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The Insurrection of Subjugated Knowledges

2010-04-21 · John · watch on YouTube · Nerdfighteria · announcement promotion

John uses a mock lecture on Foucault to get Hank to stop watching, then launches Hank's 30th-birthday Hanko de Mayo project: Nerdfighters plant 'Hank trees' and send photos and videos by May 3, and a one-week corndog shirt funds tree planting and 30 presents for Hank.

What is said

00:00:00 — Biking in Indianapolis; Hank blew John's mind on Monday; a mock Foucault lecture to make Hank stop watching

  • ★ John vlogs while biking on a beautiful day in Indianapolis. — 00:00:00 · Indianapolis
  • ★★ John says Hank blew his mind on Monday with the size-of-the-universe video, and claims he will now blow Hank's mind with post-structuralism and Foucault's 'insurrection of subjugated knowledges'. (playful) — 00:00:00

00:00:29 — John orders Hank (and Katherine) to stop watching; Hank's 30th birthday, Hanko de Mayo, is two weeks away; what to get a man who likes only ideas

  • ★★ The Foucault talk is a ruse: John orders Hank to stop watching, asks Katherine to make him, and greets Nerdfighters free of Hank. (playful) — 00:00:29 · Katherine Green, Nerdfighteria
  • ★★★ John tells Nerdfighters that in two weeks, on May 5, it will be Hank's 30th birthday, Hanko de Mayo, and they need to get ready. — 00:00:29 · Hank Green
  • ★★ John says that when he asked Nerdfighters at a recent live show what to get Hank, they were flummoxed because Hank doesn't really like anything but ideas; then they realized he likes oxygen. (playful) — 00:00:29 · Nerdfighteria, Hank Green

00:01:05 — Hank likes oxygen: Nerdfighters plant 'Hank trees and Hank plants', film or photograph it and email John for a Hank tree planting video

  • ★★★ John asks Nerdfighters to plant seeds, saplings or plants on Hank's behalf ('Hank trees and Hank plants'), photograph or film it and email it to him for a big vlogbrothers Hank tree planting video. — 00:01:05 · Nerdfighteria, Vlogbrothers

00:01:34 — Deadline May 3 with location and count; birthday videos with corndogs as cakes; the corndog shirt, a sequel to the pizza shirt

  • ★★ The deadline is May 3; emails should give the sender's location and the number of plants or trees planted. — 00:01:34
  • ★★ John encourages viewers to upload videos for Hank's birthday on May 5 and to use corndogs as birthday cakes, since Hank likes corndogs. (playful) — 00:01:34 · Hank Green
  • ★★★ John announces a corndog shirt, a sequel to the pizza shirt, on pre-order for one week only and shipping in about three weeks, via a secret link in the description. — 00:01:34 · Pizza John, doobly-doo

00:02:03 — Corndog shirt pre-order for one week; half of John's proceeds to replanting trees, half to a fund for 30 presents for Hank; suggest cheap presents

  • ★★★ Half of John's proceeds from the corndog shirt go to planting trees where trees used to be; the other half to an account for Nerdfighteria to buy Hank 30 presents for his 30 years. — 00:02:03 · Nerdfighteria, Hank Green
  • ★★ John says that is their first present, asks viewers to suggest inexpensive presents for Hank in the comments, and says he will pick 29 of them. — 00:02:03

00:02:32 — John will pick 29 suggestions; a voiceover aside; plant in a container garden if you have no yard; give Hank more oxygen; sign-off

  • ★ Viewers without a yard can plant in a container garden; John calls on Nerdfighteria to give Hank what he wants most, a higher oxygenation level of the planet. (playful) — 00:02:32 · Nerdfighteria

Humor (significant)

  • John promises to blow Hank's mind with post-structuralism and Foucault, a pretext to make Hank stop watching. — 00:00:00 > «Okay, I figure Hank probably turned off the video around the foot in Foucault.»
  • With Hank told to stop watching, John greets Nerdfighters alone. — 00:00:29 > «For the first time in more than three years, we are free from the tyranny of Hank.»
  • Nobody knew what to get Hank, who doesn't really like anything except ideas. — 00:01:05 > «But then we realized that Hank does like oxygen.»
  • John asks senders to include their location and the number of plants or trees planted in their email, then hears the ambiguity. — 00:01:34 > «To be clear, I'm not saying that you plant the trees inside your email.»

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