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December 21: Hank Accepts His Punishment

2007-12-22 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Nerdfighteria · announcement promotion

Hank announces that Nerdfighters voted for him to perform Nerdfighter songs for at least an hour, accepts it, and books a happy-hour gig at the Badlander in Missoula on December 26; he recounts an anxious dream about forgetting his chords and notes that Brotherhood 2.0 ends on Monday.

What is said

00:00:00 — Greeting; gag about how iMovie cutting makes Hank talk fast; Hank starts telling last night's dream of playing guitar on stage

  • ★ Hank says he talks fast and rarely stumbles in his videos because he cuts them in iMovie, which is like cutting and pasting. (playful) — 00:00:11
  • ★★ Hank tells John he dreamed he had to play guitar on stage before hundreds of people but couldn't remember any of his Nerdfighter songs and his guitar wasn't working. (playful) — 00:00:11

00:00:53 — Dream continued: Hank as a member of the Violent Femmes who can't play Blister in the Sun

  • ★★ In the dream Hank was a member of the Violent Femmes who didn't know the chords to 'Blister in the Sun', while the crowd waited for it; a little girl could stop the world ending. (playful) — 00:00:53

00:01:22 — Dream ending and Hank's anxiety; vote result: Hank's punishment is an hour of Nerdfighter songs with Strawberry Hill and Peeps

  • ★★ Hank says that, after the dream, it's obvious he has some anxiety about this. (hedged) — 00:01:22
  • ★★★ Hank announces the vote result: his punishment is performing Nerdfighter songs for at least an hour, drinking Strawberry Hill wine blended with Peeps if he needs a drink; he says he deserves it. — 00:01:22 · Punishment, Peeps

00:01:50 — Hank accepts the punishment and announces a happy-hour gig at the Badlander in Missoula on December 26, inviting Missoula Nerdfighters

  • ★★★ Hank announces a gig booked through a friend: happy hour at the Badlander bar in Missoula, Montana, December 26, 6:30 to 7:30, playing guitar. — 00:01:50 · Missoula, Montana
  • ★★ Hank asks Nerdfighters who live in Missoula to come to the Badlander gig. — 00:02:19 · Nerdfighteria, Missoula, Montana
  • ★ Hank says the bar owner agreed readily since he would otherwise just be playing a CD. — 00:02:19

00:02:48 — Hank doesn't know his own chords or words; video schedule over Christmas, a Christmas Eve surprise, punishment video on Thursday, Brotherhood 2.0 ends Monday; a Nerdfighter sign

  • ★★ Rehearsing, Hank finds his dream accurate: he doesn't know the chords, and largely not the words, to his own songs, and will probably need a music stand. (playful) (hedged) — 00:02:48
  • ★★ Hank says there will be a surprise for all the Nerdfighters on Christmas Eve. — 00:02:48 · Nerdfighteria, Christmas
  • ★★ Hank lays out the holiday schedule: his next video is Thursday, when he posts his punishment, so he makes no regular vlog until Monday. — 00:02:48
  • ★★★ Hank says Monday is the last day of Brotherhood 2.0 and that he is kind of sad about it. — 00:03:18 · Brotherhood 2.0
  • ★ Hank shows a Nerdfighter sign somebody made him and thanks them. — 00:03:18

00:03:40 — Hank's 'existential crisis' about the gig; sign-off

  • ★★ Hank says he may be having an existential crisis but will try to enjoy Christmas rather than practise guitar the whole time, because he is freaked out. (playful) (hedged) — 00:03:40 · Christmas

Humor (significant)

  • Explaining that iMovie editing is virtual cutting and pasting, Hank looks ahead to future kids. — 00:00:11 > «Kids who are born in 15 years, they won't know what paste is! They will think that it's Control-V!»
  • Hank's nightmare of failing to play the Violent Femmes' big song resolves in an unexpected way. — 00:01:22 > «It would have sucked a lot more if it hadn't turned out that, like, the world was ending»
  • After booking an hour-long gig, Hank practises his Nerdfighter songs. — 00:02:48 > «And it turns out that my dream is shockingly accurate. I don't know the chords to my songs.»

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