 Hi, good morning, John. It's Hank. It's uh, it's Friday. It's Friday October Hmm gotta get out my pocket computer the 16 so we get to hang out you and me at Minneapolis at nerdcon There's a very brief interaction between us at the end of the most recent episode of Dear Hank and John if you didn't know We have it up as we have a podcast It's called Dear Hank and John we answer your questions and give you doobies advice and bring you all the week's news from both Mars and Bay of Sea Wimbledon. I feel like I'm too tall. I feel like I set the camera up too low. There we go Hey now all the way down here. All right. My chair is real low though. I feel silly now I got my knees all right on up on my chest. So now it kind of went really great I've been literally sitting here editing nerdcon stuff but we're throwing some of it up on the YouTube channel so the people who weren't there can see it and people who Were that can experience again, which I'm getting to do as I edit it. It's really enjoyable I mean I do like to edit video it turns out it's a nice thing after eight years of doing something to realize I quite like this I knew that I liked making videos like I like like writing them and getting them up on the internet and like Looking at people looking at my thing would actually realize that I like the editing part the sitting and the clicking by myself I like the other parts the loud parts with the interaction and the people and everybody watching But I also like it quiet like quiet times just me and my computer whose name is Greg Greg to the computer. Hi Greg. How you doing? Oh, I know always the same Just make it that small noise of you cooling yourself off. Greg's a hot. He's hot I came away from nerdcon thinking a lot of different things with a lot of different like I These are video ideas and as you can tell right now by the fact that we're quite a ways in I haven't really talked about anything. I don't know which one to pick. So instead I'm just doing one of those videos where I scream at you and nothing happens Okay, a thing talking to Palo Bici Gallupi one of my favorite authors. What do I got up here? That's his one this one Shipbreaker, I think it won a thing I won staff pick. I don't think it may have won it I want a print serve and a Prince honoree. I'm not sure doesn't really matter if it was a staff pick though At Shakespeare and Company in Missoula, Montana Which you should go to if you ever have a chance because local bookstores part of the fabric that holds a community together Think about that next time you on Amazon or I'm on Amazon buying cat litter What was the most recent thing I bought on Amazon? I'm curious to find out the most recent thing I Got a secret for you. It doesn't smell great cuz it was in the dirty laundry, but here it is It's my no it's Becky shirt and one of my very favorite internet things that's happened on the internet No, it's Becky right up there with anus Georg I love anus Georg so much as better back to my normal sort of low level of sting anyway I was talking to Palo Bici Gallupi and we had this great conversation about how the formats that are available to us tend to Actually influence the stories that get told like for ages the only video formats We had were the 30-minute episode the 60-minute episode in the movie length thing But because YouTube happened suddenly there was this new format that was available to people and this format wasn't influenced by when Advertising was gonna show up despite the weirdness of dividing a day into 24 pieces and saying like each one of these That's gonna be the length of a TV episode and it was influenced just by what's the best possible format for telling a quick story Or make it a quick thing and so suddenly in 2007 you have the vlog where there's being like we can never make a video more than four minutes long We're gonna impose that artificial restriction on ourselves just like we did when we decided as a culture that days We're gonna have 24 hunks. It's all arbitrary And it's weird and it's great that we have stuck with that and like this is the format and now that I have to say Despite the fact that I only just got to the point I have to end this video because as I said we imposed an arbitrary Distinction upon ourselves and we must enforce it John. I'll see you on Tuesday