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America Stands for Awesome

2008-07-04 · letter vlog · Hank · 2:36 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Personal life · mode: Personal update · tags: on location, timely hook

Hank spends the Fourth of July at a Missoula baseball game and fireworks, joking about American excess while saying that sometimes life is just about having fun.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Watching baseball 'for America' in Missoula; a nerdfighter in training; the home team hasn't won at home

  • ★★★ Hank spends the Fourth of July watching a baseball game in Missoula, Montana, which he says he does 'for America'. (playful) — 00:00:00 · Missoula, Montana, United States, Montana
  • ★★ Hank says there are probably very few nicer places in the world to watch baseball than Missoula, but the home team 'kind of sucks a lot'. (hedged) — 00:00:00 · Missoula, Montana
  • ★★ Hank says the local team has not won a home game yet this season. — 00:00:00 · Missoula, Montana

00:00:41 — Losing 11-2; July 4 wishes to everyone; joke to British nerdfighters about seceding

  • ★ At the game Hank films, the home team is losing 11 to 2 in the top of the fourth, which he finds discouraging. — 00:00:41
  • ★★ Hank calls the game an excellent way to spend July 4th and hopes viewers find a fun way to spend it too, even outside America. — 00:00:41 · United States

00:01:10 — How Americans celebrate: fireworks, baseball, hot dogs; sometimes life is about fun; Hank's ballpark food

  • ★★★ Hank says Americans celebrate with simulated battles of fireworks, baseball and hot dogs, things bad for bodies and the environment, but sometimes life is just about having fun. (playful) — 00:01:10 · United States
  • ★ Doing 'what culture said' he should, Hank ate a chicken hot dog with green chilies, mini corn dogs and cotton candy. (playful) — 00:01:10

00:01:37 — Close-up fireworks in Montana; loving America; Fourth of July sign-off

  • ★ Hank films the Montana fireworks from very close up and remarks that it hardly seems safe. (playful) — 00:01:37 · Montana
  • ★★ Watching the fireworks, Hank says this is why 'we can't help but love America'. (playful) — 00:01:37 · United States

Humor (significant)

  • Wishing everyone a happy July 4th, Hank addresses possible British viewers about American independence. — 00:00:41

    “Hopefully there are no British Nerdfighters who think that we should not have seceded from your oppressive rule.”

  • Hank lists how Americans celebrate independence: a simulated battle with fireworks, baseball, hot dogs. — 00:01:10

    “do various other things that are bad for our bodies and the environment for America. Hooray!”

  • Fireworks go off very close to the crowd in Montana. — 00:01:37

    “This hardly seems safe. But I imagine they've done the calculations.”

Mentioned

Central: Independence Day (United States)

Also: Gryffindor · Missoula, Montana · Montana · nit · United Kingdom · United States

Only in the description or credits: patriotism

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