H.I. #112: Consistency Hobgoblins

Hello Internet

CGP Grey

Education

4.8 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2018

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

A new Hello Internet artifact is born, American state identities revisited, Banksy's shredding stunt, government and social media, daylight savings time disaster, Scrabble, and First Man.

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Golden Hotstopper (picture #2) (picture #3)

Banksy shredded art

Scrabble Final board

First Man

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0:00.0	Grey, I've had something made. I've had something commissioned by a Tim named Sarah, who lives in
0:09.7	Brooklyn. She lives in America, does she? She lives in America, in the US of A. Here it is.
0:15.1	I'm going to send it to you as a picture. Oh, way, Brady. The golden hot stuff. No, no way.
0:21.7	I mean, I'm looking at a golden hot stopper atop a red velvet pillow with golden rope and
0:34.4	tassels all around. I mean, what a magnificent setting for a hot stopper, Brady.
0:38.9	So this is Sarah's like a julea. And we've been talking for a while. We started off with platinum
0:45.4	plans. Right. But partly for cost reasons, but not so much for cost reasons, more for appearance
0:51.1	reasons. We've decided to go with gold because gold just looks more blingy. Platinum could have
0:58.0	just looked like silver. Right. That is the problem with platinum. It's valuable, but not so
1:03.5	visually obviously valuable. Yeah. You can't beat gold for looking like, oh, this is something
1:08.9	that belongs in Aladdin's cave. But I think the special touch also is there is a diamond set in
1:14.0	the middle of the nail and gear at the top of the hot stopper. Oh my God. I was just zooming in
1:19.8	and I thought, oh, that's on for I thought there was an indentation from the mold or something.
1:24.9	I thought, oh, right in the center of the nail like that. What unfortunate placement, but no,
1:29.6	it's a diamond diamond. So that's like a little mini royal mess. Oh, this is amazing. This is
1:40.9	like a founding object of the nation of Hello Internet presented here. This is the scepter of
1:47.6	power. This is amazing. Well, also because you know, there's all this talk about how you're not
1:52.3	supposed to make things out of plastic anymore because it's bad for the environment. So we now we've
1:56.5	got a gold hot stopper. You know, I'm always a little clenched up when there's a Brady surprise
2:01.9	coming. But man, this is amazing. Wow. So where is it physically now? Is it with you or is it under
2:09.1	security somewhere? It's on a shelf about a meter away from me next to our specially water jet
2:15.6	cut nail and gear sculpture. And another thing that I've just got my hands on, the nail and gear
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