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PEEPS for Bangladesh

2009-03-08 · challenge / punishment · John · 3:00 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Global development (also: Personal life) · mode: Advocacy & fundraising · tags: fundraising ask, punishment or challenge, community lore, timely hook, heavy topic

John admits he worried more about a gas explosion 200 miles from Hank than about a deadly army mutiny in Bangladesh, argues intimacy leads to empathy, and announces his half of the Pwning Google Challenge: one Peep per $10 raised for the Uncultured Project.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Newsday: the puff returns; worry for Hank and Katherine after the Bozeman gas explosion despite distance, Florida and Hank's late mornings; Truth or Fail spam apology

  • ★★ John says a gas leak caused an explosion of three buildings in Bozeman, Montana, and his first thought was the hope that Hank and Katherine were okay. — 00:00:00 · Hank Green, Katherine Green, Montana
  • ★★ John apologises for the Truth or Fail subscription-box spamming problem, saying they didn't expect it and it will never happen again. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • ★ John notes Bozeman is 202 miles from Hank's house in Missoula, Hank was in Florida, and the explosion happened at 8:19 in the morning. — 00:00:00 · Missoula, Montana, Florida

00:00:41 — The Bangladesh army mutiny; John worried more about Bozeman than Bangladesh, where nerdfighter money is at work: intimacy leads to empathy

  • ★★ John says an army mutiny in Bangladesh, incompetent but deadly, killed many people and endangered the fragile government. — 00:00:41
  • ★★ John says nerdfighters have raised thousands of dollars, now being spent to rebuild schools and build water filtration systems in rural Bangladesh. — 00:01:15 · Nerdfighteria

  • ★★★ John confesses he worried more about the Bozeman explosion than the situation in Bangladesh, and argues that intimacy leads to empathy. — 00:01:15 · empathy

    “intimacy leads to empathy”

  • ★★ John says he has work to do on his 'caveman brain' about people he doesn't physically know, and suggests maybe using people you know to connect you to strangers, like poor people in Bangladesh. (hedged) — 00:01:15

00:01:45 — Using people you know to connect to people you don't: John's half of the Pwning Google Challenge, one Peep per $10 for the Uncultured Project; Shawn's school video; donation link

  • ★★★ John announces his half of the Pwning Google Challenge: for every $10 raised for the Uncultured Project by March 22 he will eat one Peep on March 23. — 00:01:45 · Peeps
  • ★★ John says he will then make a video of himself eating the Peeps, and months later Shawn will make a video showing the real school viewers built. — 00:02:15 · Peeps
  • ★ John jokes that nerdfighting is a full-service emotional operation that takes you to all the possible feelings. (playful) — 00:02:15 · nerdfighter
  • ★★ John says the link to donate and more information about Shawn's work are in the sidebar. — 00:02:15

00:02:42 — Sign-off: Question Tuesday world record attempt, Hank's overdue Carrie Bradshaw dress-up, new closing dance moves

  • ★★ John says he will try to set the Question Tuesday world record on Tuesday, and tells Hank to dress up as Carrie Bradshaw soon to avoid a YouTube mutiny. (playful) — 00:02:42 · Question Tuesday, YouTube

In the description and comments

  • ★★ John notes that Shawn Ahmed, though not a tax-deductible charity, fastidiously documents where all the donated money goes. — video description

Humor (significant)

  • John wonders what could have caused the Bozeman explosion near Hank's home state. — 00:00:00

    “Maybe someone got so mad about the truth or fail subscription box spamming problem that it led to violence.”

  • John lists reasons Hank was safe from the 8:19 a.m. Bozeman explosion, ending on Hank's sleeping habits. — 00:00:41

    “if there were an explosion that did not involve your bed... You're fine.”

  • Hank will laugh at the Peeps video and cry at the school video. — 00:02:15

    “Nerdfighting is a full-service emotional operation. We take you to all the possible feelings.”

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Mentioned

Central: 2009 Bangladesh Rifles revolt · Bangladesh · empathy · Pwning Google Challenge · Uncultured Project

Also: People: Katherine Green · Shawn Ahmed

Projects: Truth or Fail

Organizations: YouTube

Rituals: Question Tuesday

Terms: nerdfighter · the Puff

Places: Bozeman, Montana · Florida · Missoula, Montana · Montana

Events: 2009 Bozeman explosion

Characters: Carrie Bradshaw

Products: Peeps

Also centred on Bangladesh: Nerdfighting in Bangladesh · Three Things · A Video about Videos

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