OK Go on Channel One

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So I was out late tonight (it's 4am as I post this) and I was in a random conversation with a friend when I mentioned that OK Go was my favorite band. Well, they proceeded to tell me that they, as a teacher, have to watch Channel One every morning with their class and that OK Go was just interviewed on there. I wasn't out much later after hearing that.

Channel One is basically a news program geared towards kids, and anyone who is/was in high school from about 1996 to now knows what I'm talking about.

Anyway, I don't believe there is a direct link to any of the videos (they are on Livewire), but if you go to http://www.channelone.com, type OK Go in the search engine and make sure you have the "video" selection checked, you'll pull up three videos, one of which is an intervew (with a tie-less Damian and a Tim who looks like he could flash someone at any given moment *grin*), the second is a pop quiz (with our own Mr. Smarty explaining most of it) and the third is an acoustic version of AMW, with about ten lucky (but seemingly uninterested) students gathered around the stage.

Click the top video (the interview) and the program will automatically take you to the next video once the previous one is completed. A much faster, efficient way to watch OK Go!

(eyes roll back into head) Now that I have that out, I'm off to bed. Sweet, OK Go dreams everyone.

ytel82

QUOTE (toiletdog @ Dec 3 2006, 01:22 AM)

So I was out late tonight (it's 4am as I post this) and I was in a random conversation with a friend when I mentioned that OK Go was my favorite band. Well, they proceeded to tell me that they, as a teacher, have to watch Channel One every morning with their class and that OK Go was just interviewed on there. I wasn't out much later after hearing that.

Channel One is basically a news program geared towards kids, and anyone who is/was in high school from about 1996 to now knows what I'm talking about.

Anyway, I don't believe there is a direct link to any of the videos (they are on Livewire), but if you go to http://www.channelone.com, type OK Go in the search engine and make sure you have the "video" selection checked, you'll pull up three videos, one of which is an intervew (with a tie-less Damian and a Tim who looks like he could flash someone at any given moment *grin*), the second is a pop quiz (with our own Mr. Smarty explaining most of it) and the third is an acoustic version of AMW, with about ten lucky (but seemingly uninterested) students gathered around the stage.

Click the top video (the interview) and the program will automatically take you to the next video once the previous one is completed. A much faster, efficient way to watch OK Go!

(eyes roll back into head) Now that I have that out, I'm off to bed. Sweet, OK Go dreams everyone.

Thanks for the info, glad to know I'm not the only one up late! I remember channel one...we used to see it since I was in 7th grade.
An whats up with those uninterested lucky students, don't they know it's OK GO?!!!!!

Haha- Tim is a character in real life...

beardnut7

Thanks for posting this!
I had to watch the last video twice (acoustic AMW)...I can't believe that the kids are just standing there acting all cool.

..and there are so many awesome quotes from the interviews. or maybe it's just the deadpan looks that Damian and Tim give the camera.

Tempe Arizona

So channel one is an entertainment/learning tool used in the classrooms of Indiana? My baby sis would love this! She's studying to be a teacher. And she loves our lads.

Thanks for posting this T.Dog! It's amazing how ok go turns up in the little places you least suspect.

QUOTE (e 5170a @ Dec 3 2006, 02:35 AM)

I had to watch the last video twice (acoustic AMW)...I can't believe that the kids are just standing there acting all cool.

Those kids crack me up, thinking their all hip and non-chalant. My goodness if I heard the echo of AMW's coming from an empty room like that, I'd come running over!

ezorvera

You rock T. Dog.

There were a lot of great quotes in those videos. I love how Jordan's head is in the way for the beginning of AMW. If me and my friends got to watch them, we would have started dancing.

pipe42oak

Oh my gosh!!! Thise videos are all amazing!! [drools] Such good qualityyy... Thank you so much for posting this. It totally made my night

QUOTE (e 5170a @ Dec 3 2006, 03:35 AM)

..and there are so many awesome quotes from the interviews. or maybe it's just the deadpan looks that Damian and Tim give the camera.

AGREED!! I was freaking cracking up. I can't even tell if the interview-dude-with-the-floofy-hair from the second video was picking up on the exorbitant amount of sarcasm the guys were dishing out. I mean, either he's the most oblivious person on earth or, and by far the more likely of the two, he's a robot. Regardless, those vids are super deluxe. So many hilarious moments and quotes that would've otherwise been lost to the infinite internet abyss if it hadn't been for Toiletdog! Sweet.

And how are those kids so calm and collected!? Yet again, I'm inclined to resolve that Channel One uses cyborgs.

Point being: Andy was wearing the same sweater that he wore after the Friday Chicago show Oh, the memories.

...Yay for late-night boardies

CinnamonLips

actually when i was in high school (4 years ago), OK Go appeared on the program and helped cohost the whole show. it was completely random and a shocker because umm... bands NEVER appear on channel one! lol

my friend actually has the tape of that episode.

apparently tim (or is it dan?) is friends with someone on the staff.



