. (00:00:00)
  • 2007-02-12 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 12th — Hank will buy the Strawberry Hill so he can finally complete the Strawberry Hill Challenge; he says it looks really gross. (00:01:34)
  • 2007-02-14 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 14th — Hank says he is back in Montana 'for real this time'; it is cold and snowing. (00:00:04)
  • 2007-02-14 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 14th — Hank says the wine made him drool and burp and doesn't taste good, yet he kept wanting more, and the bottle is now nearly empty. (00:02:45)
  • 2007-02-14 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 14th — Closing the challenge, Hank says the tongue twister 'Eat five sheets of toilet paper while discussing the political situation in Nepal' twice. (00:03:23)
  • 2007-02-16 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 16th — Hank says he has known Katherine for about nine years; from her he wants nothing more than she gives, from himself a bit more self-restraint and a Nintendo Wii. (00:00:11)
  • 2007-02-16 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 16th — Hank's perfect day: waking to find he is famous for something he is proud of, a beach with Katherine, hiking, surfing, dinner at a Montana restaurant and a block party with everyone he knows. (00:00:46)
  • 2007-02-16 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 16th — Hank likes cute kids but says they drool a lot and he really does not want one himself. (00:01:29)
  • 2007-02-16 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 16th — Quick answers: Hank is an 'absent-minded kid in a candy store' online, loves science fiction, would live anywhere his friends were, and his first concert was the B-52s. (00:02:15)
  • 2007-02-20 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 20th: Computer Trouble — Hank asks why they always say good morning, since it is never morning when he films or when John watches. (00:00:10)
  • 2007-02-20 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 20th: Computer Trouble — Hank muses that it would be awesome if Wikipedia could be in your brain, answering with The Matrix line 'I know Kung Fu'. (00:00:10)
  • 2007-02-20 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 20th: Computer Trouble — Hank is glad to have friends and hopes they become 'gigantic' on MySpace so all its users become their friends. — hedged: “Hopefully” [wish / hope] (00:00:59)
  • 2007-02-20 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 20th: Computer Trouble — Hank asks who Tom is: he did not know they had a secret brother named Tom, who seems like a nice guy. (00:01:48)
  • 2007-02-22 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 22nd: Where Do Books Go? — Answering a commenter's problem of too many books, Hank shows how he deals with a couple hundred: built-in shelving, wall-mounted 'floating' book stacks and random stacks around the house. (00:00:35)
  • 2007-02-22 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 22nd: Where Do Books Go? — Hank's bed-stand stack of books he and Katherine are supposedly reading includes Philip Gourevitch's book on Rwanda, though Hank admits he hasn't read it much lately. (00:01:53)
  • 2007-02-22 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 22nd: Where Do Books Go? — Hank says it would be much easier to store all these books if they were on his hard drive rather than on his wall. (00:03:41)
  • 2007-02-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: Earwax — Playing teacher to an imaginary class, Hank says that over the weekend he ran a 'campaign to decrease the weight of my head', having several thousand things, mostly hairs, removed. (00:00:00)
  • 2007-02-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: Earwax — Hank had a large amount of earwax removed this weekend, which he guesses outweighed the removed hair, and he can hear again. — hedged: “I'm guessing” [other hedge] (00:01:35)
  • 2007-02-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: Earwax — Hank smuggled his video camera into the doctor's office; refused at first, he got an attendant called in from the lobby to film his ear irrigation. (00:02:05)
  • 2007-02-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: Earwax — On the footage the earwax pops off Hank's eardrum and works its way out; afterwards Hank says he can hear and calls it an amazing experience. (00:02:37)
  • 2007-02-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: Earwax — Hank feels the procedure was almost a challenge John should have given him, so he gives John one. (00:03:15)
  • 2007-02-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: Earwax — Hank challenges John to find a hat like Miss Susie's and, wearing it, eat a teaspoon of horseradish and sing the last two lines of the Blossom theme song. (00:03:42)
  • 2007-02-28 · Brotherhood 2.0: Everyone Poops in my Pants, a Picture Book — Hank remakes the 'Everyone Poops in My Pants' story as a picture book, presented on 'Story Day' as 'Everyone Poops in My Pants, by Hank Green'. (video description)
  • 2007-03-02 · Brotherhood 2.0: March 2nd: Politics and Butt Explosions — Hank says viewers were mean in voting that he be punished (a few defended him); he accepts the verdict but asks that it involve no earwax. (00:00:10)
  • 2007-03-02 · Brotherhood 2.0: March 2nd: Politics and Butt Explosions — Hank floats the idea of an unnamed, well-known potential candidate waiting for the others to tear each other apart, who for a year and a half has given no firm answer on running. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:35)
  • 2007-03-02 · Brotherhood 2.0: March 2nd: Politics and Butt Explosions — Hank announces that he has been living with ulcerative colitis, and points to an advertisement ('Hidden fire. The great butt explosion.') to show what it is like. (00:01:04)
  • 2007-03-02 · Brotherhood 2.0: March 2nd: Politics and Butt Explosions — Answering John's question, Hank uses the word 'myriad' as John asked and tells John he did not get him a wedding present either. (00:01:48)
  • 2007-03-02 · Brotherhood 2.0: March 2nd: Politics and Butt Explosions — Hank shows people viewers say he looks like, including a woman from a Heath Ledger film, and calls it extremely strange. (00:01:48)
  • 2007-03-06 · Brotherhood 2.0: Peeps and Genocide — Hank sits surrounded by 100 Peeps; he chose bunnies, judging they count as full-size and are easier to swallow without choking. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:00)
  • 2007-03-06 · Brotherhood 2.0: Peeps and Genocide — Hank reads the label: four Peeps bunnies weigh 31 grams and contain 33 grams of carbohydrates, so there is 'more sugar than bunny'. (00:00:00)
  • 2007-03-06 · Brotherhood 2.0: Peeps and Genocide — Hank says each of 'these things' cost only 99 cents, so he paid exactly six dollars at Target for his 100 Peeps. (00:00:39)
  • 2007-03-06 · Brotherhood 2.0: Peeps and Genocide — Hank refers to a discussion calling the book a guilt trip about the past ('no use crying over spilt milk') and answers with '800,000 gallons of milk'. (00:01:12)
  • 2007-03-06 · Brotherhood 2.0: Peeps and Genocide — When the six minutes end, Hank says he now owes $87.5 to the Brotherhood 2.0 fund to decrease suck levels worldwide, making about $127.5 with $20 already given by each brother. (00:04:07)
  • 2007-03-08 · Brotherhood 2.0: Giving Away Peeps — Hank walks downtown on a cold, snowy Thursday trying to give away his Peeps, but people are in cars and will not stop. (00:00:11)
  • 2007-03-08 · Brotherhood 2.0: Giving Away Peeps — Hank expected drunk college students downtown but finds business people and soccer moms on errands, who don't look like they want Peeps. (00:00:36)
  • 2007-03-08 · Brotherhood 2.0: Giving Away Peeps — Hank offers a group of punk rockers his roughly hundred Peeps, saying he has been trying to give them away all day. (00:01:58)
  • 2007-03-08 · Brotherhood 2.0: Giving Away Peeps — Hank calls the punks probably the most worthy recipients of Peeps he has ever seen. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:03:17)
  • 2007-03-12 · March 12th: How to Make a Podcast — Hank shows off a shirt from a book blogger who sells shirts; he thinks it may be exclusive to actual members of the Brotherhood (Hank and John), with honorary members welcome. — hedged: “I'm not sure” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:10)
  • 2007-03-12 · March 12th: How to Make a Podcast — As promised 'juicy bits', Hank shows a giant baby picture of himself; he and Katherine scanned pictures this weekend, now findable on MySpace. (00:03:30)
  • 2007-03-14 · March 14: Becoming a NerdFighter — Hank, cold and tired, says he has two very important meetings today after one yesterday, the most he has ever had in two days. (00:00:11)
  • 2007-03-14 · March 14: Becoming a NerdFighter — Hank opened the call by telling the Yahoo people he had Googled them. (00:01:17)
  • 2007-03-14 · March 14: Becoming a NerdFighter — Hank thinks he might be a Magic: The Gathering nerd: in high school it was among the nerdiest things to do, and he kept playing though really bad. — hedged: “I think I might be” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:17)
  • 2007-03-14 · March 14: Becoming a NerdFighter — Hank explains Magic: collectible cards ranked common to rare, rules for playing them, and attack and defense ratings; very complicated, meaning nerdy. (00:01:54)
  • 2007-03-14 · March 14: Becoming a NerdFighter — Hank performs his own nerdfighter lyric as a collectible-card-game nerd, with a Shivan Dragon and a Wizards of the Coast pun. (00:02:21)
  • 2007-03-16 · March 16th: Mom, ZeFrank, and Stock Options — Hank invites Ze Frank's viewers to procrastinate with Brotherhood 2.0 instead, which also has songs and projects viewers can join, though none as cool as Ze Frank's. — hedged: “I think Ze Frank viewers maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:44)
  • 2007-03-16 · March 16th: Mom, ZeFrank, and Stock Options — Hank says no one is more important to Brotherhood 2.0 than their mom, thanks her for bearing and raising them through many bad days, and calls her support vital. (00:01:37)
  • 2007-03-20 · March 20th: Dancing and the Idiocy of Age — Hank has begun watching The Office, likes it, and is on 'Team Pam', though he has not met Karen yet. (00:00:03)
  • 2007-03-20 · March 20th: Dancing and the Idiocy of Age — Watching with Katherine, Hank keeps telling her how much he likes Pam, justifying it by listing celebrities she has crushes on but has never met. (00:00:58)
  • 2007-03-20 · March 20th: Dancing and the Idiocy of Age — Hank says little kids at Walmart put things on their heads until parents stop them; he thinks everyone should do it, taking a cue from four-year-olds, because fun is good for you. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:11)
  • 2007-03-20 · March 20th: Dancing and the Idiocy of Age — Hank urges anyone who finds themselves getting older and less silly to do something about it: put something on their head. (00:03:03)
  • 2007-03-22 · March 22nd: Book Club and Business Cards — Hank opens having combined a misprinted-business-card idea with putting stuff on his head, jokes about pants on his head, and says he will cover the cards and the book club. (00:00:03)
  • 2007-03-22 · March 22nd: Book Club and Business Cards — Hank says Brotherhood 2.0 viewers are all John Green fans who would hate him if he stood between John and finishing his book. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:01)
