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Hank is Maybe Crazy

2012-06-22 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Personal life · personal update

In a self-described crazy, rambling catch-up before VidCon, Hank acts out a dream video idea, satirizes NutraSweet with a SciShow obesity fact, shows gifts and gear, and asks 30,000 viewers to watch The Lizzie Bennet Diaries so it can pay for itself.

What is said

00:00:00 — Skit: a man who hears every step by pressing his ear to the ground; Hank's dream of it as a Vlogbrothers video idea

  • ★ After acting out a skit, Hank says he dreamed last night of a Vlogbrothers video idea: a man who can put his ear to the ground and hear everybody. (playful) — 00:00:18 · Vlogbrothers

00:00:33 — Ticky tacky / Blu-Tack, accidental inventions, NutraSweet satire, SciShow fact on Americans' weight

  • ★★ Stretching Blu-Tack ('ticky tacky') for stress relief, Hank says he read its whole Wikipedia page and that it was created completely by accident, like many of science's greatest accomplishments. — 00:00:33 · Wikipedia
  • ★★ Hank sarcastically calls NutraSweet a fantastic scientific accomplishment for decreasing America's weight, then shows a graph of NutraSweet use and Americans' weight and feigns alarm. (satire) — 00:00:57 · United States
  • ★★★ Citing a recent SciShow episode on Americans' increasing weight, Hank says that if the whole world were the size of North Americans, it would equal almost a billion new people. — 00:01:14 · SciShow

00:01:26 — VidCon on his mind; shirts from Ningmaster Tom; new tripods; pay-Hank-to-say-anything business model; French moustache

  • ★★ Hank doesn't want to say much about VidCon because tickets are no longer on sale and viewers would be sad, but it is the biggest thing on his mind. — 00:01:27 · VidCon
  • ★ Hank shows a shirt from Ningmaster Tom that mixes a video-game code with quark names, and an art-history video-game nerd shirt. (playful) — 00:01:37
  • ★ Hank says his new tripods are from Ravelli, which didn't pay him to say so, since no one ever pays him to say anything; he jokes about charging $5 per message. (playful) — 00:01:58 · Vlogbrothers

00:02:39 — The Lizzie Bennet Diaries: steady 70,000 views per episode, 30,000 short of paying for the show; ask to watch

  • ★★★ Hank says The Lizzie Bennet Diaries gets about the same number of views every episode, rare for a web series: around 70,000, roughly 30,000 short of paying for the show. — 00:02:39 · The Lizzie Bennet Diaries
  • ★★★ Hank asks 30,000 viewers to go and watch all the episodes of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries. — 00:02:58 · The Lizzie Bennet Diaries

00:03:04 — New business cards for VidCon; one more video before LA; 'crazy times two'; battery and card full; sign-off and outtake

  • ★★ Hank is getting new business cards for VidCon and has one more Vlogbrothers video to make before VidCon, when he will be in LA. — 00:03:04 · VidCon, Los Angeles

Humor (significant)

  • Hank acts out a man pressing his ear to the ground to hear every step, then says it was a dream idea for a Vlogbrothers video. — 00:00:25 > «including you on your way to get cookies at the grocery store.»
  • Hank praises NutraSweet for decreasing America's weight and shows a graph of NutraSweet use against Americans' weight. — 00:01:05 > «Wha- How did that happen!?»
  • Hank proposes a business model: give him five dollars and he'll say anything you want in a Vlogbrothers video. — 00:02:12 > «Fart fart fart»
  • For ten dollars, the paid message gets an upgrade. — 00:02:20 > «I'll put on my French moustache while I'm saying it.»

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