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Works, creators and organizations criticized in earnest (straight or with playful delivery around a meant point). 447 items, 2007–2026, by year; each line says who, what, its medium and tie to the channel, what is said, and the moment. Mockery and joke mentions are not counted here: see Mockery & jokes. Back to the canon overview.

2007 (29)

John: 14 · Hank: 14 · guests: 1

  • 2007-02-07 · John · George W. Bush (politics & public life, outside the channel, playful) — In a comic jab, John's story calls George W. Bush so incompetent he failed to poop in Hank's pants, then denied intending to, as did his administration. — Brotherhood 2.0: February 7, 2007 (00:01:37)
  • 2007-02-28 · John Green (quoted) · George W. Bush (politics & public life, outside the channel, playful) — The story mocks George W. Bush as so incompetent he failed to poop in Hank's pants, then claimed he never meant to; his poop 'looks exactly like bullshit'. — Brotherhood 2.0: Everyone Poops in my Pants, a Picture Book (00:01:46)
  • 2007-04-06 · John · Dick Cheney (politics & public life, outside the channel, playful) — Among the things that never rest John lists Dick Cheney, whom he accuses of intentionally misleading Americans about a relationship between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda. — Brotherhood 2.0: April 6: Nerdfighters Never Surrender (00:00:56)
  • 2007-04-10 · John · Perez Hilton (online video & web, outside the channel, playful) — John says that is why he stopped reading PerezHilton.com: it made his brain go gooey. — Brotherhood 2.0: April 10th: Role Models (00:01:16)
  • 2007-04-13 · Hank · United States Congress (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Tomorrow is Step It Up Day, a campaign started by Bill McKibben, author of the book Hank told John to read, telling Congress that since everyone agrees there's a problem, it should act. — Friday the 13th: Step It Up! (00:00:58)
  • 2007-05-02 · John · Bartlesville Mid-High School (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John has posted the email addresses of the committee members, most of whom he says haven't read the book, and asks those who agree to email them that 'we won't stand for this'. — Brotherhood 2.0: May 2: Book Banning (00:01:38)
  • 2007-05-07 · Hank · Spider-Man 3 (film & tv, outside the channel) — Hank found Spider-Man 3 really bad: it lacked depth, as if the makers skipped the writing and spent on special effects; he concedes audiences went anyway. — May 7th: Birthday Extravaganza (00:00:44)
  • 2007-05-30 · Hank · Barack Obama (politics & public life, outside the channel) — Hank grants that Obama is photogenic and well-spoken, but his support for coal-to-liquid technology turns Hank off. — May 30th: Ranavalona and Clean Coal (00:03:08)
  • 2007-06-01 · Hank · Barack Obama (politics & public life, outside the channel) — Hank says John's response to his derision of Barack Obama was unconvincing; to Hank's 'well-spoken and attractive' John only added 'smart'. — June 1: Barack Saabama (00:00:09)
  • 2007-09-05 · Hank · Hummer (products, outside the channel, playful) — In the song's SUV verse Hank tells a neighbour 'we're fighting a war' so he can drive his giant SUV home, and urges him to trade his H2 for a Honda Fit. — September 5th: I'm Gonna Kill You (00:01:31)
  • 2007-09-06 · John · Scorpion (characters, outside the channel, playful) — John corrects the song's lyric: Scorpion's fatality was taking off his mask and breathing fire to reduce the victim to bones; ripping off the spine was Sub-Zero's. — September 6th: The Book Club Returns (00:00:00)
  • 2007-09-06 · John · Sub-Zero (characters, outside the channel, playful) — John corrects the song's lyric: Scorpion's fatality was taking off his mask and breathing fire to reduce the victim to bones; ripping off the spine was Sub-Zero's. — September 6th: The Book Club Returns (00:00:00)
  • 2007-09-18 · John · Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus (books & writing, outside the channel) — Against the popular view that gender differences are inborn ('men are from Mars'), John says intersex and transsexual people have existed since the species began. — September 18: In Defense of Chris Crocker (00:01:34)
  • 2007-10-10 · John · George W. Bush (politics & public life, outside the channel, playful) — John's example of a politician whose promised cards (avoid nation building, no preemptive war) turn out to be the Joker ends with George Bush as a belligerent, anti-intellectual, mean-headed Decepticon. — October 10th: A Spoilerific Attack on Unicorns (00:00:39)
  • 2007-11-05 · John · Pervez Musharraf (politics & public life, outside the channel, playful) — John tells General Musharraf, as if he watched the show, that he is angering John and to stop it. — November 5th: John's Not Happy about Pakistan (00:00:54)
  • 2007-11-05 · John · George W. Bush (politics & public life, outside the channel, playful) — John sarcastically faults George W. Bush's judgment of foreign leaders: he claimed to see Putin's good soul and praised Musharraf. — November 5th: John's Not Happy about Pakistan (00:02:15)
  • 2007-11-06 · Hank · AirTran Airways (organizations & sites, outside the channel, playful) — Hank mocks AirTran's 'gourmet pretzels', the only food it serves, offered as the inedible item for John. — Nov (00:01:09)
  • 2007-11-06 · Hank · Dick Cheney (politics & public life, outside the channel, playful) — Hank says he supports the impeachment of Dick Cheney, joking that Bush looked into Cheney's soul and saw a good person, and that he has about 328 other reasons. — Nov (00:01:09)
  • 2007-11-06 · Hank · George W. Bush (politics & public life, outside the channel, playful) — Hank says he supports the impeachment of Dick Cheney, joking that Bush looked into Cheney's soul and saw a good person, and that he has about 328 other reasons. — Nov (00:01:09)
  • 2007-11-07 · John · Pervez Musharraf (politics & public life, outside the channel) — John recounts that Sharif fired army chief Musharraf while he was abroad and barred his plane from landing at Karachi; the army seized the airport and the plane landed with minutes of fuel left. — November 7: Discussing the Political Situation in Pakistan (00:01:02)
  • 2007-11-13 · John · Fox Entertainment Group (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John's example: whole Family Guy episodes stream with commercials on MySpace; Fox owns both, profits from the ads, yet says it needn't pay the writers because it's promotional. — November 13: You Can't Scare Me. I'm Stickin' to the Union. (00:01:38)
  • 2007-11-16 · Hank · Toyota Sequoia (products, outside the channel) — Hank finds Toyota disappointing at the show, mostly unveiling its gigantic SUV (the Sequoia) at what was supposed to be a green car show. — November 16th: Green Cars at the LA Auto Show (00:00:39)
  • 2007-11-16 · Hank · Ford Motor Company (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank mocks Ford's environmental announcements: a display wall of recycled paper while its steel cars get poor mileage. — November 16th: Green Cars at the LA Auto Show (00:01:08)
  • 2007-11-27 · Hank · The New York Times (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank cites a New York Times article saying 80% of Americans wish Christmas were less materialistic. — November 27th: Eagle's Nest, Blogger's Choice and Shopping (00:01:16)
  • 2007-11-27 · Hank · American Enterprise Institute (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank says Kenneth P. Green and the American Enterprise Institute are funded entirely by billion-dollar corporations including Exxon, which don't care if we're unhappy as long as we spend. — November 27th: Eagle's Nest, Blogger's Choice and Shopping (00:01:45)
  • 2007-11-27 · Hank · ExxonMobil (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank says Kenneth P. Green and the American Enterprise Institute are funded entirely by billion-dollar corporations including Exxon, which don't care if we're unhappy as long as we spend. — November 27th: Eagle's Nest, Blogger's Choice and Shopping (00:01:45)
  • 2007-11-27 · Hank · Kenneth P. Green (other people & groups, outside the channel) — Hank objects that the article quotes Kenneth P. Green saying the point of the holidays is the joy of giving, and asks why the Times chose him as its environmental scholar. — November 27th: Eagle's Nest, Blogger's Choice and Shopping (00:01:45)
  • 2007-11-30 · John · Uncle Sam (characters, outside the channel, playful) — John says Santa Claus was invented by the same man who invented Uncle Sam. — Nov. 30th: A CHRISTMAS RANT (00:00:39)
  • 2007-12-10 · John · American Gladiators (film & tv, outside the channel, playful) — John sarcastically praises the moguls' 'generosity of spirit', mocks their TV programming such as the revived American Gladiators, and tells them to get back to the table. — Dec. 10: MY BOOK IS GONNA BE A MOVIE!!! (someday) (00:02:40)

2008 (23)

John: 10 · Hank: 13

  • 2008-01-04 · John · Pervez Musharraf (politics & public life, outside the channel) — John says Musharraf, the dictatorial president of Pakistan, has used Bhutto's death to delay the parliamentary elections that were due this month (January 2008). — Nerdfighting in 2008, Pakistan, and Hillary Clinton (00:01:34)
  • 2008-01-04 · John · Hillary Clinton (politics & public life, outside the channel) — John says Hillary Clinton claimed in two recent interviews that Musharraf was a candidate on the ballot in the delayed elections; he is not. — Nerdfighting in 2008, Pakistan, and Hillary Clinton (00:02:33)
  • 2008-02-04 · Hank · John McCain (politics & public life, outside the channel) — Hank says Romney and Huckabee scare him, while McCain only half scares him. — Obama Says Subscribe (00:00:41)
  • 2008-02-04 · Hank · Mike Huckabee (politics & public life, outside the channel) — Hank says Romney and Huckabee scare him, while McCain only half scares him. — Obama Says Subscribe (00:00:41)
  • 2008-02-04 · Hank · Mitt Romney (politics & public life, outside the channel) — Hank says Romney and Huckabee scare him, while McCain only half scares him. — Obama Says Subscribe (00:00:41)
  • 2008-02-04 · Hank · Republican Party (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank says nothing would scare him more than Republicans in the White House again, rejecting talk that things can't get much worse. — Obama Says Subscribe (00:01:32)
  • 2008-02-04 · Hank · George W. Bush (politics & public life, outside the channel) — Hank argues McCain would continue Bush's work, pointing to a picture, and is not the candidate for change. — Obama Says Subscribe (00:03:29)
  • 2008-03-04 · John · Republican Party (organizations & sites, outside the channel, playful) — Asked whether he'd rather drink his own pee or vote for a current Republican candidate, John says it depends on how much pee: a few drops, sure. — SETTING THE QUESTION TUESDAY WORLD RECORD (00:00:57)
  • 2008-04-10 · Hank · Abraham Maslow (other people & groups, outside the channel) — Hank says the hierarchy was made by someone who never faced the first need; lacking food does not make you an animal who doesn't care about others or doing good, it means you can't do those things. — Barack John Obama Green (00:01:57)
  • 2008-05-20 · John · Edward Cullen (characters, outside the channel) — On Edward or Jacob, John calls Edward Cullen a beautiful but empty vessel for our hopes; people who are mostly ideas attract more, but loving one is not sustainable, so he picks Jacob. — Guys Love Giraffe Love (00:00:41)
  • 2008-07-18 · Hank · Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (books & writing, outside the channel, playful) — Hank wants J.K. Rowling to say the (Deathly Hallows) epilogue was crap, 'cause we all know it was crap'. — Book Eight...Another Harry Potter Song (00:01:42)
  • 2008-07-22 · John · J. D. Salinger (books & writing, outside the channel) — John says that soon afterwards Salinger left his wife for a 19-year-old and has not been a particularly good father to his children. — OMFG CATCHER IN THE RYE!!! (00:00:46)
  • 2008-08-12 · John · Dmitry Medvedev (politics & public life, outside the channel) — John says that after a week Dmitry Medvedev, president in name only since Putin runs everything, declared Georgia punished, literally using the Russian word for punished. — PEANUT BUTTER FACE (while discussing the Georgia-Russia War) (00:02:27)
  • 2008-08-12 · John · Vladimir Putin (politics & public life, outside the channel) — John says that after a week Dmitry Medvedev, president in name only since Putin runs everything, declared Georgia punished, literally using the Russian word for punished. — PEANUT BUTTER FACE (while discussing the Georgia-Russia War) (00:02:27)
  • 2008-08-21 · Hank · Susan Carlson (books & writing, outside the channel) — Hank says he enjoyed the report, which turns out to be mostly about John, but it has several factual inconsistencies he wants to comment on. — INTERNET SENSATION B$%CH (00:00:46)
  • 2008-09-26 · Hank · George W. Bush (politics & public life, outside the channel, playful) — The song says 'we' are tired of the current president, whom everyone hates, and that he is leaving town. — Obama Llama Song (00:00:02)
  • 2008-09-26 · Hank · Republican Party (organizations & sites, outside the channel, playful) — The song says Republicans claim to want change but then want to stay the same; the singer will vote neither left nor right, only for change. — Obama Llama Song (00:00:26)
  • 2008-10-06 · John · Eventful (organizations & sites, outside the channel, playful) — With Hank's help, all Paper Towns and Nerdfighting Tour events are now on Facebook with up-to-date information; Eventful.com, now their 'mortal enemy', is dropped. — Berlin and Let it Snow (in Your Pants) (00:02:20)
  • 2008-10-07 · John · John McCain (politics & public life, outside the channel, playful) — John says Barack Obama was the debate's second winner, sounding smart, ready and fired up, while John McCain wandered the stage as if lost. — John Green on the Debate (00:00:49)
  • 2008-10-07 · Hank · John McCain (politics & public life, outside the channel) — Hank says McCain's answer, that the sacrifice would be cutting spending, is not a sacrifice asked of citizens like him. — Hank on the Debate (00:00:58)
  • 2008-10-09 · Hank · Barnes & Noble (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank says people who pre-ordered Paper Towns from Barnes & Noble have already received the book, well ahead of release. — Let it Snow Let it Snow Let it Snow (00:00:31)
  • 2008-10-28 · John · Walmart (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Asked to get Walmart to stock Paper Towns, John argues buying books at Walmart is a bad idea: if everyone did, only about 30 to 50 books would be published a year, chilling American cultural discourse. — The Unzipped Zipper (Of Your Pants) (00:03:05)
  • 2008-12-29 · Hank · YouTube (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank says front-page exposure brings many non-Nerdfighters and reminds him how hateful YouTube can be; the difference now is that Nerdfighters pounce on the haters. — Comment Haters and Christmas (00:00:53)

