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Brotherhood 2.0: January 15th

2007-01-15 · letter vlog · Hank · 3:31 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria (also: Books & writing, Personal life) · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: community lore, recurring series

Hank shows the new Brotherhood 2.0 website, postpones reading John's book-club pick, and agrees to the happy-dance project while correcting John's arithmetic to 42 clips, which he jokes answers the Hitchhiker's question of life, the universe and everything.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — The new Brotherhood 2.0 website at brotherhood2.com; the podcast not quite working; feeling better but with little voice

  • ★★★ Hank presents the new Brotherhood 2.0 website at brotherhood2.com and asks for suggestions or comments. — 00:00:00 · Brotherhood 2.0
  • ★★ Hank says the podcast isn't quite working yet, but they will get there. — 00:00:00 · Brotherhood 2.0
  • ★★ Hank says he is feeling better but not great; his voice is reduced to popping noises, which makes him perhaps a bass rather than his usual baritone. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:00

00:00:38 — Now maybe a bass; buying John's book-club pick at Barnes & Noble

  • ★★ Hank went to Barnes & Noble and had to ask the clerk for 'We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families' by its title; she called it catchy. (playful) — 00:00:38 · Barnes & Noble

00:01:05 — Asking for 'We wish to inform you...' by title; postponing the genocide book until about Friday; the 'agreement moment' on the happy dances

  • ★★★ Hank says the book club is still a good idea, but he must avoid John's 'genocide book' for less than a week and will probably start it for Friday. (hedged) — 00:01:05
  • ★★★ In a 'Brotherhood 2.0 agreement moment', Hank backs John's idea of doing their happy dances for 3 minutes 30 seconds as a perfect Brotherhood 2.0 project. (hedged) — 00:01:05 · Happy dance (practice), Brotherhood 2.0

00:02:14 — The University of Montana calculator: 42 clips, not 70; Daniel Biss's instant correction; a personal mathematician

  • ★★★ With a calculator from the University of Montana, Hank computes 3.5 minutes times 60 seconds divided by 5 seconds per clip: 42 clips. — 00:02:14
  • ★★ Hank says John got the math very wrong, and Daniel Biss commented within seconds of the video going up to say so; he jokes about wanting a personal mathematician. (playful) — 00:02:37 · Daniel Biss

00:03:02 — 42 as the answer to life, the universe and everything; thanks for the business card ideas, to be discussed Wednesday; sign-off

  • ★★ Hank thanks viewers for the number and quality of misprinted business card utilization ideas and says he will discuss them on Wednesday. — 00:03:02

Humor (significant)

  • Hank has to ask the bookstore clerk aloud for 'We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families'. — 00:01:05

    “And she said, that's catchy.”

  • Daniel Biss corrected John's math within seconds of the video going up. — 00:02:37

    “It must be very convenient to have your own personal mathematician. I gotta get me one of those.”

  • Since the answer to life, the universe and everything is 42, Hank deduces the ultimate question. — 00:03:02

    “So the question must be, how many Happy Dance clips does it take to fill up a Brotherhood 2.0 segment?”

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Mentioned

Central: Happy dance (practice)

Also: Barnes & Noble · Brotherhood 2.0 · Daniel Biss · Nerdfighter Book Club · The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy · University of Montana · We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

Only in the description or credits: Harry Potter (book series) · Philip Gourevitch

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Part of an exchange of 3 videos, 2007-01-12 – 2007-01-16.