  • 2007-03-28 · March 28th: Taxes — Hank finds the 1099 categories funny: everything goes into 'other' except fishing boat proceeds, which get their own box, and excess golden parachute payments. (00:00:40)
  • 2007-03-28 · March 28th: Taxes — Hank says taxes are not fun and his last video, with all the people putting stuff on their heads, was definitely more awesome. (00:01:13)
  • 2007-03-28 · March 28th: Taxes — Hank, apparently wearing something on his own head, remarks that it is a pretty snug fit and gives him something like a ponytail. (00:01:13)
  • 2007-03-28 · March 28th: Taxes — Answering a commenter who said the channel has become 'kind of a girly place', Hank says they are not marketing specifically towards women: they are guys and would like guys to watch Brotherhood 2.0. (00:02:59)
  • 2007-03-28 · March 28th: Taxes — Hank says pizza and beer sounds great, suggests John might help with that in the next show, and hopes John will be home tomorrow eating pizza and beer. — hedged: “Maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:59)
  • 2007-03-30 · March 30th: Manliness! — Hank says he can't believe he sent John that email; he tried to do something nice and this is what happens. (00:00:10)
  • 2007-03-30 · March 30th: Manliness! — To console himself, Hank goes to his friend Joel's house: Joel, a hunter and fisherman with dogs and guns, has invited Hank and Katherine to a venison steak dinner. (00:00:10)
  • 2007-03-30 · March 30th: Manliness! — After Joel opens a beer bottle with an elk antler, Hank says the evening packed in so much manliness that it can't get much more manly. (00:01:18)
  • 2007-03-30 · March 30th: Manliness! — Hank jokes that what really makes the difference is that young deer taste a lot better; the meat is tender and flavorful. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:41)
  • 2007-03-30 · March 30th: Manliness! — Hank tells a viewer he hopes the viewer is satisfied that Brotherhood 2.0's manliness quotient has increased substantially. (00:03:16)
  • 2007-04-03 · April 3rd: Seattle! — Hank went to Seattle to see friends, a comedy show, eat real food and do big-city things like drive; they saw the Space Needle from a car. (00:00:09)
  • 2007-04-03 · April 3rd: Seattle! — Hank calls the public market one of the awesomest parts of Seattle: a three-story-deep market with street performers and fish throwers, who showed a doubting girl they could hit someone with a fish. (00:00:49)
  • 2007-04-03 · April 3rd: Seattle! — At the market a donut-making machine, older than Krispy Kreme, was run by a man Hank calls a donut wizard; the donuts were really good. (00:01:15)
  • 2007-04-05 · April 5th: Embarrassing Moment Sock Puppet Theater — Instead Hank presents 'Brotherhood 2.0's embarrassing moment sock puppet theater', acting out his embarrassing moments with sock puppets. (00:00:29)
  • 2007-04-05 · April 5th: Embarrassing Moment Sock Puppet Theater — Moment one: in college Hank walked in on his long-haired, slight-framed roommate Justin eating Marmite on toast and took him for Catherine. (00:00:57)
  • 2007-04-05 · April 5th: Embarrassing Moment Sock Puppet Theater — Moment two: Hank tried to slide on his knees down an aisle at Albertson's into Catherine but instead ran into her mom, whom he was meeting for the first time. (00:02:05)
  • 2007-04-05 · April 5th: Embarrassing Moment Sock Puppet Theater — Moment three: on a date, Hank, wearing black lipstick, ran out of gas; at about 2 a.m. his mom picked them up at 7-Eleven, saw what looked like makeup on his face, and grounded him. (00:02:31)
  • 2007-04-09 · April 9th: Is it OK to Party? — Hank says it is actually the day before Easter and he is having a party at his house; many people came, it was very fun, maybe too fun for some, even for him. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:09)
  • 2007-04-09 · April 9th: Is it OK to Party? — Hank says that when he drank 'that entire bottle' of Strawberry Hill-flavored citrus wine, he didn't actually drink all of it. (00:00:36)
  • 2007-04-09 · April 9th: Is it OK to Party? — Hank isn't sure how much he should share in the videos, but says the brothers have to communicate, which includes sharing things like his massive hangover. — hedged: “I'm not entirely sure” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:05)
  • 2007-04-09 · April 9th: Is it OK to Party? — Hank mentions an Easter party he went to where the eggs held condoms, other contraception and edible body gels instead of candy. (00:01:32)
  • 2007-04-09 · April 9th: Is it OK to Party? — Answering John's attempt to embarrass him with a horrible picture (limp-wristed, eyelinered, horrible glasses), Hank says he can embarrass himself worse than John can, and decides to embrace it. (00:01:32)
  • 2007-04-09 · April 9th: Is it OK to Party? — Hank says he had a 'laboratory' convert the picture into a baby, a manga character, a young, an old and a drunk person, and a monkey; none was as embarrassing as the original. (00:01:57)
  • 2007-04-09 · April 9th: Is it OK to Party? — Hank says he knows there are more embarrassing pictures of John out there and vows to find them. (00:02:21)
  • 2007-04-11 · April 11th: EcoGeek Podcasting — Since John's day-in-the-writer's-life video showed that watching someone type isn't very interesting, Hank shows what he does by discussing the biggest current green-technology issues. (00:00:10)
  • 2007-04-11 · April 11th: EcoGeek Podcasting — Hank reports that Second Life residents saw floodwaters rise in virtual Tokyo, London and the Netherlands, caused by global-warming activists who, he jokes, lamely asked permission first. (00:00:10)
  • 2007-04-11 · April 11th: EcoGeek Podcasting — Hank admits he has a lot of 'these' (apparently CD spindles, shown on screen), much plastic for little gain, and points to a Flickr picture of someone's ingenious reuse of CD spindles. (00:01:43)
  • 2007-04-11 · April 11th: EcoGeek Podcasting — Hank calls Sydney's lights-off hour mostly a photo op letting Australia claim to act while refusing to sign the Kyoto Protocol, adding that Americans can't talk. (00:02:12)
  • 2007-04-13 · Friday the 13th: Step It Up! — Hank's personal Step It Up project: turn off his whole house (so he won't be on the internet), attend a rally in downtown Missoula, and garden, which takes no power. (00:02:18)
  • 2007-04-17 · April 17th: Stepped Up — Hank expects John's week to be a huge pain and looks forward to seeing him deal with it tomorrow. (00:03:18)
  • 2007-04-19 · April 19th: For Sale?! — The listing is $515,000 for Hank's house and the house behind it together; he doesn't want two houses and isn't sure he wants one. — hedged: “I don't really know” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:14)
  • 2007-04-19 · April 19th: For Sale?! — Having looked into what buying would cost, Hank now gets calls from mortgage brokers all the time and says he should have just asked Dad. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:42)
  • 2007-04-19 · April 19th: For Sale?! — In the bookstore's local section Hank can point at books and say where their authors live; one author lives in his backyard, and her house is for sale too. (00:02:58)
  • 2007-04-23 · April 23rd: Celebrity — Hank tells John he is proud of his mathematics and that the 940-something pounds of carbon is right, though not something to be proud of. (00:00:57)
  • 2007-04-23 · April 23rd: Celebrity — Asked to comment on reports he is on someone's free pass list, Hank notes he is apparently a celebrity, declines to comment, is fine with it, and is disappointed to rank after Brian Setzer. (00:02:19)
  • 2007-04-23 · April 23rd: Celebrity — Hank tells the Yeti and Katherine, whom he knows are watching, that he and John don't have free pass lists, except maybe Helen Hunt. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:03:04)
  • 2007-04-25 · Helen Hunt — Hank calls Judy Blume a weird pick for John's list and admits Helen Hunt is weird too: 'We're weird.' (00:00:04)
  • 2007-04-25 · Helen Hunt — Hank says Helen Hunt is the only person on his 'guilt-free three'; Katherine has long known and doesn't like it, but you can't help who is on it. (00:00:04)
  • 2007-04-25 · Helen Hunt — Saying Helen Hunt deserves to be on 'guilt-free threes' all over the nation, Hank performs a love song he wrote for her. (00:00:38)
  • 2007-04-25 · Helen Hunt — In the song, Hank says he first saw Helen Hunt when he hit puberty, in an after-school special where she smoked one laced joint, which made him never want to do PCP. (00:00:38)
  • 2007-04-25 · Helen Hunt — A lyric claims Helen Hunt was best comedy actress 'four years in a row'. (00:01:56)
  • 2007-04-25 · Helen Hunt — After watching the video through, Hank finds it really creepy, calls himself the creepiest, and apologizes for getting carried away. (00:02:31)
  • 2007-04-25 · Helen Hunt — Hank says 'take that' to people who see no reason to love Helen Hunt, repeats that she made him never want to do PCP, and tells Helen he is not that scary. (00:03:05)
  • 2007-04-27 · April 27th: Bad Day,,, — Hank says houses are almost free where a place is not the best place; Missoula houses are expensive because it is the best place. (00:02:20)
  • 2007-05-01 · May 1st: Neil Gaiman in Helena — Hank says John always has good writers on Brotherhood 2.0, but now Hank has one too. (00:00:12)
  • 2007-05-01 · May 1st: Neil Gaiman in Helena — Having watched John go through it, Hank attests that Gaiman is right, and says John fell victim to 'Gaiman's Law': on first publication you open the book straight to its only typo. (00:00:40)
  • 2007-05-01 · May 1st: Neil Gaiman in Helena — Hank had reasons besides Neil Gaiman to be in Helena; his song says they played frisbee at the Capitol and looked at lots of belt buckles. (00:01:57)
  • 2007-05-01 · May 1st: Neil Gaiman in Helena — Hank sings a comic song about Helena, Montana: golden cows and chopping trees as its industries, eggs served with butter, and checking your guns at the door. (00:02:26)
  • 2007-05-01 · May 1st: Neil Gaiman in Helena — Hank doubts his song is as catchy as the Helen Hunt song but hopes it bumps that song out of some viewers' heads. — hedged: “I don't know if” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:58)
  • 2007-05-01 · May 1st: Neil Gaiman in Helena — Hank is excited that Coe Booth thinks he's hot and says hi back to Francesca Lia Block and everyone who greeted him in John's last video. (00:02:58)
  • 2007-05-03 · May 3rd Extended Edition — Clearing up confusion, Hank says Katherine's 'weed research' is not about marijuana: she researches plant communities and how to eliminate invasive species such as spotted knapweed. (00:01:12)
  • 2007-05-03 · May 3rd: Yetis, TMBG, Weeds and MoJo — Clearing up confusion, Hank says Katherine's 'weed research' is not about marijuana: she researches plant communities and how to eliminate invasive species such as spotted knapweed. (00:01:12)
  • 2007-05-07 · May 7th: Birthday Extravaganza — Hank says an assistant of John Kerry emailed asking whether he would like to interview Kerry; he would, and calls it a nice birthday present. (00:00:12)
  • 2007-05-07 · May 7th: Birthday Extravaganza — Hank found Spider-Man 3 really bad: it lacked depth, as if the makers skipped the writing and spent on special effects; he concedes audiences went anyway. — hedged: “I feel like” [opinion marker] (00:00:44)
  • 2007-05-09 · My 9th: Singing and Randy — Hank's song treats his 27th birthday as the death of his 26-year-old self, recalling the birthday wishes, Neil Gaiman's blog post and mini corn dogs with his girlfriend. (00:00:31)
