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50 THINGS!! That I'm Thankful For

2009-11-24 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Everyday life · comedy performance

For Thanksgiving, Hank says he likes the idea of many things (the national anthem, the birthday song, a day of thanks) more than how they are done, and instead lists 50 things he is thankful for, ending with gratitude for 'this marvelous life'.

What is said

00:00:00 — Hank likes the idea of things more than how they are done: the US national anthem, the Happy Birthday song, Thanksgiving gluttony

  • ★★ Hank says he likes the idea of a national anthem but not the US one, which he jokingly sums up as bombs and war; there are things about America he likes more than explosions and war. (playful) — 00:00:00 · United States
  • ★ Hank loves that everyone knows a shared Happy Birthday song but thinks the song itself is bad and just wants to get to the cake. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Hank likes the idea of a day for saying what we are thankful for, but says Thanksgiving mixes it with gorging on food and beer, which confuses what we are thankful for. (playful) — 00:00:30 · Thanksgiving

00:00:58 — List of 50 things Hank is thankful for (open source, YouTube, science, giraffes, his shirts, Mashable Award voters, his cat, Nerdfighters)

  • ★★★ Instead, for Thanksgiving, Hank says he will list 50 things he is thankful for. — 00:00:58 · Thanksgiving
  • ★★ Hank is thankful for open source software, his new phone running on it, YouTube and the first generation of YouTubers. — 00:00:58 · YouTube
  • ★ Hank says he is a little ashamed to be thankful for video games with adorable main characters and more ashamed of games where he kills people with guns. (playful) — 00:00:58
  • ★★ Hank is thankful for science and knowledge: medicine, investigative journalism, Moore's Law, Carl Sagan, XKCD, libraries, teachers and evolutionary theory, thanking Darwin and later researchers. — 00:01:44
  • ★★★ Hank thanks buyers of his This Machine Pwns n00bs shirts and people who don't think selling what he has created is selling out; he sells things he is proud of. — 00:01:44
  • ★ Hank says he is very thankful for GPS, especially after his tour. — 00:02:20
  • ★★ Hank thanks everyone who votes for the vlogbrothers in the Mashable Award. — 00:02:43
  • ★★ Hank is thankful for personal things: being his age and still finding farts funny, a wife who does too, friends, his bed, his cat, his guitar, Nerdfighters and Nerdfighteria, and his wife. (playful) — 00:02:43 · Katherine Green, Nerdfighteria

00:03:24 — Thankful for his wife; food and football; thankful for this marvelous life; sign-off

  • ★★★ Hank admits he also wants food and football, but mainly wants the world to know how thankful he is for the marvelous life we all get to live. — 00:03:24

Humor (significant)

  • Hank explains why he dislikes the US national anthem. — 00:00:00 > «Bombs, explosions, and war. That's what America's about.»
  • After singing a line of Happy Birthday, Hank complains about the song. — 00:00:30 > «Just get it over with so we can get to the cake»
  • Hank lists zombies as something he is thankful for, but only zombies that dance. — 00:01:44 > «If you're not dancing zombies, I'm not thankful for you.»
  • In his thankful list Hank names giraffes, with a qualifier. — 00:02:20 > «Giraffes, especially giraffes who are mating.»

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