Canada

country · in 83 videos (2007–2026)

It is regularly included in the brothers' reach: signed first printings and pre-orders of John's books, and Awesome Coffee Club subscribers in the US and Canada. In the latest statements Hank notes Trump's new tariffs on Canada.

Videos by year: 2007: 3 · 2008: 3 · 2009: 5 · 2010: 3 · 2011: 7 · 2012: 6 · 2013: 6 · 2014: 3 · 2015: 4 · 2016: 3 · 2017: 7 · 2018: 9 · 2019: 5 · 2020: 2 · 2021: 5 · 2022: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2024: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2026: 5

Threads

• The Evil Baby Orphanage (2007) — running joke (last seen 2017), 2007–2017
• Tour de Nerdfighting 2008 edition — project history, completed, 2008–2026
• John asks Nerdfighters for punishment ideas in case Hank misses his VidCon-week Friday video (2012) — ask, reported back, 2012
• John is denied entry to Canada for insufficient funds (1995) and has been flagged at every entry since 2001 — story, told 3×, 2012–2018
• John: copies of The Anthropocene Reviewed book ordered outside the US and Canada will probably not be signed (2020) — prediction, unresolved, 2020–2021
• John asks viewers in the US and Canada to pre-order signed copies of Hollywood, Ending (2026) — ask, promotion (not a request), 2026

Also named in the threads: Hank: living with ulcerative colitis (2007) · Tour de Hank: Hank's tour of shows and Nerdfighter gatherings (2009) · John: sign every copy of The Fault in Our Stars (2011) · Paper Towns film: production and release (2014) · John asks viewers to pre-order signed copies of Turtles All the Way Down (2017) · John: sign at least 200,000 copies of Turtles All the Way Down (2017) · An Absolutely Remarkable Thing: announcement and publication of Hank's first novel (2017) · The Anthropocene Reviewed: John's podcast reviewing facets of the human-centered planet (2017) · John: sign about 150,000 sheets so every US and Canadian pre-order and first-printing copy of The Anthropocene Reviewed book is autographed (2020) · John asks viewers to call their members of Congress to fund PEPFAR and the Global Fund (2025) · Hollywood, Ending: announcement and publication of John's novel (2026) · Hollywood, Ending book tour (2026)

Often together

What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

United States (50) · Australia (13) · United Kingdom (12) · Europe (8) · sensationalism (3) · Amazon (4) · Turtles All the Way Down (6) · China (4) · Keats & Co. (2) · Sarah Urist Green (9)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2007

• 2007-05-16 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 16: Beating the EBO into the ground — John adds a story idea: evil babies grow into teenage 'evil baby junior counselors', and a 14- or 15-year-old at a mountaintop school in Canada discovers they are an evil baby from the past. (playful, hedged) — 00:01:39
• …and 2 statements more in 2007 — all statements of 2007

2008

• 2008-05-30 · The Dread Pirate Fireball Roberts! (And Housekeeping) — announcement: John announces the 2008 Tour de Nerdfighting across America and hopefully a few places in Canada, telling Nerdfighters to mark their calendars for November. (hedged) — 00:00:48
• 2008-10-11 (said on 2008-10-10, implied) · Question Friday — announcement: John: Asked, John says Paper Towns will be out in Canada at the same time as in the United States. — 00:00:29
• …and 1 statement more in 2008 — all statements of 2008

2009

• 2009-03-18 · Lighting Candles for Rwanda — Hank says two days ago he spoke by phone with a woman from Rwanda whose entire family died in those 100 days; she had recently gone to Canada for school and followed events daily. — 00:00:00
• 2009-05-20 · Ulcerative Colitis: A Song — Hank: In Hank's song the doctor says insurers shun sick people, the pills will cost an arm and a leg, and prices here are as high as the market can bear. (playful) — 00:01:04
• 2009-11-07 · The TOUR DE HANK!!! — announcement: Hank: In a song Hank apologises to Canada: the tour is not going there because the forms and taxes make it hard; Vancouver was close but did not happen. (playful) — 00:02:58
• 2009-12-02 (said on 2009-12-03, implied) · This Machine Pwns n00bs: A Song — Hank shows gifts from the tour's final part: a 3D-printed ten-sided die, Kinder Eggs from Canada (after he complained they're unavailable in America), a duct-tape wallet, a bass-amp maker's shirt, a DFTBA headband. — 00:02:44
• 2009-12-23 · Amazing Christmas Facts With John and Hank — both: In Canada, Santa's postal code is H0H0H0: Canadian postal codes alternate letter and number, so it reads HO HO HO in leetspeak. — 00:02:50

