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Put a little bit of cinnamon in it

2024-09-30 · letter vlog · Hank · 4:30 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Projects (also: Personal life) · mode: Personal update · tags: on location, self promotion, calendar ritual, community lore

In a diary of his Ohio trip, Hank launches the Book of Good Times Kickstarter from a Cleveland hotel, fixes its shipping settings from a venue bathroom, talks with honor students at a Youngstown event, joins a secret Pizzamas pizza party with nerdfighters, and plugs Pizzamas shirts and the book.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Cleveland hotel; launching the Book of Good Times Kickstarter; the rental Buick

  • ★★ Hank is in a Cleveland hotel after arriving late and sleeping at the airport hotel, and is about to drive to Youngstown. — 00:00:00
  • ★★★ Before leaving the room Hank will launch the Book of Good Times Kickstarter; he is very nervous, having never done anything like it. — 00:00:13 · Kickstarter
  • ★★★ Hank launches the Kickstarter on camera: it is live, and he thinks it is going well. — 00:00:28 · Kickstarter
  • ★★ Asked who wrote the book, Hank keeps up the fiction that the book wrote itself and also its Kickstarter page. (playful) — 00:00:28 · Kickstarter

00:01:03 — The flopped Eminem TikTok joke; fixing the Kickstarter shipping from a venue bathroom

  • ★★ Hank keeps thinking about a TikTok joke from six months ago, Eminem ordering a coffee from a barista and asking for a little cinnamon; it did poorly, partly because his delivery wasn't Eminem-like enough. (playful) — 00:01:03 · TikTok
  • ★★ Hank discovers the Kickstarter's shipping settings are wrong and fixes them from the venue bathroom on his phone's Wi-Fi, hoping no one notices. — 00:01:20 · Kickstarter

00:01:50 — The Youngstown event: honor students, dinner, backstage editing, the moderator and helper, a secret Pizzamas pizza party

  • ★★ After an interview with a student journalist, Hank has a question-and-answer conversation with 40 honor students, which goes great. — 00:01:50
  • ★★ Hank says a room of 40 is the scariest thing for him, far more than a thousand people, because they are individuals you get a sense of. — 00:02:05
  • ★ At the event dinner Hank talked to people and had no time to eat. — 00:02:10
  • ★★ Backstage Hank edits his book, because otherwise he gets too freaked out. — 00:02:19
  • ★ Hank is fairly sure he fixed the Kickstarter shipping problem. (hedged) — 00:02:30 · Kickstarter
  • ★ Hank says he has no idea what they will do for backers who got the book with the wrong shipping. (unsure) — 00:02:30
  • ★ After the talk Hank introduces Sarah, who moderated, and Thurston, a helper who he jokes is a bigger John Green fan and was listening to Crash Course. (playful) — 00:02:49 · John Green, Crash Course
  • ★★ Hank went to a very secret Pizzamas pizza party with nerdfighters, some invited and some who happened to be at the same restaurant; it was great. — 00:03:10 · Pizzamas, Nerdfighteria

00:03:30 — Back at the hotel: Pizzamas shirts and Book of Good Times plugs, sign-off and an end song

  • ★★ Back at his hotel, Hank says the event was super good and he talked to many cool, lovely people. — 00:03:30
  • ★ Many people wore shirts from past Pizzamases; Hank was the only one in this year's (2024). — 00:03:45 · Pizzamas
  • ★★ Hank says this year's (2024) Pizzamas shirts are only available during this Pizzamas and points viewers to pizzamas.com or the Pizzamas app. — 00:03:50 · Pizzamas
  • ★★ Hank says the Book of Good Times is linked in the description and believes all hardcovers guaranteed by Christmas have sold out, while the rest remain available. (hedged) — 00:03:59 · Christmas

Humor (significant)

  • Hank is asked who wrote the Book of Good Times. — 00:00:28

    “The book wrote itself, you guys. The book also wrote the Kickstarter page.”

  • The rental-car agent promises Hank a good car: a Buick. — 00:00:28

    “they still make Buicks?”

  • Hank's flopped TikTok joke has Eminem order at a barista, punning 'cinnamon' on his name; Hank redoes the delivery. — 00:01:03

    “should have been, like, “Gonna get a little bit of cinnamon in it””

  • Hank praises the people at his Youngstown event. — 00:02:49

    “These people are really great. Except for a couple of them. They know who they are. And Chris”

  • Hank introduces Thurston, who is helping at the event. — 00:02:49

    “I think he's a bigger John Green fan than a Hank Green fan.”

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Mentioned

Central: The Book of Good Times

Also: People: Chappell Roan · Eminem

Projects: Crash Course · Pizzamas

Organizations: Kickstarter · TikTok

Places: Cleveland · Youngstown, Ohio

Events: Christmas

Also centred on The Book of Good Times: OK, I MESSED UP.

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