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341 statements about AFC Wimbledon in 98 videos, by upload date.

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2013

  • 2013-11-05 · Our Strangest Project Yet? — announcement: The description says the pitch-side ads are 16 feet long and 3 feet high, and tells ad designers to design accordingly. — video description
  • 2013-11-05 · Our Strangest Project Yet? — recommendation: John: To learn more about the club, John points to a short documentary on the collapse of Wimbledon F.C., its disastrous move to Milton Keynes and the formation of AFC Wimbledon. — video description
  • 2013-11-05 · Our Strangest Project Yet? — John: The fans responded by starting a club from scratch, AFC Wimbledon, which began in 2002 in the ninth tier of English football. — 00:01:41
  • 2013-11-05 · Our Strangest Project Yet? — John: After an amazing run, nine years later in 2011, captain Danny Kedwell took one penalty kick to send Wimbledon into the Football League, and they became a League Two team you can play in FIFA. — 00:01:49
  • 2013-11-05 · Our Strangest Project Yet? — John: Last season AFC Wimbledon almost got relegated, but won heroically in the last game. — 00:02:16
  • 2013-11-05 · Our Strangest Project Yet? — John: AFC Wimbledon is owned and run by its fans, with no big money behind it; its chairman is a retired accountant. — 00:02:32
  • 2013-11-05 · Our Strangest Project Yet? — John: AFC Wimbledon was the first club in England to show a 'Football Fans Against Homophobia' banner at a game. — 00:02:37
  • 2013-11-05 · Our Strangest Project Yet? — John calls AFC Wimbledon a truly extraordinary club, the most awesome football club in the world, and says he wants to help it stay in the Football League. — 00:02:42
  • 2013-11-05 · Our Strangest Project Yet? — announcement: John will play as AFC Wimbledon in FIFA 14 but keep his vow not to be a professional FIFA player: all ad revenue from the videos will sponsor the real club. — 00:02:44
  • 2013-11-05 · Our Strangest Project Yet? — announcement: John: The sponsorship will buy billboards in the stadium and ads in the match program, all designed by Nerdfighters. — 00:02:57
  • 2013-11-05 · Our Strangest Project Yet? — John hopes the sponsorship helps keep the club in the Football League so he can play them in FIFA 15, 16 and beyond, and maybe one day send them to the Premier League. (hedged) — 00:03:02
  • 2013-11-05 · Our Strangest Project Yet? — John says that might be dreaming, but in 2002 AFC Wimbledon played away games in front of 80 fans, and it took dreaming to imagine them in FIFA. — 00:03:13
  • 2013-11-05 · Our Strangest Project Yet? — ask: John invites viewers to start designing ads together, with more information and videos of AFC Wimbledon's short but glorious history below. — 00:03:27
  • 2013-11-08 · VidCon, Punishments, Comments, and Pumpkins — Hank tells John he thinks Nerdfighteria sponsoring a professional football team is an amazing idea that just feels pretty cool. (hedged) — 00:01:46

2014

  • 2014-01-07 · Warm Things for Cold Times — ask: John urges Nerdfighters of Greater London to see AFC Wimbledon play Torquay, saying they should be able to just show up and get standing-room tickets. (hedged) — video description
  • 2014-01-07 · Warm Things for Cold Times — announcement: John announces that the Nerdfighter community is now officially a sponsor of AFC Wimbledon, a football club owned by its fans. — 00:01:34
  • 2014-01-07 · Warm Things for Cold Times — announcement: John says AFC Wimbledon play Torquay in League Two this Saturday (11 January 2014), and Nerdfighter messages will be on the side of the field and in the program. — 00:01:44
  • 2014-01-07 · Warm Things for Cold Times — ask: John hopes Nerdfighters of Kingston, Wimbledon and Greater London will go to the game, so there is Nerdfighter support at the first official Nerdfighter game. (hedged) — 00:01:55
  • 2014-01-07 · Warm Things for Cold Times — John sums up: Esther's dream of being a published writer is coming true and Nerdfighteria sponsors a fourth-tier English professional soccer team; life in Nerdfighteria is weird and wonderful. — 00:02:12
  • 2014-01-14 · Giving Away Over $700,000 — John reports that AFC Wimbledon has played its first game as a team sponsored by Nerdfighteria. — 00:00:25
  • 2014-01-14 · Giving Away Over $700,000 — Rosianna Halse Rojas: Rosianna, an internet kid who loves GIFs, Instagram and YouTube, finds something cool in the physical boards at the pitch designed by Nerdfighters living far away. — 00:00:30
  • 2014-01-14 · Giving Away Over $700,000 — John: Wimbledon lost the game, but, invoking the long arc of history bending toward justice, the speaker says they will be fine. (playful) — 00:00:46
  • 2014-05-27 · ALL THE SHIRTS (and some paths to community) — John: Nerdfighteria uses ad proceeds from a FIFA video series to sponsor AFC Wimbledon, a fan-owned club that fights homophobia and racism; it finished 20th, avoiding relegation from English football's fourth tier. — 00:01:18
  • 2014-05-27 · ALL THE SHIRTS (and some paths to community) — John: Meanwhile John's fictional FIFA team, the AFC Wimbledon Wimbly Womblys, led by Bald John Green, Other John Green, Seb Brown and Yaya Bamba, is having a great season. (playful) — 00:01:33
  • 2014-06-17 · Old. — John says all the money from his FIFA videos now goes to AFC Wimbledon, a real football club. — 00:00:42
  • 2014-06-17 · Old. — John says AFC Wimbledon is owned by its fans and was the first football club in England to come out against homophobia. — 00:00:42
  • 2014-06-17 · Old. — John: Celebrating a beautiful Wimbly Womblys goal, John shot his right arm in the air shouting 'AFC Wimbledon!' and seriously injured his shoulder. — 00:01:12
  • 2014-07-08 · The Future of Nerdfighteria — announcement: John: Thanks to HankGames fans, Nerdfighteria has increased its AFC Wimbledon sponsorship: next season its design will be on the shorts of the actual AFC Wimbledon uniforms. — 00:02:59
  • 2014-07-08 · The Future of Nerdfighteria — announcement: John tells Hank that playing as AFC Wimbledon in FIFA 15 he will see the design on their computer shorts: Nerdfighters made it to FIFA. (playful) — 00:03:17
  • 2014-09-19 · The Oculus Rift is Freakin Me Out — Hank praises John Plays FIFA: fictional players both named John Green raise a child while raising real money for the real team, so Nerdfighteria's logos are now on its uniforms. — 00:00:11
  • 2014-09-26 · Gettin' Real with Hank — Hank lists their luck: he has a channel where he just plays video games, and John has a fictional soccer team that helps fund a real one. — 00:00:21
  • 2014-10-07 · I Kind of Hate Batman — John says that as a billionaire he would first pledge 90% of his money to charity, then build a racetrack, fund an AFC Wimbledon stadium and a house with secret rooms, and still be super rich. (hypothetical) — 00:00:20
  • 2014-10-14 · A Minor Crisis — John says HankGames ad revenue sponsors the real AFC Wimbledon, a fourth-tier club formed by fans after their club was moved to Milton Keynes, and this year (2014) the sponsorship is on the team's shorts. — 00:01:58
  • 2014-10-14 · A Minor Crisis — John says that two weeks ago his FIFA AFC Wimbledon beat Milton Keynes 4-0, his in-game self doing 'the mustache of joy'. (playful) — 00:02:19
  • 2014-10-14 · A Minor Crisis — John reports that last week (week of 6 October 2014) the real AFC Wimbledon beat the real Milton Keynes, with the ball coming to Akinfenwa, as the crowd chanted 'who were you when you were us'; he jokes DFTBA on the shorts brings success. (playful) — 00:02:26
  • 2014-11-21 (said on 2014-11-20, implied) · The Sleepiest Sleepyhead in Sleeptown — ask: John: P.S.: John tells Nerdfighters the AFC Wimbly Womblys have just played the most important games in their history, with links in the description. (playful) — 00:03:00
  • 2014-11-28 · Global Health and Human Hair: What the Vlogbrothers are Thankful For — ask: John: everything at DFTBA.com, including signed posters, his hoodie and AFC Wimbledon scarves, is 20% off through Monday; head over to DFTBA.com. — 00:03:33

