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Brotherhood 2.0: February 13, 2007

2007-02-14 · John · watch on YouTube · Personal life · comedy performance

From airports in Washington, D.C. and snowbound Chicago, John recounts Penguin's couple's Valentine's dinner, mocks TV delay interviews, and reveals he passes airport time on his 2007 celebrity death pool, picking people he is 'okay with' losing, such as members of Al Qaeda.

What is said

00:00:00 — Retake to say 'it's Tuesday'; airports in New York City and Washington, D.C.; Penguin's couple's Valentine's special at the hotel

  • ★★ For reasons John does not understand, Penguin got him the couple's Valentine's special at his Washington, D.C. hotel: two entrees, two appetizers and two desserts ('Sorry, Weight Watchers'). (playful) — 00:00:13 · Penguin Books

00:00:40 — Now in Chicago's airport: travelling by airplane, not hovercraft or movie magic; airplanes hate snow

  • ★★ John goes from airport to airport by airplane, which is unfortunate because 'airplanes hate snow'; he is now in the Chicago airport. (playful) — 00:00:40 · Chicago

00:01:03 — Recreating a TV crew's flight-delay interview; 12 of the last 40 hours in airports

  • ★ Most people in the airport are camera crews asking travellers about the cancelled flights, so John recreates one of those interviews. (playful) — 00:01:03
  • ★★ John has spent 12 of the last 40 hours inside airports. — 00:01:03

00:01:32 — John's 2007 celebrity death pool: what it is and how to pick; a preemptive goodbye song; sign-off

  • ★★★ John passes airport time on his 2007 celebrity death pool lineup; in a death pool you pick 24 people you think will die in the next year. (playful) — 00:01:32
  • ★★ John's rule for playing and still living with yourself: pick people you are kind of rooting for, or okay with; nobody should want anyone to die, but if people must, let them be Al Qaeda members. (playful) — 00:01:32
  • ★★ John says a preemptive goodbye to those he hopes will be gone by January 1, 2008, introducing a song ('This song is for the rats…'). (playful) — 00:01:32

Humor (significant)

  • John recreates a TV delay interview; the interviewee says 'they suck' and is asked to put the question back into the answer. — 00:01:03 > «Um, all these delays of my flight suck.»
  • John explains that you never want anyone to die in a death pool, but if people have to die… — 00:01:32 > «they might as well be members of Al Qaeda.»
  • John describes picking 24 people he expects to die in the next year. — 00:01:32 > «It's really, you know, it's like good clean fun. It's a way that I can give back.»

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