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2010-12-28 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Personal life · personal update

Back after the holiday break, Hank shows his Christmas presents with jokes, mentions the brothers' aim to sell t-shirts without increasing world suck, and asks Nerdfighters what they enjoyed in 2010 and want from the channel as the brothers restructure it for 2011.

What is said

00:00:00 — Back after a skipped day; asks John what he got for Christmas; a new light for night-time videos in Montana

  • ★ Hank says it feels like a long time since there's been a vlogbrothers video; skipping one day gave him 'Vlogbrothers withdrawal'. (playful) — 00:00:00 · Vlogbrothers
  • ★★ Hank asks John what he got for Christmas, so that he can then tell John everything he got; at the end he asks Nerdfighters too. — 00:00:07 · Christmas
  • ★★ Hank got a light, so he can now make videos at night, which helps because in a Montana winter nighttime starts at four. (playful) — 00:00:14 · Montana

00:00:23 — John's gift book on t-shirts, politics and world trade; the t-shirt business without increasing world suck; send photos in vlogbrothers shirts

  • ★★ John gave Hank a book about t-shirts, politics and world trade (title not said). — 00:00:23 · John Green
  • ★★★ Hank says the book is useful because he and John are now in the t-shirt business and want to be in it in a way that does not increase world suck. — 00:00:27 · world suck
  • ★★ Hank asks anyone who got or bought vlogbrothers, DFTBA or Nerdfighter t-shirts to send photos of themselves wearing them to hankandjohn@gmail.com, which may go on the website. — 00:00:39 · Vlogbrothers, DFTBA, nerdfighter

00:00:51 — Gifts with gags: Katherine's bag of guilty-pleasure food, toys from his mom, a 'Tibetan prayer cheese cutter', a bottle-opener key, science fiction, the lighting-kit manual

  • ★★ Katherine gave Hank a heavy bag that turned out to be full of his favourite guilty-pleasure foods, including fudge rounds, of which one is left. (playful) — 00:00:51 · Katherine Green
  • ★ Hank loves that his mom still gets him toys for Christmas, and that he still likes getting them. — 00:01:16 · Christmas
  • ★★ A gift from his mom that Hank took for a musical instrument, enjoying the noise it made, turned out to be a cheese cutter. (playful) — 00:01:33
  • ★★ Hank got a keychain, the first time he and Katherine have had separate keychains, with a key cut into a bottle opener that Katherine bought on Etsy. — 00:02:02 · Katherine Green
  • ★ Hank got a bunch of science fiction novels, which he says is really all he wants. — 00:02:15

00:02:28 — Clip of Hank a year ago wishing for a clampable time-lapse camera; now he has one, the 'nerdiest scepter'

  • ★★ Hank replays a clip of himself about a year ago wishing for a housed time-lapse camera that clamps to a tree or pole; he now has one, which doubles as the 'nerdiest scepter'. (playful) — 00:02:28

00:03:04 — Asks John and Nerdfighters what they got and what they enjoyed in 2010; restructuring the channel for 2011; sign-off

  • ★★★ Hank asks Nerdfighters what they most enjoyed about the vlogbrothers in 2010 and what they would like the brothers to do with their time on the channel. — 00:03:08 · Nerdfighteria, Vlogbrothers
  • ★★★ Hank says the brothers restructure the channel every year, are discussing it now, and have ideas viewers will be excited about for doing more awesome things in 2011. — 00:03:18 · Vlogbrothers

Humor (significant)

  • Hank's 'organic and all-natural' guilty-pleasure food has 62% of the daily sodium. — 00:01:26 > «It's like just, a can of ocean.»
  • Hank thought the cheese cutter from his mom was an instrument that said a prayer every time he hit it. — 00:01:56 > «It's like a Tibetan prayer cheese cutter.»
  • His favourite part of the lighting kit is the one-page instruction manual's helpful tips. — 00:02:20 > «please avoid the tumble of the lamps!»
  • The time-lapse camera rig he got doubles as the nerdiest scepter of all time. — 00:02:49 > «I am the king, the king of the nerds!»

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