2015

Also named in: Question Tuesday: My Social Media Hiatus, My Excellent German, and Books!

2016

  • 2016-01-19 · The Looking for Alaska Movie, Davos, and Hufflepuff Shade: It's Question Tuesday — John jokes that his three favourite hobbies are eating pizza, sponsoring fourth-tier soccer teams and literary tourism. (playful) — 00:00:26
  • 2016-02-09 · Water in My Cereal: Taste Testing Various Liquid Accompaniments to Raisin Bran — John: Hot black coffee from his AFC Wimbledon mug tasted almost only of coffee, but he likes coffee: three raisins. (playful) — 00:01:45
  • 2016-05-03 · No Fumar — John says he did not shave for six consecutive weeks because AFC Wimbledon, the fourth-tier English team sponsored by Nerdfighteria, kept winning. (playful) — 00:02:13
  • 2016-05-03 · No Fumar — John says that making the playoffs would give AFC Wimbledon a 25% chance of promotion to the third tier of English football. — 00:02:24
  • 2016-05-03 · No Fumar — John says AFC Wimbledon lost a game, letting him shave, and then another team failed to win, so Wimbledon made the playoffs anyway. — 00:02:34
  • 2016-05-03 · No Fumar — announcement: John says that if AFC Wimbledon make the final, he is going to Wembley Stadium to watch the game. — 00:02:43
  • 2016-05-03 · No Fumar — recommendation: John says Vice Sports made a great documentary about the team and his relationship with it, and suggests checking it out. — 00:02:46
  • 2016-05-24 · Easier Than IKEA: A Video in Two Parts — John says AFC Wimbledon, the fourth-tier English team Nerdfighteria sponsors, has reached the play-off final, one victory from becoming a third-tier team. — 00:02:35
  • 2016-05-24 · Easier Than IKEA: A Video in Two Parts — John says that on May 30 AFC Wimbledon, wearing DFTBA on their shorts, will play a one-game playoff against Plymouth Argyle at Wembley, a 90,000-seat stadium. — 00:02:46
  • 2016-05-24 · Easier Than IKEA: A Video in Two Parts — John says Wimbledon have the smallest stadium in their league and among the smallest budgets, and would be the only fan-owned English team as high as the third tier. — 00:02:59
  • 2016-05-24 · Easier Than IKEA: A Video in Two Parts — John says it is hard to describe how unlikely this is, that it is a massive moment for the club, and that he is immensely excited. — 00:02:59
  • 2016-05-24 · Easier Than IKEA: A Video in Two Parts — recommendation: John notes that the brothers' podcast brings the week's news from both Mars and AFC Wimbledon. — 00:03:12
  • 2016-05-24 · Easier Than IKEA: A Video in Two Parts — John says he is leaving directly from the Indianapolis 500 to go to the game in London. — 00:03:20
  • 2016-05-24 · Easier Than IKEA: A Video in Two Parts — ask: John asks Nerdfighters in or near London to come to Wembley on May 30 to cheer on the Dons, and tells those who can't afford a ticket to email him so he can try to work something out. (hedged) — 00:03:24
  • 2016-05-31 (said on 2016-05-29, implied) · The Most Amazing Day — John: On Sunday at 7 a.m. John bikes down to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for race day. — 00:00:00
  • 2016-05-31 (said on 2016-05-29, implied) · The Most Amazing Day — ask: The description thanks Radio WDON for its commentary and asks viewers to subscribe to it to support the club and get radio coverage of every match. — video description
  • 2016-05-31 (said on 2016-05-29, implied) · The Most Amazing Day — The description corrects its own 'fourth tier': AFC Wimbledon is a third-tier team. — video description
  • 2016-05-31 (said on 2016-05-29, implied) · The Most Amazing Day — John: Leaving the Indy 500 after 160 laps, John goes to the airport and flies via New York City to London, sleeping well on the plane. — 00:01:07
  • 2016-05-31 (said on 2016-05-29, implied) · The Most Amazing Day — John: In London John heads to Wembley, sees AFC Wimbledon's crest there and stops at an AFC Wimbledon bar, the Green Man; he says he can't remember when he was this excited. — 00:01:27
  • 2016-05-31 (said on 2016-05-29, implied) · The Most Amazing Day — a guest: Radio WDON's commentary of the closing moments reports that Akinfenwa scores from the penalty spot and AFC Wimbledon are a League One club. — 00:02:19
  • 2016-05-31 (said on 2016-05-29, implied) · The Most Amazing Day — John reports AFC Wimbledon won, securing promotion to League One. — 00:03:09
  • 2016-05-31 (said on 2016-05-29, implied) · The Most Amazing Day — John: Having lost his camcorder and filming on his phone, John returns with a large group of AFC Wimbledon supporters to Kingsmeadow to celebrate the promotion. — 00:03:17
  • 2016-08-16 · Some Good News: 16 Ways 2016 Is Not a Total Dumpster Fire — John lists among the good news that AFC Wimbledon is in League One and that 'our' new advertising is up in their stadium. — 00:03:20
  • 2016-11-15 · Good News/Bad News: A Pizzamas Video in Nine Slices — John reports AFC Wimbledon, the fan-owned club with DFTBA on their shorts, are three points from a playoff spot seventeen games into their first third-tier season, while the Milton Keynes franchise is in the relegation zone. — 00:01:16
  • 2016-11-15 · Good News/Bad News: A Pizzamas Video in Nine Slices — ask: John asks viewers buying a Pizza John hoodie at DFTBA.com to also buy an AFC Wimbledon Nerdfighteria scarf; all proceeds go to the club, which might help them back to the playoffs and Wembley. — 00:01:42
  • 2016-11-17 · Decathlons, Pretension, and the Weirdest Animal I've Met: It's Question Thursday — John says he looks up most to his parents and secondarily Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, and wants to be remembered as a father, husband and AFC Wimbledon sponsor. (playful) — 00:00:13
  • 2016-12-27 · The Best of My 2016 — John: From the Indy 500 John flew to London to see Nerdfighteria-sponsored AFC Wimbledon win at Wembley for a third-tier spot, then partied at their home stadium with his dad and players. — 00:00:50
  • 2016-12-27 · The Best of My 2016 — John: Answering those who ask how he can be excited about England's 82nd best football team, John says AFC Wimbledon are now actually the 55th best. (playful) — 00:01:13
  • 2016-12-27 · The Best of My 2016 — John says being home for most of it was the best thing to happen to him this year (2016), other than AFC Wimbledon's promotion. — 00:02:56

