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Some New Things…

2024-11-13 · announcement · John, Hank, Sarah Urist Green, Henry Green, Alice Green · 56:40 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Projects (also: Internet & YouTube, Global development, Books & writing, Personal life) · mode: Announcements · tags: self promotion, guest or collab

In a Good Store holiday livestream, John (with Sarah, Henry and Alice dropping in) and Hank brew Keats & Co. teas, show new stationery and soft-launched undies, read orders and note $1.25 million donated in 2024, while Hank recovers from falling for a Facebook scam that turns out to be a two-step scheme caught at step one.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Going live; Hank's annoying day; John's new electric kettle

00:00:51 — Hank falls for a fake-podcaster scam and gives access to his Facebook page

  • ★★★ Hank says an email via their agent offered a podcast with a big host; on a pre-call he added an email address as manager of his Facebook page, and it was a scam. — 00:01:46 · Facebook
  • ★★ John tells Hank not to be embarrassed: literally everyone falls for this kind of normal, typical scam. — 00:02:43

00:03:37 — Brewing tea; new stationery, undies, discounts, reviews and orders; Founders Club and supply chain; Potato's giardia

  • ★★ John says Good Store now sells stationery: note cards for thank-you cards and other notes. — 00:06:37 · Good Store
  • ★★ Hank says the undies are made of modal, from beech-tree fibers: absorbent, with a different feel from cotton, and more sustainable. — 00:07:43
  • ★★ Hank says the free mini-puzzle gift is over; instead orders over $50 get 10% off and orders over $100 get 20% off. — 00:12:02 · Good Store
  • ★★ Hank says Good Store's tea and coffee only ship to the US, Canada and Europe; they might start shipping tea overseas, since tea keeps its quality far longer than coffee. (hedged) — 00:14:21 · Australia, Canada, Europe, Good Store, United States
  • ★★ Hank says the undies are a soft launch, found only by searching good.store, offered first to Founders Club members; a smaller first order tests whether people like them. — 00:18:12 · Good Store
  • ★★ Hank says the Founders Club's feedback made Good Store's tea better than it would otherwise be. — 00:18:41 · Good Store
  • ★★ John says Good Store works with local Missoula-based companies for its soap and tea, and with Sucafina and directly with farmers in Colombia for its coffee. — 00:18:41 · Missoula, Montana, Good Store
  • ★★ John says they work as hard on the supply chain as on anything, because Good Store gives all profit to charity and doesn't want to make the world worse through a bad supply chain. — 00:19:29 · Good Store
  • ★★ John says Potato has giardia and has been sick for about a week, preferring to have his diarrhea inside. — 00:23:01

00:24:40 — All profit to charity: $1.25 million donated in 2024; Newman's Own

  • ★★★ John says they started Good Store to raise money for charity, and so far in 2024 it has donated $1.25 million. — 00:24:40 · Good Store
  • ★★ John jokes that Good Store hopes to get as big as its 'frenemy' Newman's Own, the only other company giving all its money to charity. (playful) — 00:24:40 · Good Store
  • ★ It is noted, apparently by Sarah off-camera, that Paul Newman also went to Kenyon, John's college. (playful) — 00:25:09 · Sarah Urist Green

00:26:22 — Tea love and Gaetz sarcasm; emotes; undies sizing; orders; Orin sick; the Russian hack recalled; Henry visits; why oversteeped tea is bitter

  • ★★ After a bad eight days, John sarcastically calls Matt Gaetz becoming the next attorney general a huge relief, then flags the sarcasm. (satire) — 00:26:22
  • ★ John says his livestream emotes were all designed by other Nerdfighters, most by a Nerdfighter named Gia. — 00:26:52 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★★ Hank: For undies sizing, Hank advises measuring your favorite underwear laid flat, doubling the number and buying that size. — 00:27:50
  • ★★ Hank says his son Orin has been home sick for three days, with a real fever and now chest inflammation. — 00:29:29 · Orin Green
  • ★★ John contrasts Hank's broad scam, aimed at getting bitcoin for Facebook accounts, with when the Russian government came directly for them, got all their emails and chose not to release them. — 00:30:15 · Facebook
  • ★★ John says Henry is taking part in NaNoWriMo at his school. — 00:31:32 · Henry Green
  • ★ John says Henry threw his neck out for the first time two days ago, as Hank does once or twice a year. — 00:34:05 · Henry Green
  • ★★ Hank explains that oversteeped black tea turns bitter: caffeine and theanine are mostly out within three minutes, aromatics immediately, but bitter tannins keep coming out steadily. — 00:35:54

00:37:33 — John's signature count and his daily livestreams

  • ★★★ Asked for his signature count, John says he is at 31,400 of 100,000 signatures, which will take 200 hours. — 00:37:33
  • ★★ John says he livestreams every day on John's Channel and enjoys the quiet time with Nerdfighteria far more than expected, while enjoying the signing itself less than usual. — 00:37:55 · Nerdfighteria

00:38:34 — The hack was a two-step scam stopped at step one; free shipping; worry and type 2 fun

