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Hank: eat a blenderized Christmas meal or give a one-hour public concert, as voted by Nerdfighters (2007)

punishment · status: performed · last event: performed (2007-12-27) · owner: Hank

Part of: Brotherhood 2.0: the 2007 year of daily video letters

Parts: John asks Nerdfighters to vote between two punishments for Hank (2007) · Hank asks Missoula Nerdfighters to come to his Badlander gig on December 26 (2007)

Told alongside: John asks Nerdfighters to suggest punishments for Hank (2007)

About: Punishment, Peeps, Boone's Farm, world suck

date event what video
2007-12-18 proposed Answering whether there will be a punishment before year's end, John says yes: Hank communicated with him in the comments of Nalts's video, so Hank will be punished. (playful) Dec 18th: The Project for Awesome and Question Tuesday!!! 00:00:39
2007-12-20 set John sets Hank's punishment as one of two options to be chosen by Nerdfighter vote: eat a blenderized Christmas meal, or give an hour-long public concert of Nerdfighting songs for charity. December 20th: HANK SHALL BE PUNISHED! 00:02:59
2007-12-21 accepted Hank accepts the voted punishment, performing Nerdfighter songs for at least an hour and drinking Strawberry Hill blended with Peeps if he needs to drink, saying he is getting what he deserves. (playful) December 21: Hank Accepts His Punishment 00:01:50
2007-12-27 performed Hank performs his voted punishment: after blending Strawberry Hill wine with Peeps, he plays a live gig of his Nerdfighter songs, shown in a recap, and thanks everyone for the punishment. December 27th: The Gig! 00:03:07

What is said about it

16 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).

  • 2007-12-18 · Dec 18th: The Project for Awesome and Question Tuesday!!! — ask: John asks Nerdfighters to suggest lots of punishments for Hank in the comments, as time is short. — 00:00:39
  • 2007-12-20 · December 20th: HANK SHALL BE PUNISHED! — announcement: John settles on two punishment options for Hank; Nerdfighters will vote and Hank must do the winner. Option one: eat a blenderized Christmas meal including at least ham, eggnog and Christmas cookies. — 00:02:59
  • 2007-12-20 · December 20th: HANK SHALL BE PUNISHED! — announcement: John: Option two: Hank gives a live public performance of Nerdfighting songs for at least an hour, accepting donations for charities that decrease world suck, drinking only Peeps blended with Strawberry Hill. — 00:02:59
  • 2007-12-21 · December 21: Hank Accepts His Punishment — announcement: Hank announces the vote result: his punishment is performing Nerdfighter songs for at least an hour, drinking Strawberry Hill wine blended with Peeps if he needs a drink; he says he deserves it. — 00:01:22
  • 2007-12-21 · December 21: Hank Accepts His Punishment — announcement: Hank announces a gig booked through a friend: happy hour at the Badlander bar in Missoula, Montana, December 26, 6:30 to 7:30, playing guitar. — 00:01:50
  • 2007-12-21 · December 21: Hank Accepts His Punishment — Hank: 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. (playful, hedged) — 00:02:48
  • 2007-12-21 · December 21: Hank Accepts His Punishment — announcement: Hank lays out the holiday schedule: his next video is Thursday, when he posts his punishment, so he makes no regular vlog until Monday (24 December 2007). — 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. (playful, hedged) — 00:03:40
  • 2007-12-26 (said on 2007-12-25, implied) · Dec. 26th: Christmas, Manga, and Goat Poop — John tells Hank not to be nervous about tonight's show and that he'll rock, to the extent a guy with an acoustic guitar can. (playful) — 00:02:46
  • 2007-12-27 · December 27th: The Gig! — Hank shows footage from before his first live gig of blending Strawberry Hill wine with Peeps. (playful) — 00:00:03
  • 2007-12-27 · December 27th: The Gig! — Hank: In retrospect Hank says the Peep blending was like the whole evening: loud, uncomfortable, hasty, messy, poorly planned and sloppily executed. (playful) — 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. (playful, hedged) — 00:01:27
  • 2007-12-27 · December 27th: The Gig! — Hank recaps the concert with clips of his songs, including 'It's Too Hot', 'I Sold Your Dog on eBay' and 'The Day That the Nerds Took Over YouTube'. — 00:01:27
  • 2007-12-27 · December 27th: The Gig! — Hank: After the concert Hank says honestly it felt pretty bad; granting (apparently to Katherine) that it could have been worse, he still calls it pretty bad as concerts go. — 00:03:07
  • 2007-12-27 · December 27th: The Gig! — Hank thanks everyone for the punishment and calls it, all in all, a good experience. — 00:03:07
  • 2014-07-18 · EVERY VLOGBROTHERS PUNISHMENT! — Hank: During the first Project for Awesome in December 2007, Hank replied to John's comment and had to drink blended Peeps and Strawberry Hill wine while playing a show to six people, his first show ever; the only one there who knew him was his wife. — 00:01:15