2017

2018

  • 2018-03-13 · Who Should We Root For? — John: Project for Awesome donors joined John this weekend (10–11 March 2018) in England to watch AFC Wimbledon's 2-1 win over Oxford United, and greet Hank. — 00:00:02
  • 2018-03-13 · Who Should We Root For? — John: To stay in the third tier AFC Wimbledon must finish 20th or above; the win lifted them to 18th. (playful) — 00:00:09
  • 2018-04-17 · John Green Answers Your John Green Questions — John likes soccer enough to sponsor a third-tier English team, which over the weekend might have avoided relegation by coming back from two-nil down at half-time to win 3-2 on the last kick. (hedged) — 00:02:38
  • 2018-05-01 · How to Win — John says the community sponsors the third-tier English team AFC Wimbledon, its logo sitting between the left thigh and buttock on their uniform. (playful) — 00:00:14
  • 2018-05-01 · How to Win — John says Wimbledon has had a difficult season, losing more than winning: with two games left they are 19th of 24, and the bottom four will be relegated to the fourth tier. — 00:00:25
  • 2018-05-01 · How to Win — John: To avoid relegation Wimbledon must win or draw one of their last two games; the first starts about an hour after John records. — 00:00:38
  • 2018-05-01 · How to Win — John: Though nervous, John says this is actually Wimbledon's best position in months, largely thanks to 'the Walsall event'. — 00:00:48
  • 2018-05-01 · How to Win — John: With five games left in the season, AFC Wimbledon were 2-0 down to Walsall at halftime. — 00:01:17
  • 2018-05-01 · How to Win — John says the last time Wimbledon came back from 2-0 down was a 2-2 draw against Bury a year and a half earlier. — 00:01:27
  • 2018-05-01 · How to Win — John: In the final seconds Taylor was fouled in the box, Dean Parrett scored the penalty and Wimbledon won 3-2, earning three points instead of one. — 00:02:25
  • 2018-05-01 · How to Win — John says those three points look like they might be absolutely essential at the end of the season. (hedged) — 00:02:32
  • 2018-05-15 · Seven Maps to Better Understand the World — ask: John: Enjoying sponsoring AFC Wimbledon, John asks clubs, teams or organizations wanting modest sponsorship (high three to low four digits) to email sparksflyup@gmail.com with subject 'Sponsorship'. — 00:03:22
  • 2018-05-29 · How to Cook Eight Peas — John: While 'educating' the peas, John notes that the team playing in Milton Keynes was relegated out of the third tier, so AFC Wimbledon won't have to play them. (playful) — 00:01:37
  • 2018-08-03 · How Do Adults Make Friends? — Hank: Asked the weirdest thing he has caught John doing, Hank says nothing, besides sponsoring a third-tier English soccer team. (playful) — 00:00:34
  • 2018-08-14 · Question Tuesday: Secrets & Primes — John is very excited for AFC Wimbledon's new season; all 'our' stadium advertisements now advertise An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, reaching third-tier English football supporters. (playful) — 00:02:52
  • 2018-09-04 · The Eisenhower Matrix — recommendation: John: Things both urgent and important you do now, like a kitchen fire or, John jokes, an AFC Wimbledon match to be watched live with complete focus. (playful) — 00:01:44
  • 2018-09-11 · Surprise . . . — announcement: John reveals that his call months ago, saying sponsoring AFC Wimbledon made him want to sponsor other things, was a trick: he was buying sponsorships for An Absolutely Remarkable Thing. (playful) — 00:00:29
  • 2018-09-11 · Surprise . . . — announcement: John: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing has ads around AFC Wimbledon's stadium and is the club's training kit sponsor, seen before its game against West Ham United. — 00:00:29