2010

• 2010-03-12 · Peeing, Pooping, Prescription Drugs, and Ramen Noodle Fires — Hank says hockey is proportionally a much bigger deal in Canada than the Super Bowl in America: around 80% of Canadians watched the final Olympic hockey game. — 00:01:57
  • Hank says Air Canada delayed a flight because passengers refused to board during the game, and shows a graph of Edmonton's water use during the final (people holding their pee). (playful) — 00:01:57
• 2010-08-22 · Is Obama a Muslim? Examine the Evidence! — John notes Obama repeatedly says he is a Christian but also repeatedly said he'd allow importing prescription drugs from Canada, which hasn't happened, so they won't take his word. (playful) — 00:00:08
• 2010-11-01 · Consider the Lemming — John says White Wilderness's makers, finding no footage of lemming suicide, shipped lemmings across Canada and forced them to commit suicide. — 00:01:18

2011

• 2011-01-26 · I OWN WARNER CHILCOTT! — John: Asacol is much less expensive in Canada, where Warner Chilcott negotiates with the entire population rather than with individuals, John says. — 00:02:42
• 2011-06-01 · The Evil Baby Orphanage Returns...for George Washington? — John: Assuming, dubiously, that without Washington the war is lost or not fought, John says the US probably takes at least 70 more years to gain independence, following a 'Canada model' to representative democracy. (hypothetical, hedged) — 00:00:59
• 2011-07-08 · Kill the Dollar Bill! — John: No new coins need minting, since a billion $1 coins already exist; just remove the bills. People might be slightly inconvenienced for a while, but Canada and Europe got used to it. — 00:01:56
• 2011-07-27 · 150,000 Autographs — announcement: John announces that all pre-orders of The Fault in Our Stars, wherever buyers live (the US, the UK, Canada, Malaysia), will be signed, and promises to get it done. — 00:02:45
• 2011-08-26 · Will He Kiss You? Am I a Muggle? It's Question Friday. — announcement: John says all pre-orders of The Fault in Our Stars will be signed, wherever ordered (Amazon UK, England, Canada); the whole first printing is being signed, but only pre-orders are guaranteed. — 00:00:56
• 2011-09-23 · The Improbability of Place - Thoughts from the San Juans — Hank lists the contingencies behind the San Juan Islands: a volcano, glaciers, mineral deposits, rising water, diplomatic squabbles splitting Canada and America, salmon runs drawing resident orcas, and a fishing village turned tourist destination. — 00:01:29

Also named in: Puppies and The Tour de Nerdfighting 2012

2012

• 2012-04-03 · Idiotic Governance: How Our Political Discourse Hurts Our Economy — John says Canada recently decided to discontinue its penny because it doesn't facilitate commerce and costs 1.5 Canadian cents to make. — 00:00:03
• 2012-06-05 · The Dangling Rope of Terror: It's Question Tuesday — John would accept the US becoming more like Canada if that means longer, healthier lives, more employment and less sexual violence, but not putting a queen on the money. (playful, hedged) — 00:01:14
• 2012-06-26 · Insufficient Funds: A Story of Canada — John is in a hotel in Canada at a conference about educational video featuring CGP Grey, Vsauce, MinutePhysics, Vi Hart and many other fascinating people. — 00:00:06
  • John says every time he flies into Canada he is sent to a special immigration office and asked whether he has ever been denied entry before. — 00:00:24
  • John recounts that in 1995, as a college freshman, he and a friend drove to Windsor, Ontario with Mountain Dew, bread, peanut butter and $14 and were denied entry for insufficient funds. — 00:00:41
  • John says Canadian officers searched their car for drugs and turned them around, then US officers searched it again for three hours though they never got into Canada. — 00:01:12
  • John says he had no trouble entering Canada until 2001, when his name appeared on a list of undesirables; now he must explain the 1995 refusal each time and his bags are searched. — 00:01:28
  • John says that today he asked the officer whether he could ever clear his name, and was told he would die on the list. (playful) — 00:01:53
• 2012-06-29 (said on 2012-06-30, implied) · Online Video about Online Video — Hank calls one suggestion, driving to Canada with only Mountain Dew, bread, peanut butter and $14, very good; it might be funny enough to do anyway, but he doesn't want to be blacklisted. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:22
• 2012-10-26 · Apples! CGP Grey Style — Hank says every McIntosh apple descends from one tree Scotsman John McIntosh found on a farm in Canada in 1796. — 00:03:10
• …and 1 statement more in 2012 — all statements of 2012

Also named in: THE PROJECT FOR AWESOME 2012 IS HERE! Save the Children.

