Vlogbrothers, Hank Green - Kill your TV lyrics

Good morning, john i come to you today in a
Series of ones and zeroes passed through
Tubes made of copper and
Glass retrieved instantaneously whenever
You want to see it, in fact
Wherever you want to see it in the entire
World in an age of such wonders I
Cannot help but ask the obvious question 'Why
Are we still doing television at all?'

I did it just the other day
Sat down in front of a
Television - the last time
I had cable inside of my house was 2002 so
All of the small little changes that have
Happened in those ten years have
Come rushing on to me all at
Once and I have to say, it freaking sucks!

One of the joys of television used
To be flipping channels now
This is no longer possible
Because something in the
Last ten years has necessitated a five-second
Gap between when I push the up button
And when the next channel comes
Up but flipping isn't supposed to
Be a thing anymore because
We have this wonderful thing called
'The Guide' and if
You could find the buttons on
This monolithic remote that
Allow you to access and
Interact with the guide, good on you but
Once you do, not only was I forced to scroll
Over one advertisement for every
Four channels I saw
But huge expanses of the guide were
Not accessible to me there were
Channels that I could not see
WHY ARE THEY IN MY
GUIDE? This should be a fairly
Simple technical challenge to overcome
I want to see the channels that I can see
And then I realize, "Hey
This is NBC channel seven hundred
AND TWELVE?!" NO! NBC is
Supposed to be, like
4 or 5 or 6 it's NBC why is it 712?

So I asked my friend, Dave
This and he's like 'Oh
NBC is lower down as well
When you upgrade to high
Definition you get high definition
And standard definition NBC'

Why do i want the sd-nbc if
I have the hd one?!

And the HD one, the one
That you want to watch
Is in the 700s i'm not gonna
Talk a lot about the
Content of television because
YouTube has crap too, you know? But
I'm a little bit frustrated by the
Advertisements running on my science
Channel right now for a show
Called 'Finding Big Foot'
Ad: "I do think there's a 'squatch
In these woods fINDING BIG FOOT"

On animal planet? Which is supposed to be
About animals not fake anim- well
I guess insane people wandering around in
Forests are technically animals too
When I finally find something that I
Would like to watch it's invariably
In the wrong aspect ratio because there
Is good television out there
There's plenty of
Television that I would like to
Watch unfortunately, it's on
Like 7 of the 130 channels that they give
You and four of those channels aren't even
Cable! I could get them with antennas so
That's three channels that I'm paying
$130 a month for that's why I
Can pay $8 for Netflix
Get some of the best television of
All time and never have
To watch a single advertisement because
I'm freaking paying for it!

Oh, what's that I hear? You have to pay
For cable and you still
Get advertisements? Great

An average hour of television
About 36% advertisements
If you include product
Placements, which means
If the average person
In America watches 5 hours
Of television a day, which
Apparently they do, that means
That they will, in their lives spend 45
Years watching advertisements

I have done the math
My friends here in the world
Of YouTube a 15-second
Preroll on a 4-minute long video is 7
Times less advertising than you get
On television not only that
But, I think in general, online
Video is more engaging, it's
More likely to be what you want, it's
More convenient it's a much better interface
It's easier to discover cool new stuff and
I think it's more rewarding so
Let me be possibly the
First and hopefully not the last
Person to say: "Everyone
Cancel your cable subscriptions! It
Will be okay"

John and I are doing our part with a
Total of at least 6 videos on YouTube
Per week if you subscribe to vlogbrothers
SciShow and CrashCourse, which will
Launch January 25th
And you can more than double that number
If you subscribe to hankgames and
Truth or fail as well and I
Don't see why you wouldn't

Thank you to the world of
Online video and for you
The pioneering viewers who are making this
Transition not just possible but necessary

John, I will see you on
Tuesday that sounds so weird