2019

  • 2019-01-29 · Do You Believe in Miracles? — John: The urge to find and share hope is why John writes books, makes videos, gardens and sponsors AFC Wimbledon, the third-tier English team wearing DFTBA on their shorts. — 00:01:55
  • 2019-01-29 · Do You Believe in Miracles? — John loves AFC Wimbledon because they have shown him again and again that hope is 'the thing with feathers' that never stops at all. — 00:01:55
  • 2019-01-29 · Do You Believe in Miracles? — John: AFC Wimbledon have had a terrible season: last in their division and facing relegation to the fourth tier of English football. — 00:01:55
  • 2019-01-29 · Do You Believe in Miracles? — John: Despite their season, Wimbledon reached the FA Cup fourth round and were drawn against West Ham United. — 00:02:25
  • 2019-01-29 · Do You Believe in Miracles? — John: Several individual West Ham players earn more per year than AFC Wimbledon's entire annual budget. — 00:02:25
  • 2019-01-29 · Do You Believe in Miracles? — John: AFC Wimbledon beat West Ham 4-2: Kwesi Appiah scored in front of the John Green stand, Scott Wagstaff scored twice, and 19-year-old Toby Sibbick scored. — 00:02:54
  • 2019-01-29 · Do You Believe in Miracles? — John: Watching in a basement in Indianapolis, John found himself in tears, grateful to the club that had again shown him the meaning of life. — 00:02:54
  • 2019-01-29 · Do You Believe in Miracles? — John says it is never wrong to be hopeful, and anyone who says otherwise hasn't watched enough AFC Wimbledon games. — 00:02:54
  • 2019-01-29 · Do You Believe in Miracles? — John: The FA Cup is down to its final 16 teams, Wimbledon among them; next they face Millwall, a team a division above. — 00:02:54
  • 2019-01-29 · Do You Believe in Miracles? — John says there is no way Wimbledon can win against Millwall, but there was no way they could win the last one either. (playful) — 00:03:23
  • 2019-01-29 · Do You Believe in Miracles? — recommendation: John wrote a lot about Wimbledon and penalty shootouts in the latest episode of The Anthropocene Reviewed; a new episode comes out in two days. — 00:03:23
  • 2019-01-29 · Do You Believe in Miracles? — ask: John invites viewers to become part owners of AFC Wimbledon by joining the Dons Trust, which owns the club, for 25 pounds (about $30). — 00:03:23
  • 2019-02-26 · The Necessity to Struggle / The Futility of Effort — John is astonished how quickly his mind goes from future fashion to 'nothing matters', yet with a friend, a soft pretzel and talk of AFC Wimbledon he feels the human enterprise is good and noble. — 00:01:56
  • 2019-04-30 · The Thing with Feathers — announcement: John tells Hank he is the training kit sponsor of AFC Wimbledon, 'America's favorite third-tier English football team'. — 00:00:00
  • 2019-04-30 · The Thing with Feathers — John: AFC Wimbledon entered the relegation zone in October, early in the season, stayed there, and was last for most of the season; relegation felt inevitable. — 00:00:29
  • 2019-04-30 · The Thing with Feathers — John: Many third-tier clubs have very rich owners, while AFC Wimbledon is owned by its fans, each paying about 30 dollars a year to be an owner. — 00:00:29
  • 2019-04-30 · The Thing with Feathers — John: Some third-tier clubs have annual budgets more than ten times AFC Wimbledon's. — 00:00:58
  • 2019-04-30 · The Thing with Feathers — John: A new manager came in, and in January new players including 21-year-old goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale; Wimbledon then won five of six games and were still last. — 00:00:58
  • 2019-04-30 · The Thing with Feathers — John: Wimbledon kept winning, losing only one of the last 11 games; after 189 days in the relegation zone they beat Wycombe 2-1 on Saturday to reach 19th with one game left. — 00:01:26
  • 2019-04-30 · The Thing with Feathers — John: It might still fall apart: Wimbledon must win or tie the last game to stay up, but they have a chance. (hedged) — 00:01:26
  • 2019-04-30 · The Thing with Feathers — John: If Wimbledon stay up, it will be one of the greatest great escapes in English football history. — 00:01:55
  • 2019-04-30 · The Thing with Feathers — John says the players kept playing for each other and their community as if the situation were not hopeless, even when it was. — 00:01:55
  • 2019-04-30 · The Thing with Feathers — John: When Wimbledon scored a last-second goal against league leaders Luton Town a couple of weeks ago, the players ran straight to, and some into, the stands. — 00:02:25
  • 2019-04-30 · The Thing with Feathers — John: It reminded John that in 2013 Jack Midson scored a penalty in the season's last game to keep Wimbledon in the fourth tier, and celebrated by borrowing a fan's hat. — 00:02:25
  • 2019-04-30 · The Thing with Feathers — ask: John tells Hank and viewers they can support AFC Wimbledon with the scarf that says DFTBA Nerdfighteria, linked in the doobly-doo. — 00:03:23
  • 2019-04-30 · The Thing with Feathers — ask: John asks viewers in or around Bradford this weekend to go to the game and scream their heads off on his behalf; he is very nervous. — 00:03:23
  • 2019-05-14 · An Open Letter to Professional YouTubers — John: Last lesson, quoting Hank: diversify your identity; when friends, family, walks and Instagram all become your job, you can stop thinking of yourself as John Green the person, husband, father, AFC Wimbledon sponsor, avowed Hufflepuff, and see only John Green YouTuber. — 00:02:55
  • 2019-12-17 · The Best Days of My Decade — John: Next favorite day: May 30, 2016, when AFC Wimbledon, with DFTBA on their shorts, played a play-off final at Wembley for promotion to the third tier. — 00:01:07
  • 2019-12-17 · The Best Days of My Decade — John: Everything was perfect: singing with fans in a pub, then Wembley with his dad, Rosianna, his friend Stuart and Wimbly Womblies co-founder Meredith. — 00:01:21
  • 2019-12-17 · The Best Days of My Decade — John: Lyle Taylor scored to put AFC Wimbledon into the third tier, and John partied all night with fans, friends, players and his dad. — 00:01:32

