This is Going to Seem Dumb, but Stick with Me
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- Опубліковано 2 сер 2024
- In which Hank talks about his Sidewalk Moment.
This video was initially around a minute longer, and most of what I talked about was:
1. How that comment about interviewing sidewalks weirdly made me see the world in a different way.
2. A little more about making things with the understanding that they are bigger than you and your life and that that is the most rewarding way I have found to experience creation.
3. A little about the history of Missoula, which tripled in population between 1900 and 1910, which is why a lot of sidewalks were laid down in the 1910s and 1920s.
4. A little about how Missoula treats these maker stamps. Everyone sorta unanimously tries to protect them, so you'll walk around and entire sidewalks will have been replaced, but the one square that has the makers stamp will have been left, even if it's a little cruddy and eroded and cracked. Sometimes, when they have to be replaced, people will even cut the stamp out and sink it in the ground next to the sidewalk.
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I’d like to thank sidewalks everywhere for keeping me off the streets!
And we just walk all over them
This is beautiful! 😂
Today I hate to walk on a street because the innocent sidewalk was being crushed my innocent tree branches ):
Well, I don't know about the US, but where I live, Sidewalks are actually Part of the street. I'm from Germany and our streets are devidet into different areas. The whole Thing ist called street ("Straße" in German). The Part of the Street, where Cars Drive ist called "Fahrbahn" ( Roadway in english I guess). The Part where people Walk ist called "Bürgersteig" (Sidewalk in english). There are other parts of the street, Like "Parkstreifen" or "Einfahrt" but the ones I named above, are the Most Importamt ones. To get your drivers license ("Führerschein" in German) you have to know this stuff in Germany.
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I liked this video. This is my kind of video. It made my heart feel bigger. I would like to listen to a 12-minute review of sidewalks on a five-star scale. Maybe you will write that for me. :) -John
vlogbrothers I would like to listen to such a 12-minute review; perhaps in a podcast format
Guest appearance on The Anthropocene Reviewed?
I agree with everyone on making this an Anthropocene Reviewed segment/guest spot.
Anthropocene Reviewed
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I get this sometimes when checking books out at the library and seeing stamps from 20 or 40 or 60 years ago.
Yesss! I get this when i buy second hand books that have messages from previous owners written on them 😭
Dumb story, I loved it. If you ever get to Great Falls, look for a street corner laid in 1952 that says "Ron 🖤 Carol". We were both 6. Carol died that year & I moved away in 1953. I haven't thought about that corner in over half a century. We got yelled at for doing that, but after listening to your story, I'm glad we did. Thanks.
How did she die? Also, that is just adorable!!
I'll see it someday.
I was born in Great Falls, I wonder if I ever passed by.
@@Bildgesmythe I'm not even sure where I living back then. I think it was southeast Great Falls but Great Falls has changed beyond recognition since then. If you know any Smallwoods, Wynias, or Duerrs they are most likely relatives of mine.
Awwww, I'm sorry the girl you loved died. I hope you're well. I'm glad you carved that, too. What a heartfelt story. ❤
Hank's new book, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, comes out on September 25, 2018, and is available for pre-order NOW!!
Cool stuff found on sidewalks...maybe absolutely remarkable things can be found there. Dates found on sidewalks...oh, you mean like the date SEPTEMBER 25, 2018?!?!
Thank you pre-order reminder!
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The moral of the story- why take drugs when sidewalks are just as trippy?
Hah...trippy....hehehehehe
Ba dum tiss
AuthorReborn Can’t find any cracks in your reasoning!
"People take drugs to get that feeling, and I got it from a sidewalk" is like, this expression of a thing that I've never been able to express before and I love it.
Ever though of toes?
As an ancient historian, this is EXACTLY how I feel walking through an ancient site or holding an ancient artifact. Seeing a thumbprint on an Akkadian clay tablet, and realizing that person is thousands of years dead but still connected to us here in the 21st century.
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I have this same feeling walking through cemeteries, too...There's so much history embedded in the lives of those that have touched ground we're walking on.
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"I'm so connected to the entire world"
"What are you on?"
"The sidewalk"
You had a very concrete idea and didn't trip up when you ran with it. Very awesome.
And yes, moral to story, whilst there are many cracks in sidewalks, don't do crack. Do sidewalk.
A CONCRETE idea! Ba dum tss!