  • 2007-05-09 · My 9th: Singing and Randy — In the song Hank credits his 26-year-old self with making a lot of money, earning a master's degree and marrying 'a girl we adore', though his bank account then shrank. (00:01:51)
  • 2007-05-09 · My 9th: Singing and Randy — The song says that at 26 Hank watched many friends marry, including John and Sarah. (00:01:51)
  • 2007-05-11 · May 11th: Heroes — Answering a commenter, Hank says with Spider-Man's powers he would start like Peter Parker in the first Spider-Man film, flexing shirtless in the mirror, then at Katherine and strangers. (00:02:03)
  • 2007-05-11 · May 11th: Heroes — Hank would probably move away from Missoula, where Spider-Man's powers would be fairly useless; Spider-Man there would be bored and go hiking a lot. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:25)
  • 2007-05-11 · May 11th: Heroes — Hank concludes that as Spider-Man he would either keep it secret and flex a lot, or move to a big city and actually accomplish something. (00:03:27)
  • 2007-05-15 · May 15th: A Bit More EBO and Wikipedia — Hank opens with a bit that one of the Nerdfighters told him to try, and says it was amazing. (00:00:27)
  • 2007-05-15 · May 15th: A Bit More EBO and Wikipedia — Hank finds it strange that after Alabama, Chicago and New York, and always saying he'd go back to Alabama, John returns to Indianapolis, which he jokes John hated. — hedged: “I think it's kind of strange” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:56)
  • 2007-05-15 · May 15th: A Bit More EBO and Wikipedia — Hank is now on Wikipedia, feels important, and calls it another gift from John and the Nerdfighters. (00:01:57)
  • 2007-05-17 · May 17th: Wikeeeeeepedia...and Happy Birthday Katherine — Hank wishes Katherine a happy birthday; they are the same age again after the 12 days a year when their ages differ. (00:00:03)
  • 2007-05-17 · May 17th: Wikeeeeeepedia...and Happy Birthday Katherine — Hank insists he is right about Wikipedia, though wrong about many things, such as once mispronouncing 'façade' in a Renaissance presentation. (00:02:02)
  • 2007-05-17 · May 17th: Wikeeeeeepedia...and Happy Birthday Katherine — Hank says people in the comments were changing how they pronounce Wikipedia because John was wrong. (00:02:29)
  • 2007-05-21 · May 21st: Comment Bashing, Anniversaries and EBO Ladies — Hank reads mean Gizmodo comments on his video ('Annoying: 11 of 10', 'you are not Ze Frank', wishes he be attacked by taloned bird planes or killed) and asks why they are so mean. (00:00:57)
  • 2007-05-21 · May 21st: Comment Bashing, Anniversaries and EBO Ladies — Hank's issue with the Evil Baby Orphanage idea: there aren't very many evil baby girls. (00:02:49)
  • 2007-05-21 · May 21st: Comment Bashing, Anniversaries and EBO Ladies — Hank floats a gay evil baby orphanage, claiming many evil people in history were repressed homosexuals, but says he doesn't want to go there. — hedged: “could” [epistemic doubt] (00:03:17)
  • 2007-05-23 · May 23rd: Miniature Soccer Team — In song, Hank teases that John's one dream is two entire miniature soccer teams of children with Sarah, and warns her she doesn't know what she swore to. (00:00:11)
  • 2007-05-25 · May 25th: FreeMonkey's Tour — Hank says Free Monkey, staying with him, has mostly been sitting with the cat; they have become kind of friends. — hedged: “kind of” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:10)
  • 2007-05-25 · May 25th: FreeMonkey's Tour — Hank takes Free Monkey out on the town in Missoula: the carousel, a haircut, and a hike up to the M, where the monkey gazes over the city. (00:00:10)
  • 2007-05-30 · May 30th: Ranavalona and Clean Coal — Suddenly finding he needed to do a song today, Hank decided yesterday to take something extremely random from John's video and make a song about it. (00:00:03)
  • 2007-05-30 · May 30th: Ranavalona and Clean Coal — Hank sings an original song about Queen Ranavalona I of Madagascar, portraying her cruelty and weighing her killings against those of history's other killers, including Hitler. (00:00:44)
  • 2007-05-30 · May 30th: Ranavalona and Clean Coal — Referring to John's last video, Hank calls the Yeti amazing and says he is undone. (00:02:38)
  • 2007-05-30 · May 30th: Ranavalona and Clean Coal — One clean coal ad shows a happy lump of coal with legs that runs, skips and jumps, with thought bubbles saying happy things. (00:03:08)
  • 2007-06-01 · June 1: Barack Saabama — Hank says John's response to his derision of Barack Obama was unconvincing; to Hank's 'well-spoken and attractive' John only added 'smart'. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:09)
  • 2007-06-01 · June 1: Barack Saabama — Hank likes hearing Obama talk, while Hillary Clinton's talking makes him nauseous, but says that is no reason to vote for a candidate. (00:01:58)
  • 2007-06-01 · June 1: Barack Saabama — Hank says he may invest the money in solar stocks because he has faith in the solar power industry. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:03:13)
  • 2007-06-05 · Jun 5th: S-S-S-Somethin From the Forum — Hank says it doesn't feel like baby time for him yet, though many friends are having babies; he jokes that his future baby would have no friends its age. (00:00:12)
  • 2007-06-05 · Jun 5th: S-S-S-Somethin From the Forum — Hank calls that a stupid fear unless people lose the ability to have babies, the subject of two books he read lately and a movie; seeing pregnant friends reassures him. — hedged: “I guess” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:44)
  • 2007-06-05 · Jun 5th: S-S-S-Somethin From the Forum — Hank names the forum 'My Pants', so discussions can be continued 'in my pants' with a double meaning, calling it one of his more brilliant ideas. (00:02:06)
  • 2007-06-07 · June 7: Weather and My Pants — Hank does a light, sound and position check for the Weather Channel; the yellow background light is a fluorescent bulb wrapped in tissue paper. (00:00:23)
  • 2007-06-07 · June 7: Weather and My Pants — Hank first frames his upgraded set (no clutter, more light, dark shirt, no They Might Be Giants posters) as for the Nerdfighters, then admits it is to get onto the Weather Channel. (00:00:46)
  • 2007-06-07 · June 7: Weather and My Pants — Hank finds it weird that he is sometimes paid in gift cards, such as a $100 CDW card, when he would rather have $100 for rent. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:34)
  • 2007-06-07 · June 7: Weather and My Pants — Hank would do his happy dance but his setup is fragile: the tripod is books on a stool and he controls everything from the MacBook in his lap. (00:03:21)
  • 2007-06-11 · June 11: SURPRISE — Asked by John for the most exciting part of the family reunion so far, Hank answers: the reunion of the brotherhood. (00:01:18)
  • 2007-06-11 · June 11: SURPRISE — Hank notes that John, unlike him, has his 'Yeti' (Sarah) with him at the reunion. (00:01:41)
  • 2007-06-11 · June 11: SURPRISE — Hank closes 'in the great tradition of Brotherhood 2.0 special features' with outtakes. (00:01:41)
  • 2007-06-13 · June 13: Dominican Debacles — Because it is Wednesday Hank sings a very short song about his family, which he says numbers 27 with two more on the way, on his mom's side alone. (00:00:31)
  • 2007-06-15 · June 15: AIRRRRPORRRTS!!! — Hank records at an airport with his MacBook's built-in camera and a headset, apologising for the poor video quality. (00:00:03)
  • 2007-06-15 · June 15: AIRRRRPORRRTS!!! — Hank says he and John worked on the Evil Baby Orphanage during the family vacation, and the idea is not getting any less awesome. (00:01:02)
  • 2007-06-15 · June 15: AIRRRRPORRRTS!!! — Hank was excited by donkey polo because it is ridiculous, but does not understand John's supreme disappointment and thinks heat is a fine reason to cancel it. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:00)
  • 2007-06-19 · June 19: GOOD LUCK JOHN — Hank sings that he is back in the basement, where he has made a comfortable nest to retreat to when it is too hot outside. (00:00:15)
  • 2007-06-19 · June 19: GOOD LUCK JOHN — Suggesting viewers may like a change of setting, Hank floats filming in his bedroom, with the cat, at the Missoula skate park, downtown Missoula or Target, and asks for suggestions. — hedged: “Maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:50)
  • 2007-06-19 · June 19: GOOD LUCK JOHN — Hank says people were once impressed by the map of Narnia and floating bookshelves behind him, but nobody talks about them anymore. (00:00:53)
  • 2007-06-19 · June 19: GOOD LUCK JOHN — Hank's news (shown on screen): something he wrote is in print, so he can go to Barnes & Noble and say he wrote it; the description ties it to Mental Floss. (00:01:15)
  • 2007-06-19 · June 19: GOOD LUCK JOHN — Hank floats a project idea: asking people about their t-shirts, since talking to strangers is fun. (00:01:53)
  • 2007-06-21 · June 21: Gotta Get Outside! — It's the summer solstice, the longest day of the year; Hank meant to celebrate by taking viewers outside Missoula but forgot to charge his camera battery, so he is tied to the house. (00:00:03)
  • 2007-06-21 · June 21: Gotta Get Outside! — Hank loves Missoula's summer days, though he says he spends 80% of his waking hours in a basement. (00:00:30)
  • 2007-06-25 · June 25: Dum De Dum De Dum De Readn' a Book — Hank says he has no time to talk to John because he is finishing a book, and sings a 'readin' a book' ditty. (00:00:03)
  • 2007-06-27 · June 27: Good Morning John, it's Wednesday — Hank opens with a song, which he wrote but does not really sing, built on the greeting 'Good morning, John, it's Wednesday', with dancing. (video description)
  • 2007-06-27 · June 27: Good Morning John, it's Wednesday — Hank jokes that after the dancing something is going on in his pants: it is spam, playing on 'in my pants' to introduce the forum spam. (00:01:49)
  • 2007-06-29 · How to be a Microfinancier Part 2 — After a sung 'Good morning, John!', Hank says he is not going to do that two days in a row. (00:00:11)
  • 2007-06-29 · How to be a Microfinancier Part 2 — Hank says lending is that easy, the money comes back in six months, and it is like investing with a poor interest rate, but feels better than investing in Exxon. (00:03:00)
  • 2007-06-29 · How to be a Microfinancier Part 2 — Hank enthusiastically promotes Kiva.org: it is loaning, not donating, yet feels like donating, and you get your money back; 'It's that easy!' (00:03:00)
  • 2007-07-03 · July 3: Decepticons — Hank says he could not keep up with the nerdfighters: he had Brotherhood 2.0 sponsor a new person on Kiva and the loan was fully funded almost at once. (00:00:37)
  • 2007-07-03 · July 3: Decepticons — Hank asks nerdfighters to comment more, come to the forum ('my pants') and rate the videos on YouTube. (00:01:10)
  • 2007-07-06 · July 6: Ooooooops — Over fireworks footage, Hank advises always launching fireworks from slightly above, which is why it's amazing to live in a town surrounded by mountains. (00:00:10)
  • 2007-07-06 · July 6: Ooooooops — Hank says he is so busy he has to eat while recording, because he is going tubing today. (00:00:37)
  • 2007-07-06 · July 6: Ooooooops — Hank relays their email: police came by about the sign, but they convinced the officers that 'nerdfighters' is not a bad word and has nothing to do with terrorism. (00:01:39)
  • 2007-07-06 · July 6: Ooooooops — Hank is confused that John is excited to declare email bankruptcy, since financial bankruptcy is really bad, and says John should take it more seriously. (00:01:39)
  • 2007-07-06 · July 6: Ooooooops — Hank says he was trying to get John to notice he was on video chat, and concludes that the brothers are very stupid. (00:02:59)
