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Hank Raps about w00tstock...for real

2010-05-12 · song · Hank · 3:14 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Pop culture · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: song or performance, self promotion

Hank raps about his weekend performing at w00tstock in Seattle, meeting nerd celebrities from Adam Savage and MC Frontalot to Wil Wheaton, calling it the pinnacle of his career.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Rap opening: the second-oddest weekend of Hank's life, Portland real estate on Adam Savage's iPad, lyrics written on a barf bag on the plane home from w00tstock

  • ★★ In rap, Hank calls it perhaps the second oddest weekend of his life: he browsed Portland real estate with a MythBuster's wife on Adam Savage's iPad. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:08
  • ★★ Hank raps about the weekend he took part in w00tstock, writing the lyrics on a barf bag on the plane home after hearing Adam Savage say he likes his music. (playful) — 00:00:23

00:00:42 — Arrival in Seattle and the people backstage: MC Frontalot, Molly, the Presidents of the USA drummer, Stephen Toulouse, Paul and Storm, Wil Wheaton

  • ★★ Landing in Seattle, Hank spent three hours talking with nerdcore rapper MC Frontalot, then met Molly with her boyfriend and assistant, and hung out with the Presidents of the USA's drummer. (playful) — 00:00:42
  • ★★ He also saw his friend Stephen Toulouse, who runs bans on Xbox Live, ate pizza bought by organisers Paul and Storm, and found Wil Wheaton adorably excited. (playful) — 00:01:12

00:01:34 — On stage before a thousand geeks days after the world planted him trees; the pinnacle of his career; Wil Wheaton tweets that Hank killed it; the beat keeps going

  • ★★ Hank performed on a bill with Savage, Fraction, Frontalot and Loading Ready Run, and the crowd was so loud he couldn't believe it was happening to him. (playful) — 00:01:34
  • ★★ Days after the world was planting trees for him, Hank was up in front of a thousand geeks, living his dreams. (playful) — 00:01:53
  • ★★ Hank says he is prepared to accept w00tstock as the pinnacle of his career and doesn't mind if it's all downhill from here. (playful) — 00:02:01
  • ★★ Next morning Wil Wheaton tweeted that Hank killed it and that his set got the biggest cheer at w00tstock; Hank doesn't care if it's true, just grateful w00tstock exists. — 00:02:10

00:02:44 — Spoken outro: the show went well, link to his performance, see John on Friday for Nerdfighter questions

  • ★★ Out of rap, Hank says the show went really well and everyone was hilarious; he links his w00tstock performance in the description and an end annotation. — 00:02:47
  • ★ Hank tells John he'll see him on Friday, when John answers Nerdfighter questions. — 00:03:01 · Nerdfighteria

Humor (dominant)

  • Molly Lewis arrives with her assistant, both with a ukulele, in a riff on a notorious shock video. — 00:00:57

    “Two girls, one uke, don't fear, it won't make you puke unless you're easily nauseated by things abnormally cute.”

  • Hank describes Wil Wheaton's excitement mathematically. — 00:01:26

    “His smile was the inverse function of a frown, taken to 1024th power.”

  • Calling w00tstock the pinnacle of his career, Hank doesn't mind if it's all downhill from here. — 00:02:05

    “I mean there's an awful lot of hill there before you hit the bottom.”

  • The rap ends but the beat keeps playing, and Hank stalls. — 00:02:39

    “I-I don't have any more words... O-Okay”

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Mentioned

Central: w00tstock

Also: People: Adam Savage · Matt Fraction · MC Frontalot · Molly Lewis · Stephen Toulouse · Wil Wheaton

Works: 2 Girls 1 Cup (“Two girls, one uke”) · MythBusters

Groups: LoadingReadyRun · The Presidents of the United States of America

Places: Portland, Oregon · Seattle

Characters: Jean-Luc Picard

Products: BlackBerry · iPad · Xbox Live

Only in the description or credits: Paul and Storm

Also centred on w00tstock: Who's in Your Hug Bucket?

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