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Kids, don't do drugs, do sidewalks
Remember how (either John or Hank) was walking in a cemetery saw a random name with a weird date and rhetorically mused about her life, and then we as a community went full PI and found out about her three marriages and name changes? This would be much harder but it'd be fun to start an investigation on who that kid was and ended up being.
Way late to this party, but... it wouldn't be hard to look up homeowners in that area at that time, and cross-reference against who had kids born a year or so before the concrete went in.
Okay. Since many of us seem to be heading down this road ... While enjoyed most of the video, the ending gave me paws.
Darin Singleton We have a wall in my house with a 200 years Old cat Paw print
This is reddit.....but I don’t care!
Get out!! Take my upvote, and get out!
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On the topic of connecting with people that you didn't know you were connected with -- I clicked on this video as soon as the notification popped up on my computer. When I finished watching it, I noticed that over 150 people have already like the video. The video has only been up for about 5 minutes...all 150 people, unrelated and unconnected, watching the same video about sidewalks at the same time. I love this world.
I don't know how I should feel about this particular evolution of the "first!" post
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Alright so now I'm crying
This is my favorite kind of vlogbrothers video, where they just talk about the most random thing and find the beauty in it. It reminds me to look at and appreciate the small things, and that everything is awe inspiring if you just look closely enough.
A different perspective: I navigate with a guide cane. All those differences in sidewalks that you mention? You have NO IDEA. There are a couple dozen distinctly different sidewalk textures / sounds / patterns between me and my closest subway stop alone. All those differences make for great landmarks. If you want to make a blind person amazed at how good your directions are some time, give them in terms of the sidewalk - including things like slopes, tree-root bumps, fixed garbage cans, etc.
here in the UK, cities legally *have* to create those tactile differences in some sidewalk sections--it's so that people who are blind can feel bumps in the pavement and realise that a crosswalk is available and/or the road is nearby and/or the train platform edge is approaching!
@@leilak.8461 I'm blind and live in London. I actually use the tactile paving, all the time. I don't know what specifically is required or not, though; the Equality Act isn't that explicit, and not all intersections, steps, or rail platforms have them. I suppose it might be stated somewhere in building code (I've not checked), or a council/borough/regulator based rule…
Wow, that's amazing. Your description also reminds me of Toph's earth bending in Avatar the Last Airbender! ❤ 🙌🏽 💪🏽
Unsarcastically, genuinely, this is my favourite video you have ever made. I'm glad Im not the only one who thinks about stuff like this. I get the same thing from initials carved on trees and benches, and from those little sign out slips in library books. Theres a restaurant in town here that opened in a location that was a restaurant, but was abandoned for years and years. When they were renovating, they found tons of the order slips the servers filled out, so they put those under acrylic on all the tables as decoration. I went for lunch with my grandma, who worked at the old restaurant back then, and she actually found a few that she had written. It was a wonderful thing, thanks for making me think of it!
Kerfuffles92 I think about it all too, quite seriously. I do notice maker's marks in sidewalks, building cornerstones, and I'm especially fascinated by the stamps and notations on 100+ year old photos, and when an old house is renovated and they find newspapers in the walls. The story about the old restaurant order slips is just the kind of thing I love.
Hank, the way you share your thoughts over this channel never cease to overwhelm me with inspiration and hope. And all from talking about sidewalks!? Thank you for this. Thank you for everything you create.
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When I clicked on this video I assumed sidewalks was going to be some type of metaphor, but nope literally just a video about sidewalks. I love it
It actually gave me chills to think about how those little footprints have been there since 1909. Wow.
A months ago, just before Winter Break, I was wandering around outside in the snow, while the rest of my school was inside at the big winter assembly. The reasons why are very complicated, but suffice to say I was sad about a lot of stuff. But as I came out of the woods onto this little pasture, I noticed a bunch of young trees growing, each with a little sign and fence. I walked up to the nearest one, brushed the snow of it's sign, and surprisingly, it said my name on it. "Isaac Lichtenstein, 2013" And I remembered going out into the woods one day with a bunch of other kids and this teacher I had just met, and planting all these trees together, because the teacher had asked for help and I had naturally responded yes. And now I was standing in front of this tree I had planted, alone, years later, that I had totally forgotten about. And I cried a bit, and then I felt better, and since then I've been feeling a lot better. I'm not particularly sure why.