2020

  • 2020-02-11 · 1,100 Days: A Mental and Physical Health Update — John: In a comment update, John says he ran 3 miles in 26:52. — creator comment
  • 2020-02-11 · 1,100 Days: A Mental and Physical Health Update — In a comment, John reports AFC Wimbledon drew 0-0 with seventh-place Ipswich Town, largely thanks to new goalkeeper Joe Day, and he'll take the point. — creator comment
  • 2020-02-11 · 1,100 Days: A Mental and Physical Health Update — John is going to run now, on the treadmill, because it is very cold and he wants to watch AFC Wimbledon. — 00:03:24
  • 2020-06-30 · i like it — In a comment John says he has sponsored AFC Wimbledon since about 2012 or 2013 and follows them avidly, but has long been a Liverpool fan: a bit of divided loyalty. — creator comment
  • 2020-09-08 · That's the way. — In a comment John says he started following Wimbledon's story in 2009-2010, as they made their way back to the Football League, and thinks he first heard of them on YouTube. (hedged) — creator comment
  • 2020-09-08 · That's the way. — John: Asked what he would do if AFC Wimbledon faced Liverpool, John says in a comment that they have, and it was strange and difficult. — creator comment
  • 2020-09-08 · That's the way. — John suggests that might be why he is so enthralled with AFC Wimbledon, the third-tier English football team 'we' sponsor. (hedged) — 00:01:27
  • 2020-09-08 · That's the way. — John says that beginning in the 1990s Wimbledon fans suffered heartbreaks unrelated to the game itself, first losing their stadium, Plough Lane. — 00:01:36
  • 2020-09-08 · That's the way. — John says the fans refused to accept this and reformed their club in the ninth tier of English football, owned not by a rich person but by the fans themselves. — 00:02:05
  • 2020-09-08 · That's the way. — John says each fan pays about $30 a year for an ownership stake (less if unemployed, retired or a student); paying more brings perks like a logo on the shorts, but everyone gets one vote. — 00:02:26
  • 2020-09-08 · That's the way. — 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. — 00:02:46
  • 2020-09-08 · That's the way. — John says this year (2020) AFC Wimbledon is at last coming home to a new stadium across the street from the old Plough Lane; after decades of singing a chant about the way to Plough Lane, fans are going home together. — 00:02:55
  • 2020-09-08 · That's the way. — John contrasts the model in Milton Keynes and most sport, including his beloved Liverpool, where third things are investment vehicles of the rich, with Wimbledon's, where the third thing belongs to those whose shared attention gives it value. — 00:03:20
  • 2020-09-08 · That's the way. — John says Wimbledon's way is messier and less efficient, but it really is the club of everyone who cares about it, and every fan should be so lucky. — 00:03:40
  • 2020-10-13 (said on 2020-10-05, implied) · Me from the Past: A Pizzamas Miracle — John: On 5 October 2020, with some data but not enough, John guesses AFC Wimbledon might eke out a draw against Swindon Town based on current form. (speculative) — 00:01:27
  • 2020-10-13 (said on 2020-10-05, implied) · Me from the Past: A Pizzamas Miracle — John: What freaks John out about the future is not the things he knows he doesn't know, like the AFC Wimbledon score, but the unknown unknowns. — 00:02:55
  • 2020-10-13 (said on 2020-10-05, implied) · Me from the Past: A Pizzamas Miracle — John: In November 2019 John could never have imagined AFC Wimbledon would win no game in April 2020, not from poor play but because there was no football. — 00:03:24
  • 2020-10-14 · John Predicts the Future! — Hank reports AFC Wimbledon had a single shot on target against Swindon Town, and it went in. — 00:00:58
  • 2020-10-14 · John Predicts the Future! — Hank: That was the game's only goal, so AFC Wimbledon beat Swindon Town and are now in 10th place. — 00:01:28
  • 2020-11-03 · Alaska for Looking — John says AFC Wimbledon, 31 years after their stadium was taken away, play their first game back home today at the new Plough Lane, a stadium built and owned by the fans. — 00:00:00

2021

  • 2021-01-12 · My 2021 Vision Board — John intends to keep AFC Wimbledon in the third tier of English football by sheer force of will. (playful) — 00:00:29
  • 2021-03-09 · Hank Rebranded Without Any of Us Noticing — John: 2007 John wasn't the author of The Fault in Our Stars, a resident of Indianapolis, an AFC Wimbledon supporter, Crash Course's co-founder, best friends with Chris and Marina, or a jogger. — 00:01:56
  • 2021-04-13 · My Truly Mortifying Self-Talk — John's friend Craig, a teacher and big soccer fan, texts with him a lot about his team Watford and about AFC Wimbledon's perpetual proximity to relegation. — 00:00:29
  • 2021-04-27 · What is my new book about? — John: AFC Wimbledon, needing a draw to avoid relegation, scored on the last kick to tie Rochdale 3-3; John wept. — creator comment
  • 2021-04-27 · What is my new book about? — John: Wimbledon still needs a tie or win from its last two games, but per 538 has only a 1% chance of relegation. — creator comment
  • 2021-06-29 · Sneezing is not normal. — John: Besides Vlogbrothers, John says, the brothers have a podcast, Dear Hank and John, answering listener questions with dubious advice and news from Mars and AFC Wimbledon. — 00:00:01
  • 2021-07-30 · Can You Trust Science Too Much? — Hank says alternatives being wrong is shrugged off like AFC Wimbledon losing: that happens. (joke) — 00:00:58
  • 2021-09-28 · 11 Great Books You Probably Haven't Read — recommendation: John: Admitting bias, John recommends All Together Now by longtime AFC Wimbledon CEO Erik Samuelson: the greatest underdog sports story of all time, told by one who made it happen. — 00:02:26
  • 2021-10-04 · PIZZAMAS IS HERE! — John: Asked in the comments whether he is a football fan, John says he is a big one and that they sponsor AFC Wimbledon, in the third tier of English football, which wears DFTBA on its shorts. — creator comment

