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March 30th: Manliness!

2007-03-30 · letter vlog · Hank, Joel · 3:40 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Personal life · mode: Personal update · tags: on location, guest or collab

Consoling himself after sending John an email he regrets, Hank joins his hunter friend Joel for a venison dinner and plays up the evening's stereotypical manliness, while noting women could do the same things and that hunting is normal in Montana.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Regret over the email to John; off to hunter friend Joel's for a venison dinner; a deer head in the garden

  • ★★ Hank says he can't believe he sent John that email; he tried to do something nice and this is what happens. (playful) — 00:00:10
  • ★★ To console himself, Hank goes to his friend Joel's house: Joel, a hunter and fisherman with dogs and guns, has invited Hank and Katherine to a venison steak dinner. (playful) — 00:00:10 · Katherine Green

00:00:48 — Cowboy-song montage; Joel opens a beer with an elk antler: peak manliness

  • ★★ After Joel opens a beer bottle with an elk antler, Hank says the evening packed in so much manliness that it can't get much more manly. (playful) — 00:01:18

00:01:57 — Caveat on stereotypical manliness; Joel describes the young deer they are eating

  • ★★ Hank adds he is not saying a woman couldn't do all those things, because absolutely they could; it was only stereotypically manly. — 00:01:57
  • ★ Joel: Asked about the meat at dinner, Joel says it mixes two kinds of small young deer. — 00:01:57

00:02:41 — Joel on the ecology of shooting young deer; the meat is tender; manliness quotient raised; Montana hunting; sign-off

  • ★★ Hank relays that Joel, whom he calls an ecological scientist, discussed hunting ethics and ecology off camera: it is healthier for a herd to lose its younger animals. — 00:02:41
  • ★ Hank jokes that what really makes the difference is that young deer taste a lot better; the meat is tender and flavorful. (playful, hedged) — 00:02:41
  • ★★ Hank tells a viewer he hopes the viewer is satisfied that Brotherhood 2.0's manliness quotient has increased substantially. (playful) — 00:03:16 · Brotherhood 2.0
  • ★★ Hank tells viewers disturbed by the images that he lives in Montana, where people have guns and shoot animals; that's how things are done there. — 00:03:16 · Montana

Humor (significant)

  • Hank finds a deer head being used to fertilize Joel's garden. — 00:00:10

    “I wonder if there's any other deer parts in here.”

  • Joel opens a beer with an elk antler after curling and drinking beer. — 00:01:18

    “I really don't think that you can get much more manly than that.”

  • Joel explains culling young deer is healthier for the herd. — 00:02:41

    “the young ones taste a heck of a lot better.”

  • Hank addresses a viewer, telling him the dinner has made the channel manlier. — 00:03:16

    “the manliness quotient for Brotherhood 2.0 has increased substantially.”

Mentioned

Central: Joel

Also: Brotherhood 2.0 · gender role · Katherine Green · Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys · Montana

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