I get such a bittersweet feeling watching something like this now. It's now been seventy-one years since this video was uploaded, and in many ways, it has become a print in a sidewalk, at least for those of us in 2089. They're laying concrete sidewalks in some undercities, and I imagine some of them will have steps on them too, and who knows, maybe up in the 4000m zone, there might be sidewalks there too, some that are as old as this video, or as old as the footprint in the sidewalk from this video. Gosh thinking about time just makes me emotional.
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Like if you're reading this in 2094
As a young and aspiring youtube content creator I try to figure out what niche or interest I want to devote my channel to. Almost every Vlogbrothers video reminds me that it has way less to do with actual content and more so about WHO is delivering it and HOW. Thanks for another inspiring 4 minutes.
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Or you could make your niche exclusively this one topic of sidewalks. I'm not sure it'd be popular, but I'd watch it.
HAHA yeah I probably would too!
As another set of aspiring creators I completely agree!
Checked out some of your videos guys keep it up!
So now we know that Hank's drug of choice is sidewalks. I'd never have guessed that. Well at least it won't bankrupt him, i guess, which is good.
BertyFromDK amd corndogs. Those might bankrupt him.
And this is one of many, many reasons why Hank’s book (‘An Absolutely Remarkable Thing’, available for pre-order now and comes our September 25, 2018), will be freaking wonderful.
This is an instant Favorite Video From Hank. Who knew that kid who made those footsteps would eventually have a version of their story told to thousands of people on the Internet, and profoundly affect at least one of them. Thanks for sharing this.
BuzzFeed version of this: Man Has Emotional Encounter with Sidewalk - 4 Years Later
The people who lived in my house before me had kids who left little hand prints in the driveway cement. When I was little I'd compare my hands to the ones in the driveway. I remember when they lined up perfectly. The kids who left those must be 30-40 years old by now. They also left coins on top of some of the windows, a new one for every year.I'm pretty sure it's a lucky thing. I didn't take them down, but added a coin every year just like they did. Judging by how little space is left on the windowsill, I should have very good luck by now. It gives me a similar sort of feeling. Someone grew up here before I did.
Getting emotional about sidewalks wasn’t exactly something I anticipated when clicking on this video, and yet here I am. Insightful as always, thanks Hank
My favourite kind of Hank video, finding inspiration and humanity in the most ordinary of things. And now I am wondering who that child was and what became of them.
I really wonder what the kid's life was like. It's crazy that I can suddenly think about someone I probably would never know anything about from a video made by someone who doesn't know me. But here I am, thinking about that kid. Bet that kid never thought a random stranger in the year 2018 would be thinking about them.
Naama B.S. I live halfway across the Earth from Hank, and yet here we are, all of us, thinking about that kid together.
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I like to look at the sidewalks too, but I actually usually end up looking at the manhole covers. You see, there's a company in a little town about 30 minutes away from where I grew up that manufactures manhole covers and I love to see them in places that are very far away from that little town in Northern Michigan. It was always kinda nice to see the one that was on the corner right outside my apartment in Washington, DC. Like a little slice of home.
I know what you mean Hank, there's something special about knowing that those who came before you had a "small step" to play into your present moment, and without knowing, you're doing the same with even a small insignificant action! 😊
Lol, hi there
I always enjoy Hank’s weird videos. The existentialism combined with something seemingly mundane is just cool to think about
Aaaand I just cried at a video about sidewalks. Thanks Hank (and honorable mention to my pregnancy hormones).
Idk why this made me cry. But good god im crying hard
According to my Dad, they stopped using maker's marks bc city govt took over sidewalk replacement, whereas before contractors were hired by developers. My Dad knows A LOT
Thanks!
"People take drugs to feel these things and I got that from a ... Sidewalk!"
Kinda the reason why I love you and this channel :")
This title is the accurate description of vlogbrothers.
I was just thinking like damn, what makes vlog brother videos so good? Like what is it that puts them in another league of Vlogging? And guys I think I cracked it (although it's really not that crazy) it's just observation. It's just observing things, noticing and appreciating and then you articulate that in a way that makes all our hearts ache because we see it too but sometimes we forget and I don't know I like remembering, and watching these help you remember, especially when you've been feeling down and self consumed and selfish. But we are apart of this big human experience and little 100 year old foot prints do help you remember the whole big earth thing. This is, this is good.
(Btw the whole time I was like, aw man Americans really do call a path a sidewalk)
Mindfulness. The Vlog Brothers are very mindful.