2022

2023

2024

  • 2024-01-02 · Being Old on YouTube — John recalls 2007: George W. Bush was president, AFC Wimbledon played in the seventh tier of English football, and neither Instagram nor the iPhone existed. (playful) — 00:00:12
  • 2024-03-05 · THE BEST DAY — In a comment, John confirms the fan-owned club is like the Green Bay Packers, but no individual can own more than one voting share however much they put in. — creator comment
  • 2024-03-05 · THE BEST DAY — John says Wimbledon supporters started over with a fan-owned amateur team with no stadium, kit, staff or players, climbed the amateur divisions, turned full-time professional in 2011, and now share Milton Keynes' league. — 00:00:33
  • 2024-03-05 · THE BEST DAY — John says that in 2020 Wimbledon opened a new stadium at Plough Lane, paid for and owned by the fans like the club. — 00:00:59
  • 2024-03-05 · THE BEST DAY — John jokes Wimbledon have not been good since returning to professional football: no professional team in England has lost more games in the last five years. (playful) — 00:01:08
  • 2024-03-05 · THE BEST DAY — John says only four of England's 92 professional teams were profitable last year (2023), Wimbledon among them because, with no rich owners, it has to be. — 00:01:17
  • 2024-03-05 · THE BEST DAY — John does not care that the club is perpetually underfunded: he is in love, so he flew to England with his friend Stuart to cheer against the Milton Keynes franchise. — 00:01:30
  • 2024-03-05 · THE BEST DAY — John shouted himself hoarse and was filled with dread: Wimbledon had never beaten Milton Keynes at home in front of their fans. — 00:01:56
  • 2024-03-05 · THE BEST DAY — John says some Dons players have been with Wimbledon since age 9 or 10; after an exhausting 90 minutes there were 12 yellow cards but no goals. — 00:02:04
  • 2024-03-05 · THE BEST DAY — John: In the last minute, John's friend Lex was filming what seemed the end of the game, but it was not; John then plays the moment in commentator Mikey T's voice, calling a chance for Ronan Curtis and crying go, go Wimbledon. — 00:02:22
  • 2024-03-05 · THE BEST DAY — John assures Hank the ball boy is fine; the boy later said it was the best moment of his life. (playful) — 00:03:04
  • 2024-03-05 · THE BEST DAY — John says he was out of his body, in a light-soaked plane where all hope is rewarded; the whole stadium was in ecstasy and breathless joy flooded him. — 00:03:07
  • 2024-03-05 · THE BEST DAY — John points to the 20 years of shared commitment and effort that brought the club to this moment. — 00:03:15
  • 2024-03-05 · THE BEST DAY — John: After the game John celebrated with the Nerdfighters of Plough Lane, met left-back Jack Currie, and Wimbledon's manager and coaches came to the pub to sing with fans. — 00:03:38
  • 2024-07-09 · Is the Inside of Your Mouth a Soup? (a vidcon reunion video) — John shows his suit lining, which depicts the moment Lyle Taylor scored at Wembley for AFC Wimbledon to send them back to League One, and reads 'JMFG'. — 00:00:00
  • 2024-07-09 · Is the Inside of Your Mouth a Soup? (a vidcon reunion video) — John says people, including many AFC Wimbledon fans, have been kind and generous since his video about having a hard time, reminding him he is part of many great communities. — 00:00:25
  • 2024-08-06 · What Helped Through Depression — John: An AFC Wimbledon co-founder, who needed something to look forward to when depressed, mailed John the club's new away kit, which will take time to arrive. — 00:01:27
  • 2024-08-06 · What Helped Through Depression — announcement: John: A new logo on the back of AFC Wimbledon shorts, between left thigh and buttock, was made by Nerdfighter Jen Koch and is based on space mission patches; John loves it. (playful) — 00:01:27
  • 2024-08-13 · The Time a Spy Visited Me Because of P*tin. — John: The man asked John many questions: his mortgage, whether his AFC Wimbledon sponsorship is expensive and why he spends money on a foreign football team, his family, job and work with Hank. — 00:01:50
  • 2024-08-13 · The Time a Spy Visited Me Because of P*tin. — John says he told the man everything: his mortgage, the cost of his AFC Wimbledon sponsorship, his foreign tax from foreign book deals, his good marriage, every thought about the Russian government. (playful) — 00:02:33
  • 2024-08-20 · Thoughts from Places: BROMLEY! — John: Tired but eager, John came to watch AFC Wimbledon play an away game against Bromley. — 00:00:00
  • 2024-08-20 · Thoughts from Places: BROMLEY! — John: After a 27-minute nap John met Rosianna, his producing partner and fellow Wimbledon fan, and they took a double-decker bus and a train to Bromley. — 00:00:00
  • 2024-08-20 · Thoughts from Places: BROMLEY! — recommendation: In a comment, John tells a US viewer that Wimbledon games stream on the AFC Wimbledon website, with several on Paramount Plus this year (2024). — creator comment
  • 2024-08-20 · Thoughts from Places: BROMLEY! — John says a great joy of following AFC Wimbledon is visiting places tourists usually miss, like Bromley. (playful) — 00:00:29
  • 2024-08-20 · Thoughts from Places: BROMLEY! — John admires the new DFTBA logos on the Wimbledon uniform, between left thigh and buttock. (playful) — 00:01:27
  • 2024-08-20 · Thoughts from Places: BROMLEY! — John says this is the 11th year of sponsoring AFC Wimbledon and he falls deeper in love with the club each year. — 00:01:27
  • 2024-08-20 · Thoughts from Places: BROMLEY! — John loves football; about AFC Wimbledon he is utterly and deliciously irrational, which may be the defining feature of love. (hedged) — 00:01:27
  • 2024-08-20 · Thoughts from Places: BROMLEY! — John thinks of the Wimbledon fans who died, who passed the club on and fought up the leagues at tiny grounds: a community includes its ancestors. — 00:01:56
  • 2024-08-20 · Thoughts from Places: BROMLEY! — John: Bromley scored in the first half; John and Rosianna stood to change their luck, but the home team added a second goal, Wimbledon's first defeat of the season. — 00:02:26
  • 2024-08-20 · Thoughts from Places: BROMLEY! — 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. — 00:02:55
  • 2024-09-03 · Which is Correct? — or – ? — announcement: In a channel comment, John says he has been livestreaming FIFA and other shenanigans to raise money for AFC Wimbledon's playing budget, hoping to fund a new player in January. — creator comment
  • 2024-09-03 · Which is Correct? — or – ? — recommendation: John playfully tells London visitors to go to an AFC Wimbledon game, calling the Tate Modern's 20th and 21st century art boring. (playful) — 00:02:26
  • 2024-09-27 · Is It 2010? IT'S A PARTS VIDEO — John says AFC Wimbledon's stadium was heavily flooded by unprecedented River Wandle flooding, and the fan-owned club has no secret stash of money for such crises. — 00:01:36
  • 2024-09-27 · Is It 2010? IT'S A PARTS VIDEO — John says the whole football world came together to raise over £100,000 to support Wimbledon as it rebuilds. — 00:01:56
  • 2024-11-12 · BELIEVE: The Jimmy Glass Story — John: Carlisle United survived and are still in the Football League this year (2024); they played AFC Wimbledon a couple of weeks ago. — 00:03:40