  • 2007-07-10 · July 10: Embarassing Photographs — Hank greets the return of his goth picture, which he knew would come back. (00:00:11)
  • 2007-07-10 · July 10: Embarassing Photographs — Hank liked the idea of himself getting a mohawk and John an inverse mohawk, but accepts 'for now' that the Yeti doesn't want it, warning it might still happen. (00:00:34)
  • 2007-07-10 · July 10: Embarassing Photographs — Hank describes the pictures: two from academic decathlon meets, where John had a maroon buzz cut and seems to have done very well, and one of John shirtless in falling-off pants doing a version of his happy dance. — hedged: “seem to” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:21)
  • 2007-07-10 · July 10: Embarassing Photographs — Hank says he wouldn't mind seeing John recreate the dance picture: black-and-white video, really big pants, no shirt, happy dance. (00:01:21)
  • 2007-07-10 · July 10: Embarassing Photographs — Comparing the pictures, Hank judges the faces most embarrassing (his goth makeup; John's glasses and maroon buzz cut), then his own limp wrist and John's golden bow tie. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:04)
  • 2007-07-12 · July 12: Pizza, Punishments and Potter — Hank calls it the 'deliciousest' pizza restaurant in Missoula. (00:00:12)
  • 2007-07-12 · July 12: Pizza, Punishments and Potter — Hank playfully advises always bringing a soda in your pocket to the movies, because cinema sodas cost "like $7 for the little one". (00:01:36)
  • 2007-07-12 · July 12: Pizza, Punishments and Potter — Hank specifies John's punishment: people want the half-naked dance with a golden bow tie (anything that looks gold in black and white), about 30 seconds. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:50)
  • 2007-07-16 · July 16: Goth — Hank tells John he will see him in his extremely embarrassing picture tomorrow. (00:02:09)
  • 2007-07-18 · July 18: Accio Deathly Hallows (no spoilers) — In the song Hank complains about the pre-publication media blitz, since everyone has already reserved a copy at Amazon, and demands his book. (00:00:23)
  • 2007-07-18 · July 18: Accio Deathly Hallows (no spoilers) — Hank sings that he needs Harry Potter like a grindylow needs water, and his need grows as Saturday (the release) approaches. (00:00:43)
  • 2007-07-18 · July 18: Accio Deathly Hallows (no spoilers) — Hank has no confidence in theories about the Half-Blood Prince, but bets J.K. Rowling's plan involves Snape's unbreakable vow to protect Malfoy. — hedged: “I bet” [other hedge] (00:01:16)
  • 2007-07-20 · July 20: Green Mohawk — Hank completes his punishment: having dressed up like a goth, he now spray-paints a fake mohawk green, and the paint burns his eyes. (00:00:10)
  • 2007-07-24 · July 24: More Harry Potter?! — In a letter to nerdfighters who don't care about Harry Potter, Hank apologises for continuing and suggests the solution is to read Harry Potter and join the club. (00:01:05)
  • 2007-07-25 · Re: July 18: Accio Deathly Hallows — Hank insists he is not gloating but celebrating, taking in thousands of YouTube viewers enjoying his music. (00:00:08)
  • 2007-07-26 · July 26: The Price of Fame — Welcoming new viewers to Brotherhood 2.0, Hank says he can hardly stop doing his happy dance, even in the shower, and shows a clip of it. (00:00:03)
  • 2007-07-26 · July 26: The Price of Fame — Hank says the price of YouTube fame is comments: for every 100 views a video gets, there will be one comment. (00:01:21)
  • 2007-07-26 · July 26: The Price of Fame — Hank takes up John's proposal and agrees it would be good to say 'jokes' instead of 'cool'. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:51)
  • 2007-07-30 · July 30: Mystery Lyrics and Paying Rent — Unsure how his songwriting works, Hank got up at 3 a.m. to write down new lyrics and found, on the pad under the phone, lyrics he had written before and forgotten. (00:01:59)
  • 2007-08-01 · August 1: It's Too Hot — Hank wishes Harry Potter a happy birthday (yesterday) and notes they are the same age, so they would have been at school at the same time. (00:00:10)
  • 2007-08-01 · August 1: It's Too Hot — Asked about it, Hank thinks he would probably have been a Ravenclaw, not in Harry's house, but likes to think he would have stayed to the end. — hedged: “I think I probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:10)
  • 2007-08-01 · August 1: It's Too Hot — In the song Hank complains that it is too hot: sweating in bed, lying on the floor in boxers and a washcloth, his will to live melting and his state on fire. (00:01:04)
  • 2007-08-01 · August 1: It's Too Hot — Hank sings that the United Nations says 11,000 people die of heat each year. (00:01:56)
  • 2007-08-01 · August 1: It's Too Hot — Hank sings that anyone would have to be deranged not to believe in climate change when it is 102 degrees in Montana after dark. (00:02:25)
  • 2007-08-01 · August 1: It's Too Hot — In the song Hank sweats in his basement watching 'Hotness Prevails' by Winekone, calling him his favorite YouTube star. (00:02:25)
  • 2007-08-03 · August 3: The Retail Dance — Hank says it is possible he has a hangover. — hedged: “It's possible” [other hedge] (00:00:10)
  • 2007-08-03 · August 3: The Retail Dance — At the Book Exchange, a bookstore that trades books for credit ('like a library, except you get to keep the books'), Hank took out his wallet though he paid with credit. (00:00:34)
  • 2007-08-03 · August 3: The Retail Dance — With only 70 cents and no two-for-a-dollar corn dogs left, Hank was given a cheeseburger for free by the convenience store clerk. (00:01:03)
  • 2007-08-03 · August 3: The Retail Dance — Hank says all three times felt weird, like breaking a rule of the 'retail store dance' surrounding the exchange of goods. (00:01:57)
  • 2007-08-03 · August 3: The Retail Dance — Hank says 'thank you' is what you say to someone you paid; for a free cheeseburger you would need something like 'I will never forget you', which he didn't want to say. (00:02:27)
  • 2007-08-03 · August 3: The Retail Dance — Hank adopts a viewer's suggestion: John must call an ex-girlfriend and talk for at least one minute, mentioning certain things. (00:02:59)
  • 2007-08-03 · August 3: The Retail Dance — Hank says the WorldSuck meter is raised to suck-level orange because of the Minneapolis disaster, John's punishable offence and a secret sister being kicked out of her house. (00:03:28)
  • 2007-08-07 · August 7th: Curd Fighter Nurt — Hank says he is sometimes leery of what is being cut out, felt so during John's last video, and rolls a clip of it. (00:00:10)
  • 2007-08-07 · August 7th: Curd Fighter Nurt — Replaying John's line about the radio pieces 'and all of that stuff', Hank says John seemed to continue the sentence and asks what he meant. (00:00:56)
  • 2007-08-07 · August 7th: Curd Fighter Nurt — Hank says this skips a bunch of punishments: at the very least John must wax a limb of Hank's choosing while breaking the Peeps-eating world record set by punk rock Nerdfighter Curt. (00:00:56)
  • 2007-08-07 · August 7th: Curd Fighter Nurt — After stalling mid-sentence, Hank admits he stutters a lot and cuts probably 90% of what he records in a day. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:41)
  • 2007-08-07 · August 7th: Curd Fighter Nurt — Hank wishes John luck at his conference and says more people said hi to him yesterday than ever before. (00:02:50)
  • 2007-08-09 · August 9th: Anagramming Guide to the 2008 Elections — Hank judges the total will not rise further and rules that John must eat a blenderized Happy Meal. (00:00:10)
  • 2007-08-09 · August 9th: Anagramming Guide to the 2008 Elections — Hank leaves the kind of Happy Meal and drink (a soda flavour, or milk) to John, and says he doesn't think he will watch. — hedged: “I don't think” [opinion marker] (00:00:31)
  • 2007-08-09 · August 9th: Anagramming Guide to the 2008 Elections — Hank says he would almost rather see John eat Peeps, but knows how nauseating they are; he is glad Daniel Biss and the world benefit from John's pain. (00:00:31)
  • 2007-08-09 · August 9th: Anagramming Guide to the 2008 Elections — The local election near Chicago got Hank thinking about the coming national election; he is scared and doesn't know who to vote for, though the brothers are 'supposed to be Obama guys'. — hedged: “I don't know who to vote for” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:58)
  • 2007-08-09 · August 9th: Anagramming Guide to the 2008 Elections — Hank closes 'Hank Green's Anagramming Guide to the 2008 Presidential Elections'. (00:03:29)
  • 2007-08-13 · August 13: The Fair!!!! — Dizzy from spinning on a ride, Hank can't work out what day it is and has to keep his eyes off the camera to avoid feeling sick. (00:00:09)
  • 2007-08-13 · August 13: The Fair!!!! — Hank tours the exhibits: flower arrangements, zucchinis dressed up like Mussolini, a pig and penguins, carved zucchinis, giant zucchinis, pumpkins and white eggplants. (00:00:43)
  • 2007-08-13 · August 13: The Fair!!!! — The animals included cows, goats, chickens, turkeys, bunnies, llamas (one really ugly), tiny horses, shaggy cattle and buffalo. (00:01:12)
  • 2007-08-13 · August 13: The Fair!!!! — Hank calls the giant rides horrible, nauseatingly gross and evil, and doesn't understand how anybody gets on them. (00:01:36)
  • 2007-08-13 · August 13: The Fair!!!! — Hank doesn't care which Happy Meal or drink John gets, but John must blend it and eat it. (00:02:57)
  • 2007-08-13 · August 13: The Fair!!!! — Calling John a good sport, Hank offers, if John agrees, to cut the waxing to one leg; with licking a cat, John will be done. — hedged: “I feel like” [opinion marker] (00:03:26)
  • 2007-08-15 · August 15: Getting Featured on YouTube — Hank says his song is about something that happened to him a few weeks ago that sort of changed his life; he started it then and has now finished it. — hedged: “sort of” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:03)
  • 2007-08-15 · August 15: Getting Featured on YouTube — In the song, John phones Hank in bed shouting 'front page'; Hank wants to nap, then realises, runs to his laptop and finds himself featured on YouTube. (00:00:52)
  • 2007-08-15 · August 15: Getting Featured on YouTube — The song says the featured video was highly rated, its pronunciation debated, 30,000 people watched Hank's happy dance and it was watched 700,000 times, reaching the most-discussed page. (00:01:23)
  • 2007-08-15 · August 15: Getting Featured on YouTube — The song adds that about 20% of commenters called him lame or gay, and that he now knows he'll never be that famous again. (00:01:55)
  • 2007-08-15 · August 15: Getting Featured on YouTube — Hank says he didn't have time to write a song about John eating a blenderized Happy Meal. (00:02:59)
  • 2007-08-15 · August 15: Getting Featured on YouTube — Hank notes that the famous YouTubers are partners and muses that the brothers might become famous YouTubers too, 'probably not'. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:03:23)
  • 2007-08-15 · August 15: Getting Featured on YouTube — Hank says he looks forward to John finding a cat to lick. (00:03:51)
  • 2007-08-16 · Re: Vlog 6: Secret Siblinghood! — Hank tells Melissa that if she thinks she's too old for YouTube, he is way too old, being three or four years older. (00:01:46)
  • 2007-08-16 · Re: Vlog 6: Secret Siblinghood! — Hank expected crayon colours on a Shrinky Dink to melt into a burned blob, but it worked well and proved him wrong. (00:01:46)
