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2023-03-17 (said on 2023-03-16 — implied: date said in the video; uploaded 1 day later) · Q&A · Hank · 4:00 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria (also: Everyday life, Books & writing, Science & nature) · mode: Q&A & conversation · tags: community lore, self promotion

Making a Thursday video late after a wild week and with no ideas, Hank does what viewers suggested on Twitter: he ranks his studio chairs, says the Format isn't easier, reports on Missoula's escalators, recommends two novels, announces Crash Course in Spanish, learns that bone is piezoelectric, plugs a Hanklerfish-based t-shirt and calls a viewer who left her number.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Hank's usual unblocked Thursday for the video, a wild week, a late start with no ideas

  • ★★ Hank says that almost every Thursday he leaves the whole day unblocked to make a Vlogbrothers video to his own standard and have a good time. — 00:00:00 · Vlogbrothers
  • ★★ After a wild week, Hank has only just started at 5:59 on Thursday with no ideas, so he asked for help on Twitter and will do what viewers say. — 00:00:00 · Twitter

00:00:29 — Twitter call for ideas; ranking the chairs in his studio

  • ★ Ranking his studio chairs, Hank calls the one his mother painted his best, gives his microscope chair seven out of ten and his drum throne, which falls whenever he sits on it, zero. (playful) — 00:00:29 · Sydney Green

00:00:53 — The drum throne; 'do the format': the Format isn't easier

  • ★★ Asked to do the Format, Hank says it isn't easier: it is fun, but you still have to make the video and have all the words; this one will be mostly regular. — 00:00:53

00:01:22 — Missoula's escalators; declining to call a random number; book recommendations begin

  • ★★ Asked about how niche escalators are, Hank says Missoula recently lost its only escalator, in the Herberger's, but got another at the new airport. (playful) — 00:01:22 · Missoula, Montana
  • ★★ Hank declines a request to call a random number, but says he asked someone to leave a phone number and he will call them. — 00:01:22
  • ★★ Hank recommends She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan, which he loved: beautiful and kind of terrifying, not as horror but in what humans are capable of. — 00:01:22

00:01:51 — She Who Became the Sun and Children of Time; Crash Course in Spanish

  • ★★ Hank recommends Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky, which took nine recommendations for him to read: chemistry, war, space, evolutionary biology, humans and spiders. — 00:01:51
  • ★★★ Hank announces Crash Course in Spanish, starting with chemistry (química), produced in Spanish from the ground up; a few episodes are up and more are being made. — 00:01:51 · Crash Course

00:02:28 — Pelicans on request; bone's piezoelectric properties

  • ★ Because a viewer wants to see pelicans, Hank shows pelican after pelican. (playful) — 00:02:28
  • ★★ Prompted by a viewer, Hank reads that bone is piezoelectric: its oriented collagen responds to mechanical load, and shearing collagen fibres past each other generates a charge. — 00:02:28

00:03:13 — Hanklerfish sold out, new t-shirt design at DFTBA.com, sign-off

00:03:40 — Hank phones Amy, a viewer at Disney World

  • ★★ Hank phones Amy, who left her number; she is at Disney World as a visitor, not a cast member, and he asks her not to share his number. (playful) — 00:03:40

In the description and comments

  • ★★ The description says the Drippy Fish shirt is available at the DFTBA store only for the next seven days. — video description · DFTBA Records

Humor (significant)

  • Ranking his studio chairs, Hank reaches the last one, his drum throne. — 00:00:53

    “I'm going to give it like a zero out of 10. Every single time I sit on it, it falls.”

  • A viewer wants to see pelicans, so Hank shows them one after another. — 00:02:28

    “So here's a pelican, and another one, and another, and another”

  • Hank reads a dense explanation of bone's piezoelectric properties. — 00:02:28

    “What? You got electric bones? We've got electric bones?”

  • Hank asks the viewer he phones whether she is at Disney World as a visitor or a cast member. — 00:03:40

    “You sounded so disappointed that you were just a visitor.”

Threads in this video

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Mentioned

People: Sydney Green

Projects: Crash Course · DFTBA Records · Project for Awesome

Works: Children of Time · Hanklerfish · She Who Became the Sun

Organizations: Herberger's · Twitter

Concepts: chemistry · pelican · piezoelectricity · Spanish language

Places: Missoula Montana Airport · Missoula, Montana · Walt Disney World

Products: Escalator

Only in the description or credits: Adrian Tchaikovsky · Drippy Fish · Shelley Parker-Chan

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