2009 (32)

John: 17 · Hank: 14 · descriptions: 1

  • 2009-01-18 · John · Quran (books & writing, outside the channel) — John says he received an email claiming Obama would take the oath of office on the Quran. — PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA Inaugurated: Some Historical Background (00:00:00)
  • 2009-02-08 · John · Richard Williamson (other people & groups, outside the channel) — John calls Richard Williamson a crazy person and jokes that his craziness is why he had been excommunicated from the Catholic Church. — All Aboard the Fail Boat (00:00:36)
  • 2009-03-15 · John · United Nations (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says that 15 years ago the US, the UN and Europe got almost all of 'our people' out of Rwanda unharmed, leaving the hundreds of thousands killed to conclude they were 'a them'. — Lighting a candle for Rwanda (00:00:54)
  • 2009-04-16 · Hank · Google (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank thanks viewers most of all, because YouTube is not what Google does but what the community does, including in the comments. — The Day the YouTubes Died (00:03:45)
  • 2009-04-28 · Hank · The Ringworld Throne (books & writing, outside the channel) — Hank says Ringworld Throne 'kind of sucked' but the first Ringworld was very good, with fascinating engineering and characters; he advises skipping the sequels. — 10 Book Reviews in 4 Minutes (00:01:00)
  • 2009-05-08 · Hank · Vulcan (characters, outside the channel) — Hank is a bit annoyed the film destroys all of Vulcan, which spoils the universe for him, though he understands the bigger stakes make it more interesting. — Star Trek: The Movie, Review (00:03:08)
  • 2009-05-17 · John · Ne Win (other people & groups, outside the channel) — John says Ne Win, the first military ruler, bathed in dolphin blood to stay young and tried to switch Burma's currency to base 9, his lucky number. — Burma! Myanmar? BURMA! (00:01:22)
  • 2009-05-27 · Hank · Deal or No Deal (film & tv, outside the channel, playful) — Hank tells Howie Mandel that whatever his financial problems, Deal or No Deal is not okay; he should have slapped its pitchers with a rubber band and walked out. — Open Letters (00:00:50)
  • 2009-06-14 · John · Ali Khamenei (politics & public life, outside the channel) — John explains that Iran is an Islamic Republic whose president matters less because its domestic and foreign affairs are decided by a council of religious leaders led by the Ayatollah. — Iran Election Fraud: 5 Reasons to Doubt the Results (00:00:23)
  • 2009-06-14 · John · Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (politics & public life, outside the channel) — John calls the incumbent president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, 'a bit of a douche-nozzle'. — Iran Election Fraud: 5 Reasons to Doubt the Results (00:00:57)
  • 2009-06-14 · John · Ministry of Interior (Iran) (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says a couple of hours after polls closed the interior ministry announced Ahmadinejad was winning with 63% of the vote, which he calls nearly impossible. — Iran Election Fraud: 5 Reasons to Doubt the Results (00:01:20)
  • 2009-07-01 · Hank · Universal Music Group (organizations & sites, outside the channel, playful) — Hank says he didn't even mention Universal Music Group in the song because, as far as he is concerned, they can go eat poop. — Most Subscribed: A Song (00:00:27)
  • 2009-07-12 · John · Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (politics & public life, outside the channel) — John says it still matters who Iran's president is, despite the Supreme Leader: Ahmadinejad ruined Iran's economy and unleashed morality police, and relations were better under his less crazy predecessor. — On Iran, Islam, and Amazingly Stupid Comments (00:01:27)
  • 2009-08-04 · Hank · Discovery Channel (organizations & sites, outside the channel, playful) — Hank describes Shark Week as Discovery Channel packing all its shark footage into one week to scare viewers who cannot stop watching. — Twitter Games and Truth or Fail (00:01:51)
  • 2009-08-18 · Hank · Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (books & writing, outside the channel, playful) — The 'Book Eight' song wants Rowling to say the Deathly Hallows epilogue was crap, 'cause we all know it was crap'. — So Jokes: Video EP (00:00:31)
  • 2009-08-18 · Hank · Hummer (products, outside the channel, playful) — The song's SUV verse mocks a man down the street who bought a giant SUV (an H2): 'we're fighting a war' so he can drive it home from the grocery store; Hank urges a Honda Fit instead. — So Jokes: Video EP (00:13:44)
  • 2009-08-19 · Hank · Democratic Party (organizations & sites, outside the channel, playful) — Hank jokingly likens the Democratic Party to a llama with a huge head and an atrophied body that acts only every four years and must get involved. — The Political Situation at the County Fair (00:00:53)
  • 2009-08-19 · Hank · Republican Party (organizations & sites, outside the channel, playful) — Hank jokingly likens the Democratic Party to a llama with a huge head and an atrophied body that acts only every four years and must get involved. — The Political Situation at the County Fair (00:00:53)
  • 2009-08-30 · John · James Buchanan (other people & groups, outside the channel) — John names James Buchanan the worst president. — 100 QUESTIONS ANSWERED!!!!!!! (00:02:06)
  • 2009-09-12 · John · CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (film & tv, outside the channel) — John and the Yeti, who rarely watch TV, like to follow an episode of CSI with The First 48, A&E's show about real detectives and real crimes. — Special Friday Video! (On Saturday) (00:00:40)
  • 2009-10-13 · video description · Kanye West (music, outside the channel, playful) — Nine Die in Georgia Floods - Kanye is a Jackass (00:00:00)
  • 2009-10-18 · John · Richard Heene (other people & groups, outside the channel) — John says the family had been on Wife Swap twice and the father believes Hillary Clinton is a shape-shifting reptilian and that a secret cabal of reptilians runs the world. — The Balloon Boy Hoax (00:01:34)
  • 2009-10-24 · Hank · Richard Heene (other people & groups, outside the channel, playful) — Hank recaps the Balloon Boy story: the dad pretended his son was in the balloon while the boy was in the attic, wanting a big story to land a reality TV show. — Truth or Fail: HOAXES! (00:00:00)
  • 2009-11-08 · John · Rashid Buttar (other people & groups, outside the channel, playful) — John says the doctor credited with curing her, Dr. Rashid Buttar, believes in urine injection therapy (filtered urine reinjected to boost immunity), which doesn't work. — H1N1 Vaccine Fears (00:01:49)
  • 2009-11-22 · John · Thierry Henry (other people & groups, outside the channel) — John recounts that in a closely fought match Thierry Henry handled the ball and passed to a teammate who scored, so France went to the World Cup by cheating. — Hank in FAMY (00:01:28)
  • 2009-11-24 · Hank · Happy Birthday to You (music, outside the channel, playful) — Hank loves that everyone knows a shared Happy Birthday song but thinks the song itself is bad and just wants to get to the cake. — 50 THINGS!! That I'm Thankful For (00:00:00)
  • 2009-11-24 · Hank · The Star-Spangled Banner (music, outside the channel, playful) — Hank says he likes the idea of a national anthem but not the US one, which he jokingly sums up as bombs and war; there are things about America he likes more than explosions and war. — 50 THINGS!! That I'm Thankful For (00:00:00)
  • 2009-11-25 · Hank · The Star-Spangled Banner (music, outside the channel) — Answering commenters who called his anthem position unsupportable, Hank admits he put it poorly and says his problem is that it is a song about defending ideals, not about the ideals. — Things I'm Not Thankful For (00:00:29)
  • 2009-11-29 · John · Edward Cullen (characters, outside the channel, playful) — John comically summarises Twilight: Edward Cullen looks 17 but is a 107-year-old sparkly vampire who dates a 16-year-old girl, "which for some reason isn't wrong". — John Reviews Twilight and New Moon (00:00:15)
  • 2009-11-29 · John · Bella Swan (characters, outside the channel) — John says the books suggest Bella can't be whole without a man to take care of her, whereas a woman needs a man "like a fish needs a bicycle". — John Reviews Twilight and New Moon (00:01:13)
  • 2009-11-29 · John · The Twilight Saga: New Moon (film & tv, outside the channel) — John saw the New Moon film and found it kind of stupid, but it reminded him what he likes about Twilight: fun, escape from the world's pain, and the argument that true love triumphs, true or not. — John Reviews Twilight and New Moon (00:02:18)
  • 2009-12-01 · John · Government of Pakistan (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says the Pakistani government is bad at roads and policing, and a big problem is that laws can be passed but not enforced. — Shaving for Pakistan (00:01:50)

2010 (32)

John: 18 · Hank: 12 · descriptions: 2

  • 2010-01-13 · John · Pat Robertson (other people & groups, outside the channel) — John says Pat Robertson, explaining why an active God allowed the earthquake in the worst possible place, claimed Haitians made a deal with the devil and were getting payback; John calls that stupid. — Froghoppin' with Gatsby (00:02:47)
  • 2010-02-08 · video description · Coca-Cola (products, outside the channel) — Hypocrisy: All They Want is Money (00:00:00)
  • 2010-02-08 · Hank · Fox News (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank is extremely disappointed that the National Geographic channel, with its science and the wonder of diversity, is owned by the people who run Fox News. — Hypocrisy: All They Want is Money (00:02:13)
  • 2010-03-01 · John · The Marriage Ref (film & tv, outside the channel) — John says that while he watched the Olympic closing ceremonies the day before, Bob Costas cut away from the giant inflatable beavers to introduce The Marriage Ref. — The Marriage Ref SUCKS (00:00:33)
  • 2010-03-01 · John · Jeff Zucker (politics & public life, outside the channel) — John says NBC Universal head Jeff Zucker likes to say YouTube is for squirrels on trampolines and that advertisers don't want ads next to cats on skateboards. — The Marriage Ref SUCKS (00:01:43)
  • 2010-03-01 · John · NBC (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says unlike NBC, Nerdfighteria is not in the advertiser business but in pond sand filters, Haitian relief and the pizza shirt, and above all in taking care of each other. — The Marriage Ref SUCKS (00:02:14)
  • 2010-03-03 · Hank · Viacom (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank reports, as bad news, that Viacom has decided to stop showing The Daily Show and The Colbert Report on Hulu. — VidCon Schedule Spectacular! (00:00:00)
  • 2010-03-03 · Hank · Jeff Zucker (politics & public life, outside the channel) — Hank says Jeff Zucker is probably right about TV, his job, but on YouTube is as unqualified and clueless as Tiger Woods hosting The Marriage Ref. — VidCon Schedule Spectacular! (00:00:56)
  • 2010-05-03 · Hank · Comcast (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank defines net neutrality as internet providers not deciding what content you get at what speeds; they shouldn't throttle YouTube, boost Comcast, or gouge content creators. — Net Neutrality in the Shower (00:02:27)
  • 2010-06-04 · Hank · Viacom (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank says that beyond the 'poopy Nintendo' case there are bigger messes (BP in the Gulf, Israel and Palestine) and, closer to home on YouTube, Viacom's attack on YouTube is a very big deal. — YouTube vs. Viacom The Battle Explained (00:00:01)
  • 2010-06-04 · Hank · Spike.com (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank, voicing YouTube, says Viacom-owned Spike.com routinely monetizes independent creators' videos with 30-second pre-rolls without the owners' permission. — YouTube vs. Viacom The Battle Explained (00:02:45)
  • 2010-06-07 · John · Viacom (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John casts singer-songwriter Jonathan Coulton (who once bought him a beer) as, for today's purposes, a small media company, set against the somewhat larger Viacom. — Viacom PWNED on Piracy (00:00:00)
  • 2010-06-07 · John · Spike.com (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Following Hank's mention of Spike.com, John found Coulton's Flickr video there behind a cell-phone pre-roll, with ads for Mountain Dew, American Express and Guitar Hero alongside. — Viacom PWNED on Piracy (00:01:58)
  • 2010-06-09 · Hank · Viacom (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank's description says John had said in his last video he would sue Viacom if that video went up and was monetized on Spike.com, and it was. — Should We Sue Viacom? (00:00:00)
  • 2010-06-09 · Hank · Spike.com (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Viacom says Spike.com is manually approved, yet most of its viral-category videos belong to independent creators who never let Viacom run them with 30-second pre-rolls and ads. — Should We Sue Viacom? (00:00:58)
  • 2010-06-11 · John · Viacom (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — As far as John can tell, what Viacom did to him and hundreds of others is exactly what it is suing YouTube for purportedly doing to Viacom. — Mmmm....PARTS (00:00:00)
  • 2010-07-24 · John · Snooki (film & tv, outside the channel) — After Hank's video on Wednesday about meeting Snooki, a reality TV star John only half knew, John checked her Twitter, and what he found troubled him. — Grammar School with Snooki (00:00:19)
  • 2010-08-02 · John · United States Congress (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John recalls that in 2003 some members of the US Congress, angry that France saw no link between Iraq and Al-Qaeda, renamed French fries and French toast 'Freedom' in the congressional cafeteria. — I Love Hank: Esther Day 2010 (00:00:58)
  • 2010-08-10 · Hank · Wyclef Jean (music, outside the channel) — Hank reports Wyclef Jean is running for president of Haiti, with his supposed strength being that he is not a politician and doesn't know Haitian politics. — JOIN THE PEN15 CLUB!! (00:00:29)
  • 2010-08-22 · John · CNN (organizations & sites, outside the channel, playful) — John asks the Drudge Report, Huffington Post, CNN and Fox News to find something else to talk about. — Is Obama a Muslim? Examine the Evidence! (00:02:47)
  • 2010-08-22 · John · Drudge Report (organizations & sites, outside the channel, playful) — John asks the Drudge Report, Huffington Post, CNN and Fox News to find something else to talk about. — Is Obama a Muslim? Examine the Evidence! (00:02:47)
  • 2010-08-22 · John · Fox News (organizations & sites, outside the channel, playful) — John asks the Drudge Report, Huffington Post, CNN and Fox News to find something else to talk about. — Is Obama a Muslim? Examine the Evidence! (00:02:47)
  • 2010-08-22 · John · HuffPost (organizations & sites, outside the channel, playful) — John asks the Drudge Report, Huffington Post, CNN and Fox News to find something else to talk about. — Is Obama a Muslim? Examine the Evidence! (00:02:47)
  • 2010-09-03 · Hank · BP (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank argues BP may treat a lost rig as an acceptable risk, but it is risking the whole Gulf of Mexico ecosystem, which is not theirs and has intrinsic and economic value. — ANOTHER Oil Rig Explosion?! REALLY?! (00:02:35)
  • 2010-09-03 · Hank · newly emerged political party (unnamed by Hank) (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank criticizes a newly emerged political party that says the US energy industry should regulate itself and decide what is safe, sarcastically calling it a great plan. — ANOTHER Oil Rig Explosion?! REALLY?! (00:03:04)
  • 2010-09-06 · John · United States Mint (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says it costs the US Mint 1.7 cents to make a penny, so every year $70 million of federal tax money subsidizes the penny. — I HATE PENNIES!!!! (Also Nickels.) (00:00:45)
  • 2010-09-11 · John · Facebook (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says Facebook does not understand the internet. — Giant Baby Attack (00:02:03)
  • 2010-09-29 · John · The Avett Brothers (music, outside the channel, playful) — John says 'who' describes a person and 'that' everything else, so the Avett Brothers, one of his favorite bands, infuriate him by singing 'friends that I can trust'. — MY FRIEND CHESTER (00:01:51)
  • 2010-10-25 · video description · Auto-Tune (products, outside the channel) — Rocky Horror + Glee = ? (00:00:00)
  • 2010-10-25 · Hank · Glee (film & tv, outside the channel) — Hank says he loves Rocky Horror but is very ambivalent about Glee doing Rocky Horror, and that it isn't doing it for him or for a lot of people. — Rocky Horror + Glee = ? (00:00:00)
  • 2010-11-01 · John · White Wilderness (film & tv, outside the channel) — John says the 1958 Academy Award-winning Disney documentary White Wilderness shows lemmings committing mass suicide and is mostly famous for staging it. — Consider the Lemming (00:00:29)
  • 2010-11-01 · John · The Walt Disney Company (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says Disney's staged lemming suicide is an interesting, informational fact but not educational; the internet is very good at providing information and has proven less good at education. — Consider the Lemming (00:01:47)

