Hank replaces his worn-out phone with a Motorola Droid (2009)
story · status: told 1× · last event: mentioned (2019-12-27)
In November 2009 Hank retires his battered three-year-old phone for a Motorola Droid. Ten years later he recalls owning it with disgust.
About: Motorola Droid
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-11-07 | told | Hank retires his battered three-year-old phone and gets a Motorola Droid, on which he films this video. | The TOUR DE HANK!!! 00:00:00 |
| 2019-12-27 (happened 2009) | mentioned | Hank recalls, with disgust, that he had a Motorola Droid in 2009. (playful) | Why I'm Worried about 2020 00:00:33 |
What is said about it
10 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2009-11-07 · The TOUR DE HANK!!! — Hank: Filming on his phone, Hank shows his worn-out old phone (broken 8 button, missing pieces; it survived a pool and his car roof) and says it is retiring for recycling. — 00:00:00
- 2009-11-07 · The TOUR DE HANK!!! — Hank now has a Motorola Droid, with 3G, a touchscreen and a 5-megapixel camera, which came out the day before; he is stupidly excited, like Christmas morning. — 00:00:00
- 2009-11-07 · The TOUR DE HANK!!! — announcement: Hank says he may review the phone later. (hedged) — 00:00:32
- 2019-12-27 · Why I'm Worried about 2020 — Hank says the unemployment rate fell from 10% to 4% over the decade. — 00:00:39
- 2019-12-27 · Why I'm Worried about 2020 — Hank: Yet to Hank now feels a bit shakier than 2009 did, and he is not really sure why. — 00:00:44
- 2019-12-27 · Why I'm Worried about 2020 — Hank says part of it must be that we are starting to feel the real effects of climate change: the climate is actually changing. — 00:00:50
- 2019-12-27 · Why I'm Worried about 2020 — Hank says a growing populace of young people know they will have to solve climate change while their elected leaders don't recognize it exists, which causes tension. — 00:00:58
- 2019-12-27 · Why I'm Worried about 2020 — Hank says 2020 is an election year and will be stressful because of it; election years always are. — 00:01:10
- 2019-12-27 · Why I'm Worried about 2020 — Hank says the US just impeached its president over his lack of respect for the process, and he is worried about that. — 00:01:14
- 2019-12-27 · Why I'm Worried about 2020 — Hank worries that tension, partly manufactured by leaders, the architecture of the social internet or Russian bot farms, will keep pulling at the bonds of community, as it did over the decade. — 00:01:22