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Peeing, Pooping, Prescription Drugs, and Ramen Noodle Fires

2010-03-13 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Personal life · personal update

In an eight-item catch-up list Hank reports that the foster greyhound was rehomed and he and Katherine adopted retired racer Lemon, urges greyhound adoption, says he feels better on a cheaper new drug, riffs on Canada's Olympic hockey final, and announces the Harry Potter Alliance's Helping Haiti Heal raffle winners.

What is said

00:00:00 — Things 1-2: the foster greyhound goes to a cat-free home; adopting retired racer Lemon; adopt retired racing greyhounds

  • ★★ Hank says he and Katherine fostered a greyhound hoping to keep her, but the adoption agency saw how she eyed their cat and required a home without small furry pets; she now has one down the valley. — 00:00:00 · Katherine Green
  • ★★★ After waiting for a new group of retired racing greyhounds to reach Missoula, Hank and Katherine adopted a very sweet dog whose track name was Tina Fey; they named her Lemon. — 00:00:29 · Katherine Green, Missoula, Montana
  • ★★★ Hank says retired racing greyhounds are great dogs and urges anyone wanting a dog to look for a nearby greyhound adoption agency, since many retired racers never get adopted. — 00:00:29

00:00:58 — Things 3-4: Lemon's happy poops; Hank feels better and gets a cheaper new drug after a price rise; seeing his own face when a show fades to black

  • ★★ Hank says Lemon is happiest right after pooping, which makes him nostalgic for the days when he enjoyed pooping. (playful) — 00:00:58
  • ★★★ Hank says he has been feeling much better lately and got a prescription for a new drug that costs about half as much as the old one. — 00:00:58
  • ★★ Hank says the price of his drugs went from $3.85 to $4.58 a month (as transcribed) 'by the end of this year', a huge increase, and hopes the new drug's price won't keep rising 100% a year. (hedged) — 00:00:58
    • number check: $3.85 a month — doubtful
    • number check: $4.58 a month — doubtful
    • number check: 100% every year — doubtful
  • ★ Hank hates it when a show fades to black on his full-screen computer and he sees his own slack, dull face; he wants to go do something with his life but is mid-show. (playful) — 00:01:27

00:01:57 — Things 5-7: Katherine's aquarium waterbed idea; the ramen-noodle fire; Canada's Olympic hockey final (80% watched, Air Canada delay, Edmonton water use)

  • ★ Hank passes on Katherine's question: why don't we have water beds that double as aquariums? (playful) — 00:01:57 · Katherine Green
  • ★ Hank once left ramen noodles boiling until the water boiled away and the noodles caught fire. (playful) — 00:01:57
  • ★★ Hank says hockey is proportionally a much bigger deal in Canada than the Super Bowl in America: around 80% of Canadians watched the final Olympic hockey game. — 00:01:57 · Canada
  • ★★ Hank says Air Canada delayed a flight because passengers refused to board during the game, and shows a graph of Edmonton's water use during the final (people holding their pee). (playful) — 00:01:57

00:02:42 — Thing 8: winners of the Harry Potter Alliance's Helping Haiti Heal raffle; aid planes on their way; sign-off

  • ★★★ Hank announces that winners of the Harry Potter Alliance's Helping Haiti Heal raffle have been chosen and notified by email; the team will contact them soon. — 00:02:42 · The Harry Potter Alliance, Haiti
  • ★★ Hank lists the Nerdfighter-related prizes won: a song by Hank about the winner, signed copies of all his CDs, a John Green three-book package, and a 1,000-word short story by a New York Times best-selling author. — 00:02:42 · John Green
  • ★★ Hank tells the winner of his song prize that he is going to write a song about her. — 00:02:42
  • ★★ Hank says five planes full of aid supplies are already on their way to help Haiti heal. — 00:03:11 · Haiti, The Harry Potter Alliance

Humor (significant)

  • The adoption agency saw how the foster greyhound looked at their cat. — 00:00:00 > «which is apparently the way that, you know, I look at a quarter pound double stack with cheese from Wendy's»
  • Lemon is happiest right after she poops. — 00:00:58 > «Which makes me very nostalgic for the days in which I used to enjoy pooping.»
  • Seeing his own slack, dull face on the black screen, Hank wants to go do something with his life. — 00:01:27 > «But then I know that I can't because, you know, I'm in the middle of a show.»
  • A graph of Edmonton's water use during the Olympic hockey final. — 00:01:57 > «Yeah, that's a lot of people not peeing and then having to pee.»

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