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2010-10-27 · John · watch on YouTube · Global development · announcement promotion

John rounds up Nerdfighteria's world-suck reduction: Sean's Nerdfighteria-funded work in Bangladesh, This Star Won't Go Out bracelets whose full price goes to a private person's family's foundation, and a $540 leftover from a BlogTV cat-surgery fundraiser that he asks Nerdfighters to direct.

What is said

00:00:00 — Reminder of the unanswered sing-a-ma-jig question; a child of the brothers's pizza Halloween costume; Sean's Nerdfighteria-funded work in Bangladesh and the pond-sand filter

  • ★★ John notes Hank's Monday video failed to address whether John can be his sing-a-ma-jig player, and pleads with him. (playful) — 00:00:01
  • ★ John says a Nerdfighter made a child of the brothers a Halloween costume: he is going as pizza. (playful) — 00:00:01 · Halloween, Nerdfighteria
  • ★★★ John says Sean from the Uncultured Project is now in Bangladesh, working with Save the Children to help 10,000 kids in a project funded by Nerdfighteria. — 00:00:01 · Shawn Ahmed, Bangladesh, Nerdfighteria
  • ★ John asks viewers to stay tuned to Sean's Twitter and YouTube channel, linked in the doobly-doo. — 00:00:01 · Shawn Ahmed, doobly-doo
  • ★★ John says Sean has heard since arriving that the pond-sand filter Nerdfighteria funded is still up and running. — 00:00:01 · Shawn Ahmed, Nerdfighteria

00:00:42 — This Star Won't Go Out bracelets honoring a private person, sold at DFTBA.com/a private person for her family's foundation

  • ★★★ Answering Nerdfighters who asked where to get a 'This Star Won't Go Out' bracelet like his, John says they are now sold at DFTBA.com/a private person. — 00:00:42 · DFTBA Records
  • ★★ John says the bracelets honor a private person, the brothers' friend and fellow Nerdfighter who died a couple of months ago from cancer. — 00:00:42
  • ★★★ John says they bought the bracelets and Alan at DFTBA Records processes and packages every order free, so 100% of the money goes to the This Star Won't Go Out Foundation. — 00:00:42 · Alan Lastufka, DFTBA Records
  • ★★ John describes the This Star Won't Go Out Foundation as a new organization founded by a private person's family to help other families with kids who have cancer. — 00:01:11
  • ★★ John calls the foundation another way to work with a private person to make the world suck less and urges viewers to get a bracelet at DFTBA.com/a private person. — 00:01:11 · world suck

00:01:11 — The BlogTV fundraiser for James at War's cat and malaria, the forgotten $540 check, and where the money should go; thanks to Nerdfighteria; sign-off

  • ★★ John says a recent BlogTV show raised a lot of money for surgery for James at War's cat, plus an equal amount to fight malaria. — 00:01:11 · BlogTV
  • ★★ John says the surgery cost less than expected, so James at War and his wife drove from Texas to Chicago with a check for the difference, which John pocketed unopened and later found was $540. (playful) — 00:01:41 · Chicago
  • ★★★ John says the $540 is not his money but Nerdfighteria's, so Nerdfighters must decide where it goes, and asks them to say so in the comments. — 00:02:04 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★★ John's inclination is to give it to This Star Won't Go Out and then hold a matching BlogTV fundraiser for the Uncultured Project and Save the Children, or the reverse, or something else. (hedged) — 00:02:04 · BlogTV
  • ★★ John thanks Nerdfighteria for all it does to decrease world suck, from their own communities to Bangladesh, and for being awesome. — 00:02:47 · Nerdfighteria, world suck, Bangladesh

Humor (significant)

  • A Nerdfighter made baby a child of the brothers a Halloween costume, and John asks Hank to guess what he is going as. — 00:00:01 > «Pizza!»
  • Mid-story John goes looking for his 'French the Llama' llama prop and can't find it. — 00:01:41 > «This is why we're never gonna be a top-class YouTuber. No props.»
  • John redoes the check discovery with the llama prop found, opening the forgotten check from James at War. — 00:02:04 > «French the llama! $540?!»

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