2025

  • 2025-01-14 · So I Bought My Team a Pro Football Player — John says he is in a deep, loving relationship with fourth-tier AFC Wimbledon and, for the last 12 years, has held the back-of-shorts sponsorship on the club's kit. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2025-01-14 · So I Bought My Team a Pro Football Player — John explains AFC Wimbledon is fan-owned: each of its many thousands of owners gets the same one vote in the club's leadership. — 00:00:29
  • 2025-01-14 · So I Bought My Team a Pro Football Player — John says Wimbledon cannot spend more than it makes, having no rich owner, and is one of the only English football teams that does not lose money. — 00:00:29
  • 2025-01-14 · So I Bought My Team a Pro Football Player — John says that despite one of the league's highest attendances and a wonderful stadium, Wimbledon struggles; over a recent five-year period no professional English team lost more games, though that period is over. — 00:00:58
  • 2025-01-14 · So I Bought My Team a Pro Football Player — John explains the streams' idea: he and Stan put all Super Chat and membership money toward AFC Wimbledon's playing fund. — 00:01:27
  • 2025-01-14 · So I Bought My Team a Pro Football Player — announcement: John announces that the stream money, which at first seemed ludicrous for a whole player, plus matching funds from Sarah and him, has paid for an entire AFC Wimbledon player for the rest of the season. — 00:01:56
  • 2025-01-14 · So I Bought My Team a Pro Football Player — John says Marcus spent the last few months out of professional football waiting for an opportunity, and he is proud Wimbledon can give him one. — 00:02:26
  • 2025-01-14 · So I Bought My Team a Pro Football Player — John met Marcus on Zoom the day before and told him the money from his AFC Wimbledon FIFA streams on YouTube had gone to his signing. — 00:02:26
  • 2025-01-14 · So I Bought My Team a Pro Football Player — John, admitting he has never seen him play, truly believes Marcus Browne will help AFC Wimbledon get promoted this season. — 00:03:24
  • 2025-01-14 · So I Bought My Team a Pro Football Player — John thanks everyone at AFC Wimbledon, especially director of football Craig Cope, who did not bat an eye at a YouTuber's very weird idea. — 00:03:24
  • 2025-01-14 · So I Bought My Team a Pro Football Player — John says Wimbledon are fifth in League Two, a playoff place if the season ended today. — 00:03:53
  • 2025-01-14 · So I Bought My Team a Pro Football Player — John says that for the first time in years most of Wimbledon's good players are not being poached, and with Marcus Browne the team is getting stronger midway through the season. — 00:03:53
  • 2025-01-14 · So I Bought My Team a Pro Football Player — John toasts Marcus, Wimbledon and ridiculous, sublime, unconquerable hope, which, as Wimbledon's advertising hoardings used to say, is the thing with feathers. — 00:04:23
  • 2025-04-22 · The Unimportant Things — John says AFC Wimbledon are fifth, in a playoff position near the end of the season, with the chance of becoming a third-tier English team. — 00:01:56
  • 2025-04-22 · The Unimportant Things — announcement: John announces that a documentary about AFC Wimbledon, made over the last couple of years by him and Rosianna with longtime nerdfighter Jonathan Vogler, who helped make The Last Dance, premiered on YouTube last week (April 2025). — 00:01:56
  • 2025-04-22 · The Unimportant Things — John says YouTube feels right for the series: AFC Wimbledon is fan-owned, and YouTube is the most democratic streaming service, open to anyone with an internet connection. — 00:02:26
  • 2025-04-22 · The Unimportant Things — John got to give the team a short talk, telling the players he was excited to see them play a massive game in person and very grateful to be with them. — 00:02:55
  • 2025-04-22 · The Unimportant Things — John says AFC Wimbledon have been quite good this season and striker Matty Stevens is one of the best in the league. — 00:03:23
  • 2025-04-22 · The Unimportant Things — John says new central attacking midfielder Marcus Browne, signed with money from John's FIFA stream, makes the team look dangerous. — 00:03:23
  • 2025-04-22 · The Unimportant Things — John says football and the documentary remind him that hope is correct: not always rewarded, with as much heartbreak as joy, but correct because things might get better, especially when we orient our love together. — 00:03:23
  • 2025-05-20 · The Double — announcement: John announces that this weekend he will attempt, for 'the second time in human history', the endurance feat known locally as the double. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2025-05-20 · The Double — John loves fan-owned fourth-tier AFC Wimbledon even more than the Indy 500; the club wears DFTBA on the back of its shorts, between left thigh and buttock. (playful) — 00:01:27
  • 2025-05-20 · The Double — announcement: John reports that after a very good season AFC Wimbledon reached the play-offs and won two games to reach a Wembley final deciding promotion to the third tier. — 00:01:56
  • 2025-05-20 · The Double — announcement: John notes the Indy 500 is this Sunday (25 May 2025) and Wimbledon's play-off final at Wembley the very next day, so it is time for the double. — 00:01:56
  • 2025-05-20 · The Double — John lays out the plan: he and Stuart wake around 5 a.m., bike to the Indy 500, bike to the airport, fly to London and take the train to Wembley for the final. — 00:02:26
  • 2025-05-20 · The Double — John says the double will last nearly two straight days, especially if Wimbledon win, since the party will go on all night. (hedged) — 00:02:26
  • 2025-05-20 · The Double — John recalls that he and Stuart completed the double before, a day so magical he made a Vlogbrothers video about it and his suit lining depicts that day at Wembley. — 00:02:55
  • 2025-05-20 · The Double — John says it has been nine years since the first double, and so nine years since AFC Wimbledon last played at Wembley. — 00:03:24
  • 2025-05-20 · The Double — John thanks everyone in his FIFA livestreams on John's Channel: without them AFC Wimbledon could not have signed Marcus Browne. — 00:04:22
  • 2025-05-20 · The Double — John says that without Marcus Browne he is genuinely not sure Wimbledon would be in the play-off final. (hedged) — 00:04:22
  • 2025-05-20 · The Double — ask: John urges viewers in London this weekend to watch Wimbledon try to go from the world's greatest fourth-tier team to the greatest third-tier team. — 00:04:22
  • 2025-05-27 (said on 2025-05-25, implied) · The Longest (and best) Day — John tells Hank it is 6:15 on Sunday and invites him along on the longest day of his life. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2025-05-27 (said on 2025-05-25, implied) · The Longest (and best) Day — The description says John completes the Double. — video description
  • 2025-05-27 (said on 2025-05-25, implied) · The Longest (and best) Day — announcement: The description says AFC Wimbledon make magic at Wembley once again. — video description
  • 2025-05-27 (said on 2025-05-25, implied) · The Longest (and best) Day — ask: The description invites viewers who want to own part of the fan-owned club to join the Dons Trust. — video description
  • 2025-05-27 (said on 2025-05-25, implied) · The Longest (and best) Day — John says they only made it to lap 165 before he and Stuart left, biking to the airport, which he calls bonkers. — 00:00:29
  • 2025-05-27 (said on 2025-05-25, implied) · The Longest (and best) Day — John wears the exact outfit he wore nine years ago when Wimbledon last made it to Wembley, taken from a mothballed closet, while insisting he is not superstitious. — 00:01:10
  • 2025-05-27 (said on 2025-05-25, implied) · The Longest (and best) Day — John greets the Nerdfighter Dons and heads to Wembley. — 00:01:39
  • 2025-05-30 · My Rare 'Disorder' — Hank thanks John for inviting him into his beautiful, risky and terrifying love of AFC Wimbledon and can't believe it turned out so well after he thought they had blown it. — 00:07:38
  • 2025-07-15 · LLAMAS Are NOT What You Think — John tells new viewers about the podcast Dear Hank and John, which brings the week's news from Mars and AFC Wimbledon while answering questions. — 00:00:29
  • 2025-09-30 · WHO ARE WE AND WHAT ARE WE DOING — Hank adds things they are no longer associated with, like VidCon, plus the work of Emily Graslie and Chelsea Fagan, a hard-to-run crowdfunding platform acquired by Patreon, and a third-tier English soccer team. — 00:03:40
  • 2025-09-30 · WHO ARE WE AND WHAT ARE WE DOING — Hank says without the community there would be no Crash Course, no hospital in Sierra Leone, and no AFC Wimbledon doing surprisingly well this season. (playful) — 00:05:00
  • 2025-11-24 · Good Store Holiday Gift Guide LIVE with Hank and John — John says his heart wants money to go to AFC Wimbledon but his head is stronger: it should go to Partners In Health, since Wimbledon, a third-tier English team, does some good but not that much. — 00:40:05
  • 2025-12-09 · Hank Green, from A to Z — John says Dear Hank and John, a weekly podcast, has dispensed advice plus the news from Mars and AFC Wimbledon for over 10 years. — 00:00:58

