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Week 1 Condensed!

2007-01-23 · Hank, John · watch on YouTube · Nerdfighteria · comedy performance

A condensed re-edit of Brotherhood 2.0's first week: Hank's launch rules, John's challenge proposal, the list of the brothers' differences, John's failed toilet-paper-and-Nepal challenge and Hank's wine-chugging variant of the Strawberry Hill challenge.

What is said

00:00:00 — Hank (January 1 clip): no more textual communication, only video blogging; the plan emailed from a Lake Tahoe New Year's Eve party

  • ★★★ Hank tells John they will no longer communicate by any textual means: no instant messaging or email, only video blogging. — 00:00:11 · No textual communication
  • ★★ Hank says he emailed John the plan the night before from a New Year's Eve party in Lake Tahoe. — 00:00:11

00:00:41 — Hank's plan: alternating daily videos for a year, punishments for a missed weekday; John (January 2 clip): 2 h 13 min to download a 2-minute video

  • ★★★ From January 1st Hank sends a video blog, John replies the next day, and so on until the year is up; missing a weekday video brings punishments. Brotherhood 2.0 commences. — 00:00:41 · Brotherhood 2.0, Punishment
  • ★★ John says downloading Hank's 2-minute-1-second video took 2 hours 13 minutes because he is at their parents' house, 'the last residence' in the US with dial-up. (playful) — 00:00:41

00:01:10 — John at their parents' dial-up house; proposal of challenges: toilet paper and Nepal, Strawberry Hill wine, challenge days

  • ★★★ Besides the agreed punishments, John proposes periodic challenges: eating five sheets of toilet paper while discussing Nepal's politics, drinking Strawberry Hill wine without hurling; maybe Thursday and Friday challenge days. (playful) (hedged) — 00:01:10

00:01:52 — Hank (January 3 clip): before a flight after sledding; look-alike complaints (The Proclaimers, Nelson); a list of their differences: pudginess, beer on his wife's MacBook

  • ★★ Hank finds being John's brother frustrating: people say they look alike, some even liken them to The Proclaimers, which beats being likened to Nelson. (playful) — 00:01:52
  • ★★★ Hank proposes the brothers make a video-blog list of all the ways in which they are very different people. — 00:02:20
  • ★★ Via the list Hank jokes that John has got pudgy while Hank will, and confesses spilling beer on his wife's MacBook, which wouldn't boot until reinstalling the battery worked next morning. (playful) — 00:02:20 · Katherine Green

00:02:50 — The MacBook boots again; John (January 4 clip) on Little Pisgah Mountain: Hank lives by his values, John recycled only after An Inconvenient Truth and didn't vote

  • ★★★ Continuing the list, John says one of the most important differences is that Hank lives in line with his values and John does not. (hedged) — 00:02:50
  • ★★ John says he didn't recycle until he watched An Inconvenient Truth and is still iffy on it, and didn't vote in 2000 though he could have in Florida, comically blaming himself for George Bush. (playful) — 00:02:50 · United States presidential election, Florida, George W. Bush

00:03:34 — John blames himself for George Bush; different happy dances; John attempts his own toilet-paper-and-Nepal challenge

  • ★ John adds that the brothers have vastly different happy dances. (playful) — 00:03:34 · Happy dance
  • ★★ Since Hank ignored the toilet-paper-and-Nepal challenge, John attempts it himself, then gives up, blaming two-ply paper. (playful) — 00:03:34
  • ★ Mid-challenge, John says rebels (ASR 'malice rebels') control more than half of Nepal. (playful) — 00:03:34

00:04:32 — John gives up (two-ply); Hank (January 5 clip) home in his basement among things he loves

  • ★ Hank is home in his basement surrounded by things he loves: orange juice, Mental Floss magazine, Benjamin Franklin and a map of Narnia. (playful) — 00:04:32

00:04:57 — Map of Narnia; Sutter Home instead of Strawberry Hill; a commenter's variant; corn dogs; toast and the tongue twister

  • ★★★ Finding no Strawberry Hill where he lives, Hank substitutes Sutter Home White Zinfandel, and takes a commenter's variant: drink a glass, then say the Nepal phrase fast without vomiting. (playful) — 00:05:21
  • ★★ Hank says eating corn dogs is the only way he can chug an alcoholic beverage without puking, guessing his stomach won't let go of the corn dog. (playful) (hedged) — 00:05:21
  • ★★ Noting the wine cost only $3.65, Hank toasts 'To Brotherhood' and says the tongue twister. (playful) — 00:05:58 · Brotherhood 2.0

Humor (significant)

  • John explains why downloading Hank's 2-minute video took over two hours. — 00:00:41 > «that I'm at mom and dad's house, the last residence in the United States of America with dial-up internet.»
  • People think the brothers look like the twin rock duo The Proclaimers. — 00:01:52 > «Which is admittedly better than people thinking that we look like the twin rock duo, Nelson.»
  • Listing their differences, Hank starts with weight. — 00:02:20 > «Whereas, in the next few years, Hank Green will get kind of pudgy.»
  • John admits he didn't vote in 2000 though he could have in Florida. — 00:03:34 > «Ah, George Bush, it's all my fault! God, I'm so stupid!»
  • John gives up on eating five sheets of toilet paper. — 00:04:32 > «I think this stuff is two-ply, too.»
  • Hank explains how he can chug wine without puking. — 00:05:21 > «oh, that corn dog is so good, I can't let go of it.»

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