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America Stands for Awesome

2008-07-05 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Personal life · personal update

Hank spends the Fourth of July at a Missoula baseball game and fireworks, joking about American excess while saying that sometimes life is just about having fun.

What is said

00:00:00 — Watching baseball 'for America' in Missoula; a nerdfighter in training; the home team hasn't won at home

  • ★★★ Hank spends the Fourth of July watching a baseball game in Missoula, Montana, which he says he does 'for America'. (playful) — 00:00:00 · Missoula, Montana, United States
  • ★★ Hank says there are probably very few nicer places in the world to watch baseball than Missoula, but the home team 'kind of sucks a lot'. (hedged) — 00:00:00 · Missoula, Montana
  • ★★ Hank says the local team has not won a home game yet this season. — 00:00:00 · Missoula, Montana

00:00:41 — Losing 11-2; July 4 wishes to everyone; joke to British nerdfighters about seceding

  • ★ At the game Hank films, the home team is losing 11 to 2 in the top of the fourth, which he finds discouraging. — 00:00:41
  • ★★ Hank calls the game an excellent way to spend July 4th and hopes viewers find a fun way to spend it too, even outside America. — 00:00:41

00:01:10 — How Americans celebrate: fireworks, baseball, hot dogs; sometimes life is about fun; Hank's ballpark food

  • ★★★ Hank says Americans celebrate with simulated battles of fireworks, baseball and hot dogs, things bad for bodies and the environment, but sometimes life is just about having fun. (playful) — 00:01:10 · United States
  • ★ Doing 'what culture said' he should, Hank ate a chicken hot dog with green chilies, mini corn dogs and cotton candy. (playful) — 00:01:10

00:01:37 — Close-up fireworks in Montana; loving America; Fourth of July sign-off

  • ★ Hank films the Montana fireworks from very close up and remarks that it hardly seems safe. (playful) — 00:01:37 · Montana
  • ★★ Watching the fireworks, Hank says this is why 'we can't help but love America'. (playful) — 00:01:37 · United States

Humor (significant)

  • Wishing everyone a happy July 4th, Hank addresses possible British viewers about American independence. — 00:00:41 > «Hopefully there are no British Nerdfighters who think that we should not have seceded from your oppressive rule.»
  • Hank lists how Americans celebrate independence: a simulated battle with fireworks, baseball, hot dogs. — 00:01:10 > «do various other things that are bad for our bodies and the environment for America. Hooray!»
  • Fireworks go off very close to the crowd in Montana. — 00:01:37 > «This hardly seems safe. But I imagine they've done the calculations.»

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