Wow. Hank, that was the most Hank Green-eist video I've seen you do in ages. It has has history, human connections, random nerdery and your deep and sincere enjoyment of all of the above factors while you shared them. Don't stop being you mate.
"Like people take drugs to feel that feeling. And I got it from a sidewalk!"
Amazing. ^^
Stuff like this is why I love Vlogbrothers.
The Adventures Of So pure
I mean, I gotta give sidewalks credit-they kept me off the streets
*slow clap*
This video fascinates me because it is so Hank to do stuff like this. This simple video gives you an insight to how Hank feels and sees the world (even its most crusty and simple aspects) in a grand, positive light; he appreciates the simple wonders and pleasures of life and people like that always dream big and live happy. It’s a deep and rewarding way of living and people like them know to appreciate the beauty of nature and the world, even for its most pure and simple dimensions. Simple things are often the most meaningful.Thanks for the video Hank!
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In Germany we have a thing called "Stolpersteine" little golden squares in the sidewalks remembering the people (mostly Jews) who were murdered or otherwise impacted by the war. We have a lot of them sadly but I like seeing them, they are not obnoxious and very personal they literally tell the story of a person's life; their name, their address, their birthday and their stories.
There is something incredibly satisfying about not only this story but the fact the video is perfectly 4 min long.
I like it too, Hank. My "sidewalk story" came at a Gasometer in London. Gasometers are monstrous tanks that used to hold a city's gas supply before high pressure piping was as prevalent as it is today. Now, this hulking shell was turned into a beautiful park a short walk from King's Cross. There was a grassy ring in the center where I could lie on my back, and I could see the Gasometer rising around me. It was weird to think of all the people who came before and relied on this steel behemoth to keep them warm, and all the men who worked day and night to keep it in check. Everyone who ever worked that gasometer has probably long passed, but in the heart of one of the world's busiest cities it remains as a testament to something that came before, a collective memory not quite passed out of existence.
As an archaeology student, I have learned to discern the history of things. If you know how and where to look, it is extremely fascinating to see the different building phases of buildings around you, especially in Amsterdam. But also stuff like sidewalks, canals, city planning, and some of the Roman stuff lying around in the Netherlands. So I completely understand this video, and I too marvel at the physical evidence of people and their lives, even though they have been gone for centuries. Great video, it reminded me to look at the world a little differently again. :)
Videos like this are why I keep coming back to the Vlogbrothers, and make me feel just a little bit more connected to the vastness of the human experience. So, thanks Hank. It really means a lot.
I feel this way about inscriptions in old books. A "do not steal" poem or a birthday greeting or even just a name.
Or, like, I worked with a medieval manuscript where the scribe drew little faces in the margins of some pages, and added a paragraph about personally visiting a plague graveyard in London, and it's like... "Hi, Person From 600 Years Ago. I see you."
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I wish I could remember what exactly it said, but as far as I know, it's a unique variation. It's in University of Illinois pre-1600 MS 116, if you ever make it there or the collection gets digitized!
Great sidewalk video.
This was almost like a Thoughts From Places video! I liked how the thoughtful commentary sprung from a silly moment from 5 years ago. This is the content I like to see
Wow. One of my new favourite Vlogbrothers videos. I love thinking about this sort of thing, and I love that you managed to put into words that weird connection with a human who will never know you existed in a way that made me pause and feel that weird low-key happiness myself.
A memory from my tweenhood: I went to Bath (a place in the UK with a lot of Roman baths) quite a few years ago, and I still remember that my absolute favourite thing was the little scratch marks we were shown on some of the stones that were made by the people who'd constructed the buildings to mark their work. These people were often illiterate, which is why they didn't write any words, but it just astounded and excited me that here was a marker of an actual human person doing a very human thing from two-thousand years ago.
Thanks for sharing your sidewalk story and for, in doing so, sharing your connection with that small child in 1910. DFTBA.
The title covers early vlogbrothers pretty well.
Hank you should appreciate that books do the same thing. As an author, you are touching the future too. (An Absolutely Remarkable Thing comes out September 25th. Available for pre-order now.)
Thinking we're all alone and seperate is one of the great hallucinations of humanity.
Agreed. The greatest illusion is separation.