2011 (29)

John: 11 · Hank: 17 · descriptions: 1

  • 2011-01-14 · Hank · Federal government of the United States (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank calls Operation Snow White the largest infiltration of the US government in history. — Top 5 Actual Conspiracies (00:00:56)
  • 2011-01-14 · Hank · Central Intelligence Agency (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — In the 1960s the CIA ran illegal mind-control experiments (MKUltra): subjects were given LSD, abused, isolated and put in sensory deprivation; in 1973 the CIA director ordered all files destroyed. — Top 5 Actual Conspiracies (00:01:02)
  • 2011-01-24 · Hank · Asacol HD (products, outside the channel) — Hank says Asacol's maker then created Asacol HD just as Asacol was about to go generic: basically the same drug under a name different enough to extend its patent. — The 1200% Increase in my Prescription Drug Costs (00:00:37)
  • 2011-01-24 · Hank · Warner Chilcott (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank spent much of the weekend finding ways to contact Warner Chilcott, the drug's maker; he found its CEO's phone number to call him, and emailed CEO Roger Boissonneault. — The 1200% Increase in my Prescription Drug Costs (00:02:39)
  • 2011-01-24 · Hank · Roger Boissonneault (politics & public life, outside the channel) — Hank puts the CEO's email address in the description and asks viewers to think about the situation complexly, be civil, and tell him how they feel about what his company has done. — The 1200% Increase in my Prescription Drug Costs (00:02:59)
  • 2011-01-26 · John · Warner Chilcott (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John recaps Hank's Monday video: Warner Chilcott, maker of Asacol HD, the drug that keeps Hank well enough to work, raised its price overnight and without warning by more than 1200%. — I OWN WARNER CHILCOTT! (00:00:00)
  • 2011-01-28 · Hank · Lost (film & tv, outside the channel) — Science fiction and fantasy share shelf space and much else, but Hank's rule: a fantasy writer may define the world and resolve conflict however they like, while science fiction based on reality cannot resolve it with made-up 'glowy holes' as Lost did. — Is Hank Green Batman? (00:01:46)
  • 2011-02-07 · Hank · National Football League (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — From a little internet research, Hank reports that the NFL has specifically forbidden another team like the Packers from entering the league. — Cancer Sniffing Dog (00:01:06)
  • 2011-03-07 · Hank · François Duvalier (politics & public life, outside the channel) — Hank says the longest stability came under the Duvaliers, François then Jean-Claude, whose forces killed and raped while they pocketed foreign aid and all tax money. — Why is Haiti Poor? (00:02:43)
  • 2011-03-07 · Hank · Jean-Claude Duvalier (politics & public life, outside the channel) — Hank says the longest stability came under the Duvaliers, François then Jean-Claude, whose forces killed and raped while they pocketed foreign aid and all tax money. — Why is Haiti Poor? (00:02:43)
  • 2011-03-25 · Hank · Toyota (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank calls Toyota's new commercials very evil: a child shames his dad over an old car, implying a father should be ashamed of being poor or fiscally responsible. — Hank is an Adorable, Drunk Princess (00:02:46)
  • 2011-04-01 · John · Warner Chilcott (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John recalls buying Warner Chilcott stock after the company 'Warner Chilcotted' Hank and others with ulcerative colitis; he sold it today for a $26 profit and can't recall feeling worse about making $26. — Many Truths, 1 Lie! (00:01:39)
  • 2011-05-25 · Hank · John Gibbon (other people & groups, outside the channel) — At the Battle of the Big Hole the unsuspecting Nez Perce were ambushed at night; most losses were women, children and elderly in their teepees as General Gibbon's force rode through. — Thoughts from a Battlefield (00:02:39)
  • 2011-06-03 · Hank · United States Department of Agriculture (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank calls obesity the number one health problem in America right now, which makes USDA control of diet advice disturbing. — I AM A BAD PERSON! (00:02:34)
  • 2011-06-29 · John · William Shakespeare (books & writing, outside the channel, hedged) — The title comes from Julius Caesar's 'the fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars'; John says that's easy for Shakespeare or a Roman nobleman to say, and he doesn't fully agree. — THE FAULT IN OUR STARS (00:00:00)
  • 2011-07-18 · John · Tom Buchanan (characters, outside the channel) — John notes the Buchanans are 'polo pony rich', did not get rich by living the American dream, and live in a golden house. — Gatsby's American Dream: Reading The Great Gatsby Critically, Chapter 1 (00:02:26)
  • 2011-07-25 · Hank · It Gets Better Project (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank says the shouts of 'it gets better', 'stay strong' and 'we love you' would not have helped him while he was bullied; it does get better, but the moment is hard to see past. — I Am Not a P#$$Y - this video contains mild swear words. (00:03:18)
  • 2011-08-08 · Hank · United States Congress (organizations & sites, outside the channel, playful) — Hank also worries about the legislation meant to protect us: it will probably ruin much of what's great about the internet and will never be effective, since Congress will always be far behind the hackers. — Hackers, Cyber crime, and a New Kind of War. (00:03:09)
  • 2011-08-10 · John · United States Congress (organizations & sites, outside the channel, playful) — John says the US is well above the 90% alarm threshold and Congress, in "the stupidest game of chicken ever," only barely avoided defaulting. — Understanding America's Debt Problem (00:02:13)
  • 2011-08-17 · John · Sherlock Holmes (2009) (film & tv, outside the channel) — Asked about the modernised Sherlock Holmes, John gives the Cumberbatch version two thumbs up and the Downey Jr. version one thumb; Hank, who has seen both, agrees. — Hank's Question Tuesday DEBUT! (00:01:48)
  • 2011-09-07 · John · Tom Buchanan (characters, outside the channel) — John jokes that Tom Buchanan, who has what everyone else wants, is such an unbearable ass-face that he makes Paris Hilton look charming and grounded. — The Great Gatsby: Living the Dream in the Valley of Ashes (00:01:25)
  • 2011-09-12 · John · Budweiser (products, outside the channel) — John found Hank's video much less offensive than Budweiser's 9/11 commercials, but something about it was weird, and he kept thinking about it on his walk. — Adorable Baby and Insufficient Cartography (00:01:10)
  • 2011-11-18 · video description · United States Congress (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Top 5 Reasons ████ ██ ██████ (00:00:00)
  • 2011-11-18 · Hank · United States Congress (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank says he loves and needs copyright law and doesn't want John's books stolen, but doesn't want Congress meddling with the internet. — Top 5 Reasons ████ ██ ██████ (00:00:55)
  • 2011-11-21 · John · United States Congress (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says Hank, in his last video, correctly called the copyright measures before Congress 'a steaming hot slice of crazy'. — Old Man Narrates Young Girl (00:01:24)
  • 2011-11-21 · John · Creative Commons (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John doesn't think Creative Commons bypasses these problems: he is a fan and both brothers have released songs and zombie novellas under it, but it isn't practical for everything. — Old Man Narrates Young Girl (00:01:47)
  • 2011-11-28 · Hank · LensCrafters (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank still wears his old glasses: Walmart wrote down the wrong prescription and LensCrafters then put the wrong prescription in the lenses; he wonders why there's no quality control. — Stuffed with STUFF! (00:02:55)
  • 2011-11-28 · Hank · Walmart (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank still wears his old glasses: Walmart wrote down the wrong prescription and LensCrafters then put the wrong prescription in the lenses; he wonders why there's no quality control. — Stuffed with STUFF! (00:02:55)
  • 2011-11-30 · John · The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger (online video & web, outside the channel) — Like most of the internet, John is fascinated by honey badgers, but says Randall's famous narration does nothing to capture their glory. — Honey Badgers: The Crazy Truth (00:00:01)

2012 (16)

John: 6 · Hank: 9 · descriptions: 1

  • 2012-01-06 · Hank · Animal Planet (organizations & sites, outside the channel, playful) — Hank won't dwell on TV content, since YouTube has crap too, but is frustrated by ads for Finding Bigfoot on Animal Planet, a channel meant to be about animals, not fake animals. — Kill your TV (00:01:30)
  • 2012-01-06 · Hank · Finding Bigfoot (film & tv, outside the channel, playful) — Hank won't dwell on TV content, since YouTube has crap too, but is frustrated by ads for Finding Bigfoot on Animal Planet, a channel meant to be about animals, not fake animals. — Kill your TV (00:01:30)
  • 2012-03-06 · John · Bashar al-Assad (politics & public life, outside the channel) — John says Assad tried to bring Alawism into the mainstream, praying in public and building mosques, but many Sunni and even Shia Muslims still see Alawis as apostates. — Know Your News! Understanding the Syrian Revolution in Under 4 Minutes (00:01:56)
  • 2012-03-30 · video description · Motion Picture Association (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Springtime Hunger Games Zit Bully Walk (00:00:00)
  • 2012-03-30 · Hank · The Hunger Games (film) (film & tv, outside the channel) — Hank says he enjoyed The Hunger Games movie but thinks it missed a lot of what it could have been, since it is a moral story. — Springtime Hunger Games Zit Bully Walk (00:00:29)
  • 2012-04-03 · John · United States Congress (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says the last five years have seen 23 short-term extensions of the FAA ticket tax, mostly because Congress fights about unions, which helps members raise money. — Idiotic Governance: How Our Political Discourse Hurts Our Economy (00:00:47)
  • 2012-04-03 · John · Republican Party (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says long-term highway deals fail because they involve big numbers: Tea Party-backed Republicans oppose big spending, so rather than, say, one $250 billion bill, Congress votes for ten $30 billion bills. — Idiotic Governance: How Our Political Discourse Hurts Our Economy (00:02:05)
  • 2012-04-03 · John · Tea Party movement (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says long-term highway deals fail because they involve big numbers: Tea Party-backed Republicans oppose big spending, so rather than, say, one $250 billion bill, Congress votes for ten $30 billion bills. — Idiotic Governance: How Our Political Discourse Hurts Our Economy (00:02:05)
  • 2012-04-03 · John · Democratic Party (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says Republicans have proposed interesting Medicare reforms, but Democrats refuse them as cutting seniors' care, since seniors tend to vote for Democrats. — Idiotic Governance: How Our Political Discourse Hurts Our Economy (00:02:41)
  • 2012-05-11 · Hank · Bible (books & writing, outside the channel) — Hank says the Bible is not a legal document and the US was founded on the separation of church and state. — Your Arguments Are Invalid: Gay Marriage (00:01:09)
  • 2012-06-15 · Hank · Fifty Shades of Grey (books & writing, outside the channel) — Hank says that, apparently, Fifty Shades of Grey, basically Twilight fan fiction turned into a novel, has now sold more books than Ray Bradbury did in his entire life. — Flinching in the Shower (00:03:27)
  • 2012-07-13 · Hank · Mildred Montag (characters, outside the channel) — Hank says no one in the book or in all of literature is more unrealistic than Mildred: no amount of TV watching leads to accidentally attempting suicide; you can't scrub love out of the human. — An Army of Mindless Drones (00:01:56)
  • 2012-07-17 · John · The Pink Swastika (books & writing, outside the channel) — John rejects The Pink Swastika's case that Hitler was secretly gay and Nazism a homosexual agenda: 100,000 were arrested for being gay, many killed in camps, and prominent gay Nazis executed. — Hitler and Sex! (00:00:52)
  • 2012-08-17 · Hank · House-elf (characters, outside the channel, playful) — The song faults the wizards' isolationism, not calling for help with the Dark Lord at the door, and their known racists in politics and slaves making their food. — Open Letter to the Wizards (00:02:07)
  • 2012-09-07 · Hank · Wanted (film & tv, outside the channel) — Hank says you cannot really curve a bullet, jokes that only Angelina Jolie can, and calls that film terrible though he saw it in theatres. — Can You Really Light a Fart? (00:01:32)
  • 2012-12-28 · Hank · United States Department of Agriculture (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank says the donuts they had contain, according to the USDA, 45% of his daily allowed saturated fat. — Nood Ood, Drums, Donuts, Fish, the USDA, P4A and SLEDDING! (00:01:19)

