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Spicy Summer Camp Story

2012-11-06 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Personal life · comedy performance

Taking a break from election talk, Hank tells a mock-steamy 'hot, spicy summer camp story' that turns out to be about eating a salsa chip soaked in novelty hot sauce as a counselor; its moral is to vote and post a polling-place photo for a DFTVA sticker.

What is said

00:00:00 — Greeting; the election is tomorrow; set-up of a 'hot, spicy summer camp story' and the expectations it subverts

  • ★ The description thanks Jeremy Smith for helping coax the story out of Hank's memory and give it structure. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Hank notes the US election is tomorrow, the brothers have talked about it in every video for the last four or so, and expects John to tomorrow, so today he tells a story instead. — 00:00:01 · United States presidential election, United States
  • ★★ The story happened when Hank was a counselor, not a camper, at a summer camp; no campers were involved, and it took place in the kitchen with about twelve other people. (playful) — 00:00:23

00:00:57 — The story: off-duty counselors raid the kitchen; Hank eats a salsa chip soaked in novelty hot sauce and suffers all night

  • ★★ Late on a steamy August night, off-duty counselors who had put the campers to sleep raided the kitchen and found only chips and salsa. — 00:00:59
  • ★ At the time Hank was a 'huge spice wuss' who disliked spicy food and salsa chunks; his favourite was a chip that had soaked in the salsa for a long time. (playful) — 00:01:20
  • ★★★ Hank scooped up and ate a salsa-soaked chip that, unknown to him, a fellow counselor had doused in a novelty hot sauce whose label says to use one or two drops at a time. (playful) — 00:01:54
  • ★★ In agony ('I almost died'), Hank put his face in a bowl of milk, pressed it against things in the walk-in refrigerator, fell asleep with ice on his lips, and woke still burning. (playful) — 00:02:55

00:03:34 — The moral is vote; DFTVA polling-place photo for a sticker; make sure everyone you know votes; sign-off

  • ★★★ Giving the story's 'moral', Hank asks viewers to vote if they can, to photograph themselves at their polling place or with a ballot for a free DFTVA sticker, and to make sure everyone they know votes. — 00:03:34
  • ★ Hank says election time is the one time a year when it is okay to be a little bit obnoxious about getting people to vote. (playful) — 00:03:46

Humor (dominant)

  • After teasing a romantic tryst on the cafeteria tables during a summer storm, Hank deflates it. — 00:00:52 > «But no, there were actually like twelve other people there.»
  • Hank begins the long backstory of the salsa-soaked chip. — 00:02:08 > «It used to be corn for example.»
  • Describing the novelty hot sauce: named like Satan's revenge, hotness in megatons, coffin-shaped bottles. — 00:02:42 > «And lists insanity as the first ingredient.»
  • After a whole night of hot-sauce agony, Hank draws the moral of his spicy summer camp story. — 00:03:34 > «And the moral of this story is: vote!»

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