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Tour Bus Bus Tour

2017-10-24 · documentary visit · John · 3:22 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Personal life (also: Everyday life) · mode: Documentary visit · tags: on location, self promotion

From Chamberlain, South Dakota, John reports signing every copy of Turtles All the Way Down in Sioux Falls but destroying the footage by chewing his memory card, then gives a tour of the Turtles tour bus, full of signed plastic turtles he hides at every stop.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Sioux Falls signing and the memory card John chewed like a pretzel chip

  • ★★ John signed what he believes is every copy of Turtles All the Way Down for sale or borrowing in Sioux Falls, meeting librarians, booksellers and confused Target shoppers. (hedged) — 00:00:05 · Turtles All the Way Down
  • ★★ John filmed the whole signing day but destroyed the memory card: eating pretzel chips while fiddling with it, he put the card in his mouth, chewed it and tried to chew it again; it shows only small tooth marks but is toast. (playful) — 00:00:16

00:00:58 — Rant: a chewable memory card should not call itself 'Extreme Pro'

  • ★★ John argues that any non-food item that human chewing can destroy should not describe itself as 'Extreme Pro', as his memory card does. (playful, hedged) — 00:01:02

00:01:20 — Tour of the tour bus: office, kitchen, bathroom rule, bunks, rec room, plastic turtles everywhere

  • ★ John tours the bus: the driver's seat, then the first seating area he thinks of as the office and dining room, next to a kitchen with a microwave, sink and banana holder. — 00:01:20
  • ★ The bus bathroom has one rule: no pooping, not for moral reasons but because the tubes are too small. (playful) — 00:01:48
  • ★ The bus has eight bunks; John's (with two toy puppies from Target headquarters) is directly above Hank's, and neither made his bed. — 00:02:10 · Hank Green
  • ★★ The rear 'rec room' with John's Nintendo Switch is louder and sways more; at the start of the tour everyone was nauseated there, but now they have their bus legs. — 00:02:20
  • ★★ The bus holds a bag of 850 plastic turtles, and turtles are everywhere: in the shoe closet, the Sharpie drawer, the microwave and the popcorn and applesauce drawer. — 00:02:38 · Sharpie, Turtles All the Way Down

00:03:01 — Hiding signed plastic turtles at every stop, Instagram hints, thanks to Sioux Falls; sign-off

  • ★★★ John is hiding signed plastic turtles in Chamberlain, South Dakota; they leave them at every stop, with hints to their locations on his Instagram story. — 00:03:04 · Instagram

In the description and comments

  • ★★ The description says viewers can track the signed plastic turtles left at every stop of the tour by following John on Instagram at johngreenwritesbooks. — video description · Instagram
  • ★★ The description tells Sioux Falls residents there should now be plenty of signed books in their town. — video description

Humor (significant)

  • John bit down on his memory card, mistaking it for a pretzel chip. — 00:00:45

    “my first thought was, huh, that pretzel chip is very crunchy. And so my natural reaction was to attempt to chew it again.”

  • The ruined card says 'Extreme Pro' on it. — 00:01:06

    “any non-food item that can be destroyed by human chewing should not describe itself as extreme pro.”

  • Among the plastic turtles hidden around the bus is one in a hunting hat. — 00:02:53

    “we've even got some Holden turtle fields in the microwave”

  • Thanking Sioux Falls, John returns to the chewed memory card with the footage of the day. — 00:03:14

    “sorry that I chewed on all of our memories.”

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Mentioned

Works: Turtles All the Way Down

Organizations: Instagram · Target Corporation

Places: Chamberlain, South Dakota · Sioux Falls, South Dakota · South Dakota

Characters: Holden Caulfield (“Holden turtle fields”)

Products: Nintendo Switch · Sharpie

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