  • 2007-08-17 · August 17: Hmmm...A Secret Project? — Hank is impressed that some nerdfighters are so into Brotherhood 2.0 that they corrected John's cat-licking technique by licking cats themselves. (00:00:00)
  • 2007-08-17 · August 17: Hmmm...A Secret Project? — Hank objects that Cameo walks in the litter box ('crap sand'), yet admits her paws are very cute and fetches her to show them. (00:00:00)
  • 2007-08-17 · August 17: Hmmm...A Secret Project? — Hank won't lick Cameo because he hasn't been punished, and hopes never to be punished again because John's punishment set the bar far too high. — hedged: “I hope” [wish / hope] (00:00:40)
  • 2007-08-17 · August 17: Hmmm...A Secret Project? — Hank has filled his hard drive with a long video he is making for EcoGeek, so he doesn't know how he'll export today's Brotherhood 2.0 video, which he must make anyway. (00:00:40)
  • 2007-08-17 · August 17: Hmmm...A Secret Project? — Hank warns that without 'secret project' in the subject an email ends up in his Gmail archive, where emails enter but can never leave. (00:02:12)
  • 2007-08-21 · August 21: Hairy Hairy Head Hair — Replying to John, Hank says John isn't the only one who needs a haircut. (00:00:25)
  • 2007-08-21 · August 21: Hairy Hairy Head Hair — Hank says he loves the 'game' John played yesterday, and shows his hair getting bigger as he keeps talking. (00:00:25)
  • 2007-08-21 · August 21: Hairy Hairy Head Hair — Hank says he and John both have hair that grows out rather than down, bigger instead of longer (thanks, Dad), except near the ears, where it grows in. (00:00:49)
  • 2007-08-21 · August 21: Hairy Hairy Head Hair — Hank calls paying someone $20 for a haircut an exorbitant grooming ritual of no practical value, justified only because, he jokes, haircuts save his life. (00:01:23)
  • 2007-08-21 · August 21: Hairy Hairy Head Hair — Hank finds it strange that Nerdfighters, not supposed to be 'jokes' (cool), kind of are: nerds but made of awesome, once the downtrodden masses, now 'the jokesest of the jokes'. — hedged: “I just think” [opinion marker] (00:02:01)
  • 2007-08-21 · August 21: Hairy Hairy Head Hair — Hank notes that the Nerdfighter Center of the Universe is at a place called Winner. (00:02:01)
  • 2007-08-24 · August 23rd: John's Secret Project Part 1 — Hank's hard drive is officially full, so he has to go. (00:04:58)
  • 2007-08-27 · August 27th: Thanks Yous and Cameos — Hank reveals he has been with John since Sunday and kept it from Nerdfighters by not saying when he would see John next. (00:00:41)
  • 2007-08-27 · August 27th: Thanks Yous and Cameos — Hank is disappointed John got a haircut without him, since he wants much less hair; he puts his hair in a ponytail with a hair tie from Katherine. (00:01:03)
  • 2007-08-27 · August 27th: Thanks Yous and Cameos — Hank went on the forum ('my pants') and read a post telling him to stop talking about his hair; he notes he keeps talking about it because he sees it on camera. (00:01:24)
  • 2007-08-27 · August 27th: Thanks Yous and Cameos — Hank loves John's house and half-jokes he may not leave; Sarah and Katherine are there, and their parents have just arrived. (00:02:05)
  • 2007-08-27 · August 27th: Thanks Yous and Cameos — Hank shares a piece of art above the guest-bedroom toilet ('Give her a square deal. Keep clean.') and jokes that people used to be so subtle about prophylactics and prostitution. (00:02:05)
  • 2007-08-29 · August 29th: Goodbye 29 Year Old John — The song recalls that John said his birthday beat Oprah's best birthday and that, instead of a wake, lots of people ate blended birthday cakes. (00:00:03)
  • 2007-08-29 · August 29th: Goodbye 29 Year Old John — Hank sings John a birthday song bidding goodbye to '29 year old John' and teasing that he is now 30. (00:00:29)
  • 2007-08-29 · August 29th: Goodbye 29 Year Old John — The song tells John to be proud of the awards he won, though silver is not as good as gold. (00:00:29)
  • 2007-08-29 · August 29th: Goodbye 29 Year Old John — The song says John started out obsessed with 'a frank and lonely girl' (apparently Ze Frank and lonelygirl15), jumped into their world, dragged his brother in and started Brotherhood 2.0. (00:00:29)
  • 2007-08-29 · August 29th: Goodbye 29 Year Old John — The song lists John's year: his eye got infected, he found a yard to mow, got a house and 'a wee' (unclear, possibly a Wii), and had a first anniversary with the Yeti. (00:01:17)
  • 2007-08-31 · August 31: Copyright and Airports — Hank recalls that in high school John had the idea of a band called 'Mow and the Lawns' (as heard) and remembers John actually writing songs for it. — hedged: “I seem to remember” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:10)
  • 2007-08-31 · August 31: Copyright and Airports — Hank asks John whether he wrote songs for the band and, if so, to show them; any John Green original music is part of 'this project'. (00:00:10)
  • 2007-08-31 · August 31: Copyright and Airports — Hank misses home: his cat, friends, regularity, his barber, grocery store, garden and sanity; the visit was wonderful, but there's something to be said for home. (00:00:57)
  • 2007-08-31 · August 31: Copyright and Airports — Hank won't be home until about 1 a.m. because of the flights. (00:01:20)
  • 2007-08-31 · August 31: Copyright and Airports — Hank and John had their phone call with the YouTube partnership people yesterday; Hank says it was a 45-minute lecture on copyright law. (00:01:20)
  • 2007-08-31 · August 31: Copyright and Airports — All Brotherhood 2.0 happy dances are licensed under a Creative Commons license for distribution and modification, though everyone should really have their own happy dance. (00:01:43)
  • 2007-08-31 · August 31: Copyright and Airports — Hank calls dance copyright very sad, since he can no longer do the Macarena in his YouTube videos. (00:01:43)
  • 2007-08-31 · August 31: Copyright and Airports — Now in Pittsburgh, Hank mocks the airport's boast of being 'yesterday's airport of tomorrow', i.e. today's airport, as no vote of confidence. (00:02:21)
  • 2007-08-31 · August 31: Copyright and Airports — Hank already misses John, mostly the big bed in the guest bedroom. (00:02:51)
  • 2007-08-31 · August 31: Copyright and Airports — Hank will see John Monday or Tuesday: Monday is Labor Day, but Brotherhood 2.0 hardly counts as labor, so John may take it off only if he thinks it does. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:51)
  • 2007-09-05 · September 5th: I'm Gonna Kill You — In the song's SUV verse Hank tells a neighbour 'we're fighting a war' so he can drive his giant SUV home, and urges him to trade his H2 for a Honda Fit. (00:01:31)
  • 2007-09-05 · September 5th: I'm Gonna Kill You — After the song Hank says he is really not an angry person, but people just get on his nerves sometimes. (00:03:31)
  • 2007-09-05 · September 5th: I'm Gonna Kill You — Hank says singing like that has made his voice weak; he is not a bass and has to work for the low notes. (00:03:43)
  • 2007-09-07 · September 7th: Fatalities, Dances and Thanks — Hank rebuts commenters: in Mortal Kombat Deception Sub-Zero rips out a whole skeleton and Scorpion uses Sub-Zero's spine-ripper, so a spine rip is technically a Scorpion fatality. (00:00:00)
  • 2007-09-07 · September 7th: Fatalities, Dances and Thanks — Hank concedes the spine-ripper is Sub-Zero's traditional fatality (Scorpion's is the toasty) and says he used Scorpion because Sub-Zero didn't fit the song's meter. (00:00:39)
  • 2007-09-07 · September 7th: Fatalities, Dances and Thanks — As an apology for the gore talk, Hank shows his cat Cameo's 'fatality': being adorable, doing 'the biscuit dough', and occasionally drooling. (00:00:39)
  • 2007-09-11 · September 11th: Floorcats, Recycling Bins and Memories — Hank searches the scary part of his basement for 'a very important thing' and finds his cat in a hole in the floor, where she goes when she wants to be away from them. (00:01:13)
  • 2007-09-11 · September 11th: Floorcats, Recycling Bins and Memories — Hank shows pictures of a Brotherhood 2.0 recycling bin someone made: Brotherhood 2.0 on top, notes about EcoGeek and John's books on the sides, the World Suck Index on the front. (00:01:48)
  • 2007-09-11 · September 11th: Floorcats, Recycling Bins and Memories — The person who sent the pictures also told a story: friends painted her arms and face on a hot day, and she sunburned except where painted, a polka-dotted Nerdfighter. (00:01:48)
  • 2007-09-13 · September 13th: HA! I read from MY Novel :-p — Hank says John did not answer the question Hank asked him but ignored it and asked his own question instead. (00:00:00)
  • 2007-09-13 · September 13th: HA! I read from MY Novel :-p — Hank says his novel is unfinished, has no agent, and will probably remain unpublished forever. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:00)
  • 2007-09-13 · September 13th: HA! I read from MY Novel :-p — Answering John's request for input, Hank says the only problem with the Paper Towns flashback is that he cannot read the rest of the book; cliffhangers drive him crazy. (00:02:15)
  • 2007-09-19 · September 19th: The Luck of my Life — The song recalls Hank and Katherine helping a man with boxes on the way to a punk rock show; he was with the band and got them in free. (00:01:21)
  • 2007-09-19 · September 19th: The Luck of my Life — The song says 10,000 people watch Hank online each week and no one has ever had a cooler job. (00:02:08)
  • 2007-09-21 · September 21: Court and Apples — Hank calls the court visit a waste of time: he waited about an hour and a half to be told what the ticket already told him, when he could simply have paid $10. — hedged: “in my opinion” [opinion marker] (00:00:46)
  • 2007-09-21 · September 21: Court and Apples — Hank explains that in a hurry you shake the tree and gather apples off the ground, hooking higher limbs with a stick from a ladder. (00:02:24)
  • 2007-09-25 · September 25th: TMBG and NYT — Hank, speaking as a British naturalist, says he recently witnessed and filmed a rare They Might Be Giants 'nerdfighter' event at their concert. (00:00:03)
  • 2007-09-25 · September 25th: TMBG and NYT — Hank's footage shows John Linnell being struck by a black bra during 'The Sun Is a Mass of Incandescent Gas' and pushing it away from his instruments. (00:00:46)
  • 2007-09-27 · September 27th: Bionic Woman v. Helen Hunt on PCP — Because the videos must be text-less, speaking only, Hank suggests telling his news by charades instead. — hedged: “I guess” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:10)
  • 2007-09-27 · September 27th: Bionic Woman v. Helen Hunt on PCP — Hank has a deadline and is freaking out; the person he owes the work to set a punishment for missing it, which Hank performs just in case, though he has not missed it yet. — hedged: “I think I'm going to do the punishment just in case” [opinion marker] (00:00:46)
  • 2007-09-27 · September 27th: Bionic Woman v. Helen Hunt on PCP — The punishment is a thesis on whom Hank would rather fight: Helen Hunt in an after-school special on PCP, or the new Bionic Woman before she adjusts to her implants. (00:00:46)
  • 2007-09-27 · September 27th: Bionic Woman v. Helen Hunt on PCP — Hank argues PCP can unleash unusual strength, but the Bionic Woman's enhancement, which makes no biological sense to him, leaves her much stronger than Helen Hunt on PCP. — hedged: “as far as I can tell” [other hedge] (00:01:30)
  • 2007-09-27 · September 27th: Bionic Woman v. Helen Hunt on PCP — Hank says both opponents would likely vomit on him, since bionic implants and PCP both cause nausea, so he must decide on other grounds. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:30)
