May 25th: FreeMonkey's Tour
2007-05-26 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Personal life · personal update
Hank takes Maureen Johnson's touring Free Monkey around Missoula, lowers the World Suck Index to yellow as the collection for Randy's family ends, and reflects that outliving George Bush makes him hopeful because so much future is still to come.
What is said
00:00:00 — Free Monkey befriends the cat; out on the town: Missoula's carousel
- ★ Hank says Free Monkey, staying with him, has mostly been sitting with the cat; they have become kind of friends. (playful) (hedged) — 00:00:10
- ★★ Hank takes Free Monkey out on the town in Missoula: the carousel, a haircut, and a hike up to the M, where the monkey gazes over the city. (playful) — 00:00:10 · Missoula, Montana
00:01:04 — Haircut with Free Monkey; he is Maureen's monkey, touring before her book
- ★★★ Hank explains that Free Monkey belongs to his friend Maureen, who is publishing a book, and is going on tour ahead of it. — 00:01:04 · Maureen Johnson
00:01:57 — Hike up to the M; haircut shown; World Suck Index lowered to Suck Level Yellow as the collection for Randy's family ends; celebrating the end of mourning is odd
- ★★★ To celebrate Free Monkey's day, John's happy dances in Holland and the end of the collection period for Randy's family, Hank lowers the World Suck Index to Suck Level Yellow. — 00:01:57 · world suck, Happy dance
- ★★ Hank calls it a great day: the first time the World Suck meter has shown anything besides severe. — 00:01:57 · world suck
- ★★ Hank says it is hard to celebrate the end of a period of mourning, just as nobody cheers when a flag goes back up from half-mast. — 00:01:57
00:02:40 — Mourning presidents; Hank will probably outlive George Bush, which makes him hopeful about the future he'll see; sign-off
- ★★ Thinking of national mourning for a president, Hank realises that, being much younger than George Bush, he will probably live to see him die, which briefly makes him happy, then ashamed. (hedged) — 00:02:40 · George W. Bush
- ★★★ Hank concludes the feeling is not wishing anyone dead but realising there is a lot of future still to come that he will see, which makes him hopeful. (hedged) — 00:03:04
Threads in this video
- tell · Hank hosts Maureen Johnson's touring Free Monkey in Missoula (2007) — Hank hosts Maureen's touring Free Monkey and takes him around Missoula: carousel, haircut, hike to the M. (00:00:10)
- callback · John's 'the puff' stress habit (2007) — Showing his new haircut, Hank reports that puff levels are lower. (00:01:57)
- milestone · Brotherhood 2.0 Concert Scholarship Fund, relaunched as the Fund for Decreasing Suck Levels Worldwide (2007) — The collection period for Randy's family ends and the World Suck Index drops to Suck Level Yellow, its first reading below severe. (00:01:57)
- new · Is it reasonable to be hopeful about the future? — Hank says realising how much future is still to come, and that he will see much of it, makes him hopeful. (00:03:04)
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