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Brotherhood 2.0: January 25th

2007-01-25 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Personal life · personal update

From his parents' cabin in Asheville at the start of his and Katherine's yearly southeastern trip, Hank warns he will lack broadband for weeks, proposes that the unpunished brother choose the other's punishment, and shares childhood memories and a Kraft single.

What is said

00:00:00 — The Thursday mix-up; at Mom and Dad's cabin; Hank and Katherine's yearly trip: Asheville, Athens, Orlando, Tampa/St. Petersburg, Englewood; weeks without high-speed internet

  • ★ Hank notes John said yesterday was Thursday and Hank says today is Thursday: one of them is wrong. (playful) — 00:00:09
  • ★★ As seen in his January 23rd video, Hank is staying in Mom and Dad's little cabin beside their house. — 00:00:09
  • ★★★ Hank and Katherine have begun their yearly trip through the southeastern US: Asheville, Athens (friends), back to Asheville, a flight to Orlando, a drive to Tampa/St. Petersburg (friends), then Englewood, Florida. — 00:00:09 · Katherine Green, Orlando, Florida
  • ★★★ Hank says that for two of the trip's three weeks he will be without high-speed internet. — 00:00:35

00:01:05 — Correcting John: a whole Gulf Coast town lacks broadband; worry for Brotherhood 2.0; viewers' embarrassing punishments; proposal that the unpunished brother picks the punishment

  • ★★ 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. (playful) — 00:01:05
  • ★★ Hank says he is very concerned about what this means for the Brotherhood 2.0 project. — 00:01:05 · Brotherhood 2.0
  • ★★ Hank says many people have suggested very good punishments: not just difficult but extremely embarrassing on a video blog, which is the kind they want. — 00:01:05 · Punishment
  • ★★★ 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) — 00:01:05 · Punishment, Brotherhood 2.0

00:01:53 — Childhood memories in Asheville: grasshopper critter cages, a little dog made to resemble their dog Red, Mom's shepherd's pie

  • ★★ 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. (playful) — 00:01:53
  • ★ Hank shows a little dog he made to resemble their childhood dog Red, with a dog house they never had. (playful) — 00:02:21
  • ★★ 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. (playful) — 00:02:21

00:02:49 — A Kraft American cheese single: not cheese, it wobbles, three ways to eat one; enjoyed John's survey; sign-off

  • ★★ Hank says a Kraft single isn't cheese: it doesn't look, smell or taste like cheese, and cheese doesn't wobble. (playful) — 00:02:49
  • ★ Hank lists three ways he'd eat one: on a white-bread turkey sandwich, microwaved alone on a tortilla, or folded in quarters. (playful) — 00:02:49
  • ★★ Hank tells John he enjoyed his survey answers and hopes to see more of them tomorrow. (hedged) — 00:03:30

Humor (significant)

  • John said yesterday was Thursday; Hank says today is Thursday. — 00:00:09 > «One of us is wrong.»
  • Hank describes every leg of the trip as a 'jaunt'. — 00:00:35 > «By all accounts, this is a lot of jaunting.»
  • Recalling the childhood critter cages for grasshoppers. — 00:01:53 > «They could be punished for the crimes of their incessant chirping.»
  • Holding up a Kraft single, Hank insists it isn't cheese and shakes it. — 00:02:49 > «cheese doesn't wobble like this, holy crap.»

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