  • 2007-09-27 · September 27th: Bionic Woman v. Helen Hunt on PCP — Hank concludes the best outcome of either fight is consoling the confused woman afterwards, and based on the show he would rather comfort Helen Hunt. — hedged: “I believe” [opinion marker] (00:02:26)
  • 2007-10-01 · October 1st: Stuff on Heads...dot com??? — Hank says John missed the worst of his illness; he is now mostly coughing, after a weekend so drippy he considered filming with toilet paper up his nose. (00:00:03)
  • 2007-10-01 · October 1st: Stuff on Heads...dot com??? — Hank says he misses people putting stuff on their heads, which is surprisingly fun and interesting. — hedged: “I don't think” [opinion marker] (00:00:03)
  • 2007-10-01 · October 1st: Stuff on Heads...dot com??? — Hank compares it to putting stuff on cats (showing a Stuff on My Cat calendar) but says his cat Cameo would hit you in the face. (00:00:46)
  • 2007-10-01 · October 1st: Stuff on Heads...dot com??? — Hank says stuff on cats is cute but stuff on people is important and more liberating. — hedged: “I think we need to realize” [opinion marker] (00:01:15)
  • 2007-10-01 · October 1st: Stuff on Heads...dot com??? — Hank argues that ridiculousness is an important facet of modern humanity and that life improves by ripping yourself out of the norm. (00:01:15)
  • 2007-10-01 · October 1st: Stuff on Heads...dot com??? — Hank wants people putting stuff on their heads in public and enjoying it; he says it is not a fad but a way of life. (00:02:01)
  • 2007-10-03 · Oct 3rd: Baby I Sold Your Dog On EBay — Hank introduces his song, dedicated to the Yeti on her birthday, as a song about a woman scorned. (00:00:42)
  • 2007-10-05 · October 5th: Feuding, Goonies and Politics — Hank plays John's feud video and responds to his picks, agreeing on some and saying pirates aren't even well-trained, though Ask a Pirate would be a good show. (00:00:04)
  • 2007-10-05 · October 5th: Feuding, Goonies and Politics — Hank suggests unicorns or zombies as a starting point, but notes it is hard to argue about something that doesn't exist. (00:00:45)
  • 2007-10-05 · October 5th: Feuding, Goonies and Politics — Hank offers new feud items with his picks: cheese over chocolate (more kinds of cheese), sxePhil over What the Buck, and Star Trek: The Next Generation over the Original Series. (00:01:12)
  • 2007-10-05 · October 5th: Feuding, Goonies and Politics — Hank suggests the Goonies may have been the original Nerdfighters, running through the gang: the inventor kid, Mikey, Mouth, Chunk and Sloth. — hedged: “may possibly” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:41)
  • 2007-10-05 · October 5th: Feuding, Goonies and Politics — Hank says universal health care would be the way to anger John in a feud (wording partly unclear). (00:03:08)
  • 2007-10-09 · October 9th: The Feud Continues — Hank says Brotherhood 2.0 cannot cover all the issues in the deck of presidential politics. (00:01:17)
  • 2007-10-09 · October 9th: The Feud Continues — Remembering they are feuding, Hank repeats his point in a shout, then says feuding is not healthy. (00:01:47)
  • 2007-10-09 · October 9th: The Feud Continues — Hank would rather meet a unicorn than a zombie in an enchanted forest: zombies can only make more undead by killing the living, and he prefers something whose mission is not to kill him. — hedged: “I'm thinking” [other hedge] (00:01:47)
  • 2007-10-09 · October 9th: The Feud Continues — Hank adds that unicorns are a mix of horses and narwhals, and he is a big fan of narwhals. (00:02:29)
  • 2007-10-11 · October 11th National Coming Out Day — Hank suggests that maybe publishers should publish less crap. — hedged: “Maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:09)
  • 2007-10-11 · October 11th National Coming Out Day — Hank concludes that, like best-selling authors, he should sometimes say important things, and says he will do so today. (00:00:58)
  • 2007-10-11 · October 11th National Coming Out Day — Hank adds that he still likes punk rock and still wants to hear viewers' band demos. (00:01:56)
  • 2007-10-11 · October 11th National Coming Out Day — Hank 'comes out' of a non-traditional closet: despite his punk image he is a gigantic fan of upbeat, sweet Japanese pop music, and asks viewers not to see him differently. (00:01:56)
  • 2007-10-11 · October 11th National Coming Out Day — Hank suggests the sweetness of Japanese pop might explain his attraction to unicorns, which feature prominently in Japanese pop culture. — hedged: “might” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:57)
  • 2007-10-11 · October 11th National Coming Out Day — In the feud, Hank says he may be ready to accept that zombies are more awesome than unicorns, though not for John's reasons, but will not give up his place on Team Unicorn. — hedged: “may” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:57)
  • 2007-10-15 · Oct 15th: Happy 16th Birthday B20 — Since a person is the sum of their actions, Hank asks whether the 16 years people have put into watching and taking part make Brotherhood 2.0 a 16-year-old. (00:00:10)
  • 2007-10-15 · Oct 15th: Happy 16th Birthday B20 — Hank judges Brotherhood 2.0 a successful 16-year-old: it has its own foundation to decrease world suck and thousands of friends. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:42)
  • 2007-10-15 · Oct 15th: Happy 16th Birthday B20 — Hank says it is good that the 16-year-old vlog will not drive, because cars are bad. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:00:42)
  • 2007-10-15 · Oct 15th: Happy 16th Birthday B20 — Hank says Brotherhood 2.0 has a trickling income stream from Google ads of $30 a month, high for a 16-year-old. (00:01:12)
  • 2007-10-15 · Oct 15th: Happy 16th Birthday B20 — Hank likes to think that if Brotherhood 2.0 were a real person with everyone's combined experiences, it would read a lot. — hedged: “I like to think” [other hedge] (00:01:54)
  • 2007-10-17 · October 17th: The Man Who Throws The Tetris Piece — Hank sings that of all video-game villains (Bowser, the Pong opponent, the Pac-Man ghosts, Donkey Kong) one stands alone: the tireless, unbeatable man who throws the Tetris piece. (00:00:58)
  • 2007-10-17 · October 17th: The Man Who Throws The Tetris Piece — In the song's climax the player stacks ever higher and swears furiously for the straight piece that never comes. (00:01:44)
  • 2007-10-17 · October 17th: The Man Who Throws The Tetris Piece — The song calls for a party-blower solo. (00:01:44)
  • 2007-10-19 · October 19th: Missoula to Seattle — Hank says he made a kind of travelogue taking a cue from the brothers' Australian secret siblings. (00:00:03)
  • 2007-10-19 · October 19th: Missoula to Seattle — Hank says anyone who correctly identifies the song he is singing in the car will win a Nerdfighter prize. (00:00:03)
  • 2007-10-19 · October 19th: Missoula to Seattle — Hank says a Montana casino-bar-restaurant-gift shop (and more) displays over 10,000 silver dollars that people gave it, which he says only readers of Neil Gaiman's American Gods might understand. — hedged: “I don't know” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:53)
  • 2007-10-19 · October 19th: Missoula to Seattle — At Zips in Washington, Hank and Katherine played wishbone with an interlocking onion ring, and Hank won. (00:01:38)
  • 2007-10-19 · October 19th: Missoula to Seattle — Stuck in worsening western-Washington traffic, Hank mocks the claim that freeway expansion improves traffic, saying he could show graphs about it; traffic makes him cranky. (00:02:01)
  • 2007-10-19 · October 19th: Missoula to Seattle — Hank tells 16-year-old nerdfighters that getting a car is like getting a tattoo: cool when young, but later you are stuck with it and come to despise and resent it. — hedged: “kind of like” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:01)
  • 2007-10-23 · October 23rd: Some Explaining to Do… — Hank explains that his apparent lipstick is from a blue lollipop that won't wash off. (00:00:10)
  • 2007-10-23 · October 23rd: Some Explaining to Do… — Hank says he might someday get a tattoo to mark part of his life, but has never had the urge because he doesn't favour paying for things that hurt. — hedged: “I could someday maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:58)
  • 2007-10-23 · October 23rd: Some Explaining to Do… — Hank says he isn't especially proud of heading Team Unicorn, but is quite proud of being on Team Science. — hedged: “I might not actually” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:04)
  • 2007-10-25 · October 25th: Down Memory Lane — Hank shows an unopened Yoda, probably worth much less than the $6.74 he paid for it. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:00:32)
  • 2007-10-25 · October 25th: Down Memory Lane — Hank shows Dexter, the stuffed black-footed ferret he slept with every night for a long time, and mentions a Florida State Director of the Nature Conservancy (wording unclear). (00:00:32)
  • 2007-10-25 · October 25th: Down Memory Lane — Hank shows his childhood blankie, Skylux, notes John's was called BB, and remarks that neither name can be anagrammed. (00:00:53)
  • 2007-10-25 · October 25th: Down Memory Lane — Hank shows his college research on a pine-cone extract stimulating human blood cells to become dendritic cells, jokingly summarised as a cancer cure from pine cones. (00:00:53)
  • 2007-10-25 · October 25th: Down Memory Lane — Hank shows ticket stubs from seeing The Rocky Horror Picture Show many times and says he really did win his high school's best dancer award. (00:02:29)
  • 2007-10-29 · October 29th: It Just Isn't Fair — At the concert Hank met the first Nerdfighter ever to recognize him in public; he feels better, since John had already been recognized and he had not. (00:00:03)
  • 2007-10-29 · October 29th: It Just Isn't Fair — Their parents said John has a box like Hank's but would not reveal where it is; after they went to sleep Hank searched for it and could not find it. (00:00:51)
  • 2007-10-29 · October 29th: It Just Isn't Fair — Hank concludes from the book that John was a Nerdfighter from birth. (00:02:44)
  • 2007-10-29 · October 29th: It Just Isn't Fair — Hank signs off by introducing Vern, a dog. (00:02:44)
  • 2007-11-02 · November 2nd: John Green at the Young Author's Award — Hank is in Englewood, Florida, part of 'old Florida' where almost everyone is very old, and wears glasses to fit in. (00:00:04)
  • 2007-11-02 · November 2nd: John Green at the Young Author's Award — Replying to John, Hank is unsure which secret sibling is meant and asks if the 'prominent Nerdfighter' is an actor; needing train-fare help, they are probably not famous. (00:00:43)
  • 2007-11-02 · November 2nd: John Green at the Young Author's Award — Hank presents the footage as the moment John became a writer: a girl says she liked his book and it seemed like real life, and John feels the joy of being appreciated for what he made. (00:01:50)
  • 2007-11-02 · November 2nd: John Green at the Young Author's Award — Hank tells John he is proud of him and his adorable little face. (00:01:50)
  • 2007-11-02 · November 2nd: John Green at the Young Author's Award — At Blind Pass Park in Englewood, Hank wonders aloud what could be under a rock, the promised surprise for local Nerdfighters. (00:02:53)
  • 2007-11-06 · Nov — Hank says vlogging is harder on the road: at friends' houses they wonder who he is talking to, and he left his camera inside and locked himself out. (00:00:00)
