In which Hank breaks up with Subway in favor of Jimmy John's (through a parody song) and then talks about advertising for a while. Because advertising is very interesting and a little bit disturbing.

Also, thanks to Phil for shouting us out. Welcome to the DeFranco nation.

Thanks the Michael Aranda for shooting and editing the music video: http://www.youtube.com/michaelaranda

CrashCourse - Snorkeling Camels: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6XtBLDmPA0

My AdBlock Rant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_SVd927h0I

Lizzie Bennet Sucks at Video Games: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSYQAxDB0bM

In which John discusses why facebook and other free products are free--and why they are so valuable.

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I attended a high school in Cedar Rapids Iowa called John F. Kennedy High School. Right now, there are terrible things being put in to play at my Alma Matter. The principal, one Dr. W, is trying to take the Industrial Technology Education rooms, and turn them into a "strength training" facility for the athletic department. This facility is only described as "not including weight training equipment." Now, this school already has a weight room and a great number of athletic facilities, including but not limited to, a baseball diamond, a lit soccer field, a football field and several training fields, a running track, a swimming pool, and two gyms. 

The Industrial Tech programs that are being threatened are all of the automotive tech classes (beginner to advanced), the welding program (beginner to advanced), woodworking, and the Electric Car racing program (advertising, construction, and race team). These programs will be utterly lost at my old school for the sake of yet another…

Because there is a bit of confusion about what IPOs are and, really, what the stock market is and how it works, I thought I'd take the IPO of Facebook as an opportunity to discuss it. In general, the "financial" part of our economy seems kind of crazy and embarrassing. Especially as, these days, a lot of what our economy does is just re-investing in our economy, seems dangerous. Maybe I will talk about it more in the future.

As for Facebook, I really believe that it (and lots of other companies that offer free services to their users) are dramatically overvalued. I think Facebook went public at the right moment, and that it's stock price will dip substantially before it is correctly valued and starts growing again. But, y'know, I'm not a financial analyst. I do know that if Vlogbrothers was paid based on the same metric of $100 per user, we could sell our…