2013

• 2013-02-12 · Talking to the President — John's penny question: Canada got rid of its one-cent coin and nothing bad happened, so how do we still live in a world with pennies? (playful) — 00:01:39
• 2013-08-20 · Why Are American Health Care Costs So High? — John says that, although free health care elsewhere is said to be paid for by higher taxes, the US spends more tax money per capita on health care than Germany, Australia, the UK or Canada. — 00:00:08
• 2013-09-24 · Started from the Bottom: Benjamin Franklin and Drake Compared — John says Drake is Canadian, which he calls arguably the best place in the world to be born today. (hedged) — 00:02:26

Also named in: The Clif Bars Go in the Jar Because Mice: An Office Tour, Thoughts from Places: Dog Days of Summer, Plane Butts, Fish Farts, LeakyCon, and Marriage Equality

2014

• 2014-03-18 · Is the American Dream Real? — John says that by almost any measure, being born rich or poor predicts ending up rich or poor more in the US than in Canada, Europe or any developed country. — 00:01:19
  • John says Canada's pay gap is worse than the US's, while women make 83 cents per men's dollar in Australia, 84 in the UK, 85 in Sweden and 97.5 in Slovenia. — 00:02:00
• 2014-09-09 · Going to College (in Ethiopia) — John says most Canadians live closer to Venezuela than Liberians live to Botswana. — 00:00:20
• …and 1 statement more in 2014 — all statements of 2014

2015

• 2015-03-24 · Is Obamacare Working? The Affordable Care Act Five Years Later — John says the US spent more than 17% of GDP on health care, while Canada, France, Australia and the Netherlands spend under 10% with similar or better outcomes. — 00:01:38
• 2015-07-21 · PAPER TOWNS IS HERE AND JOHN IS A BALL OF ANXIETY — announcement: John says the movie comes out Friday, July 24th, with a special screening on Thursday at many theaters around the US and Canada. — 00:00:47
• 2015-08-11 (said on 2015-08-10, implied) · 454 Days: Understanding America's Ridiculous Political Campaigns — John says Canada's 2015 campaign period is 78 days, among the longest in Canadian history and, not coincidentally, the most expensive; he wishes for 78 days. — 00:00:45
• 2015-09-08 · Understanding the Refugee Crisis in Europe, Syria, and around the World — John: Canada is accepting 30% fewer refugees than a decade ago. — 00:05:55
  • The powerful are at fault when the oppressed and marginalized die for it; Aylan Kurdi would be alive had the EU, Canada, Australia, the US or Brazil welcomed his family. — 00:07:02

2016

• 2016-08-12 · AMERICA, DAMMIT! - Thoughts from Glacier National Park — Hank says he's not much of a nationalist; he likes that the park's ecosystem stretches across the border into Canada's Waterton Lakes National Park. — 00:01:52
• 2016-08-16 · Some Good News: 16 Ways 2016 Is Not a Total Dumpster Fire — John notes that the rise in bookstore sales is also true in Canada. — video description
• 2016-10-18 · Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Health Care Reform Proposals — John says US health costs were so high that more tax dollars per capita went to health care than in Germany, Japan, the UK or Canada, all of which had universal publicly funded care. — 00:01:03

2017

• 2017-01-31 · Understanding Trump's Executive Order on Immigration — John: It is unclear whether the order applies to dual citizens, such as a Canadian citizen born in Somalia like Canada's immigration minister. — 00:01:44
  • With many law professors, John calls that clause kind of ludicrous: a Canadian who prefers parliamentary government could seemingly be barred from Disney World. (playful, hedged) — 00:05:40
• 2017-02-07 (said on 2017-02-02, implied) · Good News, YA Books, and Bears: It's Question Tuesday — announcement: The description gives the release date of Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give: February 28th in the US and Canada. — video description
• 2017-05-09 · Your Neighborhood, Your Life Expectancy — John cites a study of life expectancy variation within countries over time: in most rich nations, such as Canada, Germany and Australia, it has declined since 1980 while rising steadily in the US, and the highest-income Americans live very slightly longer than high-income Canadians. — video description
  • John says Canada's significant decline in the gap is a main reason its overall life expectancy beats the US, though the richest 20% of Americans outlive the richest 20% of Canadians. — 00:02:40
• 2017-06-27 · UNBOXING — announcement: John: The signed copies are only for the US and Canada. — 00:01:18
  • John tells viewers in the US or Canada they can pre-order a signed copy at their local bookstore or via the links in the description. — 00:03:27
• 2017-07-11 · Signing 200,000 Autographs — ask: The description says signed copies of Turtles All the Way Down can probably, not definitely, be pre-ordered in the US and Canada at the listed links. (hedged) — video description
• 2017-08-01 · Death and How to Avoid It (...for a while) — ask: John says Amazon will soon run out of its signed Turtles All the Way Down copies, though bookstores across the US and Canada will have many, with updates at probablysignedturtles.com; Amazon buyers should buy now. (hedged) — 00:03:28
• 2017-10-10 · Turtles All the Way Down!!! A Reunion Video — John signed over 200,000 copies of the US edition, so autographed copies should be easy to find, except outside the US and Canada, for which he apologises. (hedged) — 00:00:51
• …and 1 statement more in 2017 — all statements of 2017

