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2010-12-27 · letter vlog · Hank · 3:58 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Personal life (also: Projects, Nerdfighteria) · mode: Personal update · tags: calendar ritual, self promotion, civic or action cta

Back after the holiday break, Hank shows his Christmas presents with jokes, mentions the brothers' aim to sell t-shirts without increasing world suck, and asks Nerdfighters what they enjoyed in 2010 and want from the channel as the brothers restructure it for 2011.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Back after a skipped day; asks John what he got for Christmas; a new light for night-time videos in Montana

  • ★ Hank says it feels like a long time since there's been a vlogbrothers video; skipping one day gave him 'Vlogbrothers withdrawal'. (playful) — 00:00:00 · Vlogbrothers
  • ★★ Hank asks John what he got for Christmas, so that he can then tell John everything he got; at the end he asks Nerdfighters too. — 00:00:07 · Christmas
  • ★★ Hank got a light, so he can now make videos at night, which helps because in a Montana winter nighttime starts at four. (playful) — 00:00:14 · Montana

00:00:23 — John's gift book on t-shirts, politics and world trade; the t-shirt business without increasing world suck; send photos in vlogbrothers shirts

  • ★★ John gave Hank a book about t-shirts, politics and world trade (title not said). — 00:00:23 · John Green
  • ★★★ Hank says the book is useful because he and John are now in the t-shirt business and want to be in it in a way that does not increase world suck. — 00:00:27 · world suck
  • ★★ Hank asks anyone who got or bought vlogbrothers, DFTBA or Nerdfighter t-shirts to send photos of themselves wearing them to hankandjohn@gmail.com, which may go on the website. — 00:00:39 · Vlogbrothers, DFTBA, nerdfighter

00:00:51 — Gifts with gags: Katherine's bag of guilty-pleasure food, toys from his mom, a 'Tibetan prayer cheese cutter', a bottle-opener key, science fiction, the lighting-kit manual

  • ★★ Katherine gave Hank a heavy bag that turned out to be full of his favourite guilty-pleasure foods, including fudge rounds, of which one is left. (playful) — 00:00:51 · Katherine Green
  • ★ Hank loves that his mom still gets him toys for Christmas, and that he still likes getting them. — 00:01:16 · Sydney Green, Christmas
  • ★★ A gift from his mom that Hank took for a musical instrument, enjoying the noise it made, turned out to be a cheese cutter. (playful) — 00:01:33 · Sydney Green
  • ★★ Hank got a keychain, the first time he and Katherine have had separate keychains, with a key cut into a bottle opener that Katherine bought on Etsy. — 00:02:02 · Katherine Green
  • ★ Hank got a bunch of science fiction novels, which he says is really all he wants. — 00:02:15

00:02:28 — Clip of Hank a year ago wishing for a clampable time-lapse camera; now he has one, the 'nerdiest scepter'

  • This part replays Internetless in Maine (2009-09-15); what is said here is covered on that page: 1 statement.

00:03:04 — Asks John and Nerdfighters what they got and what they enjoyed in 2010; restructuring the channel for 2011; sign-off

  • ★★★ Hank asks Nerdfighters what they most enjoyed about the vlogbrothers in 2010 and what they would like the brothers to do with their time on the channel. — 00:03:08 · Nerdfighteria, Vlogbrothers
  • ★★★ Hank says the brothers restructure the channel every year, are discussing it now, and have ideas viewers will be excited about for doing more awesome things in 2011. — 00:03:18 · Vlogbrothers

Humor (significant)

  • Hank's 'organic and all-natural' guilty-pleasure food has 62% of the daily sodium. — 00:01:26

    “It's like just, a can of ocean.”

  • Hank thought the cheese cutter from his mom was an instrument that said a prayer every time he hit it. — 00:01:56

    “It's like a Tibetan prayer cheese cutter.”

  • His favourite part of the lighting kit is the one-page instruction manual's helpful tips. — 00:02:20

    “please avoid the tumble of the lamps!”

  • The time-lapse camera rig he got doubles as the nerdiest scepter of all time. — 00:02:49

    “I am the king, the king of the nerds!”

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Central: Christmas

Also: DFTBA · Etsy · Katherine Green · Montana · nerdfighter · Sydney Green · world suck

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