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Brotherhood 2.0: February 19, 2007

2007-02-19 · John, Daniel Biss · watch on YouTube · Nerdfighteria · announcement promotion

After an opening with 'resident mathematician' Daniel Biss, John mocks viewers' first concerts from the survey responses, proposes a Brotherhood 2.0 Concert Scholarship Fund for two viewers who have never been to a concert (pledging $20 and asking Hank to match), and answers a few viewer-invented questions.

What is said

00:00:00 — Opening with Daniel Biss (in town for his brother Jonathan's Carnegie Hall concert); John turns to responses to Hank's survey and viewers' first concerts

  • ★★ John says the opening was Brotherhood 2.0's 'resident mathematician' Daniel Biss, who is there because his brother Jonathan is playing a concert at Carnegie Hall. — 00:00:00 · Daniel Biss
  • ★★ John says he has enjoyed reading, hearing and watching the responses to Hank's video survey, and that viewers mostly had terrible musical taste as children, judging by their first concerts. (playful) — 00:00:00 · Brotherhood 2.0

00:00:39 — Viewers' first concerts: a list of uncool acts, LaToya Jackson mocked; the Dead Milkmen and Weird Al opening for the Monkees as the awesome ones

  • ★ John reads out viewers' first concerts (NSYNC, Paula Abdul, Chicago, Huey Lewis and the News, New Kids on the Block, the Spice Girls, the Oak Ridge Boys, LaToya Jackson) as proof of bad childhood taste, mocking LaToya Jackson. (playful) — 00:00:39
  • ★★ John calls a few first concerts awesome: one viewer saw the Dead Milkmen, 'one of our favorite bands', but another wins with a State Fair show where Weird Al Yankovic opened for 'the three remaining' Monkees. (playful) — 00:00:39

00:01:19 — Two viewers have never been to a concert: John proposes the Brotherhood 2.0 Concert Scholarship Fund, pledges $20 and asks Hank to match; answers to viewer-invented questions begin (Ireland; the new book)

  • ★★★ Disturbed that two viewers have apparently never been to a concert, John proposes a Brotherhood 2.0 Concert Scholarship Fund for them and possibly other viewers who haven't been to one. (playful) (hedged) — 00:01:19 · Brotherhood 2.0
  • ★ John admits the fund's name is unwieldy and needs work. (playful) (hedged) — 00:01:48
  • ★★★ John pledges to give $20 to the concert scholarship fund. — 00:01:48
  • ★★ John says he hopes Hank will match his $20 pledge. (hedged) — 00:01:48
  • ★★ John liked the survey question asking people to invent their own question and answer it, so he answers some of his favorite questions that others posed. — 00:01:48
  • ★ Asked where outside the US he would own a house, John answers Ireland. — 00:01:48

00:02:17 — Last viewer question: the weirdest place John has brushed his teeth; sign-off

  • ★★ Asked the weirdest place he has ever brushed his teeth, John says only 'Good question'; the description says the video shows him brushing his teeth in unusual places. (playful) — 00:02:17

Humor (significant)

  • Reading out viewers' first concerts, John reaches LaToya Jackson and wonders whether she ever even made music. — 00:00:39 > «I thought she was just a stripper.»
  • The awesomest first concert goes to a viewer whose State Fair show had an unlikely line-up. — 00:01:19 > «And featured weird Al Yankovic opening for the three remaining monkeys.»
  • After the first-concert list, John turns mock-solemn about the survey's real scandal. — 00:01:19 > «the most disturbing thing about your first concert question is that two Brotherhood 2.0 viewers have apparently never been to a concert.»
  • Asked the weirdest place he has ever brushed his teeth, John answers only with a remark (the description says he brushes his teeth in unusual places). — 00:02:17 > «Good question.»

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