2013 (19)

John: 6 · Hank: 12 · guests: 1

  • 2013-01-01 · John · United States Congress (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says the last two years saw the least effective Congress since at least the 1850s: it passed only 219 bills, almost all naming federal buildings after war heroes. — Why Does Congress Suck? (00:00:30)
  • 2013-01-11 · Hank · The Walt Disney Company (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank says Disney likewise made existing stories (Alice in Wonderland, The Little Mermaid, Cinderella) into movies, but is now the primary force behind extending copyright length 'forever'. — On the Ownership of Ideas (00:01:55)
  • 2013-03-12 · John · United States Congress (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says in 2011 the US nearly defaulted, not because it could not pay but because Congress refused to raise the debt ceiling it was hitting because of its own budgets. — Understand the Sequester (Spoiler: It's Bananas.) (00:02:25)
  • 2013-03-12 · John · Republican Party (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says news coverage focuses on blame, with congressional Republicans calling it Obama's idea and Obama asking whether he passes legislation, which distracts from the sequester being a disaster. — Understand the Sequester (Spoiler: It's Bananas.) (00:05:09)
  • 2013-05-03 · Hank · Kraft Foods (organizations & sites, outside the channel, playful) — Hank says Kraft should not call its American cheese slices cheese: they lack the texture, smell, taste and consistency of cheese, an insult to his country and to cheese. — 17 Rants in 4 Minutes (00:00:15)
  • 2013-05-03 · Hank · Kraft Singles (products, outside the channel, playful) — Hank says Kraft should not call its American cheese slices cheese: they lack the texture, smell, taste and consistency of cheese, an insult to his country and to cheese. — 17 Rants in 4 Minutes (00:00:15)
  • 2013-05-21 · John · Government of China (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says straightening the rebar brought back no children and held no contractor accountable, yet threatens China's government enough to detain Ai, because amid tragic statistics he gave form to love, anger and grief. — Poetry Makes Nothing Happen: Thoughts on Ai Weiwei from the Indianapolis Museum of Art (00:03:00)
  • 2013-05-24 · Hank · Apple (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank finds big tech's bidding war for his time weird and worrying, not because people shouldn't spend time online, but because savvy companies see value in being 'the lens' on his world. — What's Up with Start Ups (00:01:03)
  • 2013-05-24 · Hank · Google (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank finds big tech's bidding war for his time weird and worrying, not because people shouldn't spend time online, but because savvy companies see value in being 'the lens' on his world. — What's Up with Start Ups (00:01:03)
  • 2013-05-24 · Hank · Microsoft (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank finds big tech's bidding war for his time weird and worrying, not because people shouldn't spend time online, but because savvy companies see value in being 'the lens' on his world. — What's Up with Start Ups (00:01:03)
  • 2013-05-24 · Hank · Yahoo! (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank finds big tech's bidding war for his time weird and worrying, not because people shouldn't spend time online, but because savvy companies see value in being 'the lens' on his world. — What's Up with Start Ups (00:01:03)
  • 2013-05-31 · Hank · Fox News (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank says you are being lied to by your own brain, by society and Fox News, and to some extent by him in his earlier video. — Optimism is Not Insane (00:01:18)
  • 2013-07-09 · MagicTurtle643 · J. K. Rowling (books & writing, outside the channel) — He thinks JK Rowling got one thing wrong: non-magic folk don't hate or deny magic; people love blaming lost keys on ghosts, gnomes or fairies because it's more fun. — The World Needs More Magic (00:02:28)
  • 2013-08-30 · Hank · Instagram (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank complains that Instagram on the web does not show all the comments, calling it an uncomplicated missing feature. — Raw Onion, Twerking, and Speech Jam (00:00:19)
  • 2013-08-30 · Hank · Warner Bros. (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank says Joss Whedon wanted to make a Wonder Woman movie and Warner Brothers turned him down. — Raw Onion, Twerking, and Speech Jam (00:01:18)
  • 2013-09-13 · Hank · Bashar al-Assad (politics & public life, outside the channel) — Hank says the Assad regime answered peaceful pro-democracy protests with jail, then killing; as protests turned violent, it tortured protesters' children and killed their families. — Syria in Five Minutes (00:01:48)
  • 2013-10-01 · Hank · United States Congress (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank explains that America has two chambers of lawmakers that must agree for something to become law, and they approve the budget, the law that makes it legal for the government to spend money. — The Lowdown on the Shutdown (00:00:21)
  • 2013-11-19 · John · Lord of the Flies (books & writing, outside the channel) — John argues we decide collectively what behavior is acceptable; contrary to Lord of the Flies, he has found kids often capable of tremendous kindness and generosity. — On Middle School Misery (00:02:07)
  • 2013-12-03 · John · Urban Outfitters (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says Nerdfighters ask about the 'Don't Forget to Be Awesome' rug at Urban Outfitters: the brothers didn't license it, aren't paid, aren't happy, could stop it but won't. — Who Owns DFTBA? An Introduction to Trademarks (00:00:00)

2014 (7)

John: 6 · Hank: 1

  • 2014-03-04 · John · Joseph Stalin (other people & groups, outside the channel) — John says that after Ukraine joined the USSR, as many as 10 million Ukrainians starved in 1932-33 because of Stalin's 'stupid' and 'actively evil' agricultural policies, in what is now the world's third-largest grain exporter. — Understanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context (00:01:10)
  • 2014-03-04 · John · Vladimir Putin (politics & public life, outside the channel) — John says the number of 'mysterious poisonings' in Russia and Eastern Europe has skyrocketed since Putin came to power. — Understanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context (00:03:14)
  • 2014-04-01 · John · Jurassic Park (books & writing, outside the channel) — John says the velociraptor wasn't famous until Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park and Spielberg's film, which show smart, people-sized, scaly pack hunters dug up in Montana. — VELOCIRAPTORS (00:00:11)
  • 2014-04-01 · John · Jurassic Park (film) (film & tv, outside the channel) — John says the velociraptor wasn't famous until Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park and Spielberg's film, which show smart, people-sized, scaly pack hunters dug up in Montana. — VELOCIRAPTORS (00:00:11)
  • 2014-08-26 · John · Government of Ethiopia (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John thinks the WFP project is interesting and can help, but he might be wrong; other things would help too, such as Ethiopia lifting its ban on corn exports. — Food Is Weird: Understanding Agriculture in the Developing World (00:06:28)
  • 2014-10-03 · Hank · Election Committee (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank says that since the handoff Hong Kong has been run by a Chief Executive elected by a weird electoral college made up mostly of business tycoons for mostly corporate constituencies. — Hong Kong Protests Explained (00:03:50)
  • 2014-10-07 · John · Batman (characters, outside the channel) — Riding with Sarah Fisher felt like her driving the Batmobile with John as Robin, which reminded him that though he is a big Sarah Fisher fan, he kind of hates Batman. — I Kind of Hate Batman (00:00:10)

2015 (14)

John: 9 · Hank: 5

  • 2015-02-06 · Hank · Tumblr text post fearing an ordinary life (online video & web, outside the channel) — Hank quotes a text post about being terrified of an ordinary, routine life and not doing anything different to be remembered by, and says it has around half a million notes. — You Will Be Forgotten ...And That's OK (00:00:36)
  • 2015-02-10 · John · Federal Government of Nigeria (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says not knowing is problematic: a great tragedy is that Boko Haram grew for ten years because Nigeria's government and the world community didn't notice how terrible it was. — Understanding Boko Haram (00:05:39)
  • 2015-04-07 · John · The Lego Movie (film & tv, outside the channel) — John says The Lego Movie is a story about overcoming the creativity-stifling power of big business, itself made by a big business and a movie-length commercial for another. — John Reviews Kids Movies (00:00:10)
  • 2015-07-14 · John · Circle in the Sand (music, outside the channel, playful) — John hates the song 'Circle in the Sand', which plays from speakers everywhere in the airport, and hunts for the spot farthest from a speaker. — On Exhaustion (00:00:59)
  • 2015-09-08 · John · Bashar al-Assad (politics & public life, outside the channel) — Long-reigning dictator Bashar al-Assad refuses to give up power and has fought the rebellion with astonishing violence, including torturing children and gassing his own people with chemical weapons. — Understanding the Refugee Crisis in Europe, Syria, and around the World (00:01:06)
  • 2015-09-08 · John · Viktor Orbán (politics & public life, outside the channel) — John calls some European governments' xenophobic responses shameful; Hungary's prime minister, saying Muslims must be kept out to 'keep Europe Christian', denies Europe's multi-religious history and international refugee law. — Understanding the Refugee Crisis in Europe, Syria, and around the World (00:06:28)
  • 2015-10-16 · Hank · Amazon (organizations & sites, outside the channel, playful) — Hank recommends visiting Shakespeare and Company in Missoula, saying local bookstores are part of the fabric holding a community together; think of that next time on Amazon. — Post-NerdCon Haze (00:02:09)
  • 2015-10-20 · John · Bruce Rauner (politics & public life, outside the channel) — John says neither Illinois's Republican governor nor the Democratic legislative leaders are serious about the reform needed to end decades of fiscal mismanagement. — Nerdfighteria's Resident Comptroller? (00:02:24)
  • 2015-10-23 · Hank · Barack Obama (politics & public life, outside the channel) — Hank says that, depending on who you ask, the Obama administration was either too optimistic about Libya's path to stability or criminally negligent in pretending all was well for political reasons. — Benghazi: Explained (00:01:26)
  • 2015-10-23 · Hank · United States Congress (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank says both US sides in the Benghazi story likewise want to control their country's future, through cable news and congressional committees rather than guns. — Benghazi: Explained (00:01:44)
  • 2015-10-23 · Hank · Kevin McCarthy (politics & public life, outside the channel) — Hank says left-wing pundits long called the inquiry partisan while right-wing pundits said they were getting to the bottom of it, until, disturbingly, a staunch proponent of the investigations spoke on national TV. — Benghazi: Explained (00:04:49)
  • 2015-12-22 · John · Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (film & tv, outside the channel) — John says the prequels lacked mythic resonance, were for many just movies and not great ones, and made him think Star Wars had given the common myth all it could. — The Myth Reawakens (00:02:38)
  • 2015-12-22 · John · Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (film & tv, outside the channel) — John says the prequels lacked mythic resonance, were for many just movies and not great ones, and made him think Star Wars had given the common myth all it could. — The Myth Reawakens (00:02:38)
  • 2015-12-22 · John · Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (film & tv, outside the channel) — John says the prequels lacked mythic resonance, were for many just movies and not great ones, and made him think Star Wars had given the common myth all it could. — The Myth Reawakens (00:02:38)

2016 (23)