  • 2007-11-06 · Nov — Hank mocks AirTran's 'gourmet pretzels', the only food it serves, offered as the inedible item for John. (00:01:09)
  • 2007-11-06 · Nov — Hank says he supports the impeachment of Dick Cheney, joking that Bush looked into Cheney's soul and saw a good person, and that he has about 328 other reasons. (00:01:09)
  • 2007-11-06 · Nov — Hank argues Cheney must be impeached before Bush, since removing Bush first would be a bad trade. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:01:54)
  • 2007-11-06 · Nov — Hank closes with 'title teases', a string of anagram-like phrases, and the hint 'Search hard. It might be a tight fit under there.' (00:02:20)
  • 2007-11-08 · November 8th: SUGAR HIGH! — Hank shows his basement: InuYasha, Cowboy Bebop and They Might Be Giants posters, a map of Narnia, Katherine's guitar and his, and party blowers labelled by note. (00:00:00)
  • 2007-11-08 · November 8th: SUGAR HIGH! — Hank says he did about 40 hours of work a week on a touchpad while on vacation, now hates touchpads and loves his mouse. (00:00:38)
  • 2007-11-08 · November 8th: SUGAR HIGH! — Hank describes the Peep's details: a Brotherhood 2.0 shirt, John's wedding ring, glasses and hair. (00:01:30)
  • 2007-11-08 · November 8th: SUGAR HIGH! — Hank says he will save the John Peep, maybe shipping it to John, but asks to eat it while discussing the political situation in Chad. — hedged: “maybe” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:00)
  • 2007-11-08 · November 8th: SUGAR HIGH! — The nerdfighter also sent EcoGeek-logo Peeps and scraps; Hank has been eating them and, as when John made him eat Peeps early in the project, is on a sugar high. (00:02:00)
  • 2007-11-12 · November 12th: Brotherhood Clue Point Oh! — Hank says today is not an important day after all and he doesn't know what to talk about, but he has a transfixed kitty. (00:00:10)
  • 2007-11-16 · November 16th: Green Cars at the LA Auto Show — Hank finds Toyota disappointing at the show, mostly unveiling its gigantic SUV (the Sequoia) at what was supposed to be a green car show. (00:00:39)
  • 2007-11-16 · November 16th: Green Cars at the LA Auto Show — Hank mocks Ford's environmental announcements: a display wall of recycled paper while its steel cars get poor mileage. (00:01:08)
  • 2007-11-16 · November 16th: Green Cars at the LA Auto Show — Hank says the Lexus hybrid gives you what a Honda Civic does, only for much more money. (00:02:07)
  • 2007-11-20 · November 20th: A White Thanksgiving — In Florida the family bundled up at 60 degrees; when it hit 30 degrees once, Dad got the brothers up around 6 a.m. to see frost on the roof. (00:02:31)
  • 2007-11-23 · November 23rd: BLACK FRIDAY! — Hank came without a tape and had to buy a MiniDV tape at RadioShack, which he says is the only thing he will buy. (00:00:00)
  • 2007-11-23 · November 23rd: BLACK FRIDAY! — Katherine comes out money positive after finding $28 on the floor of a bathroom stall; they keep it. (00:00:40)
  • 2007-11-23 · November 23rd: BLACK FRIDAY! — Visiting Abercrombie & Fitch for the first time, Hank is baffled that the 'popular people' store has near-naked men all over its walls and calls it a gay store. (00:00:40)
  • 2007-11-27 · November 27th: Eagle's Nest, Blogger's Choice and Shopping — Hank says the article may have coined the term 'Green Grinch', which he calls ironic: the Grinch took away the presents, yet the people stayed happy because they loved each other. — hedged: “I think they may have” [epistemic doubt] (00:01:16)
  • 2007-11-27 · November 27th: Eagle's Nest, Blogger's Choice and Shopping — Hank says he truly believes the fathers of the world don't suffer for lack of electric shavers and temperature-sensing barbecue forks. (00:02:17)
  • 2007-11-29 · November 29th: sXePhil, Leaky Brains and a Secret Project — For newcomers Hank explains that Nerdfighters and 'secret siblings in my pants' have teamed up to decrease world suck with a scavenger hunt; he calls it 'pretty jokes' and apologises for the terminology. (00:00:10)
  • 2007-11-29 · November 29th: sXePhil, Leaky Brains and a Secret Project — Having decided to give his time to people who love him, Hank playfully offers to write a song for any of them, especially about Christmas or 'eating your wife', whose chorus diehard Nerdfighters already know. (00:01:31)
  • 2007-12-03 · December 3rd: 10,000 Subscribers! and secret project — Hank introduces the 10,000th subscriber, a 21-year-old with skydiving on his mind, and invites viewers to thank him on his Myspace page. (00:00:10)
  • 2007-12-07 · December 7th: Fight Night with the Green Bros. — Hank replays John's clip about teaching two-year-old Hank not to take out 'the equipment' before the bathroom, and says he suspects John never put it that way. — hedged: “I have a suspicion” [other hedge] (00:00:10)
  • 2007-12-07 · December 7th: Fight Night with the Green Bros. — Hank says John was always good at pointing out when Hank did socially irregular things, but never kindly during Hank's first 13 years; that is how Hank got a scar on his knuckle from John's braces. (00:00:41)
  • 2007-12-07 · December 7th: Fight Night with the Green Bros. — Hank says that, surprisingly, he was generally the more physical brother: John's abuse came out of his mouth, while Hank's once landed on John's mouth. (00:00:41)
  • 2007-12-07 · December 7th: Fight Night with the Green Bros. — Hank says their relationship has never been perfect, but video blogging suits them: whole sentiments without interrupting, no shared space, and three minutes a day is a manageable dose of sibling. (00:00:41)
  • 2007-12-07 · December 7th: Fight Night with the Green Bros. — Hank says John claims to be six foot one, but Hank is six foot one and more than an inch taller than John back to back. (00:01:23)
  • 2007-12-07 · December 7th: Fight Night with the Green Bros. — Hank tells John he loves him and he is a great guy, and says the brothers are over the anger, fights and, ironically, the verbal jabs. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:02:00)
  • 2007-12-07 · December 7th: Fight Night with the Green Bros. — Recalling the punch at a friend's house, Hank says John looked surprised and got angry, not from pain, but for fear his braces were damaged. (00:02:30)
  • 2007-12-11 · Dec 11: Secret Project...And More Punching — Hank points out a new banner he made for YouTube viewers and says there are words on his hands because he is a dork, choosing not to explain. (00:00:10)
  • 2007-12-11 · Dec 11: Secret Project...And More Punching — Since his video last week (week of 3 December 2007) Hank keeps wanting to punch the camera; because some viewers wanted to see it fall over, he knocks it over, which stings a little. (00:01:16)
  • 2007-12-13 · December 13: Mailing Shopping Thanking. It Must Be Christmas — Hank notes that Katherine wrote everything on the package going to John, so there was no textual communication. (00:00:09)
  • 2007-12-13 · December 13: Mailing Shopping Thanking. It Must Be Christmas — Hank says the tree seller is an actual Montanan, a group he says is now pretty much outnumbered in Missoula, so it is good to see them. (00:01:38)
  • 2007-12-13 · December 13: Mailing Shopping Thanking. It Must Be Christmas — Apologizing that Katherine does all the work because he has to film videos, Hank says the brothers' wives also get a reprieve on January 1st (he stumbles: 'Jafanuary'). (00:02:07)
  • 2007-12-13 · December 13: Mailing Shopping Thanking. It Must Be Christmas — Hank marvels that they got a letter from Merriam-Webster: the dictionary people are taking notice of the Nerdfighters. (00:03:04)
  • 2007-12-17 · Project for Awesome: Explanation and Humane Societies — Hank's cat catches mice in their house but doesn't eat them; she carries them around in her mouth, puts them down and lies on them. (00:01:39)
  • 2007-12-17 · Project for Awesome: Explanation and Humane Societies — Hank urges spaying and neutering as cheap and our responsibility; cutting parts off male pets is unpleasant, but one neutered cat beats dozens of unloved offspring in the cold. (00:02:38)
  • 2007-12-19 · December 19: The Day that the Nerds Took Over YouTube — The song recounts that the Project for Awesome began on December 17 with the goal of decreasing world suck, helped by sxePhil, Nalts and WhatTheBuck. (00:01:05)
  • 2007-12-19 · December 19: The Day that the Nerds Took Over YouTube — The song's refrain calls the Project for Awesome the day the nerds took over YouTube, joking that their center screenshot proved more powerful than 'two boobs'. (00:01:25)
  • 2007-12-19 · December 19: The Day that the Nerds Took Over YouTube — The song says people promoted 300 charities, such as levees.org, Toys for Tots and Autism Speaks. (00:01:50)
  • 2007-12-19 · December 19: The Day that the Nerds Took Over YouTube — Hank tells John he is not looking forward to his punishment proposals. (00:03:11)
  • 2007-12-19 · December 19: The Day that the Nerds Took Over YouTube — Hank rejects a viewer's punishment suggestion that he pay five dollars for every hand gesture in every video, saying he would be destitute. (00:03:20)
  • 2007-12-19 · December 19: The Day that the Nerds Took Over YouTube — Hank says John phoned about five minutes earlier asking what kind of manga they like. (00:03:42)
  • 2007-12-21 · December 21: Hank Accepts His Punishment — Hank says he talks fast and rarely stumbles in his videos because he cuts them in iMovie, which is like cutting and pasting. (00:00:11)
  • 2007-12-21 · December 21: Hank Accepts His Punishment — Hank tells John he dreamed he had to play guitar on stage before hundreds of people but couldn't remember any of his Nerdfighter songs and his guitar wasn't working. (00:00:11)
  • 2007-12-21 · December 21: Hank Accepts His Punishment — In the dream Hank was a member of the Violent Femmes who didn't know the chords to 'Blister in the Sun', while the crowd waited for it; a little girl could stop the world ending. (00:00:53)
  • 2007-12-21 · December 21: Hank Accepts His Punishment — Rehearsing, Hank finds his dream accurate: he doesn't know the chords, and largely not the words, to his own songs, and will probably need a music stand. — hedged: “probably” [epistemic doubt] (00:02:48)
  • 2007-12-21 · December 21: Hank Accepts His Punishment — Hank says he may be having an existential crisis but will try to enjoy Christmas rather than practise guitar the whole time, because he is freaked out. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:03:40)
  • 2007-12-27 · December 27th: The Gig! — Hank shows footage from before his first live gig of blending Strawberry Hill wine with Peeps. (00:00:03)
  • 2007-12-27 · December 27th: The Gig! — In retrospect Hank says the Peep blending was like the whole evening: loud, uncomfortable, hasty, messy, poorly planned and sloppily executed. (00:00:43)
  • 2007-12-27 · December 27th: The Gig! — Hank shows his opening going wrong: something like a ball of fear came up while he sang; it never happened again, but he found about 37 other ways to screw up. — hedged: “I think” [opinion marker] (00:01:27)
  • 2007-12-27 · December 27th: The Gig! — On stage Hank introduces one song as the reason he is famous. (00:01:59)
  • 2007-12-27 · December 27th: The Gig! — Hank officially crosses rock star off his list of possible careers. (00:03:48)
  • 2007-12-31 · Dec 31: Goodbye Brotherhood 2.0 — In the song Hank says he thought John was crazy, but John kept telling him something each day. (00:00:03)
  • 2007-12-31 · Dec 31: Goodbye Brotherhood 2.0 — Hank tells John the song went well until the end, when he hit his thumb hard on the E string. (00:03:31)

