John's house renovation and flooded basement (2009)
story · status: followed over 7 videos (2009) · last event: update (2009-10-18)
In September 2009 John and Sarah begin renovating their house; John's struggle to take down a moldy basement wall runs over several videos until the wall is gone. In October 2009 the basement floods, and the renovation is still unfinished later that month.
About: Sarah Urist Green
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-09-06 | told | John and the Yeti begin a large home renovation, replacing moldy basement walls; John fails to demolish a wall himself. | How To (Not) Demolish a Wall 00:00:01 |
| 2009-09-08 | update | John says he still has not got the wall down and has tried to spruce it up instead. | My Puppy's SECRET SHAME (and Paper Towns) 00:00:00 |
| 2009-09-12 (said on 2009-09-11, implied) | update | John reports the wall is still there ('the Great Wall Fail of 2009'), though he has made some progress. | Special Friday Video! (On Saturday) 00:00:00 |
| 2009-09-13 | update | John announces 'no more wall' as the (not real) news of the day, implying the wall has come down. (playful) | Sex, Sports, and Caster Semenya 00:00:00 |
| 2009-10-11 (happened 2009-10-09) | update | John's house is a construction zone during an expensive renovation, and his basement flooded on Friday, so the carpet must come out. | Puppy Elephant Defends Capitalism 00:00:00 |
| 2009-10-13 | mentioned | Hank recalls John's flooded basement from John's last video and compares it with Georgia's statewide floods. (playful) → refers to Puppy Elephant Defends Capitalism | Nine Die in Georgia Floods - Kanye is a Jackass 00:00:00 |
| 2009-10-18 | update | John films from a room in his renovated house that will hopefully someday be his bathroom but is still uninhabitable. (hedged) | The Balloon Boy Hoax 00:00:00 |
Dates are upload dates, which set the order. Where the speaker gives a different recording date in the video, it is added as "said on YYYY-MM-DD, implied" (derived from the date said in the video).
What is said about it
10 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2009-09-06 · How To (Not) Demolish a Wall — John: The contractor recommended John tear down the wall himself, since it takes a professional to build a wall but anybody can demolish one. — 00:00:09
- 2009-09-06 · How To (Not) Demolish a Wall — John: A week later, John says with mock pride he can do what no one can: fail at demolishing a wall, and will teach how in six steps. (playful) — 00:00:20
- 2009-09-06 · How To (Not) Demolish a Wall — John: Step three: Dad said John needed a crowbar; John, likening crowbars to handguns, resisted but was eventually convinced to buy one. (playful) — 00:01:35
- 2009-09-06 · How To (Not) Demolish a Wall — John tried the crowbar for about an hour and a half, then got angry and hit the wall, making the holes seen in it, then took a nap. (playful) — 00:02:00
- 2009-09-06 · How To (Not) Demolish a Wall — John: Finally John checked for live electrical wiring where he had been swinging his steel crowbar, and found there is some. (playful) — 00:02:33
- 2009-09-12 (said on 2009-09-11, implied) · Special Friday Video! (On Saturday) — John says the wall is still there, 'the Great Wall Fail of 2009', though he has made some progress. — 00:00:00
- 2009-09-13 · Sex, Sports, and Caster Semenya — John jokingly opens Newsday with the news that there is 'no more wall', then says that is not the real news. (playful) — 00:00:00
- 2009-10-11 · Puppy Elephant Defends Capitalism — John says his house is a construction zone during an expensive renovation, with most of the electricity off and no place to sleep. — 00:00:00
- 2009-10-11 · Puppy Elephant Defends Capitalism — John says the free market lets him get competing bids from multiple contractors, making his basement repair as cheap and efficient as possible. (playful) — 00:01:27
- 2009-10-13 · Nine Die in Georgia Floods - Kanye is a Jackass — Hank, in Georgia, says that just as John's basement flooded (as in John's last video), the whole state of Georgia has flooded too. (playful) — 00:00:00