Global Health and Human Hair: What the Vlogbrothers are Thankful For

2014-11-28 · list · Hank, John · 3:53 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Everyday life (also: Global development, Personal life, Science & nature, Sports) · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: calendar ritual, timely hook, self promotion, guest or collab

Together on Black Friday, John and Hank take turns saying what they are thankful for, John mostly serious (falling child mortality, Nerdfighteria, young activists, the comet landing) and Hank mostly silly (farts, human hair) plus Earth's magnetic field; they ask viewers for one serious and one silly thing, around a 20%-off DFTBA.com sale.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Black Friday greeting; DFTBA.com 20% off; John's Don's Guns ad and hoodies; 'let's start the video over'

• ★★ John: for Black Friday everything is 20% off at DFTBA.com through Monday, which he thinks is great news. (hedged) — 00:00:06 · DFTBA Records

00:00:33 — Thanksgiving framing; John: thankful child deaths are falling and poor countries may become middle-income

• ★★★ John is thankful that childhood death around the world is decreasing at an astonishing pace. — 00:00:40 · child mortality
• ★★★ John: we are maybe only 30 or 40 years from the vast majority of poor countries being middle-income countries. (hedged) — 00:00:43

00:00:51 — Alternating thanks: Hank's farts, Nerdfighteria, human hair, customer support, retail workers, young activists, Hank's dog

• ★★ John is grateful for Nerdfighteria: the chance to be part of a community committed to doing good and also having a lot of fun. — 00:01:02 · Nerdfighteria · also in: John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated
• ★ Hank is thankful for human hair, which he thinks is pretty and functional, and for people who work in customer support. (playful, hedged) — 00:01:12
• ★★ John is thankful for everyone working in retail today; he has worked a Black Friday or two and it is not easy. — 00:01:21
• ★★ John is grateful for a young generation of committed activists working hard to decrease worldsuck on many fronts in their communities, which he finds really exciting. — 00:01:29 · world suck · also in: John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated

00:01:51 — John grateful to part-own a hoodie warehouse when arriving in Missoula without winter clothes

• ★ John, arriving in Missoula, Montana, from North Carolina without winter clothes, is grateful he part-owns a warehouse that sells hoodies. (playful) — 00:01:52 · Missoula, Montana, DFTBA Records

00:02:14 — Hank's serious one: Earth's partly liquid core makes the magnetic field that lets us go outside

• ★★ Hank is thankful that Earth's core is partly liquid: currents in conductive materials produce Earth's (electro)magnetic field, which lets us go outside in the daytime without dying. — 00:02:15 · also in: John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated

00:02:30 — John grateful humans landed a thing on a comet; the slingshot

• ★★ John is grateful that humans landed a thing on a comet. — 00:02:30 · also in: John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated

00:02:44 — The miracle of AFC Wimbledon's journey to League Two; Henry and the scarf

00:02:57 — Ask: tell us a serious and a silly thing you are thankful for

• ★★ both: John and Hank ask Nerdfighteria to say one serious thing and one silly thing they are thankful for. — 00:02:59 · Nerdfighteria · also in: John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated

00:03:05 — John goes to sign posters, which calms his brain; thanks for a year of signing; Friday/Tuesday sign-off mix-up

• ★★ John has to go sign posters; he doesn't have the most normal brain, and nothing makes it calmer and happier than signing over and over. — 00:03:05 · also in: John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated
• ★★ John thanks Nerdfighters for letting him sign so many things in the last year and hopes to keep it up for the rest of his life. (hedged) — 00:03:16 · Nerdfighteria

00:03:33 — DFTBA.com Black Friday sale: 20% off through Monday

• ★★ John: everything at DFTBA.com, including signed posters, his hoodie and AFC Wimbledon scarves, is 20% off through Monday; head over to DFTBA.com. — 00:03:33 · DFTBA Records, AFC Wimbledon

In the description and comments

• ★ Description: since people call Hank the silly brother and John the serious one, they riffed on that, though both are both; they talked longer than four minutes, and the extra will go up on HanksChannel soon. — video description · hankschannel

Humor (significant)

• John recalls a gun shop owner whose ads say he doesn't want to make any money, he just loves to sell guns. — 00:00:26

  “That's how I feel about hoodies.”

• After John's thanks for falling child mortality, Hank offers his own kind of gratitude about farts. — 00:00:53

  “but with the funny sound, they're awesome.”

• John mimics a speeding comet and humanity's slingshot plan to hit it, and asks what that reminds him of. — 00:02:44

  “The miracle of AFC Wimbledon's journey to League Two!”

• John gave his young son Henry one of the (oversized) items he is holding up. — 00:02:50

  “He said, "I'm gonna grow into this."”

Threads in this video

• promised · Hank: upload the extra footage of the brothers' Thanksgiving gratitude conversation to HanksChannel (2014) — In the description, the brother writing it says they talked longer than four minutes and he is going to upload the extra on HanksChannel soon. (video description)
• restate · Is human life getting better; is now the best time to be alive? — John: childhood death around the world is decreasing at an astonishing pace. (00:00:40)
• predicted · John: within 30 or 40 years most poor countries may be middle-income countries (2014) — John: we are maybe only 30 or 40 years away from the vast majority of poor countries being middle-income countries. (00:00:43)
• restate · Can extreme poverty be ended, or are poor countries stuck? — John: we are maybe only 30 or 40 years away from the vast majority of poor countries being middle-income countries. (00:00:43)
• asked · John and Hank ask Nerdfighteria for one serious and one silly thing they're thankful for (2014) — John and Hank ask Nerdfighteria to share one serious and one silly thing they are thankful for. (00:02:59)
• reminder · John points viewers to buy the posters he signed at DFTBA.com (2014) — John: everything at DFTBA.com, including signed posters, his hoodie and AFC Wimbledon scarves, is 20% off through Monday; head over to DFTBA.com. (00:03:33)
• asked · John asks viewers to buy AFC Wimbledon Nerdfighteria scarves, proceeds to the club (2014) — John: everything at DFTBA.com, including signed posters, his hoodie and AFC Wimbledon scarves, is 20% off through Monday; head over to DFTBA.com. (00:03:33)

Where the stories that moved here went next

• John asks viewers to buy AFC Wimbledon Nerdfighteria scarves, proceeds to the club (2014) — promotion (not a request); last: reminder, 2019-04-30
• John: within 30 or 40 years most poor countries may be middle-income countries (2014) — due 2054; outcome not yet known; last: predicted, 2014-11-28
• Hank: upload the extra footage of the brothers' Thanksgiving gratitude conversation to HanksChannel (2014) — open (no report in 2014–2026); last: promised, 2014-11-28

Mentioned

People: Henry Green

Projects: DFTBA Records

Organizations: AFC Wimbledon · Don's Guns · EFL League Two

Terms: world suck

Concepts: child mortality · Earth's magnetic field · flatulence · middle-income country

Places: Indianapolis · Missoula, Montana · North Carolina

Events: Black Friday · Philae landing · Thanksgiving

Only in the description or credits: hankschannel

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