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October 19th: Missoula to Seattle

2007-10-20 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Personal life · personal update

Hank, filming on an airplane, presents a comic travelogue of his and Katherine's drive from Montana through Idaho to Kirkland, Washington, including a silver-dollar casino, Zips' onion ring and bad traffic, and warns 16-year-olds that a car is like a tattoo.

What is said

00:00:00 — On an airplane; a travelogue inspired by the Australian secret siblings; driving through Montana; name-the-song contest; dropped camera

  • ★★★ Hank is filming from an airplane; before the flight he and Katherine drove from Montana through Idaho into Washington, which he shows as a travelogue. — 00:00:03 · Montana
  • ★★ Hank says he made a kind of travelogue taking a cue from the brothers' Australian secret siblings. (playful) — 00:00:03 · secret sibling
  • ★★ Hank says anyone who correctly identifies the song he is singing in the car will win a Nerdfighter prize. (playful) — 00:00:03 · Nerdfighteria

00:00:53 — Stop at a Montana casino with over 10,000 silver dollars on its walls (American Gods aside); Hawkin (Haugan?) post office; Exit zero into Idaho

  • ★★ Hank says a Montana casino-bar-restaurant-gift shop (and more) displays over 10,000 silver dollars that people gave it, which he says only readers of Neil Gaiman's American Gods might understand. (playful) (hedged) — 00:00:53 · Neil Gaiman

00:01:38 — Idaho and Washington: Zips' sandwiches and interlocking onion ring, the pass, traffic; freeway-expansion sarcasm; a car is like a tattoo for 16-year-old nerdfighters

  • ★ At Zips in Washington, Hank and Katherine played wishbone with an interlocking onion ring, and Hank won. (playful) — 00:01:38 · Katherine Green
  • ★★ Stuck in worsening western-Washington traffic, Hank mocks the claim that freeway expansion improves traffic, saying he could show graphs about it; traffic makes him cranky. (playful) — 00:02:01
  • ★★★ Hank tells 16-year-old nerdfighters that getting a car is like getting a tattoo: cool when young, but later you are stuck with it and come to despise and resent it. (playful) (hedged) — 00:02:01 · Nerdfighteria

00:02:44 — Arrival in Kirkland, time with friends, ride to the airport; sign-off; SkyMall find

  • ★★ Hank and Katherine reached Kirkland, Washington, spent time with friends, and one friend drove them to the airport around 6 a.m.; Hank thanks him. — 00:02:44

Humor (significant)

  • Driving on, Hank spots an 'Exit zero' sign. — 00:00:53 > «Exit zero? That can only mean one thing. Idaho.»
  • Having crossed into Idaho, Hank sums up the state. — 00:01:38 > «Idaho is actually exactly like Montana, except more downhill.»
  • Hank praises the Washington fast-food stop Zips. — 00:01:38 > «Zips has sandwiches that have both meat and ham.»
  • Hank advises 16-year-old nerdfighters about cars. — 00:02:01 > «getting a car is kind of like getting a tattoo.»

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