Brotherhood 2.0: February 8th
2007-02-08 · letter vlog · Hank · 3:50 · watch on YouTube
Topic: Personal life (also: Science & nature, Nerdfighteria) · mode: Personal update · tags: on location, punishment or challenge
From Englewood, Florida, Hank tours the neighbourhood, describes a banjo concert for about 400 old people, and does a 'back of napkin' calculation of the chance that someone there died while he watched; he accepts John's survey challenge.
What is said
The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).
00:00:00 — Greeting; nowhere private in the house, Hank sleeps on a sofa bed; begins a tour: Englewood, Florida
- ★ Hank says it is very hard to vlog in this house: there is nowhere private, so he talks quietly from a corner of the living room where he sleeps on a sofa bed. (playful) — 00:00:11
- ★★ Hank is in Englewood, Florida, and tours John round a normal 1950s-style Florida ranch-house neighbourhood with citrus, flowers, cacti and American flags. — 00:00:11
00:00:52 — Tour: 1950s-style ranch-house neighbourhood, citrus, cacti, flags, the donkey planter, sundial, flamingos, orange tree
00:01:34 — More trees and the canal; an event where about 400 old people watch 30 old people play banjos; Charlotte County's high age
- ★★ Someone (name unclear) took Hank to an event where about 400 old people watched about 30 old people play banjos badly: patriotic songs, Take Me Out to the Ball Game, military songs. (playful) — 00:01:34
- ★★ Hank says Charlotte County actually has the highest age of any county in the country. — 00:01:34
00:02:19 — From babies to death: a back-of-napkin calculation of the chance someone at the event died while Hank watched (0.53%)
- ★★ Having thought a lot about babies, the beginning of life, Hank found the event made him wonder whether any of the old people would die while he watched. (playful) — 00:02:19
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★ Hank says he loves 'B.O.N.' calculations, back of napkin. (playful) — 00:02:19
“I love B.O.N. calculations. Back of napkin.”
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★★ Citing census data, Hank says the average age of death of a 70-year-old is 83. — 00:02:44
- ★★★ Assuming an average age of 70 and about 400 people, Hank calculates half would be dead in 13 years (113,000 hours); 1,200 old-people hours give a 0.53% chance someone died within eyeshot. (playful) — 00:02:44
00:03:31 — Hank accepts John's challenge to answer his survey in 3:30; enjoyed John's children's book, may illustrate it; sign-off
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★★★ Hank accepts John's challenge and will answer his survey; the 3-minute-30-second limit will be quite a barrier, but he will do his best. (playful) — 00:03:31
“I accept your challenge and will answer my survey.”
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★★ Hank very much enjoyed John's children's book and is considering doing its illustrations himself. (playful, hedged) — 00:03:31
Humor (significant)
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Two cars pass Hank at the same moment on a normally empty street. — 00:00:52
“Yeah, see, now there's not going to be any cars for another two or three hours.”
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On the yard tour Hank shows a donkey planter with a cactus in it. — 00:00:52
“This is a donkey with a cactus in it that miraculously survived Catherine throwing her calculus book at it.”
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Hank computes a 0.53% chance that someone died within sight of him at the banjo event. — 00:02:44
“While that's not a very big number, it is probably the biggest that number has ever been in my life.”
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After the long death-probability calculation, Hank sums up. — 00:03:31
“So, now you know how bored I am.”
Threads in this video
- update · Hank and Katherine's yearly trip through the southeastern United States (2007) — Hank is now in Englewood, Florida, sleeping on a sofa bed in the house's living room, and is taken to a banjo concert for old people. (00:00:11)
- accepted · Hank: answer every question of his own survey in one video of 3 minutes 30 seconds or less (2007 challenge from John) — Hank accepts John's challenge to answer his survey in 3 minutes 30 seconds and says he will do his best. (00:03:31) → refers to Brotherhood 2.0: February 7, 2007
- proposed · 'Everyone Poops in My Pants' picture book: Hank's illustrated remake of John's story (2007) — Hank very much enjoyed John's children's book and is considering doing its illustrations himself. (00:03:31)
Where the stories that moved here went next
- Hank: answer every question of his own survey in one video of 3 minutes 30 seconds or less (2007 challenge from John) — performed
- 'Everyone Poops in My Pants' picture book: Hank's illustrated remake of John's story (2007) — completed; last: looked back, 2007-03-01
- Hank and Katherine's yearly trip through the southeastern United States (2007) — followed over 8 videos (2007); last: update, 2007-02-14
Mentioned
Central: Englewood, Florida
Also: back-of-the-envelope calculation · Charlotte County, Florida · John's planned picture book 'Everyone Poops in My/Your Pants' · Katherine Green · Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Replies to
- answers · Brotherhood 2.0: February 7, 2007 — “I accept your challenge and will answer my survey.”
Later videos replying to this one
- 2007-02-09 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 9, 2007 (John) — corrects — “there's a huge gaping flaw in your mathematical theorem about old people and dying and banjo concerts” (00:00:33)