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Raw Onion, Twerking, and Speech Jam

2013-08-30 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Nerdfighteria · comedy performance

Hank makes a grab-bag video from viewer suggestions (a sidewalk interview, a Lizzie Bennet Diaries song, an Emma recommendation, a Wonder Woman rant, raw onion, stress advice, a Speech Jammer) and closes with a Subbable update asking subscribers to re-up after a payment snafu.

What is said

00:00:00 — Nerdfighteria as inspiration; asking for ideas on Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram; Instagram comments gripe; today's video follows viewer suggestions

  • ★★ Hank says Nerdfighteria is his biggest inspiration: when he lacks a video idea he asks on Twitter, Tumblr and Instagram, and this video is made from their suggestions. — 00:00:10 · Nerdfighteria, Twitter, Tumblr
  • ★ Hank complains that Instagram on the web does not show all the comments, calling it an uncomplicated missing feature. (playful) — 00:00:19

00:00:52 — Song about the Lizzie Bennet Diaries idea winning an Emmy

  • ★★ In a song, Hank recalls asking Bernie what he thought of Pride and Prejudice characters as vloggers, and marvels that the idea won an Emmy award. (playful) — 00:00:52 · The Lizzie Bennet Diaries

00:01:04 — Book recommendation: Jane Austen's Emma, soon to be adapted as a vlog series by friends

  • ★★ Hank recommends reading Jane Austen's Emma because some friends of his are about to adapt it into a video blog series. — 00:01:04

00:01:14 — Rant: Warner Bros turned down Joss Whedon's Wonder Woman movie

  • ★★ Hank says a Wonder Woman movie needs to exist and comically says whoever turned it down should eat a can of poop-flavored poop. (playful) — 00:01:16
  • ★ Hank says Joss Whedon wanted to make a Wonder Woman movie and Warner Brothers turned him down. — 00:01:18

00:01:28 — Eating raw onion and flopping around on the deck

  • ★ At a viewer's suggestion (per the description), Hank eats raw onion and finds it pretty good, having been ready to say how terrible it was. (playful) — 00:01:31

00:01:48 — How Hank deals with two kinds of stress

  • ★★★ Hank deals with stress in two ways: stress he can fix he handles as fast as possible, because putting it off makes it worse; stress he cannot fix he thinks through and accepts. — 00:01:48 · The Fault in Our Stars

00:02:10 — Trying a Speech Jammer app; twerking transition

  • ★★ Hank explains that speech jammers work by playing your voice back into your ears right after you speak, interfering with cognition so that speaking becomes very difficult. — 00:02:12

00:02:54 — Update: SciShow at a million subscribers; Subbable payment snafu, ask to re-up subscriptions; sign-off

  • ★★ Hank reports that SciShow and Crash Course are going well and SciShow just hit a million subscribers. — 00:02:54 · SciShow, Crash Course
  • ★★★ Hank says Subbable had a snafu with Amazon and recurring payments: monthly subscriptions were cancelled because they were not following all of Amazon's rules; now they are. — 00:03:00 · Amazon
  • ★★★ Hank asks Subbable subscribers to sign back in and re-up their subscriptions; Subbable has been very successful, and if everyone re-subscribes Crash Course will be safe, but only 50% have so far. — 00:03:12 · Crash Course

Humor (significant)

  • Hank interviews a sidewalk about what it is like to be a sidewalk; the sidewalk has no complaints except tree roots. — 00:00:49 > «Don't get me started on tree roots.»
  • Hank rants that Warner Bros turned down Joss Whedon's Wonder Woman movie. — 00:01:25 > «The person who made that decision needs to eat a can of poop flavored poop.»
  • Hank eats raw onion, braced to report how terrible it is. — 00:01:31 > «Pretty good, actually.»
  • Wearing the Speech Jammer, Hank tries to explain how it works and his own delayed voice derails him. — 00:02:26 > «It interferes with the cog-cognitive cognitive cog-»

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