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North Korean Chicken, Stagecoach Travel, and other Thoughts from before Carnegie Hall

2013-01-15 (said on 2013-01-14 — implied: date said in the video; uploaded 1 day later) · letter vlog · John, Hank, Kimya Dawson · 2:23 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Projects (also: Personal life) · mode: Personal update · tags: on location, self promotion, guest or collab

John vlogs from New York the day before An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall: Hank and Katherine's 23-hour trip from Missoula, a dream about Chick-fil-A in North Korea, rehearsals at Housing Works, and a reminder to watch the livestream.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Greeting ('it's actually Monday'); in New York; Hank and Katherine's 23-hour trip from Missoula with lost baggage

  • ★ John says it is actually Monday: the Carnegie Hall show is tomorrow and they will be busy, so he is recording a day early. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ John says Hank and Katherine's trip to New York was a nightmare of delays, missed connections and lost baggage, taking 23 hours from Missoula. — 00:00:00 · Hank Green, Katherine Green, Missoula, Montana, New York City
  • ★★ John hopes Hank's guitar arrives before Hank has to play songs on it at Carnegie Hall. (hedged) — 00:00:00 · Hank Green

00:00:32 — Hank's guitar; John's dream of Chick-fil-A opening restaurants in North Korea; off to rehearsal

  • ★ John says he dreamt Chick-fil-A opened four restaurants in North Korea and that he should make a video about it; awake, he wishes it would so he'd have a topic. (playful) — 00:00:32

00:01:01 — Backstage at Housing Works with Kimya Dawson and Hank; rehearsals for the Carnegie Hall show; audience and song snippet

  • ★★ John films backstage at Housing Works, where they are rehearsing for tomorrow's Carnegie Hall show; Kimya Dawson is there. — 00:01:01

00:01:32 — First rehearsal done; reminder to watch the show live at youtube.com/vlogbrothers Tuesday 7 PM Eastern or at viewing places (links in the doobly-doo)

  • ★★ John says their first rehearsal went well but was 'not the kind of thing you want to see at Carnegie Hall', and they are going to rehearse again. (playful) — 00:01:32
  • ★★★ John reminds viewers they can watch the show live at youtube.com/vlogbrothers on Tuesday at 7 PM Eastern, or at viewing places around the country and world (links in the doobly-doo). — 00:01:32 · Vlogbrothers, doobly-doo

00:02:14 — Sign-off with Hank and Kimya

Humor (significant)

  • Hank and Katherine's planes, trains, missed connections and lost baggage took 23 hours from Missoula to New York. — 00:00:00

    “Which is excellent by stagecoach standards, but quite poor for 21st century air travel.”

  • John dreamt Chick-fil-A opened four restaurants in North Korea and, in the dream, decided to make a video about it; then he woke up. — 00:00:32

    “God, Chick-fil-A, why don't you get in bed with Kim Jong-un so I have something to make a video about?”

  • As John walks to rehearsal, a noise is heard and John names it. — 00:01:01

    “That's the sound that Hank's anxiety makes.”

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Mentioned

Central: An Evening of Awesome

Also: People: Katherine Green · Kim Jong-un · Kimya Dawson

Organizations: Chick-fil-A · Housing Works

Terms: doobly-doo

Places: Carnegie Hall · Missoula, Montana · New York City · North Korea

Also centred on An Evening of Awesome: Addicted to the Internet · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall · Thoughts from Carnegie Hall

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