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>> So I thought tonight before we got started, we'd do something a little different.
[Applause]
>> What I thought I'd show y'all how to do, actually, is how to tie a bow tie.
[Jazzy music]
>> It takes a few times to try. We'll do it a little bit after the show is over.
>> The long one goes over the shorter one. Take the longer end around, down, up and through.
OK, take one end, bend it over here like this and make it so that it looks like a bow. Then
take this part and pull it down in front. And then take the part you have there that's
like a little bow and fold it back over. And then you pinch those two together like you're
making a taco.
>> OK.
>> Perfect, that's it, OK?
>> Pull this out toward me and then you take this part, wrap your finger here, and just
stick that, just follow your finger through the other way. And once you got that done,
you can actually just let go, just drop both hands.
>> Ooo, wow.
>> OK, there's a part hanging through there. If you got that loop and pull it, you have
a perfect bow tie.
>> Awesome, thank you.
>> That looks good. I like that.
>> Hi, I'm Michael Drake, and a few nights ago I showed a group of students how to tie
a bow tie. It was great fun, but we went a little bit quickly. And so we've decided to
make an addendum to that to show you how to do this a bit more carefully, so that you
at home can do it by just watching this simple video.
>> Tying a bow tie is easy. You take the two flaps, cross one over the other, and then
the one you've crossed over you go down, back, around and through. Pull it up and put it
on your shoulder, just leave it there. Now we take the flap that's hanging down and put
our thumb in back of it and pull it up so that it looks like a bow. Let's do that just
once again, slow and easy. Thumb goes in back, pull that out a bit and back, and hold it
up right there close to your collar so it looks like a bow. I'm going to grab that in
between your thumb and first finger here, take the flap from my shoulder, and pull it
down so that it's straight over the center. Then, I'll take the bow from the very beginning
and fold it over like we were making a taco, and then pinch that bow and the original flap
together. Then pull them out and when you pull it out you'll get like a little hole
here right in the back, you'll pull out toward the mirror. Alright, now we take the flap
that's hanging down, with your index finger on the very top of that part that's hanging
down, go back and put that up through the hole that we saw there in the back. Not all
the way through, just enough to kind of get it stuck there. Then we can actually let it
go, grab the first bow that we made and then the second part we just pulled through and
pull that through a little more, a little more tightly, and we get something that starts
to look like a bow.
>> So you adjust a bit, pull a bit on the flaps, pull a bit on the bows. Get it so that
it's just right, and you're ready for a night on the town.