I don't watch your videos consistently. But I honestly think that this was one of the best videos you've made. Imagine a toddler has, in a way, been immortalized by this sidewalk (or pavement where I come from). And imagine that growing up, they might have thought nothing of it except as a fond memory. Yet, here you are Hank, highlighting a life, a person, who perhaps never once thought that they could leave a legacy and that this would be it. Sometimes, our most impactful moments are the ones we're not even aware of. (Sorry about the long post. This just makes me feel things.)
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A very sweet and good point ❤
This video is an Absolutely Remarkable Thing.
Damnit, I was going to say that.
Mister Apple Such an adorable apple.
+Hammad Mufti Why thank you. :)
This has got to be my favorite vlogbrothers video in a while. I love the deep and weird. DFTBA
"I am going to be talking about sidewalks for this....entire video" aaaaand liked haha
As an urbanist, this is awesome. Thank you for verbalizing what so many of us feel, and why urbanism is such a big thing!
If any other youtuber (except for, you know, your brother :) ) had announced at the beginning of the video that they are going to talk about sidewalks, I would have thought 'Sidewalks? I mean, SIDEWALKS...?' But coming from you, I just knew it would be totally worth it, and it was :) When I feel down, I often try to remind myself that I am not my degree or my job (even though I am happy about both of them in general), and not even how I am feeling right now, but rather I am what I choose to do for others (friends, family, my students, strangers) - from the most insignificant smile or kind word to donations or volunteering. Those things are my sidewalk - the things that will connect me to others even when I'm not around.
I love how vlogbrothers can find inspiration and awe in everything in our edgless universe, from quarks to sidewalks.
Now I'd really like to know who that kid become.
Chills. This was my favorite Hank video in a long time. Simple but directly to the point. Unique in a very “Green” way. Love you guys
This is one of the many reasons why I am so grateful to be a living human at this point in time and space. There are so many fellow living things making their presence known, and the Internet, in its current state, allows individuals to send their thoughts and feelings out into the world, to be seen and felt by others. We have so many ways in which to leave our marks, and I would like to thank the person who suggested that Hank interview a sidewalk, because they contributed in part to the creation of this video. Everything we experience is a temporary state of the microcosm of the universe that we inhabit, and oh how glorious it is to love what is mortal.
I get the same feeling when I see old library books or used books. People write things on these books and scribble and doodle and stuff which says a lot about their lives, mental states and other very deep things that I'm to young to understand
I'm so moved that there are people like Hank that notice these small things about the world, small things that we may all do. It makes me wonder what ways others in the future will notice that I existed, even if they never know my name.
I love the reminder that not everything needs to be big and flashy and there are so many little things everyday that we don’t even think about that connects people. Most recently I was reminded of this at my college apartment mail box. It’s the kind of place where people live for two years then graduate. Anyway when we first moved in our mailbox had stickers of all the people who had lived there before us going back like six years. One of them had a Wired magazine subscription they forgot about so we still get the magazine. My engineering major roommate loves it.
This is one of my favorite videos you've ever done, Hank. When I saw that 1909 stamped into the concrete I understood perfectly and started to cry. Thank you for sharing this story.
I was literally on the verge of an emotional breakdown BC depression but then I saw this and honestly I love john and hank for this. I love them so much
Okay this is actually quite interesting, some background information on everyday things you usually don't even think about.
Hank, you're writer's brain is showing.
"I don't have context to that person's life but what I do have is knowledge that they were there" YES. I get really weird an existential in that exact same way! Like when I visited the colosseum in Rome and thought about how far back people had been gathering there and how my life overlapped in that space with a billion other lives and each of us billion people went on to live a different life after leaving that place. I love moments like that.
Any video about the ground touches my sole.
why the hell did i get feelings after watching a video about sidewalks?
i'm sorry but i need to say I'VE BEEN ON SOME OF THE SIDEWALKS IN THIS VIDEO
My walks are never going to be the same again after watching this. 🚶🏻♀️
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This is the kind of content I subscribed for. Love you Hank.
That was beautiful... I absolutely adore you, you are such a precious human. Thank you for existing.
This is exactly the kind of vlogbrothers video I want more of.
Imagine Hank calling out to you in an alley way like, “Hey man, want some sidewalk?”
If that sidewalk was laid in 1909 and the footsteps were from a 2-3 year old, then that child lived through the first world war and would have been in their mid 30s by the time the US entered the second world war making it likely they either were a soldier or were involved in the war effort in some way.
