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Hank and John from the Road

2008-11-03 · John, Hank · watch on YouTube · Nerdfighteria · personal update

From the minivan on the Tour de Nerdfighting, John reports the first gatherings, the release of Hank's album So Jokes, a Save the Children Bangladesh collection and a mongoose-eaten Looking for Alaska; Hank adds cow-spotting games and the tour's Twitter and BlogTV streams.

What is said

00:00:00 — Tour de Nerdfighting begins; John drives Q's mom's minivan through Missouri; Hank films and edits

  • ★★★ The Great American Tour de Nerdfighting 2008 begins, featuring Hank, John, Katherine and a minivan. — 00:00:00 · Tour de Nerdfighting, Katherine Green
  • ★★ John, driving through Missouri, says the minivan is the same one Q's mom owns in Paper Towns, one reason they picked it for the tour. — 00:00:00 · Paper Towns
  • ★ Hank films John's vlog while John drives, and jokes that he will edit it so John sounds like an idiot. (playful) — 00:00:00

00:00:42 — Heading to St. Louis; Plano and Oklahoma City gatherings; So Jokes release announced; album clips

  • ★★ John says they are driving to a Nerdfighter gathering in St. Louis; the day before, gatherings in Plano, Texas and Oklahoma City were both awesome. — 00:00:42
  • ★★★ John says they announced the release of Hank's first studio album, So Jokes; having listened to all of it, he calls it amazing. — 00:00:42 · So Jokes, Hank Green

00:01:11 — So Jokes only on the tour, $15, no credit cards; met Sean; collecting for Save the Children Bangladesh

00:01:48 — Looking for Alaska half eaten by a Hawaiian mongoose; car time with Katherine and Hank

  • ★★ In Oklahoma City a man showed John a copy of Looking for Alaska he said was half eaten by a Hawaiian mongoose; John says he believed him. (playful) — 00:01:48 · Looking for Alaska
  • ★ John says the tour has meant a lot of sitting in the car, but it has been fun: Katherine and Hank are excellent company in a minivan. — 00:01:48 · Katherine Green, Hank Green

00:02:18 — Missing the Yeti; next stops Greenwood, Louisville, Knoxville, Gadsden; singing, rumble strips

00:02:53 — Cow-spotting competition; doing this full time

  • ★★ Hank and Katherine have a friendly competition over who spots cows first, and Hank says she is far ahead; he keeps mistaking or missing cows. (playful) — 00:02:53 · Katherine Green

00:03:14 — Sign-off; P.S. tour Twitter stream and BlogTV broadcasts of gatherings; horses, not cows

Humor (significant)

  • Hank, filming John's vlog, answers John's thanks. — 00:00:00 > «I'm gonna edit it too so you sound like an idiot.»
  • A man says his copy of Looking for Alaska was half eaten by a Hawaiian mongoose. — 00:01:48 > «I totally believe him because he looked like the kind of guy who did professionally wrestle Hawaiian mongooses.»
  • Someone proposes quitting writing and EcoGeek to drive around meeting Nerdfighters full time. — 00:02:53 > «Spew carbon?»
  • Hank, losing the cow-spotting game, finally shouts that he has spotted some. — 00:03:41 > «Oh, horses! It was not cows! I thought I had it, but it was horses!»

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