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August 1: It's Too Hot

2007-08-02 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Everyday life · comedy performance

On his Wednesday song day Hank wishes Harry Potter a happy birthday, then sings 'It's Too Hot', a comic song about a sleepless, sweaty heat wave in Montana that includes a jab at people who doubt climate change.

What is said

00:00:00 — Greeting; Wednesday means a song; happy birthday to Harry Potter, same age as Hank; Hank would probably have been a Ravenclaw

  • ★★ Hank says it is Wednesday, which means he has to sing a song. — 00:00:10 · Song Wednesday
  • ★ Hank wishes Harry Potter a happy birthday (yesterday) and notes they are the same age, so they would have been at school at the same time. (playful) — 00:00:10
  • ★ Asked about it, Hank thinks he would probably have been a Ravenclaw, not in Harry's house, but likes to think he would have stayed to the end. (playful) (hedged) — 00:00:10

00:00:31 — Song 'It's Too Hot', written lying awake at 2 a.m.: sweating in bed, the window fan, the UN heat-death figure, climate change and 102 degrees in Montana, ice cubes in his pants

  • ★★ Hank wrote much of the song lying awake at 2 a.m., unable to sleep because of too much caffeine and because of the heat the song is about. — 00:00:31
  • ★★★ In the song Hank complains that it is too hot: sweating in bed, lying on the floor in boxers and a washcloth, his will to live melting and his state on fire. (playful) — 00:01:04
  • ★★ Hank sings that the United Nations says 11,000 people die of heat each year. (playful) — 00:01:56
  • ★★ Hank sings that anyone would have to be deranged not to believe in climate change when it is 102 degrees in Montana after dark. (playful) — 00:02:25 · climate change, Montana
  • ★ In the song Hank sweats in his basement watching 'Hotness Prevails' by Winekone, calling him his favorite YouTube star. (playful) — 00:02:25

Humor (dominant)

  • Hank wakes at 2 a.m., strips off and slowly realises what is wrong. — 00:00:31 > «And a fire between the mattress and my butt»
  • Hank lists the only ways he can bear the heat. — 00:01:04 > «making out with the window fan, hoping the mailman doesn't look in today»
  • After citing a UN figure of 11,000 heat deaths a year, Hank casts the sun as hunting him. — 00:01:56 > «but the burning sun, it wants 11,001, but it's not gonna get me, you hear?»
  • Hank does a funny dance in the song and explains why. — 00:02:25 > «cause I went and got some ice cubes and I put them in my pants»

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