I love this video for so many reasons #1 Just little kid feet, they are the cutest and I don’t understand how all humans were that small at one point. #2 This thing you captured in this video is my literal favorite thing about living, connecting with as many people as possible and people that I would never had connected with if I hadn’t gone out of my way. #3 I love that you, and others, notice little things like this. I love noticing these little things and researching them and it drives my friends crazy because I’m always telling them useless facts. Anyways, great video Hank! Also I need to pet that kitty:
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I love people do these comments! So nice.
When my grandmother passed a little over a year ago, my grandfather's VHS collection eventually made it to me. This past week I've finally gotten to the point where I have a VCR working and hooked up, and I've been working to copy all of these old home videos from the 80's and 90's to my computer so I can upload them to the internet and share them with the family no matter how far away they are. As I've been going through them, I've found that it's not the bits that are planned that have the most value, but rather the casual and accidental moments in life that keep showing up that really matter. It's been an incredible experience going through and seeing this record of times I was too young to remember, and getting to flesh out the image of who my grandparents were a little bit more. For some reason, the kid strolling along the wet concrete in 1909 gives me a very similar experience. It's all a great reminder that you don't know when a memory that will be cherished will come up, and that the imperfections and mistakes are ultimately what will hold the most value.
There is a ghost town about a mile from where I currently sit called Noland, Colorado. Around the turn of the 20th century, it was a thriving quarry town. The quarry produced red sandstone for sidewalks and even supplied the pavers that are still present around the National Cathedral in Washington, DC. There were over a thousand people living there in 1906 when someone figured out how to make concrete sidewalks. By 1918 the town had completely vanished, buildings and all.
I think this is one of those videos that will mean a lot more once Hank's book comes out. Also, I'd love to see a longer director's cut put on hankschannel.
I really love this because I think about things similar to this a lot. It mainly when I’m driving. I see others in their cars and I become curious about who they are, where they are headed, and how they are spending their day. It’s a strange thing to think everyone else has their own agenda, but it’s also amazing.
Anyone else actually get suprisingly excited when he said he was going to talk about sidewalks?
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I’m glad I’m not the only one who likes sidewalks in this way.
I love the videos here. Something I can always look forward too, that I know will make me think or make my day better in some way. Thank you, for being you.
When you allow yourself to be this sweet and vulnerable with us, it’s shocking. Not necessarily compared to your other videos, but against the world as a whole and its reliance on irony and its fear of emotion. Small things like this video help break down those barriers far more than a sweeping story with a grandiose message ever could. This is real. It’s genuine. It’s so much more than it appears, yet it’s still, at its core, just a story about some footprints in a sidewalk. This was wonderful, and it‘s giving me a feeling of hope during a time in my life in which I don’t have much of that. Thank you, Hank.
You and John are the living, walking embodiment of overthinking, which is what makes you my spirit animals (spirit humans). Keep thinking deeply about all the things.
I almost feel like this is a John video, that he would make really profound and astounding and quotable.
Instead it's a Hank video, which is kinda funny but inspiring and real and relatable.
I like how even when you talk about sidewalks it's somehow really deep and interesting
Wow this is amazing on so many levels 😍 I absolutely love this concept, it’s why I’m about to become an Anthropology/History major. Thanks Hank!!
This is cool. It didn't seem dumb, honestly. I like videos that just say "Hey! This is a thing and it kind of means this mildly profound thing about stuff.".
I relate to this so much! sometimes when I look at a really old building I like to imagine who lived in it, what were their lives like? or if I buy an antique and I can see a dent or something like that I think about what could have caused it. thinking like that really helps me when i’m anxious or sad bc it makes me forget and see the « bigger picture » .
Hank, at this point you should know you don't need to apologize to nerdfighters for being engaged with the world.
I loved this. I loved it.
But also: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing. Comes out September 25th. Available for pre-order now.
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Absolutely loved this video. More of this sorta thing please.
Also when you said how old the sidewalk was it immediately made me tear up. Could be that I'm pregnant or could be that that is just a really beautiful thing.
Thank you, Hank.
I used to be on a concrete canoe engineering project team in college, so I'm glad someone has taken the time to look at concrete sidewalk in such detail.
But, I have a correction: Cement is not concrete; cement is one component of concrete (i.e. when mixed with water, it forms a paste that holds all of the aggregate together). They are not synonymous!