John: 15 · Hank: 4 · guests: 2 · descriptions: 2

  • 2016-01-05 · John · Constitution of Oregon (art & other works, outside the channel) — John says Oregon's first state constitution contained some of the most shameful language in American history, barring black Americans even from visiting; moving there was illegal until 1926. — Who Owns Oregon? Some Historical Context on the so-called Militia Occupation of Public Lands (00:01:44)
  • 2016-01-05 · John · Militia occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge (other people & groups, outside the channel) — John says the refuge became the de facto headquarters of a militia claiming the US government has no right to own federal land; he summarises its argument that such control is tyrannical. — Who Owns Oregon? Some Historical Context on the so-called Militia Occupation of Public Lands (00:03:26)
  • 2016-01-22 · video description · Worldwatch Institute (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Why Are Vegetarians Annoying? (An Exploration of a Cultural Rift) (00:00:00)
  • 2016-01-29 · Hank · Baby boomers (other people & groups, outside the channel) — Hank relays John's point that the word 'millennial' was assigned not by millennials but by baby boomers, and popularised in articles and op-eds by non-millennials. — Why the Word "Millennial" Makes me Cringe (00:01:08)
  • 2016-03-01 · Hank · The Martian (film) (film & tv, outside the channel) — Hank says potatoes can really be grown on Mars, though not the way the movie did it: other ways work. — Question Tuesday: The Potato Edition (00:00:30)
  • 2016-03-01 · John · Lord of the Flies (books & writing, outside the channel) — John hates Lord of the Flies and openly reviles it, yet has to teach it this year (2016) in Crash Course Literature, which will be very challenging. — Question Tuesday: The Potato Edition (00:02:07)
  • 2016-03-22 · John · Missouri Democratic Party (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says Clinton would have won more delegates even losing by 0.2 percent, because the Missouri Democratic Party's 13 superdelegates, free to back anyone, mostly endorsed her; they include Governor Jay Nixon and Senator Claire McCaskill. — Understanding the Primaries: Delegates, Democracy, and America's Nonstop Political Party (00:01:06)
  • 2016-03-29 · John · The Fountainhead (books & writing, outside the channel, playful) — Asked whether to read The Fountainhead, John replies that there are so many good books, implying it is not one. — My New Book, Marriage Advice, and Hamilton: 50 Snapchat Questions Answered! (00:01:52)
  • 2016-03-29 · John · Donald Trump (politics & public life, outside the channel, playful) — Asked his honest opinion of Donald Trump, John quotes Cyrus Ching: never wrestle with a pig; you get filthy, and the pig likes it. — My New Book, Marriage Advice, and Hamilton: 50 Snapchat Questions Answered! (00:02:00)
  • 2016-04-05 · John · Monopoly mobile app reviewed by John (games, outside the channel) — John reviews the mobile version of the board game Monopoly; the description calls it part of a series of long looks at his mobile gaming habits. — What's Wrong with Monopoly? (00:00:00)
  • 2016-04-05 · John · Monopoly (game) (games, outside the channel) — John reviews the mobile version of the board game Monopoly; the description calls it part of a series of long looks at his mobile gaming habits. — What's Wrong with Monopoly? (00:00:00)
  • 2016-04-05 · John · Charles Darrow (other people & groups, outside the channel) — John says in 1935 door-to-door salesman Charles Darrow sold Monopoly to Parker Brothers; it became hugely successful and Darrow was the first board game millionaire. — What's Wrong with Monopoly? (00:01:44)
  • 2016-04-19 · John · Donald Trump (politics & public life, outside the channel) — John says all the presidential candidates have name-called, but, not wanting a false equivalence, that Donald Trump does it by far the most. — Literally Hitler (00:02:36)
  • 2016-07-12 · John · F. Scott Fitzgerald (books & writing, outside the channel) — John reviews 'man's capacity for wonder', a phrase from a line in The Great Gatsby where the narrator imagines Europeans first arriving in the Americas. — Our Capacity for Wonder: A Review (00:00:03)
  • 2016-07-12 · John · The Great Gatsby (books & writing, outside the channel) — John reviews 'man's capacity for wonder', a phrase from a line in The Great Gatsby where the narrator imagines Europeans first arriving in the Americas. — Our Capacity for Wonder: A Review (00:00:03)
  • 2016-07-19 · John · YouTube comments (products, outside the channel) — John says that is why most YouTube comment sections show the most controversial comments first, not the most interesting, generous or nuanced. — Pretty Bad Ways to Start a Conversation (00:02:34)
  • 2016-08-12 · Hank · Donald Trump (politics & public life, outside the channel) — Hank says with no signal you check the news back at the hotel and learn Donald Trump has again said something disgusting and inexcusable that somehow hasn't disqualified him from the presidency. — AMERICA, DAMMIT! - Thoughts from Glacier National Park (00:01:33)
  • 2016-08-12 · Hank · Twitter (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank says it's easy to forget what the country has built and what it cost; stop looking at Twitter for a few hours and look at what we've built. — AMERICA, DAMMIT! - Thoughts from Glacier National Park (00:02:32)
  • 2016-10-14 · video description · Donald Trump (politics & public life, outside the channel) — Compassion, Weakness, and the 2016 Election (00:00:00)
  • 2016-10-25 · John · Donald Trump (politics & public life, outside the channel) — John says one major-party candidate loudly claims the election will be rigged, with widespread fraud, people voting ten times and undocumented immigrants voting, and that these are all simply lies. — Will the U.S. Presidential Election Be Rigged? (00:06:03)
  • 2016-11-09 · John · Donald Trump (politics & public life, outside the channel) — John says more Americans appear to have voted for Hillary Clinton than Donald Trump, but Trump won most Electoral College votes and is president-elect. — My Post-Election Thoughts (00:00:05)
  • 2016-11-11 · Hannah Hart · Donald Trump (politics & public life, outside the channel) — Hannah says some people voted for Donald Trump to be president, and moreover 46% of people didn't vote at all. — The Trouble with Wishful Thinking (00:00:27)
  • 2016-12-02 · Rosianna Halse Rojas · Twitter (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Rosianna says that opening her computer she is often on automatic (Twitter feed, inbox, calendar), in a 'nothing state' where she is plasticine, and asks who she is handing it to. — Logging Off (00:02:42)

2017 (17)

John: 5 · Hank: 8 · descriptions: 4

2018 (22)

John: 10 · Hank: 8 · descriptions: 4

  • 2018-01-09 · John · Facebook (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John thinks that is true not only of Twitter but of YouTube, Facebook, Reddit and so on. — Your Attention (00:00:28)
  • 2018-01-09 · John · Reddit (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John thinks that is true not only of Twitter but of YouTube, Facebook, Reddit and so on. — Your Attention (00:00:28)
  • 2018-01-09 · John · Twitter (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John thinks that is true not only of Twitter but of YouTube, Facebook, Reddit and so on. — Your Attention (00:00:28)
  • 2018-01-09 · John · YouTube (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John thinks that is true not only of Twitter but of YouTube, Facebook, Reddit and so on. — Your Attention (00:00:28)
  • 2018-03-23 · Hank · Federal Communications Commission (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank says the FCC was 'poo-pooing' on net neutrality, which is a big deal in his line of work. — Trump, Guns, and Net Neutrality...With Governor Steve Bullock?! (00:00:44)
  • 2018-03-23 · Hank · Donald Trump (politics & public life, outside the channel) — Hank says 20% of people who voted for Bullock also voted for Donald Trump; Bullock confirms. — Trump, Guns, and Net Neutrality...With Governor Steve Bullock?! (00:04:09)
  • 2018-03-30 · video description · Spotify (organizations & sites, outside the channel, playful) — The Stories We Tell Ourselves: Thoughts from Amsterdam (00:00:00)
  • 2018-04-13 · video description · United States Congress (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Who is in Control? (00:00:00)
  • 2018-04-13 · video description · Mark Zuckerberg (politics & public life, outside the channel) — Who is in Control? (00:00:00)
  • 2018-04-13 · Hank · Facebook (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Through a failing in Facebook policy and enforcement, Cambridge Analytica built psychological profiles of tens of millions of Facebook users. — Who is in Control? (00:01:24)
  • 2018-05-08 · John · Twitter (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John doesn't think the internet used to be amazing (1994 AOL chat rooms make 2018 Twitter look civil and sophisticated); he thinks he has changed. — Old Man Yells at Cloud (00:02:13)
  • 2018-05-08 · John · Reddit (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Without a sense of obligation John doesn't think he would be on Twitter, Reddit and the rest, and maybe he shouldn't feel obliged to be in virtual spaces that make his life worse. — Old Man Yells at Cloud (00:02:21)
  • 2018-05-25 · Hank · YouTube (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank says that over the last 10 years of YouTube, subscriptions have become less important. — Please Unsubscribe (00:00:11)
  • 2018-06-01 · Hank · Google (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — One of Hank's favorite things about being alive now is that he can Google pretty much anything and it is there. — Destroying My Router with a Hammer (and etc.) (00:00:17)
  • 2018-07-27 · video description · Looten Plunder (characters, outside the channel) — Why Environmentalists Hate Captain Planet (00:00:00)
  • 2018-07-27 · Hank · Captain Planet and the Planeteers (film & tv, outside the channel) — Hank writes that, although the creators of Captain Planet say each villain represents the extremes rather than the norms, none of them is modeled with nuance, at least at first. — Why Environmentalists Hate Captain Planet (00:00:00)
  • 2018-10-26 · Hank · Republican Party (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Many in Hank's ultra-lefty college friend group went on assuming the Republican Party had defrauded democracy and Bush was an illegitimate president. — The Rigged Election (00:00:58)
  • 2018-10-26 · Hank · Donald Trump (politics & public life, outside the channel) — President Trump doesn't talk like that: before the 2016 election he repeatedly said Democratic Party plots would deprive him of victory. — The Rigged Election (00:01:23)
  • 2018-11-06 · John · Facebook (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John spends something like 20 hours a week on Facebook, Reddit, Instagram and Twitter, mostly scrolling and skimming, and his attention has become extremely fractured. — Taking a Year Off (00:00:00)
  • 2018-11-06 · John · Instagram (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John spends something like 20 hours a week on Facebook, Reddit, Instagram and Twitter, mostly scrolling and skimming, and his attention has become extremely fractured. — Taking a Year Off (00:00:00)
  • 2018-11-06 · John · Reddit (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John spends something like 20 hours a week on Facebook, Reddit, Instagram and Twitter, mostly scrolling and skimming, and his attention has become extremely fractured. — Taking a Year Off (00:00:00)
  • 2018-11-06 · John · Twitter (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John spends something like 20 hours a week on Facebook, Reddit, Instagram and Twitter, mostly scrolling and skimming, and his attention has become extremely fractured. — Taking a Year Off (00:00:00)

2019 (15)

John: 5 · Hank: 10

  • 2019-02-19 · John · Instagram (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Off social media, John says he treated Instagram and Twitter like first love, as if an experience's realness depended on its sharedness; he enjoys looking at things outside the frame of shareability. — Battling Apathy and Searching for Meaning on Question Tuesday (00:00:29)
  • 2019-02-19 · John · Twitter (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Off social media, John says he treated Instagram and Twitter like first love, as if an experience's realness depended on its sharedness; he enjoys looking at things outside the frame of shareability. — Battling Apathy and Searching for Meaning on Question Tuesday (00:00:29)
  • 2019-02-22 · Hank · Amazon (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank says the business relied on him realizing, accepting and being excited that he didn't want it to make billions and be sold to Amazon. — I Don't Want The Same Things Anymore (00:01:56)
  • 2019-04-12 · Hank · The Unseen Inefficiency of Escalator Etiquette (art & other works, outside the channel) — Hank says YouTube kept showing him the escalator-etiquette video (app home screen, desktop homepage, autoplay after Veritasium) until he caved and watched it. — Escalators: We're Not Doing it Wrong (Mostly) (00:00:00)
  • 2019-05-03 · Hank · Vox (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank cites a Vox video saying stopping global warming requires the biggest nations, like China, India and the US, to sacrifice a little in the short term and put aside their political competition. — What Game of Thrones is Really About (00:03:13)
  • 2019-08-23 · Hank · Jair Bolsonaro (politics & public life, outside the channel) — Hank says this year's (2019) many fires are not because it is hotter or drier than normal; what changed in Brazil is who the president is. — The Amazon isn't "Burning" - It's Being Burned (00:01:56)
  • 2019-09-06 · Hank · Donald Trump (politics & public life, outside the channel) — Hank says that a couple of days ago President Trump shared an earlier map of Hurricane Dorian's projected path. — Trump is Abnormal, It's His Superpower (00:00:00)
  • 2019-10-04 · Hank · Flag of Montana (art & other works, outside the channel) — Hank admits Montana's flag is bad: it looks like every other state flag, and its seal shows a glacier meeting a large body of water, which doesn't happen in the state. — In Defense of Bad Flags (00:00:29)
  • 2019-10-04 · Hank · Flag of Milwaukee (art & other works, outside the channel) — Roman Mars's TED talk focuses on Milwaukee's flag, which Hank agrees is bad design, with a flag on the flag. — In Defense of Bad Flags (00:00:58)
  • 2019-10-04 · Hank · People's Flag of Milwaukee (art & other works, outside the channel) — Hank calls the People's Flag of Milwaukee good, iconic design, readable across a baseball stadium. — In Defense of Bad Flags (00:01:27)
  • 2019-10-30 · John · Universal Postal Union (organizations & sites, outside the channel, playful) — John says this is partly because international shipping rates are set by a secret cabal independent of actual transportation costs. — this is a video about pineapples. (00:00:00)
  • 2019-11-15 · Hank · YouTube (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank finds it annoying that YouTube won't let them add an on-screen link unless they also link to a video. — Are audiobooks worse? (00:03:44)
  • 2019-11-19 · John · Reddit (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John saw a Reddit post with 129,000 upvotes titled 'Kylie Jenner thinks she owns the phrase rise and shine'. — Kylie Jenner Shows Me What's Wrong with Reddit (00:00:09)
  • 2019-11-19 · John · Gold Coast Bulletin (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says the Gold Coast Bulletin published a story claiming a small Australian Rise and Shine t-shirt company got a cease and desist letter from Jenner. — Kylie Jenner Shows Me What's Wrong with Reddit (00:01:44)
  • 2019-12-27 · Hank · Donald Trump (politics & public life, outside the channel) — Hank says the US just impeached its president over his lack of respect for the process, and he is worried about that. — Why I'm Worried about 2020 (00:01:14)

