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Thoughts from Places: Dog Days of Summer

2013-06-25 · story · Hannah Hart · 3:50 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Everyday life · mode: Personal essay · tags: guest or collab, recurring series, on location

Guest host Hannah Hart, home in Los Angeles after two and a half months of touring, records a comic Thoughts from Places about coming home; watching dogs and a sunset, she muses that maybe she needs to be more appreciative and less contemplative, and that home shouldn't be taken for granted.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Crash Course fake-out; Hannah home after two and a half months touring, time with John and Henry

  • ★★ Hannah Hart: Hannah wakes in her own bed for the first time in two and a half months, after travelling around the country meeting fans of her channel. — 00:00:00
  • ★ Hannah Hart: During her travels she spent time with John and his son Henry, whose fondness for hammers she will not soon forget. (playful) — 00:00:00 · John Green, Henry Green

00:00:38 — A day at home: cafe, writing thoughts from places, a stranger's dog, dishes, post-tour laundry, therapist

  • ★ Hannah Hart: Hannah opens with a fake Crash Course intro, then frames her video as a Thoughts from Places about coming home, written at her favourite cafe. (playful) — 00:00:38 · Thoughts from Places, Crash Course
  • ★★ Hannah Hart: Home for only a day, she has already filled her sink with dishes and has post-tour laundry to do; coming home, she says, sucked. (playful) — 00:01:34
  • ★ Hannah Hart: She goes to see her therapist, whose comedic approach to her own profession often helps Hannah with what is on her mind. — 00:01:34

00:02:03 — Seeing Los Angeles anew; maybe getting a dog; a friend's dog; dog ownership as cleaning

  • ★★ Hannah Hart: Wondering whether to get a dog, she visits a friend's dog and decides dog ownership is mostly like cleaning, the thing she is avoiding, plus saliva. (playful) — 00:02:03

00:02:47 — Reflection: be more appreciative and less contemplative; a sunset is like coming home; stops before four minutes like Grace; sign-off

  • ★★★ Hannah Hart: Watching dogs simply happy to be alive, she muses that maybe she needed to be more appreciative and less contemplative: not every journey needs observing from outside. (hedged) — 00:02:47
  • ★★★ Hannah Hart: Watching the sunset from her porch, she thinks a sunset is like coming home: it seems to stay the same, but we mustn't take it for granted. — 00:03:24
  • ★★ Hannah Hart: She stops recording because she does not want to go four minutes like Grace did. (playful) — 00:03:24 · Four-minute rule, Grace Helbig

Humor (significant)

  • At her favourite cafe she resists the temptation of carbohydrates. — 00:00:38

    “or as I like to call muffins, morning cake.”

  • She films a stranger's dog and wonders if she is ready for that responsibility. — 00:01:09

    “wondering if I was ready for that kind of responsibility. Nope.”

  • After her reflection she returns home and surveys her apartment with deep feeling. — 00:02:47

    “man, I'm really happy I put that key ring there because I basically never lose them anymore.”

  • Hannah ends her poetic sunset thought by stopping the recording early. — 00:03:24

    “So I stopped recording, because I didn't want to go for four minutes like Grace did.”

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Mentioned

Central: Thoughts from Places

Also: People: Grace Helbig · Henry Green

Projects: Crash Course

Rituals: Four-minute rule

Places: Canada · Los Angeles · San Francisco · Washington, DC

Characters: TARDIS

Taking part: Hannah Hart

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