  • ★★ Hank says a cybersecurity expert on Bluesky explained such scams ask you later to add an event; his caller said they would ask that in a couple of days, so it was a two-step scam stopped at step one. — 00:39:21 · Facebook
  • ★★ Hank says free shipping does not exist except as an idea: someone, here Good Store, pays for it, and Amazon makes it hard for everyone else. — 00:40:35 · Amazon, Good Store
  • ★★ John says some worry concerns things you can prepare for, but worrying means suffering twice. — 00:41:22
  • ★★ John explains type 1 fun (just fun) and type 2 fun (fun only in retrospect), says you want some of each, and calls Hank's day type 2 fun. — 00:41:22

00:42:46 — Candles sell out; orders; Alice tastes tea; type 3 fun; nobody is paid; Ludwig; P4A prep; why deals come early

  • ★★ John offers Alice a sip of Golden Fire Ginger tea on the livestream; she likes it; he jokes she mostly eats chicken nuggets, black beans and buttery noodles. — 00:45:32 · Alice Green, Good Store
  • ★★ Asked about a third type of fun, John describes type 3 fun: fun only because you survived and it makes a good story, though it was traumatic. — 00:46:46
  • ★★★ John stresses that 100% of good.store's profits go to charity and the brothers are not paid for the livestream. — 00:47:34 · Good Store
  • ★★ Asked about P4A prep, John says they just had a board meeting and are getting the perks and prices figured out. — 00:48:24 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Hank says Good Store spreads its deals out before Black Friday because a small company can't ship as efficiently as Amazon, and a steady stream spares warehouse workers. — 00:52:33 · Amazon, Good Store

00:53:22 — The riverside Holiday Inn Express near Bend on the 2012 tour; Oregon

  • ★★ John recalls the 2012 Fault in Our Stars tour: 32 consecutive nights at Holiday Inn Expresses, including a very nice one on a river outside Bend, Oregon; Hank doubts it was near Bend. — 00:53:22 · The Fault in Our Stars

00:54:40 — Orders: North Carolina storms, Alberta health care

  • ★★ John says North Carolina was hard hit by recent storms, and where their parents used to live was very hard hit, with all their neighbors struggling. — 00:54:40
  • ★★ Reading an order from Alberta, John jokes that the buyer, not living in America, has health care, which he calls phenomenal. (playful) — 00:55:07 · United States

00:55:50 — Super chats go to PIH; sign-off

  • ★★ John says the livestream's super chats will be donated to PIH, because it would be weird to keep them. — 00:55:50 · Partners In Health

Humor (significant)

  • John has been holding a deep squat to stay in frame for the whole stream. — 00:03:37

    “Sarah brought over something called a chair.”

  • Hank worries viewers will learn from his hack that he uses Facebook. — 00:21:28

    “That might be the most embarrassing part of getting hacked, actually, is the idea that you spend time on Facebook.”

  • The brothers imagine the scammer's relief when Hank said he never goes on Facebook. — 00:21:28

    “I've had a long, bad day as a scammer, but this guy's coming through for me big time.”

  • Mishearing a question as whether Paul Newman went to heaven, John says he will inevitably get there himself. — 00:25:09

    “I'll be like just send me down send me downstairs”

  • After a bad week following the election, John offers some good news. — 00:26:22

    “fortunately matt gates is going to be our next attorney general which is a huge relief to me”

  • Even a successful hack would only have gotten Hank's Facebook, which he never uses. — 00:39:21

    “It's like somebody's stealing my Snapchat. Like, oh, I used it once in 2013 for three days.”

  • A chat member reacts to Hank's 'two-step scam'. — 00:40:58

    “two-step scam is the name of my new band”

  • John contrasts picky eater Alice with Henry, who eats almost every food, at fancy restaurants. — 00:45:57

    “I'll have the squid ink bologna.”

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Mentioned

Central: Facebook · Good Store · tea

Also: People: Alice Green · David (person) · Henry Green · John Keats · Ludwig Ahgren · Matt Gaetz · Orin Green · Paul Newman · Sarah Urist Green · Simon Sinek

Projects: Brotherhood 2.0 · hankschannel · John's Channel · Keats & Co. · Project for Awesome

Works: Awesome Undies · The Fault in Our Stars

Organizations: Amazon · Bluesky · Comcast · Google · Government of Russia · Kenyon College · Newman's Own · Partners In Health · Shopify · Snapchat

Concepts: caffeine · giardiasis · multi-factor authentication · Type 2 fun · universal health care · Worry

Places: Alberta · Australia · Bend, Oregon · Canada · Colombia · Europe · Missoula, Montana · North Carolina · Oregon · Portland, Oregon · United States

Events: Black Friday · National Novel Writing Month

Products: Red Bull · Super Chat

animal: Potato (animal)

Only in the description or credits: Gia · Lake Missoula Tea Company · Sucafina · Winslow Rojas

Also centred on tea: Sipping the Tea with Hank · Caffeine is Very… · Sorry, Hank, but Coffee Is Just Better

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