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Peeing, Pooping, Prescription Drugs, and Ramen Noodle Fires

2010-03-12 · list · Hank · 3:31 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Personal life (also: Sports, Global development) · mode: Personal update

In an eight-item catch-up list Hank reports that the foster greyhound was rehomed and he and Katherine adopted retired racer Lemon, urges greyhound adoption, says he feels better on a cheaper new drug, riffs on Canada's Olympic hockey final, and announces the Harry Potter Alliance's Helping Haiti Heal raffle winners.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Things 1-2: the foster greyhound goes to a cat-free home; adopting retired racer Lemon; adopt retired racing greyhounds

  • ★★ Hank says he and Katherine fostered a greyhound hoping to keep her, but the adoption agency saw how she eyed their cat and required a home without small furry pets; she now has one down the valley. — 00:00:00 · Katherine Green
  • ★★★ After waiting for a new group of retired racing greyhounds to reach Missoula, Hank and Katherine adopted a very sweet dog whose track name was Tina Fey; they named her Lemon. — 00:00:29 · Katherine Green, Missoula, Montana
  • ★★★ Hank says retired racing greyhounds are great dogs and urges anyone wanting a dog to look for a nearby greyhound adoption agency, since many retired racers never get adopted. — 00:00:29

00:00:58 — Things 3-4: Lemon's happy poops; Hank feels better and gets a cheaper new drug after a price rise; seeing his own face when a show fades to black

  • ★★ Hank says Lemon is happiest right after pooping, which makes him nostalgic for the days when he enjoyed pooping. (playful) — 00:00:58
  • ★★★ Hank says he has been feeling much better lately and got a prescription for a new drug that costs about half as much as the old one. — 00:00:58
  • ★★ Hank says his old drug's monthly price rose sharply within a year; he hopes the new, half-price one won't keep rising '100% every year'. (hedged) — 00:00:58
    • a number in question (doubtful): "$3.85 a month" — check against the recording
    • a number in question (doubtful): "$4.58 a month" — check against the recording
    • a number in question (doubtful): "100% every year" — check against the recording
  • ★ Hank hates it when a show fades to black on his full-screen computer and he sees his own slack, dull face; he wants to go do something with his life but is mid-show. (playful) — 00:01:27

00:01:57 — Things 5-7: Katherine's aquarium waterbed idea; the ramen-noodle fire; Canada's Olympic hockey final (80% watched, Air Canada delay, Edmonton water use)

  • ★ Hank passes on Katherine's question: why don't we have water beds that double as aquariums? (playful) — 00:01:57 · Katherine Green
  • ★ Hank once left ramen noodles boiling until the water boiled away and the noodles caught fire. (playful) — 00:01:57
  • ★★ Hank says hockey is proportionally a much bigger deal in Canada than the Super Bowl in America: around 80% of Canadians watched the final Olympic hockey game. — 00:01:57 · Canada
  • ★★ Hank says Air Canada delayed a flight because passengers refused to board during the game, and shows a graph of Edmonton's water use during the final (people holding their pee). (playful) — 00:01:57 · Canada

00:02:42 — Thing 8: winners of the Harry Potter Alliance's Helping Haiti Heal raffle; aid planes on their way; sign-off

  • ★★★ Hank announces that winners of the Harry Potter Alliance's Helping Haiti Heal raffle have been chosen and notified by email; the team will contact them soon. — 00:02:42
  • ★★ Hank lists the Nerdfighter-related prizes won: a song by Hank about the winner, signed copies of all his CDs, a John Green three-book package, and a 1,000-word short story by a New York Times best-selling author. — 00:02:42 · John Green
  • ★★ Hank tells the winner of his song prize that he is going to write a song about her. — 00:02:42
  • ★★ Hank says five planes full of aid supplies are already on their way to help Haiti heal. — 00:03:11

Humor (significant)

  • The adoption agency saw how the foster greyhound looked at their cat. — 00:00:00

    “which is apparently the way that, you know, I look at a quarter pound double stack with cheese from Wendy's”

  • Lemon is happiest right after she poops. — 00:00:58

    “Which makes me very nostalgic for the days in which I used to enjoy pooping.”

  • Seeing his own slack, dull face on the black screen, Hank wants to go do something with his life. — 00:01:27

    “But then I know that I can't because, you know, I'm in the middle of a show.”

  • A graph of Edmonton's water use during the Olympic hockey final. — 00:01:57

    “Yeah, that's a lot of people not peeing and then having to pee.”

Threads in this video

Where the stories that moved here went next

Mentioned

Central: Lemon · The Harry Potter Alliance

Also: People: Katherine Green

Organizations: Air Canada · Wendy's

Concepts: animal ethics · health care prices in the United States

Places: Canada · Edmonton · Haiti · Missoula, Montana

Events: Olympic Games · Super Bowl

animal: Cameo · dog (greyhound)

Also centred on Lemon: World's Stupidest Dog · Kindness · Thanks, Lemon

Also centred on The Harry Potter Alliance: Win The Awesomest Prizes EVAR! · With Esther · I Like Balls

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