<-- Damian and his leg cast



<-- love this picture. the faces are priceless. so expressive. it's like
Andy: "...told you so Damian"
Damian: "You wish."

pipe42oak

[points to Dami's leg] THE BOOOOOOOOT!!!

Ugh. I hate those things. It's impossible to walk through snow when sporting one. I've learned to (try to) avoid spraining things below your knee in the winter months in Chicago (ice + impaired walking = death). So that pretty much leaves me 3 remaining free months to go sprain-wild...

Anywho. Thanks for that awesome information!! I'd say that's pretty dern arbitrary, too Weird. Maybe it's because OK Go is actually an intelligent band? Those are somewhat scarce. Haha. And I love the awesome screen captures! Thank you for sharing ^___^ (Check out Tim's good posture in that one pic XD )

... "Hacienda"?

Unknown

I remember watching that show in the 6th grade. Thanks for the videos. I felt bad the audience was so small and barely paying atention. Thanks for the pictures too. I actually am starting to forget what they looked like when they weren't wearing suits.

PS. Tim is so much kewler than Napoleon Dynamite.

rain7look

I used to watch Channel One when I was in middle and high school. I definitely hated it, too because it was always on during art class and we were required to watch it.

But they've been playing OK Go songs on Channel One for a while, but I had no idea about that interview four years ago. I would have been half way through my freshmen year. Wow.

I must have not watched that one.

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Hahahahaha, I just watched the three videos and a few things made me laugh.

-Damian's egotistical attitude.
-How Damian has to hold the microphone for Tim.
-Tim: "I enjoy dancing badly."
"I believe I'm better than Napolean Dynamite."
-Tim playing with his sideburns.
-Dan standing in the tiny audience like he's not part of the band, but he's the number one fan because he looks so happy.

And how come Channel One got better after I graduate?

firexpert6

QUOTE (CinnamonLips @ Dec 3 2006, 05:22 AM)

actually when i was in high school (4 years ago), OK Go appeared on the program and helped cohost the whole show. it was completely random and a shocker because umm... bands NEVER appear on channel one! lol

You read my mind. I was trying to find those pictures amongst the net and I failed. I knew they had hosted sometime ago (and was the first band to do so on Channel One!) but there was little if any information about it. Thank you for posting those!

Poor Damian. *kisses his long-since-healed leg* I think he also had that same boot at an Indianapolis show once. I wonder what he did to it (probably doing multiple air-guitar jumps or something).

roomtwine3

I love that old guy in the audience, he looks like he's got the shakes.

breakingnews815

hmmm, for some reason these videos don't work well on my computer. They play for maybe 10 seconds and then stop for 10. But they are still wonderful! Thanks very much!

hyannah77

I'd never heard of Channel One (because apparently Missouri schools, or at least my school, didn't do that) but when my roommate heard Tim go "take ten" she goes "did he just say 'take ten'? Are you watching Channel One?" then she ranted and ranted about having to watch it. Ah well. If OK Go was on it, it couldn't be that bad.

There were definitely some great quotes, my favourites? Damian talking about hurling themselves at huge nests of treadmills, and Tim pointing out the fact that JC has never danced inside a videocamera.

beardnut7

QUOTE (toiletdog @ Dec 3 2006, 12:50 PM)

Poor Damian. *kisses his long-since-healed leg* I think he also had that same boot at an Indianapolis show once. I wonder what he did to it (probably doing multiple air-guitar jumps or something).

If I remember correctly, he injured it after jumping off of an amp.
...and then had to finish the remainder of the tour by sitting on a stool while he played.

Tempe Arizona

QUOTE (CinnamonLips @ Dec 3 2006, 03:22 AM)

actually when i was in high school (4 years ago), OK Go appeared on the program and helped cohost the whole show. it was completely random and a shocker because umm... bands NEVER appear on channel one! lol

my friend actually has the tape of that episode.

apparently tim (or is it dan?) is friends with someone on the staff.

Oooo, these pics are lovely! They make me squeal. In the above one, Damian looks like a biker or something. He doesn't have his usual 12 year old look.

(And the background screens are quite hypnotic. Thankie for these pics!!!!

pipe42oak

TIm: Well he's never danced inside a camera either...

Host: [No emotive response whatsoever] Exactly.

Yeah. Cyborg.

cementsteam8

So cute Tim is one foxy man!

thephantommilk

hmm.. well, I've never heard of this "Channel One" stuff. Massachusetts public education is much to cool (and, uh, poor...) for that sort of stuff.

those videos were pretty great, though. I LOVE hearing AMW all acoustic-y.... and Andy playing the Rockenspiel.

rice62witch

toiletdog, thanks for the heads up. And CinnamonLips, thanks for the pictures. I always love the older pictures.

cross3dead

That's so awesome! Thanks for finding this and posting it!

Damian and Tim are just ADORABLE!