2026

  • 2026-01-06 · Hope Is Not a Feeling — John notes Vlogbrothers turned 19 last week (week of 29 December 2025), making the project older than the iPhone or a future AFC Wimbledon superstar (name unclear). (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John recalls that Sarah found out on a livestream that he had sponsored a stand at Kingsmeadow, AFC Wimbledon's old stadium. — 07:01:28
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John loves Liverpool, but AFC Wimbledon a little more, because he is more literally invested in AFC Wimbledon. — 07:22:25
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — John reports that AFC Wimbledon are 2-0 down at Barnsley after 13 minutes. — 00:24:35
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — John says AFC Wimbledon are about six points clear of relegation and probably need to win four or five of their last 18 games to stay up. (hedged) — 00:32:20
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — John says that when AFC Wimbledon are losing and playing poorly their fans sometimes sing 'we lose every week, you're nothing special', which he calls a great chant. — 00:35:00
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — John: As AFC Wimbledon draw level, John says life is full of surprises and hope is always the correct response to consciousness: not always rewarded, but always justified. — 00:37:55
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — John says AFC Wimbledon have come back from 2-0 down to 2-2 with a goal from Omar Bugiel, whom he calls a Lebanese superhero. — 00:37:55
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — John notes that Barnsley's goalkeeper is Owen Goodman, AFC Wimbledon's goalkeeper last season, whom he loved. — 01:05:27
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — John: After Marcus Browne scores to put AFC Wimbledon 3-2 up from 2-0 down, John says he doesn't think they have come from two goals down to win since seven or eight years ago. (hedged) — 01:43:08
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — John reports that AFC Wimbledon's game at Barnsley has ended in a 3-3 draw, a pretty good result, though a win would have been better. — 02:02:02
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — John: After the 3-3 draw at Barnsley, John says AFC Wimbledon probably only need four more wins to stay up. (hedged) — 02:05:27
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — John tells Hank that AFC Wimbledon drew thanks to two goals from Omar Bugiel and one from Marcus Browne, and should have won but gave up a bad late goal. — 02:17:52
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — announcement: John, who must go to New York on Friday (20 February 2026) on Complexly business, floats flying on to London to see an AFC Wimbledon game with Nerdfighters as a perk. — 00:26:17
  • 2026-03-17 · Tuberculosis and Hank's Shingles — John says his livestreams on John's Channel have raised money for AFC Wimbledon's playing fund for a couple of years, helping pay for three players, including current top scorer Marcus Browne. — 00:02:55
  • 2026-03-17 · Tuberculosis and Hank's Shingles — John says AFC Wimbledon is a third-tier English soccer team having a surprisingly great year so far. — 00:03:24
  • 2026-03-17 · Tuberculosis and Hank's Shingles — John says Wimbledon wear DFTBA on the back of their shorts between left thigh and buttocks, because when you are in love you do strange things, and he loves AFC Wimbledon. (playful) — 00:03:24
  • 2026-06-09 · Your 1-Sentence Guide to EVERY TEAM in the 2026 World Cup — John: Iraq made their first World Cup since 1986, helped by a critical qualifying goal from former AFC Wimbledon star Ali Al-Hamadi. — 00:00:58
  • 2026-06-09 · Your 1-Sentence Guide to EVERY TEAM in the 2026 World Cup — John: If Al-Hamadi scores at the tournament, John says it will be the greatest World Cup moment in AFC Wimbledon history. (playful) — 00:00:58
  • 2026-10-06 · Make Your Art. — John says Mikey T had an encyclopedic memory for his special interests: say a date like October 6th and he would recall a 1990 Wimbledon win over Sheffield United and its scorer. — 00:00:00
  • 2026-10-06 · Make Your Art. — recommendation: In a channel comment John links AFC Wimbledon's tribute to Mikey T. — creator comment
  • 2026-10-06 · Make Your Art. — John and Mikey T supported the same third-tier English team, AFC Wimbledon, and came to know each other a little by loving it together. — 00:00:29
  • 2026-10-06 · Make Your Art. — John says that for nearly 40 years Mikey T never missed a Wimbledon match, attending over 2,000 consecutive senior men's games, including one 10 days ago. — 00:00:58
  • 2026-10-06 · Make Your Art. — John says Mikey T and his partner Rob Cornell made gripping radio, and plays Mikey's call of Ronan Curtis's last-second goal against the Milton Keynes franchise. — 00:01:27
  • 2026-10-06 · Make Your Art. — John assures Hank the ball boy was fine: John saw him a few weeks ago and he said it was the best moment of his life. (playful) — 00:02:11
  • 2026-10-06 · Make Your Art. — John does not know how many people listen to AFC Wimbledon radio broadcasts but suspects it is in the hundreds, certainly not millions. (hedged) — 00:02:11
  • 2026-10-06 · Make Your Art. — John says Mikey T saw Wimbledon play Manchester United in the Premier League and also play in the ninth tier while sitting on hay bales. — 00:03:41