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Jun 5th: S-S-S-Somethin From the Forum

2007-06-06 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Nerdfighteria · announcement promotion

Hank launches the Brotherhood 2.0 forum, named 'My Pants', which made his video late; he also recommends M. T. Anderson's Feed, frets about friends' babies, reports a Weather Channel interview request, and retracts his McCain remark.

What is said

00:00:00 — Friends' cabin at Seeley Lake; Katherine the only woman not pregnant; not baby time for Hank yet

  • ★★ Hank and Katherine visited friends' cabin at Seeley Lake this week; it was weird for Katherine to be the only woman there not pregnant. — 00:00:12 · Katherine Green
  • ★★ Hank says it doesn't feel like baby time for him yet, though many friends are having babies; he jokes that his future baby would have no friends its age. (playful) — 00:00:12

00:00:44 — A baby with no friends; books about infertility; Feed read 'in my pants': terrifying, recommended

  • ★ Hank calls that a stupid fear unless people lose the ability to have babies, the subject of two books he read lately and a movie; seeing pregnant friends reassures him. (playful) (hedged) — 00:00:44
  • ★★★ Hank has just read Feed by M. T. Anderson, says everybody was right about it, and suggests viewers buy it: it was very good. — 00:00:44
  • ★★★ Hank found Feed entirely terrifying and more pessimistic about society than he'd like, but says it's important to recognize such issues and that we live in a very strange society. — 00:01:13

00:01:37 — Weather Channel wants to interview Hank for a global-warming show; video late because of the forum

  • ★★ The Weather Channel emailed Hank asking to interview him for a new show on global warming; he doubts many will watch but thinks it's very cool. — 00:01:37 · climate change
  • ★★ Hank says today's video is late because he spent all day and much of last night making the forum John challenged him to build. — 00:01:37 · Brotherhood 2.0 forum

00:02:06 — The forum launches: address, the name 'My Pants', registration, not replacing comments, McCain retraction thread, suggestions for sections; sign-off

  • ★★★ Hank launches the Brotherhood 2.0 forum, linked in the sidebar and at the Brotherhood 2.0 site's /mypants address; registering takes about 15 seconds. — 00:02:06 · Brotherhood 2.0 forum
  • ★★ Hank names the forum 'My Pants', so discussions can be continued 'in my pants' with a double meaning, calling it one of his more brilliant ideas. (playful) — 00:02:06 · Brotherhood 2.0 forum, in your pants
  • ★★ Hank says the forum won't replace the comments but adds to them, and viewers need not use it, though he expects interesting things there. (hedged) — 00:02:35 · Brotherhood 2.0 forum
  • ★★★ In a forum thread Hank regretted his earlier remark and says he is never actually going to vote for John McCain; sometimes you just like to make your older brother mad. — 00:02:35 · Brotherhood 2.0 forum
  • ★★ Hank asks viewers to suggest, in the forum's thread on what to include, any section or sub-forum they want so he can create it. — 00:03:04 · Brotherhood 2.0 forum

Humor (significant)

  • Hank worries about having a baby now that all his friends are having them. — 00:00:44 > «it won't have any friends. Because all of the other babies will be so much older than him.»
  • Having just read Feed 'in my pants', Hank repeats one line over and over. — 00:00:44 > «I don't want a Wikipedia brain.»
  • Hank imagines how viewers will react when his global-warming interview interrupts the Weather Channel. — 00:01:37 > «Stupid! There's always something on! I just want to know what the weather is! This stupid kid's talking!»
  • Hank explains how discussions will continue in the forum he has named My Pants. — 00:02:06 > «you're not sure if the discussion is going to happen in your pants, or if you're discussing John McCain in my pants»

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