October 19th: Missoula to Seattle
2007-10-19 · letter vlog · Hank · 3:22 · watch on YouTube
Topic: Personal life · mode: Personal update · tags: on location, community lore
Hank, filming on an airplane, presents a comic travelogue of his and Katherine's drive from Montana through Idaho to Kirkland, Washington, including a silver-dollar casino, Zips' onion ring and bad traffic, and warns 16-year-olds that a car is like a tattoo.
What is said
The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).
00:00:00 — On an airplane; a travelogue inspired by the Australian secret siblings; driving through Montana; name-the-song contest; dropped camera
- ★★★ Hank is filming from an airplane; before the flight he and Katherine drove from Montana through Idaho into Washington, which he shows as a travelogue. — 00:00:03 · Montana, Katherine Green
- ★★ Hank says he made a kind of travelogue taking a cue from the brothers' Australian secret siblings. (playful) — 00:00:03 · secret sibling
- ★★ Hank says anyone who correctly identifies the song he is singing in the car will win a Nerdfighter prize. (playful) — 00:00:03 · Nerdfighteria
00:00:53 — Stop at a Montana casino with over 10,000 silver dollars on its walls (American Gods aside); Hawkin (Haugan?) post office; Exit zero into Idaho
- ★★ Hank says a Montana casino-bar-restaurant-gift shop (and more) displays over 10,000 silver dollars that people gave it, which he says only readers of Neil Gaiman's American Gods might understand. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:53 · Montana
00:01:38 — Idaho and Washington: Zips' sandwiches and interlocking onion ring, the pass, traffic; freeway-expansion sarcasm; a car is like a tattoo for 16-year-old nerdfighters
- ★ At Zips in Washington, Hank and Katherine played wishbone with an interlocking onion ring, and Hank won. (playful) — 00:01:38 · Katherine Green
- ★★ Stuck in worsening western-Washington traffic, Hank mocks the claim that freeway expansion improves traffic, saying he could show graphs about it; traffic makes him cranky. (playful) — 00:02:01
- ★★★ Hank tells 16-year-old nerdfighters that getting a car is like getting a tattoo: cool when young, but later you are stuck with it and come to despise and resent it. (playful, hedged) — 00:02:01 · Nerdfighteria
00:02:44 — Arrival in Kirkland, time with friends, ride to the airport; sign-off; SkyMall find
- ★★ Hank and Katherine reached Kirkland, Washington, spent time with friends, and one friend drove them to the airport around 6 a.m.; Hank thanks him. — 00:02:44 · Katherine Green
Humor (significant)
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Driving on, Hank spots an 'Exit zero' sign. — 00:00:53
“Exit zero? That can only mean one thing. Idaho.”
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Having crossed into Idaho, Hank sums up the state. — 00:01:38
“Idaho is actually exactly like Montana, except more downhill.”
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Hank praises the Washington fast-food stop Zips. — 00:01:38
“Zips has sandwiches that have both meat and ham.”
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Hank advises 16-year-old nerdfighters about cars. — 00:02:01
“getting a car is kind of like getting a tattoo.”
Threads in this video
- told · Hank and Katherine's October trip: drive from Montana to Seattle, then fly on (2007) — Hank reports from an airplane after driving with Katherine from Montana through Idaho to Kirkland, Washington, seeing friends and being driven to the airport. (00:00:03)
- asked · Hank asks viewers to identify the song he sings in the car, for a Nerdfighter prize (2007) — Hank says whoever correctly identifies the song he is singing in the car wins a Nerdfighter prize. (00:00:03)
- callback · The brothers' 'secret siblings' (2007) — Hank credits 'our Australian secret siblings' as the cue for his travelogue. (00:00:03)
Where the stories that moved here went next
- Hank and Katherine's October trip: drive from Montana to Seattle, then fly on (2007) — followed over 5 videos (2007); last: update, 2007-11-06
Mentioned
Central: Montana · Washington
Also: People: Abraham Lincoln · Katherine Green · Neil Gaiman
Works: American Gods
Organizations: SkyMall · Zip's Drive-in
Places: Haugan, Montana · Idaho · Kirkland, Washington (“Kirkland, Captain Kirkland, Washington”) · silver-dollar casino in Montana
Only in the description or credits: secret sibling · wynflete
Later videos replying to this one
- 2007-10-23 · October 23rd: Some Explaining to Do… (Hank) — continues — “I'm very sorry to the people who were offended by my statements that sometimes people begin to resent their tattoos later in life.” (00:00:58)