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Raw Onion, Twerking, and Speech Jam

2013-08-30 · Q&A · Hank · 3:44 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria (also: Projects, Everyday life, Books & writing, Pop culture, Science & nature) · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: community lore, song or performance, self promotion

Hank makes a grab-bag video from viewer suggestions (a sidewalk interview, a Lizzie Bennet Diaries song, an Emma recommendation, a Wonder Woman rant, raw onion, stress advice, a Speech Jammer) and closes with a Subbable update asking subscribers to re-up after a payment snafu.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Nerdfighteria as inspiration; asking for ideas on Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram; Instagram comments gripe; today's video follows viewer suggestions

  • ★★ Hank says Nerdfighteria is his biggest inspiration: when he lacks a video idea he asks on Twitter, Tumblr and Instagram, and this video is made from their suggestions. — 00:00:10 · Nerdfighteria, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram
  • ★ Hank complains that Instagram on the web does not show all the comments, calling it an uncomplicated missing feature. (playful) — 00:00:19 · Instagram

00:00:33 — Brazilian-music dance transition and interview with a sidewalk

00:00:52 — Song about the Lizzie Bennet Diaries idea winning an Emmy

  • ★★ In a song, Hank recalls asking Bernie what he thought of Pride and Prejudice characters as vloggers, and marvels that the idea won an Emmy award. (playful) — 00:00:52

00:01:04 — Book recommendation: Jane Austen's Emma, soon to be adapted as a vlog series by friends

  • ★★ Hank recommends reading Jane Austen's Emma because some friends of his are about to adapt it into a video blog series. — 00:01:04 · Emma Approved

00:01:14 — Rant: Warner Bros turned down Joss Whedon's Wonder Woman movie

  • ★★ Hank says a Wonder Woman movie needs to exist and comically says whoever turned it down should eat a can of poop-flavored poop. (playful) — 00:01:16
  • ★ Hank says Joss Whedon wanted to make a Wonder Woman movie and Warner Brothers turned him down. — 00:01:18

00:01:28 — Eating raw onion and flopping around on the deck

00:01:48 — How Hank deals with two kinds of stress

  • ★★★ Hank deals with stress in two ways: stress he can fix he handles as fast as possible, because putting it off makes it worse; stress he cannot fix he thinks through and accepts. — 00:01:48 · The Fault in Our Stars

00:02:10 — Trying a Speech Jammer app; twerking transition

  • ★★ Hank explains that speech jammers work by playing your voice back into your ears right after you speak, interfering with cognition so that speaking becomes very difficult. — 00:02:12

00:02:54 — Update: SciShow at a million subscribers; Subbable payment snafu, ask to re-up subscriptions; sign-off

  • ★★ Hank reports that SciShow and Crash Course are going well and SciShow just hit a million subscribers. — 00:02:54 · SciShow, Crash Course
  • ★★★ Hank says Subbable had a snafu with Amazon and recurring payments: monthly subscriptions were cancelled because they were not following all of Amazon's rules; now they are. — 00:03:00 · Subbable, Amazon
  • ★★★ Hank asks Subbable subscribers to sign back in and re-up their subscriptions; Subbable has been very successful, and if everyone re-subscribes Crash Course will be safe, but only 50% have so far. — 00:03:12 · Subbable, Crash Course

In the description and comments

  • ★ At a viewer's suggestion (per the description), Hank eats raw onion and finds it pretty good, having been ready to say how terrible it was. (playful) — video description

Humor (significant)

  • Hank interviews a sidewalk about what it is like to be a sidewalk; the sidewalk has no complaints except tree roots. — 00:00:49

    “Don't get me started on tree roots.”

  • Hank rants that Warner Bros turned down Joss Whedon's Wonder Woman movie. — 00:01:25

    “The person who made that decision needs to eat a can of poop flavored poop.”

  • Hank eats raw onion, braced to report how terrible it is. — 00:01:31

    “Pretty good, actually.”

  • Wearing the Speech Jammer, Hank tries to explain how it works and his own delayed voice derails him. — 00:02:26

    “It interferes with the cog-cognitive cognitive cog-”

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Mentioned

Central: Emma (novel) · psychological stress · Subbable · Wonder Woman

Also: People: Bernie Su · Joss Whedon

Projects: Crash Course · SciShow

Works: Emma Approved · Pride and Prejudice · The Fault in Our Stars · The Lizzie Bennet Diaries

Organizations: Amazon · Emmy Award · Instagram · Tumblr · Twitter · Warner Bros.

Concepts: delayed auditory feedback

Products: Speech Jammer

Only in the description or credits: Jane Austen

Also centred on psychological stress: Stress and Joy · Let's Talk About Stress! · Finding Respite in 2018 · Doing This Makes Me Happy, but Maybe it Doesn't' Seem that Way? · I feel like I can't talk about this… · I've Not Been Doing Well

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