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Funny Noises from Tennessee

2008-11-06 · letter vlog · Hank · 2:58 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: song or performance, community lore, on location

On the road after the Knoxville gathering, Hank says goodbye to Brotherhood 2.1, teaches the Nerdfighter chant from the tour gatherings, makes the funny noises John says Nerdfighters want, and asks for jokes for a planned 50 Jokes video.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Inexplicably yellow; Hank has lost his camcorder on the road; last video of Brotherhood 2.1

  • ★★ Hank says that on the road he has lost his camcorder and does not know where he left it. — 00:00:06
  • ★★★ Hank says this is the last video of Brotherhood 2.1 and bids it goodbye. — 00:00:06 · Brotherhood 2.0

00:00:29 — Preferring fewer videos a week; John never made a video for Hank on the road; teaching the Nerdfighter chant; John says Nerdfighters only want funny noises

  • ★★ Hank won't be sad to see Brotherhood 2.1 go: he preferred one or two videos a week, and fewer will be easier now they are always on the road, though viewers won't like it. — 00:00:29 · Brotherhood 2.0
  • ★ Hank teases that John never edited and recorded a whole video for him on the road, as Hank did for John, and suggests John might do so next week (week of 10 November 2008). (playful, hedged) — 00:00:29 · John Green

  • ★★★ Hank offers a song on Thursday rather than Wednesday: a Nerdfighter chant he and John have done at Tour de Nerdfighting gatherings, which he wants everyone to know. — 00:00:29 · Tour de Nerdfighting, Song Wednesday

    “nerdfighters and the world is in luck because we increase the awesome and we decrease the suck”

  • ★★ Hank asks viewers to listen to the chant a few times and learn the words so they can sing it together at Nerdfighter events. — 00:01:08

  • ★★ On the way home from the Knoxville gathering, John told Hank not to worry about his late video, since all Nerdfighters want from him is funny noises. (playful) — 00:01:08 · John Green, Nerdfighteria

00:01:38 — Funny noises; printers misread So Jokes as 50 Jokes; idea for a 50 Jokes video

  • ★★ The printers of Hank's album misread So Jokes as 50 Jokes on the order form; the album itself is unaffected. — 00:01:38 · Jokes in four minutes
  • ★★★ The misreading gives Hank an idea: a video of 50 jokes, mixing his own favourites with viewers' jokes. (hedged) — 00:01:38 · Jokes in four minutes
  • ★★★ Hank asks viewers to put jokes in the comments so he can choose favourites for the 50 Jokes video. — 00:01:38 · Jokes in four minutes

00:02:07 — Jokes in the comments; gatherings going well; tomorrow Gadsden, then a day off; sign-off

  • ★★ Hank says the gatherings keep going well and he messes up his songs less often, though he has not yet played one without a mistake. — 00:02:07 · Tour de Nerdfighting
  • ★★ Tomorrow the tour will be in Gadsden, Alabama, followed by a day off before moving on. — 00:02:35

Humor (significant)

  • John tells Hank that all Nerdfighters want from his video is funny noises; Hank then screams at length. — 00:01:08

    “Is that all you want from me? Funny noises? Because I can do that.”

  • The printers misread his album title So Jokes as 50 Jokes. — 00:01:38

    “So Jokes doesn't make any sense at all, but 50 Jokes does.”

  • Hank still hasn't got through a single gathering song without messing up. — 00:02:07

    “That's just part of life, I guess. Messing up.”

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Mentioned

Central: Brotherhood 2.0 · Jokes in four minutes (“a video with 50 Jokes”) · Nerdfighter chant

Also: Alabama · Gadsden, Alabama · Knoxville, Tennessee · So Jokes · Song Wednesday · Tour de Nerdfighting · world suck

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