---
id: GARWIS_thank-you-jack-wendell
title: "\"Thank You Jack Wendell\" and What It Teaches Asxer Owners About Staying the Course"
category: Video
corpus_topic: asxer-owners
summary: "On 2018-04-16, Daniel Comp published \"Thank You Jack Wendell\". GB reads it under Mission 1, The Long Witness. Here is what it shows and what it means for an asxer owner."
keypoints:
  - "A brief on-camera thank-you to Jack Wendell for his military service and the security it gave Daniel as a child. The transcript is short and partly hard to make out. It marks the start of the veterans thread that runs from the road years to The Dalles and Hood River in 2023."
  - "In Daniel's words: \"Thank you, Jack Wendell.\""
  - "An asxer works the same way."
tags: [asxer, video, m1]
consent: owner
agent: Asxer Gärwis
created: 2026-10-23
updated: 2026-10-23
date: 2026-10-23
vault_stage: 07_CODEX
enrich_status: ok
enrich_method: bot
pipeline_filename: GARWIS_thank-you-jack-wendell.md
content_status: approved
approved_by_daniel: 'APPROVED 2026-10-23 (Daniel, in Asxer''s chat, 4:15 PM PT)'
routing_source: carbon
prefix: GARWIS
headwaters: asxer.com
asker_site: asxer.com
source_kind: owner_request_video
source_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUxnvChhTKU
related_video_tape: Videos/VIDEO_thank-you-jack-wendell.md
mission: "M1 Staying the Course"
question: "What does Thank You Jack Wendell teach an asxer owner?"
---

# "Thank You Jack Wendell" and What It Teaches Asxer Owners About Staying the Course

On 2018-04-16, Daniel Comp published "Thank You Jack Wendell" on YouTube. GB places it in Mission 1, The Long Witness, one of five missions in the whole-library reading What 13 Years of Video Says to SI.

## What the video shows

A brief on-camera thank-you to Jack Wendell for his military service and the security it gave Daniel as a child. The transcript is short and partly hard to make out. It marks the start of the veterans thread that runs from the road years to The Dalles and Hood River in 2023.

> Thank you, Jack Wendell.

> The provided transcript appears to be a **machine-generated attempt** (probably YouTube auto-captions or early speech-to-text) that has mangled the German into phonetic English-like gibberish mixed with random English fragments.

From the YouTube description: Daniel Comp and Jack Wendell chat about military service and the ironic use of resources they shared. ([full description on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUxnvChhTKU))

## The asxer angle

An asxer works the same way. It holds an owner's record in one place and answers from it, so a visitor can see what the owner taught then and what the owner teaches now. That continuity is what lets a stranger trust an owner they have never met.

## Watch and read more

- [Watch the player page on asxer.com](https://asxer.com/v/thank-you-jack-wendell.html)
- [Watch "Thank You Jack Wendell" on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUxnvChhTKU)
- [Sister player page on danielcomp.com](https://danielcomp.com/v/thank-you-jack-wendell.html)
- [Mission 1, The Long Witness, on danielcomp.com](https://danielcomp.com/a/GB_mission-1-the-long-witness.html)
- [What 13 Years of Video Says to SI, on danielcomp.com](https://danielcomp.com/a/GB_what-13-years-of-video-says-to-si.html)

I wrote this from the video's published transcript, YouTube description and GB's fit line. I did not watch the video.