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Who's in Your Hug Bucket?

2010-04-28 · letter vlog · Hank · 3:48 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria (also: History & curiosities, Books & writing, Pop culture, Personal life) · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: community lore, self promotion, song or performance

Hank marks Administrative Professionals Day and National Poetry Reading Day (reciting Shel Silverstein's 'Hug-o-War'), coins the 'hug bucket' from a commenter's 'bucket list of hugs', lists the people he would love to hug and those already in his bucket, plugs his w00tstock sets in Portland and Seattle, and asks viewers who is in their hug bucket.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Greeting; April 28 is Administrative Professionals Day

  • ★ Hank notes April 28 is Administrative Professionals Day and thanks administrative professionals, admitting he has no idea what they do. (playful) — 00:00:09

00:00:21 — National Poetry Reading Day: a haiku joke, Shel Silverstein's 'Hug-o-War', poetry that doesn't confuse

  • ★★ For National Poetry Reading Day Hank recites a joke haiku and one of his favourites, Shel Silverstein's 'Hug-o-War' (hugs instead of tugs, where everyone wins). (playful) — 00:00:21
  • ★★ Hank says he likes poetry that doesn't confuse him and hates when poets assume he knows what they mean; Shel Silverstein says what he means, just more cleverly. — 00:00:45

00:01:02 — A commenter's 'bucket list of hugs'; Hank coins the 'hug bucket'

  • ★★★ A Nerdfighter's comment about a 'bucket list of hugs' led Hank to coin the 'hug bucket': the bucket all your hugs go into, with people you want to get inside it. (playful) — 00:01:04 · hug bucket, bucket list, Nerdfighteria

    “I immediately shortened this sentiment to the "hug bucket".”

00:01:38 — People Hank has never met but wants in his hug bucket

  • ★★ Hank lists people he loves but has never met and wants to hug because he is impressed with their work, from They Might Be Giants and Wil Wheaton to Ursula Le Guin, plus many YouTubers. — 00:01:38

00:02:09 — Hank's hug bucket is already full: Katherine, John, YouTuber friends; VidCon will add more

  • ★★ Hank says his own hug bucket is sturdy and quite full: daily hugs from Katherine, which he prefers above all, plus John, Alex Day, Charlie McDonnell, Shay Carl, friends and family. (hedged) — 00:02:09 · Katherine Green, John Green, hug bucket
  • ★ Hank jokes that VidCon will be very good for his hug bucket. (playful) — 00:02:32 · VidCon, hug bucket

00:02:38 — Hank will play w00tstock in Portland and Seattle on May 7-8 with Adam Savage, MC Frontalot and Wil Wheaton; tickets

  • ★★★ Hank will play w00tstock in Portland and Seattle on May 7 and 8, meeting Adam Savage, MC Frontalot and Wil Wheaton, adding 'two and a half' names from his list. — 00:02:38
  • ★★ Hank says he will play his song 'What Would Captain Picard Do?' in front of Wil Wheaton, who in his head is still Wesley Crusher. (playful) — 00:03:02 · What Would Captain Picard Do?
  • ★★ Hank says the show is PG-13 or more; tickets are available via links in the description for people in Portland or Seattle, where he plays a 10-minute set in a three-hour show. — 00:03:10

00:03:27 — Asks who is in viewers' hug buckets; sign-off; 'you want to hug this' song

  • ★★ Hank asks viewers who is in their hug bucket, and not to just say him. — 00:03:27 · hug bucket

Humor (significant)

  • Hank thanks administrative professionals for their work. — 00:00:11

    “I don't have any idea what you do, but you administrate.”

  • For National Poetry Reading Day Hank recites a haiku that begins 'Haikus are easy, but sometimes they don't make sense.' — 00:00:30

    “Refrigerator.”

  • Praising Shel Silverstein, Hank's sentence accidentally rhymes. — 00:01:01

    “I'M A POET!”

  • Hank asks who is in viewers' hug buckets. — 00:03:27

    “And don't just say me, because, y'know, I know you wanna hug this.”

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Mentioned

Central: w00tstock

Also: People: Adam Savage · Alex Day · Charlie McDonnell · David Tennant · Felicia Day · Helen Hunt (actor) · John Flansburgh · John Linnell · Jonathan Coulton · Katherine Green · Kim Stanley Robinson · MC Frontalot · Nathan Fillion · Shay Carl · Shel Silverstein · Ursula K. Le Guin · Wil Wheaton · Ze Frank

Projects: VidCon

Works: Hug O' War · MythBusters · What Would Captain Picard Do?

Organizations: Threadless

Groups: They Might Be Giants

Terms: hug bucket

Places: Portland, Oregon · Seattle

Events: Administrative Professionals Day · National Poetry Reading Day

Characters: Wesley Crusher

Memes: bucket list

Also centred on w00tstock: Hank Raps about w00tstock...for real

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