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It's Pizzamas!!! (Thoughts From the Place Where they Print Our Shirts)

2016-11-07 · documentary visit · Hank, Chris, Lou, Cory · 3:31 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Economics (also: Projects, Nerdfighteria) · mode: Personal essay · tags: calendar ritual, on location, guest or collab, recurring series, self promotion

For Pizzamas, pre-recorded before his paternity leave, Hank visits Zoo City Apparel, the shop that prints nearly every DFTBA shirt, meets its workers, and argues that businesses hide the people who make things, while seeing that complexity and hard work is more rewarding and more real.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Happy Pizzamas: Hank made the video early, before his paternity leave, and walks to a place he wants to show off

  • ★★ Hank says he is still on paternity leave but made this video early because he felt bad about not being able to make a Pizzamas video. — 00:00:02 · Hank Green, Pizzamas

00:00:28 — Visit to Zoo City Apparel: owner Chris, press operator Lou, ink mixer Cory, and how shirts are screen printed

  • ★★ Hank says Zoo City Apparel has printed shirts for the brothers for almost three years and prints nearly every shirt sold at DFTBA. — 00:00:30 · DFTBA Records
  • ★ Hank says he asked to visit during this year's (2016) Pizzamas printing, and Zoo City agreed and even provided him with pizza. — 00:00:35 · Pizzamas
  • ★ Chris, Zoo City's owner, says he has no idea why he started a print shop, ten years ago. — 00:00:46
  • ★★ Lou, a press operator, says he started printing in his garage at 17, went to school for graphic design, and it took twenty years to come back around. — 00:00:54
  • ★ Cory, the ink mixer, says he was listening to Hank's podcast before Hank walked in. — 00:01:19 · Hank Green
  • ★★ Hank explains that printing a shirt is unlike printing from a printer: Cory mixes the inks, usually by eye, and colours look different on the shirt than in the bucket, a skill developed only with time. — 00:01:24

00:01:39 — Why they work with Zoo City; businesses want you to forget the people who make things, but seeing them is more real

  • ★★ Hank says they work with Zoo City because it makes a fantastic product, cares about their shirts and knows how to get it done. — 00:01:39
  • ★★★ Hank thinks businesses want buyers to imagine products come from Star Trek-style replicators, thinking of the thing rather than the people who made it, not because those people are unhappy but because it complicates the transaction. (hedged) — 00:01:54
  • ★★★ Hank thinks it is nice and maybe important to see the complexity and hard work behind the things he buys and sells: not simple, but more rewarding and more real. (hedged) — 00:02:11
  • ★★ Hank says it is too easy never to appreciate all the people who work hard making everyone's lives a little better every day. — 00:02:24

00:02:32 — Sign-off and closing music

In the description and comments

  • ★★ The description says the brothers make a video every weekday for two weeks of Pizzamas; since this year (2016) falls in Hank's leave, guests will fill his days so there will still be 10 Pizzamas videos. — video description · Pizzamas
  • ★★ Zoo City Apparel in Missoula also prints shirts for Rhett and Link, VidCon and others; Hank likes seeing the hard work and attention to detail they put into printing and calls them very cool people. — video description · Missoula, Montana, VidCon
  • ★★ New this Pizzamas: Duncan's 'Hot and Fresh' shirt comes only in a $39 Pizzamas Pizza Box, delivered in a pizza box with a pizza cutter, a notepad and an apron. — video description · Pizzamas
  • ★★ Hank thanks this year's (2016) Pizzamas designers: Tekst, Ming Doyle, Judy Kaufmann, Rude, Julia Pott, Sara Cervantes, Duncan Gasiewicz and Rachel Calderon Navarro, each with their Pizza John design. — video description · Pizzamas, Pizza John

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Mentioned

Central: Pizzamas · Zoo City Apparel

Also: Chris (business owner, mentioned from 2016) · Cory · DFTBA Records · Lou · Star Trek (franchise)

Only in the description or credits: Duncan Gasiewicz · Judy Kaufmann · Julia Pott · Ming Doyle · Missoula, Montana · Pizza John · Rachel Calderon Navarro · Rhett and Link · Rude · Sara Cervantes · TEKST · VidCon

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