2020 (32)

John: 13 · Hank: 14 · descriptions: 5

  • 2020-01-03 · Hank · YouTube (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank's second reason: YouTube's recommendations would like 8-to-12-minute Vlogbrothers videos, and he doesn't want to make them; he likes four-minute videos, and those are the rules. — Re-Thinking our YouTube Channel (00:00:45)
  • 2020-01-07 · John · Twitter (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John also wants to continue not losing large swaths of his life scrolling through Twitter as dread washes over him. — Endings · Beginnings (00:03:09)
  • 2020-03-13 · Hank · Twitter (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank finds Twitter's reminder that stress lowers your immune system a little dubious and complicated, and it doesn't make him less stressed. — The Anxious Scroll (00:01:58)
  • 2020-04-24 · Hank · Pocket Shark (products, outside the channel) — Hank says the worst experience is the Pocket Shark: a screw-on cap built to withstand war on a pen that doesn't last and is extremely unpleasant to sign with. — The Sharpest Tool in the Shed (00:01:27)
  • 2020-05-22 · Hank · LFO (other people & groups, outside the channel) — The description points to a video where Hank talks about LFO's Summer Girls. — The Meteor Men Beg to Differ // Judging by the Hole in the Satellite Picture (00:00:00)
  • 2020-05-22 · Hank · Summer Girls (music, outside the channel) — The description points to a video where Hank talks about LFO's Summer Girls. — The Meteor Men Beg to Differ // Judging by the Hole in the Satellite Picture (00:00:00)
  • 2020-05-22 · Hank · Eminem (music, outside the channel) — Hank says Eminem undoubtedly has a mastery of language, rhyme, storytelling and meter, and he does not understand how Eminem's brain works. — The Meteor Men Beg to Differ // Judging by the Hole in the Satellite Picture (00:01:01)
  • 2020-05-22 · Hank · All Star (music, outside the channel) — Hank says 'the meteor men beg to differ, judging by the hole in the satellite picture' is a forced rhyme that misunderstands climate science, but is less intrusive because it isn't emphasized. — The Meteor Men Beg to Differ // Judging by the Hole in the Satellite Picture (00:01:01)
  • 2020-05-22 · Hank · Kid Rock (other people & groups, outside the channel) — Hank says Kid Rock's 'trying different things' double-rhymes 'things' with 'things', an aesthetic sacrifice made for no reason, though plenty of things rhyme with 'things'. — The Meteor Men Beg to Differ // Judging by the Hole in the Satellite Picture (00:02:51)
  • 2020-05-29 · Hank · Quibi (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank says Jeffrey Katzenberg and company spent over a billion dollars on content for Quibi, a new platform of quick video bites under 10 minutes long. — Get Paid (00:01:15)
  • 2020-05-29 · Hank · Spotify (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Spotify's exclusive deals for Joe Rogan and Last Podcast on the Left worry Hank more: Twitch versus Mixer is Amazon versus Microsoft, but Spotify moves podcasts from an open ecosystem into a closed, company-owned one. — Get Paid (00:02:58)
  • 2020-06-02 · John · White Americans (other people & groups, outside the channel) — John says people who think racism is over or minor may feel so because white people's context for understanding racism is often hugely inadequate: education, benefiting from injustice, and information feeds. — --- (00:00:58)
  • 2020-06-16 · John · Bud Light Seltzer (products, outside the channel, playful) — Finding a Bud Light Seltzer can, John says drinking it is bad enough, but throwing it in the river is classless. — a cool place (00:02:20)
  • 2020-07-31 · Hank · Donald Trump (politics & public life, outside the channel) — Hank says the Trump administration is hurting universities: making it harder for international students to stay and having the Treasury investigate revoking nonprofit universities' tax-exempt status. — Your Brain Gets Smart, but Your Head Gets Dumb (00:00:42)
  • 2020-08-11 · video description · Smash Mouth (music, outside the channel) — never get bored (00:00:00)
  • 2020-08-11 · video description · Steve Harwell (music, outside the channel) — never get bored (00:00:00)
  • 2020-08-25 · John · viral TikTok about time traveler Noah (art & other works, outside the channel) — John says he keeps being tagged in a viral TikTok about a time traveler named Noah from 2030 with over 2 million likes, an obvious example of misinformation he will analyze. — Somebody once told me… (00:00:29)
  • 2020-09-01 · video description · Amazon (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — get the show on (00:00:00)
  • 2020-09-08 · John · Milton Keynes Dons F.C. (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says with that model AFC Wimbledon rose from the bottom rungs of amateur football to a full-time professional team now in the same division as the Milton Keynes franchise. — That's the way. (00:02:46)
  • 2020-09-22 · video description · Sara Teasdale (other people & groups, outside the channel) — the world is gonna roll me (00:00:00)
  • 2020-09-22 · John · Herman Melville (books & writing, outside the channel) — John contrasts earlier views of nature's indifference, like Moby-Dick, where the white whale's demonic indifference shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe. — the world is gonna roll me (00:01:21)
  • 2020-10-07 · John · YouTube comments (products, outside the channel) — John says he always liked and was grateful to the audience, but a constant influx of vile comments made the comments less pleasant and, for him, decreased the sense of community. — The Golden Age of Vlogbrothers (00:01:27)
  • 2020-10-12 · video description · Donald Trump (politics & public life, outside the channel) — What Matters (00:00:00)
  • 2020-10-13 · John · Facebook (organizations & sites, outside the channel, playful) — On 5 October 2020, among vague predictions that are always accurate, John predicts Twitter, Reddit and Facebook will be dumpster fires he can't stop refreshing unless he physically leaves the internet. — Me from the Past: A Pizzamas Miracle (00:02:26)
  • 2020-10-13 · John · Reddit (organizations & sites, outside the channel, playful) — On 5 October 2020, among vague predictions that are always accurate, John predicts Twitter, Reddit and Facebook will be dumpster fires he can't stop refreshing unless he physically leaves the internet. — Me from the Past: A Pizzamas Miracle (00:02:26)
  • 2020-10-13 · John · Twitter (organizations & sites, outside the channel, playful) — On 5 October 2020, among vague predictions that are always accurate, John predicts Twitter, Reddit and Facebook will be dumpster fires he can't stop refreshing unless he physically leaves the internet. — Me from the Past: A Pizzamas Miracle (00:02:26)
  • 2020-10-14 · Hank · United States Congress (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Instead, Hank says sarcastically, the vital topic now is Congress ramming through a Supreme Court justice rather than thinking about COVID relief. — John Predicts the Future! (00:01:57)
  • 2020-10-14 · Hank · Donald Trump (politics & public life, outside the channel) — Asking why Trump's town hall was at the exact same time, Hank jokes that maybe his favorite debate format is talking over his opponent the whole time. — John Predicts the Future! (00:01:57)
  • 2020-10-27 · John · Republican Party (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says that for the first time in over 120 years the Republican Party released no new platform this election cycle, no plan on issues from taxation to COVID. — The time I met Joe Biden (00:02:26)
  • 2020-10-27 · John · Donald Trump (politics & public life, outside the channel) — John says the Trump administration has no comprehensive responses because its idea of governance is populism, not policy: a clear us and them, with only a Trump vote stopping them. — The time I met Joe Biden (00:02:26)
  • 2020-11-06 · Hank · Donald Trump (politics & public life, outside the channel) — Hank thinks that if Biden is ultimately elected, many people will see it as a failure of Trumpism. — Just Some Election Thoughts… (00:00:58)
  • 2020-12-29 · John · Twitter (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Not losing large swaths of his life scrolling through Twitter as dread washed over him was not an unambiguous success. — Looking Back at My 2020 Goals (00:02:28)

2021 (11)

John: 4 · Hank: 3 · descriptions: 4

  • 2021-01-12 · John · Twitter (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Under 'read books, not tweets', John says reading Annie Dillard, Terry Tempest Williams or even Paul Farmer's upsetting book on Sierra Leone and Ebola leaves him informed and engaged, without Twitter's panicky dopamine rush. — My 2021 Vision Board (00:02:45)
  • 2021-01-15 · video description · Fox News (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Influencers and Insurrectionists (00:00:00)
  • 2021-01-15 · video description · Donald Trump (politics & public life, outside the channel) — Influencers and Insurrectionists (00:00:00)
  • 2021-02-12 · video description · Federal government of the United States (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Doing Better (00:00:00)
  • 2021-02-23 · John · Robert Hughes (art & other works, outside the channel) — Citing art critic Robert Hughes on the peculiarly modernist hell of repetition, John says he likes work that turns that on its head and finds color and joy in repetition. — A Little Joy and Color in an Otherwise Unbearably Bland Life (00:02:14)
  • 2021-03-05 · Hank · Donald Trump (politics & public life, outside the channel) — Hank calls it a relief that a mean, petulant, victimhood-based presidency was being forgotten quickly, maybe a little too quickly. — How Much Hope is OK? (00:00:00)
  • 2021-03-26 · Hank · Donald Trump (politics & public life, outside the channel) — We are exiting four years of a president whose favorite pastime was fanning the flames of anger and frustration with each other. — Why I'm Worried about 2021 (00:02:55)
  • 2021-07-27 · John · YouTube (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Slow time is not YouTube's strength: for years John has edited nearly every breath out of his videos, since in a hyper-distracted landscape a half-second pause sends viewers to other tabs; here he leaves a breath. — Savoring: The Sunset Series Returns (00:01:27)
  • 2021-08-17 · John · Google (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — That 45% share seems a little bit high to John. — Who Owns Nerdfighteria? (00:02:26)
  • 2021-12-17 · video description · Derek Muller (online video & web, outside the channel) — What State of Matter is Fire (00:00:00)
  • 2021-12-17 · Hank · Google (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank says asking Google the question gets you all wrong answers, because the answer is very far from simple. — What State of Matter is Fire (00:00:29)

2022 (14)

John: 5 · Hank: 8 · descriptions: 1

  • 2022-02-18 · Hank · House Hunters (film & tv, outside the channel) — As long as people want gas stoves, which House Hunters calls top-tier, gas companies will keep building and replacing very expensive infrastructure to pipe gas into homes. — You Don't Want a Gas Stovetop (00:02:09)
  • 2022-02-22 · John · United States Agency for International Development (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — In 2001 the head of USAID told Congress he opposed extending antiretroviral therapy to impoverished countries, saying it would fail because the drugs need a schedule and 'these people' don't know clocks. — On the Death of My Hero (00:00:29)
  • 2022-03-11 · Hank · Vladimir Putin (politics & public life, outside the channel) — Hank understands the gloom: the pandemic isn't over and we are entering the instability of a dictator with nukes starting a horrific, unnecessary war on a neighbouring country. — Is it All Hopeless? (00:01:19)
  • 2022-03-15 · John · Bolsheviks (other people & groups, outside the channel) — John says Joseph Stalin was one of the generals who led the Bolshevik invasion of Ukraine and cemented himself as Soviet leader in 1929. — Ukraine and Russia: What Caused the War? (00:00:58)
  • 2022-03-15 · John · Joseph Stalin (other people & groups, outside the channel) — John says that in the Holodomor of 1932-33 millions of Ukrainians starved because Stalin's policies took food from Ukrainian homes and fields and sent it elsewhere in the Soviet Union. — Ukraine and Russia: What Caused the War? (00:01:27)
  • 2022-03-15 · John · Vladimir Putin (politics & public life, outside the channel) — John says Putin, directly or indirectly Russia's leader for over 20 years, does not view Ukraine as a legitimate nation. — Ukraine and Russia: What Caused the War? (00:05:21)
  • 2022-06-17 · Hank · New York Post (organizations & sites, outside the channel, playful) — Hank was lucky to first see the claim in the New York Post, which he distrusts; seen first at USA Today, ABC News or Nautilus by someone primed to expect the worst, he understands not doubting it. — Are You Eating a Credit Card Every Week? (00:02:55)
  • 2022-08-12 · Hank · ExxonMobil (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — An ex-ExxonMobil lobbyist was caught on video saying nobody will propose a tax on all Americans, so backing a carbon tax is just a talking point. — The Biggest Climate Bill of Your Life - But What does it DO!? (00:13:03)
  • 2022-08-12 · Hank · Joe Manchin (other people & groups, outside the channel) — Joe Manchin forced in oil and gas leases in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico that Trump authorized and Biden paused; Hank calls it weird, frustrating and outside normal process. — The Biggest Climate Bill of Your Life - But What does it DO!? (00:15:53)
  • 2022-09-23 · Hank · TikTok (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank says this is more of a thing on TikTok, because you don't choose what to watch: you are fed only extremely popular content, so less engaging posts about a creator's live show or themselves rarely reach you. — Apparently you can make a short from a video comment now!!! (00:00:00)
  • 2022-10-14 · Hank · Twitter (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank saw a 'nerd farters' hashtag trending on Twitter and was astounded to find it was an October Nerdfighter art prompt challenge he didn't know existed. — The Surprise Revelation of NerdfArters (00:00:00)
  • 2022-10-25 · John · United States Congress (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — His most notable example is his long crusade against the US penny: he gets engagement from the idea that pennies are minted because Congress cares mostly about divisive, re-election issues. — Instantly Debateable (00:01:56)
  • 2022-11-11 · video description · Twitter (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Elon Was Right (00:00:00)
  • 2022-12-09 · Hank · ChatGPT (products, outside the channel) — Hank says ChatGPT is not good at replacing Wikipedia: it confidently states true and untrue things alike, and only fact-checking tells them apart. — Things are Changing Very Fast (00:02:55)

