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Being Alive

2025-10-08 · song · Hank · 5:07 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Philosophy & meaning (also: Projects, Nerdfighteria, Personal life) · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: song or performance, calendar ritual, self promotion, community lore

During Pizzamas 2025 Hank revives the spirit of Song Wednesday with 'Being Alive', a sincere original song weighing modern anxieties (health, online power, endless scrolling, a world on fire) against small comforts; he then admits things feel chaotic and plugs Pizzamas flash sales and a D&D one-shot.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Return to a Wednesday song: Song Wednesday recalled, the lights set up to look cool

  • ★★ Hank recalls Song Wednesday: from 2007 he did a song every Wednesday, in practice every two weeks because the brothers traded off days; it has been a while. — 00:00:00 · Song Wednesday
  • ★ Hank says he set up the lights to look slightly cooler, since looking kind of cool is part of music. (playful) — 00:00:12

00:00:21 — Hank performs his original song 'Being Alive'

  • ★★★ Hank performs his original song 'Being Alive', which sets anxieties about his health, online power, endless scrolling and a world on fire against small comforts: a sleeping child, working lights, his cats, and staying alive. — 00:00:21

00:03:00 — Hank on feeling that everything is chaotic and that he may have mislaid some bricks

  • ★★ After the song Hank says he doesn't know what to do with that: it is just very chaotic in here at the moment, and maybe he is not the only one feeling that way. — 00:03:00

00:03:46 — Pizzamas: two days left, discounts, flash sales, the DM screen and the D&D one-shot; sign-off

  • ★★ Hank says that, much as he has benefited from and loves the place he actually lives (gesturing, not at Montana), he feels he may have mislaid some of the bricks. (hedged) — 00:03:46 · Montana
  • ★★ Hank says only two days of Pizzamas are left. — 00:03:46 · Pizzamas
  • ★ Hank suggests a mailing list just for the people who buy this shirt, since they would like each other. (playful) — 00:03:46
  • ★★ Hank says there will probably be discounts near the end of Pizzamas, when they find out which products were overordered; future Hank will announce them. (hedged) — 00:03:46 · Pizzamas
  • ★★★ In a later insert Hank says Pizzamas is running 24-hour flash sales, one item at a time, with more to come on items he does not yet know. — 00:04:16 · Pizzamas
  • ★★ Hank says viewers already missed the flash sale for the DM screen, made for D&D 5e with replaceable cards, with art by Sam Schultz of SciShow Tangents. — 00:04:16
  • ★★ Hank calls the D&D one-shot probably their coolest item and reads its creator's Bluesky post: DFTBA asked for another D&D game, full of nerdfighter jokes but enjoyable without being a superfan. (hedged) — 00:04:16 · DFTBA Records, Nerdfighteria
  • ★★ Hank adds that the one-shot means 12 dollars to charity, and that a discounted bundle of this year's (2025) and last year's (2024) one-shots is available. — 00:04:37

In the description and comments

  • ★★ In the description Hank says he is nervous: his music used to aim at being funny and interesting more than at artistic pride, and this song goes in a different direction. — video description
  • ★★ In a channel comment Hank confirms that the viewers are the many little judges of his worth that the song describes. — creator comment
  • ★ In a channel comment Hank explains he does not honk because he does not want a physical fight with a drunk guy in a big truck. (playful) — creator comment

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Mentioned

Central: Being Alive · Pizzamas D&D one-shot (this video)

Also: Bluesky · DFTBA Records · Dungeons & Dragons · Montana · Pizzamas · Pizzamas one-shot · SciShow Tangents · Song Wednesday

Only in the description or credits: Sam Schultz

Later videos replying to this one

  • 2025-10-09 · I Like Being Alive (John) — continues — “Hank, your song yesterday didn't just give this video its title.” (00:00:00)

Part of an exchange of 3 videos, 2025-10-08 – 2025-10-10.