Other voices

90 statements · sincere 49% · playful 41% · other bits 10% · hedged or unsure 11%

Sincere but hedged (6)

Split by hedge type (derived from the quoted hedge words with a fixed word list — see the overview): epistemic doubt 1 · wish / hope 1 · opinion marker 2 · hedge words not recorded 2.

Epistemic doubt (1)

real uncertainty about whether it is true

  • 2007-12-31 · Dec 31: Goodbye Brotherhood 2.0 — both: The song states that the project is ending and that its rules seem to need some amending. — hedged: “it seems” [epistemic doubt] (00:03:00)

Wish / hope (1)

a wish about the future, not a claim about what is true

  • 2007-10-29 · October 29th: It Just Isn't Fair — John Green (quoted): The book's author note says John Green, born in Indianapolis, is eight, has written five books, hopes to finish his latest by the end of the school year, and much of the story isn't true. — hedged: “hopefully” [wish / hope] (00:02:44)

Opinion marker (2)

marks a view as the speaker's own; not doubt

Hedge words not recorded (2)

marked as unsure, but the hedge words were not quoted

  • 2007-04-12 · Brotherhood 2.0: April 12th: A Eulogy for Vonnegut — Kurt Vonnegut (quoted): Vonnegut asks the reader, 'my indispensable collaborator', whether their deepest understanding of time, space and destiny is also shaped by earliest experiences of geography and the rules for getting home. — speculative (hedge words not recorded) (00:00:41)
  • 2007-12-31 · Dec 31: Goodbye Brotherhood 2.0 — both: The song asks whether the brothers are closer now than they were a year ago. — explicitly uncertain (hedge words not recorded) (00:01:24)

Fiction (6)

a story or novel read aloud; the words belong to characters

Joke (3)

a gag; not a claim

Playful (37)

a real point made in a joking way; the paraphrase records the meant core