2023 (13)

John: 11 · Hank: 2

  • 2023-02-07 · John · The Infirmities of Genius (books & writing, outside the channel) — John recently came across an 1833 book, The Infirmities of Genius, which says authors have a personality that makes them unusually susceptible to tuberculosis. — Mid-Morning Existential Crisis: The Format Returns (00:00:00)
  • 2023-04-21 · Hank · Fox News (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank says at the Montana level the ban is the same performative stuff infuriating him lately: people over-obsessed with whatever Fox News is discussing that day. — On TikTok Bans (00:03:07)
  • 2023-07-11 · John · Johnson & Johnson (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John tells Nerdfighteria that if they understand the problem together and convince J&J it is pursuing a bad business strategy, they can save many lives. — Barely Contained Rage: An Open Letter to Johnson & Johnson (00:00:29)
  • 2023-09-05 · John · Johnson & Johnson (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John recalls that a couple of months ago Nerdfighteria helped raise the alarm about Johnson & Johnson trying to extend the patent on its antibiotic bedaquiline. — I Ain't Even Here, Sergeant. I'm in Cheyenne, Wyoming. (00:00:31)
  • 2023-09-12 · John · Danaher Corporation (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says Danaher, a company most have never heard of, could save hundreds of thousands of lives over the next 10 years, and wants everyone to encourage it to do so. — Barely Contained Rage: An Open Letter to Danaher and Cepheid (00:00:13)
  • 2023-09-12 · John · Cepheid (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says the fast, accurate test exists: the GeneXpert machine, made by Cepheid, owned by Danaher, which tests for TB and drug response and also HIV, COVID and other diseases. — Barely Contained Rage: An Open Letter to Danaher and Cepheid (00:01:27)
  • 2023-09-14 · John · Johnson & Johnson (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John reports that today South Africa's government announced it will investigate J&J's attempts to keep enforcing its secondary bedaquiline patents there and keep prices high. — Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES (00:10:40)
  • 2023-09-14 · John · Cepheid (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says the core disagreement with Danaher and Cepheid is that a tool the neediest can't use is not useful; citing Dr. Peter Mugyenyi on HIV drugs, he says medicine fails unless it both invents and distributes treatments. — Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES (00:20:05)
  • 2023-09-14 · John · Danaher Corporation (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says the core disagreement with Danaher and Cepheid is that a tool the neediest can't use is not useful; citing Dr. Peter Mugyenyi on HIV drugs, he says medicine fails unless it both invents and distributes treatments. — Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES (00:20:05)
  • 2023-09-14 · John · World Health Organization (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says Dr. Mitnick helped prove in Peru in the early 1990s that MDR-TB could be treated in poor countries; she described the earlier WHO approach as leaving people by the road to die. — Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES (00:32:16)
  • 2023-09-27 · John · Government of India (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says Shreya was a teenager who sued her own government in India for access to bedaquiline for herself and others; her fight reached India's highest court, where she won. — John Goes ... to the UNITED NATIONS? (00:02:05)
  • 2023-10-05 · John · The Football Association (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says AFC Wimbledon reformed 21 years ago after the English FA told the community there was no place for a football club there. — America's Second Favorite Fourth Tier English Soccer Team (00:03:48)
  • 2023-12-24 · Hank · Larry Langford (politics & public life, outside the channel) — John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated (01:45:18)

2024 (34)

John: 15 · Hank: 19

  • 2024-01-05 · Hank · Facebook (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank blames the culture-war talk and nationalism on the disintegration of the media landscape, caused by platforms like TikTok, Facebook and YouTube maximizing time on platform, where moral outrage sticks best. — I'm Scared of 2024...So Here's 3 Optimistic Thoughts (00:01:32)
  • 2024-01-05 · Hank · TikTok (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank blames the culture-war talk and nationalism on the disintegration of the media landscape, caused by platforms like TikTok, Facebook and YouTube maximizing time on platform, where moral outrage sticks best. — I'm Scared of 2024...So Here's 3 Optimistic Thoughts (00:01:32)
  • 2024-01-05 · Hank · YouTube (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank blames the culture-war talk and nationalism on the disintegration of the media landscape, caused by platforms like TikTok, Facebook and YouTube maximizing time on platform, where moral outrage sticks best. — I'm Scared of 2024...So Here's 3 Optimistic Thoughts (00:01:32)
  • 2024-01-12 · Hank · Hasbro (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — We scrutinize only when a red flag goes up, e.g. it resembles earlier AI art, or distrust: Magic is now owned by Hasbro, which fans don't trust with the game. — How to Detect AI Images (and why it doesn't matter) (00:02:40)
  • 2024-03-26 · John · Cepheid (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John explains that Cepheid, owned by the conglomerate Danaher, makes GeneXpert tests, the best available TB tests; similar cartridges test for HIV, hepatitis or extensively drug-resistant TB. — I Own Danaher (00:00:00)
  • 2024-03-26 · John · Danaher Corporation (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — The description asks viewers to join TBFighters and its Discord organizing work, and to tell Danaher, @danahercorporation on most social media, that this is not okay. — I Own Danaher (00:00:00)
  • 2024-04-19 · Hank · MenWritingWomen (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank recounts that four years ago a post on the MenWritingWomen subreddit, with 5,100 upvotes, held up his novel An Absolutely Remarkable Thing over the line about the main character closing her boob in a door. — I Closed My Boob in a Door (00:00:00)
  • 2024-06-21 · Hank · TikTok (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank says stand-up got him out of scrolling TikTok, an emotional minefield and less rewarding than a 60- or 90-minute crafted piece that tells a story. — I Was So Sad that I Did Comedy (00:02:55)
  • 2024-06-25 · John · Twitter (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John recently spoke with Brotherhood 2.0's resident mathematician Daniel Biss, now mayor of Evanston, Illinois, who explained why he left Twitter. — taking a break (00:01:27)
  • 2024-06-25 · John · TikTok (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says that is how he feels about making stuff now, especially on Twitter or TikTok but also everywhere. — taking a break (00:01:56)
  • 2024-07-19 · Hank · Twitter (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank says we scroll because we hate not knowing, and Twitter's many voices give us the illusion that our stories are true and the future knowable. — The Assassination Attempt and the Comfort of Certainty (00:07:15)
  • 2024-08-07 · John · Facebook (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John agrees YouTube is probably the only social platform with that solidity; he feels Facebook, Twitter and especially TikTok crumbling, Instagram maybe more solid. — Dear Hank and John Livestream! (00:15:05)
  • 2024-08-07 · John · TikTok (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John agrees YouTube is probably the only social platform with that solidity; he feels Facebook, Twitter and especially TikTok crumbling, Instagram maybe more solid. — Dear Hank and John Livestream! (00:15:05)
  • 2024-08-07 · John · Twitter (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John agrees YouTube is probably the only social platform with that solidity; he feels Facebook, Twitter and especially TikTok crumbling, Instagram maybe more solid. — Dear Hank and John Livestream! (00:15:05)
  • 2024-08-20 · John · The Football Association (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says he was there for the hope that kept Wimbledon alive when the Football Association said it shouldn't exist, that brought Bromley into the league, and that kept him here in hard times. — Thoughts from Places: BROMLEY! (00:02:55)
  • 2024-08-23 · Hank · Google (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank poses the question many fear to ask: does Google, a company creators have a relationship with, train its generative AI models on YouTubers' videos? — Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? (00:04:52)
  • 2024-08-23 · Hank · OpenAI (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank reads that the New York Times lawsuit seeks billions in damages from OpenAI for unlawful copying and calls for destroying models and training data using Times material. — Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? (00:08:24)
  • 2024-08-23 · Hank · Mustafa Suleyman (other people & groups, outside the channel) — Hank calls this legally and ethically wrong: a deep, almost willful misunderstanding of copyright law that publishing on the open web makes something free for anyone's use. — Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? (00:14:23)
  • 2024-08-27 · John · Google (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John tells Hank he loved his video about Google and other large companies stealing from independent creators to train generative AI. — How The Internet Is Rigged (00:00:00)
  • 2024-09-13 · Hank · Republican Party (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank observes an influx of wealthy Montana politicians who aren't from Montana: Democrats tend to field locals, Republicans rich people not from here. — My Governor is Weirder than Yours (00:01:23)
  • 2024-09-13 · Hank · Greg Gianforte (other people & groups, outside the channel) — Hank thinks Gianforte also runs to do things, but many people believe America went wrong because gay people can marry, women can choose abortion and schools teach honest history, which scares him. — My Governor is Weirder than Yours (00:05:52)
  • 2024-09-13 · Hank · Donald Trump (politics & public life, outside the channel) — Hank says candidates used to be judged on policy plans; now vibes matter, with a party led by a man who has never accepted losing an election. — My Governor is Weirder than Yours (00:37:51)
  • 2024-09-13 · Hank · Copper Kings (other people & groups, outside the channel) — Hank says he doesn't want Montana to make sense nationally; he wants places that are diverse in that way. — My Governor is Weirder than Yours (00:43:26)
  • 2024-09-13 · Hank · Steve Daines (other people & groups, outside the channel) — Hank thinks Gianforte, Sheehy and Daines are trying to make Montana a monolithic national red place, which Montana has always resisted. — My Governor is Weirder than Yours (00:43:26)
  • 2024-09-13 · Hank · Tim Sheehy (other people & groups, outside the channel) — Hank thinks Gianforte, Sheehy and Daines are trying to make Montana a monolithic national red place, which Montana has always resisted. — My Governor is Weirder than Yours (00:43:26)
  • 2024-09-27 · John · United States Congress (organizations & sites, outside the channel, playful) — John says the act must now pass the House, and Congress struggles to pass a law these days. — Is It 2010? IT'S A PARTS VIDEO (00:01:02)
  • 2024-09-27 · John · Danaher Corporation (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says Danaher promised, as part of that deal, to pay for and release an independent audit of its TB test costs, but a year on has not, which is frustrating. — Is It 2010? IT'S A PARTS VIDEO (00:03:20)
  • 2024-10-25 · Hank · Danaher Corporation (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank thinks Danaher's pledge a little over a year ago came partly from this community's pressure. — I Don't Want them to Get Away With It… (00:03:30)
  • 2024-10-30 · John · Celestial Seasonings (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says America has a lot of bad, artificially flavored tea, so a first good tea is a game changer. — Sipping the Tea with Hank (00:40:59)
  • 2024-11-13 · John · Comcast (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says Good Store works with local Missoula-based companies for its soap and tea, and with Sucafina and directly with farmers in Colombia for its coffee. — Some New Things… (00:18:41)
  • 2024-11-13 · John · Amazon (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says they started Good Store to raise money for charity, and so far in 2024 it has donated $1.25 million. — Some New Things… (00:24:40)
  • 2024-11-22 · Hank · Catholic Church (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank says the 16th-century Catholic Church was worse than Luther: very bad, pretty evil. — Populism, Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible Moment (00:11:03)
  • 2024-12-17 · John · Moms for Liberty (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says the book is taught in fewer classes because groups like Moms for Liberty have very successfully challenged it out of curricula and often out of libraries. — About THAT Scene in Looking for Alaska (00:00:29)
  • 2024-12-20 · Hank · Jeff Van Drew (other people & groups, outside the channel) — Hank reports that Congressman Jeff Van Drew claimed Iran has a mothership off the New Jersey coast that could be the drones' source. — Fine, I'll Talk About the Drones… (00:00:29)

2025 (44)

John: 24 · Hank: 18 · guests: 1 · descriptions: 1

  • 2025-01-28 · John · Federal government of the United States (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John is heartbroken that the new US administration has completely frozen PEPFAR, Global Fund funding and almost all other foreign aid. — This Is Not Normal (00:03:24)
  • 2025-02-07 · Hank · Donald Trump (politics & public life, outside the channel) — Hank says a country cannot run if everything is burned down every four years, but Trump, Elon Musk or whoever seem to want to test the country's limits, and are doing so. — What Trump's Doing (00:01:32)
  • 2025-02-07 · Hank · Elon Musk (politics & public life, outside the channel) — Hank says a country cannot run if everything is burned down every four years, but Trump, Elon Musk or whoever seem to want to test the country's limits, and are doing so. — What Trump's Doing (00:01:32)
  • 2025-02-07 · Hank · White House (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank says a recent White House press release referred to Donald Trump signing an executive order into law. — What Trump's Doing (00:02:05)
  • 2025-02-11 · John · Federal government of the United States (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John sets out to explain what is likely to happen when TB medication and diagnostics that are already paid for rot in warehouses because of US government stop-work orders. — What's at Stake (00:00:29)
  • 2025-02-28 · Hank · Donald Trump (politics & public life, outside the channel) — Hank's script predicts his representatives will eventually stand up to Donald Trump taking away their power, asking whether they will be among the first, as he hopes. — We Will Eradicate Measles (00:07:56)
  • 2025-03-07 · Hank · Donald Trump (politics & public life, outside the channel) — Hank says President Donald Trump definitely knew this when he raised it in the State of the Union this week (week of 3 March 2025). — How Social Security Fraud Actually Works (00:05:04)
  • 2025-03-07 · Hank · Elon Musk (politics & public life, outside the channel) — Hank says everyone in government knows this; Elon Musk may not have known when he posted on Twitter about uncovering the biggest fraud in history, but he has certainly been told by now. — How Social Security Fraud Actually Works (00:05:04)
  • 2025-03-11 · John · Tide (products, outside the channel) — John says that instead of enriching billionaires by buying something like Tide, he is fighting coral reef devastation. — Hank Green's Brother (00:02:50)
  • 2025-03-25 · John · National Institutes of Health (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says NIH funding cuts are severely affecting TB research: a planned trial of a cheap tongue-swab TB test, like a strep throat test, was abandoned along with others. — Taylor, Dr Pepper, and My Anxiety Strats: It's Question Tuesday (00:02:55)
  • 2025-04-04 · video description · Donald Trump (politics & public life, outside the channel) — Morality (00:00:00)
  • 2025-04-11 · Hank · Donald Trump (politics & public life, outside the channel) — Hank says Trump-era news is too much to keep track of, so he sorts the weird parts of the Liberation Day tariff story into a YouTube tier list by level of crazy. — How Actually Crazy is This Mess? (00:00:00)
  • 2025-04-11 · Hank · Howard Lutnick (other people & groups, outside the channel) — Hank says Howard Lutnick defended listing the islands as closing loopholes where goods are routed through a lower-tariff country before export. — How Actually Crazy is This Mess? (00:03:01)
  • 2025-04-11 · Hank · Peter Navarro (other people & groups, outside the channel) — Hank says Trump's adviser Peter Navarro is a big advocate of tariffs. — How Actually Crazy is This Mess? (00:07:02)
  • 2025-04-15 · John · Supreme Court of the United States (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John notes that on the day of the conversation the Supreme Court said the president may legally fire 16,000 federal workers. — Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? (00:02:31)
  • 2025-04-15 · John · Steve Bannon (other people & groups, outside the channel) — John notes that on the day of the conversation the Supreme Court said the president may legally fire 16,000 federal workers. — Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? (00:02:31)
  • 2025-04-15 · John · Republican Party (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says most people he talks to are scared, freaked out and overwhelmed by a social media fire hose, and frustrated with both Democrats and Republicans in Congress. — Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? (00:07:27)
  • 2025-04-15 · Adam Schiff · Donald Trump (politics & public life, outside the channel) — Schiff is confident people will one day ask how that man ever became president; the only questions are how fast and how much damage along the way. — Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? (00:10:21)
  • 2025-04-15 · John · Twitter (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says he made the mistake of going on Twitter that day and saw things Elon Musk said that nobody should say. — Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? (00:12:12)
  • 2025-04-15 · John · Elon Musk (politics & public life, outside the channel) — John says he made the mistake of going on Twitter that day and saw things Elon Musk said that nobody should say. — Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? (00:12:12)
  • 2025-06-10 · John · Donald Trump (politics & public life, outside the channel) — John says the Trump administration's latest budget proposal would cut US funding for the Global Fund by 50% and change how that funding works. — 90,000,000 Lives for $20 (00:01:56)
  • 2025-06-13 · Hank · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank says that earlier this week (week of 9 June 2025), seeing images of deportation raids in Los Angeles and then protests, pushback against ICE, violence and vandalism, he got mad. — Moving to Hope from Hopelessness (3 ways) (00:00:00)
  • 2025-06-13 · Hank · Donald Trump (politics & public life, outside the channel) — Paraphrasing his hankschannel video, Hank says the Trump team widens rifts and capitalizes on chaos: infringing rights faster than courts can act makes people try to stop them, creating conflict. — Moving to Hope from Hopelessness (3 ways) (00:00:29)
  • 2025-07-01 · John · The New York Times (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says Everything Is Tuberculosis has been on the New York Times bestseller list for 14 consecutive weeks, twice as long as The Anthropocene Reviewed, which astonishes him. — What #1 New York Times Bestseller Actually Means (00:00:00)
  • 2025-07-29 · John · Robux (products, outside the channel) — When Alice can't remember what a Robux costs in dollars, John says that's how they get you: a currency that isn't real makes you forget how much things cost. — Dad and Daughter Play Dress to Impress (00:03:31)
  • 2025-08-15 · Hank · Donald Trump (politics & public life, outside the channel) — Hank says President Trump's attacks on universities are, to his eye, less intense than those cases or than they could be, but reflect the same broader pattern. — What Trump is Doing to Universities (00:00:24)
  • 2025-09-26 · Hank · United States Department of Health and Human Services (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank says that tomorrow he will post a Hank's Channel video about one bizarre, manipulative paragraph from an April HHS press release. — I've Not Been Doing Well (00:00:25)
  • 2025-10-01 · John · World Health Organization (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — In the 1990s the WHO-recommended therapy for MDR-TB was supportive care, meaning waiting for patients to die; curing it in poor communities was seen as impossible and too costly at about $30,000. — Real Reasons for Hope (00:00:29)
  • 2025-10-01 · John · Johnson & Johnson (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says advocates, including many viewers, kept pressuring governments and drug companies to lower the price, famously pressing Johnson & Johnson to abandon evergreening its bedaquiline patent. — Real Reasons for Hope (00:01:27)
  • 2025-10-10 · Hank · Twitter (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank says he no longer posts on Twitter: he does not want to add to its network effects, calls it explicitly harmful, and has no interest in being there. — Maybe This is My Problem (00:03:58)
  • 2025-10-21 · John · TikTok (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says the idea that TikTok is making reading impossible is a little off base, though, as he will explain, also a little on base. — Is Book Publishing Dying? An Author's Perspective (00:01:01)
  • 2025-10-21 · John · Instagram (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says hardcover books can now cost $27 or $30, while TikTok and Instagram are free unless you count the cost of your attention. — Is Book Publishing Dying? An Author's Perspective (00:03:52)
  • 2025-10-24 · Hank · Umberto Eco (other people & groups, outside the channel) — Hank says Umberto Eco, smarter than him, was wrong that the book, like the spoon, hammer, wheel or scissors, cannot be improved once invented: the wheel keeps being improved. — What Will Books Become? (00:03:34)
  • 2025-10-28 · John · United States Agency for International Development (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says USAID abandoned its commitment to fund part of the project, but PIH, Sarah and John stayed committed because the Philippine government did. — Elon Cancelled This...Let's Do it Anyway (00:01:27)
  • 2025-11-13 · John · GeneXpert (products, outside the channel) — John says kids are often misdiagnosed by microscopy and by GeneXpert tests because they cannot produce enough sputum, so chest x-ray is essential but has shortcomings in kids. — Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders (00:00:00)
  • 2025-11-14 · Hank · Donald Trump (politics & public life, outside the channel) — Hank says the penny is still legal and US law still requires the necessary amount to be made, but the Treasury under Trump has decided the necessary number is zero. — The End of The Penny (and of Congress??) (00:00:07)
  • 2025-11-14 · Hank · United States Congress (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank notes that Obama said he would need Congress to abolish the penny, and reminds viewers that presidents don't make laws. — The End of The Penny (and of Congress??) (00:01:25)
  • 2025-11-24 · John · YouTube (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Asked about new books, John says a new book is coming but not this year (2025) and probably not next; that morning he emailed Julie asking what publication target a second draft by January 1 would allow. — Good Store Holiday Gift Guide LIVE with Hank and John (00:07:43)
  • 2025-11-24 · John · MrBeast (online video & web, outside the channel, playful) — John recalls a college gig in Binghamton where a man who had received his brother's sock subscription for three years asked when he could assume they were his; John said that time had passed. — Good Store Holiday Gift Guide LIVE with Hank and John (00:27:33)
  • 2025-11-24 · John · Prime (drink) (products, outside the channel, playful) — John recalls a college gig in Binghamton where a man who had received his brother's sock subscription for three years asked when he could assume they were his; John said that time had passed. — Good Store Holiday Gift Guide LIVE with Hank and John (00:27:33)
  • 2025-11-25 · John · Donald Trump (politics & public life, outside the channel) — John says it is impossible for Henry and Isatu to visit him in the US because the Trump administration has imposed a total travel ban on people from Sierra Leone. — Poverty Is Expensive (00:02:26)
  • 2025-12-09 · John · Google (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Trying to recall the name of Hank's 1990s Mars website, John scrolled past a completely wrong Google AI response and learned from Wikipedia it was Hank Green's Mars Exploration Page. — Hank Green, from A to Z (00:00:00)
  • 2025-12-16 · John · YouTube (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John recommends Nine Hours of the Low Hum of an Industrial Air Handler: unlike YouTube clickbait it delivers exactly what its title promises, and it is another Hank project that improves his life. — John Green's Brother (00:02:55)
  • 2025-12-19 · Hank · Donald Trump (politics & public life, outside the channel) — Hank describes the basic MAGA story: a cultural elite in charge, out of touch with real Americans, wants to take America where real Americans do not want it to go. — My Big 2026 Prediction is...Not Fun (00:01:57)

2026 (21)

John: 8 · Hank: 12 · descriptions: 1

  • 2026-02-03 · John · Federal government of the United States (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says that about two weeks ago a two-year-old child was kidnapped by the federal government despite a court order not to do so. — Does the truth still matter? (00:00:00)
  • 2026-02-03 · John · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says 67% of this year's (2026) homicides in Minneapolis have been committed by ICE, yet his family members feel the streets are unsafe and need to be made safer. — Does the truth still matter? (00:01:27)
  • 2026-02-13 · John · Johnson & Johnson (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says access to bedaquiline took Phumeza Tisile and her friend Nandita suing the Indian government, which ruled Johnson & Johnson's attempt to extend its patent was not meaningful innovation. — Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! (01:40:08)
  • 2026-02-13 · John · FIFA (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John always feels weird about supporting FIFA, a wildly corrupt organization, yet loves the World Cup: it is how he measures time and his greatest joy every four years. — Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! (02:27:22)
  • 2026-02-13 · John · Twitter (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says he is not convinced Twitter raises much money for the P4A, but knows it makes Hank really unhappy, and would rather see Hank happy. — Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! (03:16:29)
  • 2026-02-13 · Hank · Threads (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank says Threads will not share your content if you link off the site. — Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! (03:21:09)
  • 2026-02-13 · Hank · The Fault in Our Stars (books & writing, own work (self-plug)) — Accepting the chat's answer that some infinities are larger than others, Hank says the way The Fault in Our Stars explains it is not right, because sometimes kids are wrong. — Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! (05:06:18)
  • 2026-02-14 · John · Epic Games (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — John says the other players should ask why they let Epic put them in a battle royale: they have no beef with each other and have just been told to hate each other. — Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! (00:22:23)
  • 2026-02-14 · Hank · Instagram (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank says scrolling Instagram leaves him distracted: it is mostly a relaxation cope for when he needs not to think. — Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! (02:29:19)
  • 2026-02-20 · Hank · Good Good Good (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank says a Good Good Good headline claiming the brothers gave $50 million for the first NICU in Sierra Leone is wrong. — What We Actually Did. (00:01:56)
  • 2026-06-05 · Hank · TikTok (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank says TikTok counts a view earlier than YouTube: a swipe watched for two or three seconds might count, while YouTube requires a click and longer watching. — The Things We Don't Discuss (00:03:00)
  • 2026-06-23 · video description · United States women's national soccer team (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — A Very French Reunion (00:00:00)
  • 2026-08-07 · Hank · Twitter (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank says he should not be on Twitter, and everybody agrees. — Just Trying to Figure Out My Job (00:03:21)
  • 2026-08-18 · John · Lieutenant governor of Indiana (unnamed) (other people & groups, outside the channel) — Last week (week of 10 August 2026) John made an Instagram video praising the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles that also criticized Indiana's lieutenant governor. — My Nemeses (00:02:28)
  • 2026-08-21 · Hank · Jeff Bezos (politics & public life, outside the channel) — Hank says dunking on Jeff Bezos is neither difficult nor brave, one of the infinite-points glitches of online discourse. — Not (Just) Dunking on Jeff Bezos (00:00:58)
  • 2026-08-25 · John · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (other people & groups, outside the channel) — John says misinformation sown by very high-level government figures like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has left many people concerned or confused about vaccines. — The Great Thing about Infectious Disease (00:04:23)
  • 2026-09-18 · Hank · Facebook (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank says that as early as 2015 he wrote a widely circulated post, which made him enemies, about how Facebook was counting views. — John was Wrong about YouTube Views (00:01:27)
  • 2026-09-18 · Hank · TikTok (organizations & sites, outside the channel) — Hank says the law bites both creators chasing TikTok views that cannot build a sustainable audience and platforms that push the number up because creators and brands measure by it. — John was Wrong about YouTube Views (00:02:30)
  • 2026-10-01 · Hank · Mike Rugnetta (online video & web, friends & collaborators) — Hank has long thought about Mike Rugnetta's nine-year-old video on the word content and the phrase content creator, partly because Hank is fine with them and Mike was not. — Are We Still YouTubers? (00:00:00)
  • 2026-10-01 · Hank · Mike Rugnetta's video on 'Content' (art & other works, friends & collaborators) — Hank has long thought about Mike Rugnetta's nine-year-old video on the word content and the phrase content creator, partly because Hank is fine with them and Mike was not. — Are We Still YouTubers? (00:00:00)
  • 2026-10-05 · Hank · Mark Fowler (other people & groups, outside the channel) — Hank says the doctor assisting Pike's execution was not an anesthesiologist and had taken part in an earlier botched execution, trying for nearly an hour to place an IV, then a central line he hadn't done in over a decade. — Why Are We So Bad at Executing People? (00:04:49)