2018

• 2018-01-26 · I Wrote a Book. I WROTE A BOOK. How did I do that? — announcement: Hank: The book comes out at the same time in Canada, the US and the UK, he thinks also Australia; translations may have other dates. (hedged) — 00:03:26
• 2018-03-02 · The Best (Recent) Book Covers Including MINE! — announcement: Hank: All the English-language publishers like the cover, so it will be the same in the UK, Canada and Australia. — 00:03:51
• 2018-03-13 · Who Should We Root For? — John: Italy, the Netherlands, Chile, Canada, China, New Zealand and many other countries also failed to qualify. — 00:01:17
• 2018-04-06 · How to Stop Being Late Forever (advice for myself and other chronically late people) — announcement: Hank: Signed editions of An Absolutely Remarkable Thing will exist in limited number (not all pre-orders signed): now at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million, at local bookstores on release, US and Canada only. — 00:03:26
• 2018-04-17 · John Green Answers Your John Green Questions — John is not banned from Canada, but gets extra screening on entry because he is on a list of potential undesirables after being denied entrance in 1995 for insufficient funds. — 00:01:36
• 2018-05-15 · Seven Maps to Better Understand the World — John: A map dividing humanity into tenths shows that Canada, the US, Mexico, most of the Caribbean, Chile, Peru and more make up only one tenth of the world's population. — 00:00:29
• 2018-08-14 · Question Tuesday: Secrets & Primes — John says pineapple on pizza was invented in 1962 by a Greek immigrant in Canada, inspired by Chinese cuisine to put a South American food on an Italian dish. — 00:02:15
• 2018-09-11 · Surprise . . . — announcement: John: The book sponsors the Firebirds FIRST Robotics team in Pennsylvania, the Docbotics team in Canada (robot named Carl), FIRST teams in Fort Wayne and Carmel, Indiana, and FRC Rapid Acceleration in Rapid City, South Dakota. — 00:00:58

Also named in: Sports are Dumb

2019

• 2019-03-08 · Does "The Press" Hate YouTube? — Hank says Montana makes national news only when a state senator wanted to legalize drunk driving or someone wanted to sell the state to Canada. (playful) — 00:01:11
• 2019-09-03 · Death, Love, and John's Religion: The Big Questions Take Over Question Tuesday — John notes the US presidential election is over 450 days away, while Canada's last election cycle lasted 78 days and Canada seems fine; learning positions doesn't take 450 days. — 00:02:26
• 2019-10-01 · Why Are Poor Countries Poor? — John: Most Sierra Leoneans descend from long-time West Africans, but many former slaves in the British Empire were resettled there, so some trace descent to Canada, England or Nigeria. — 00:00:29
• 2019-10-08 · Looking for Alaska (...with Alaska) — announcement: John: The series also comes out on BBC3 in the UK and in Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and many other places; more info in the doobly-doo. — 00:00:29
• 2019-10-30 · this is a video about pineapples. — John: Summarizing his Anthropocene Reviewed episode, John says pineapple pizza was invented in 1962 in Canada by a Greek immigrant inspired by Chinese cuisine to put a South American food on an Italian dish. — 00:00:29

2020

• 2020-09-01 · get the show on — announcement: John: As he did with The Fault in Our Stars, John says he will sign the entire first printing of the American and Canadian edition. — 00:01:27
  • John says copies ordered from outside the US or Canada, even the American English edition, will probably not be signed, because international printing and shipping systems don't allow it. (hedged) — 00:01:56
  • John says anyone in the US or Canada who pre-orders the book will get a signed copy. — 00:01:56
• 2020-12-31 · Auld Lang Syne: The Anthropocene Reviewed — John: At least 17 million people died as a direct result of the war, more than half the current population of Canada. — 00:16:54 · also in: We're here because were here., John's Review of Auld Lang Syne

2021

• 2021-03-16 · How a Book Cover Gets Designed — announcement: The description notes that only the US and Canada editions will be signed. — video description
• 2021-03-30 · I did it! — announcement: The description points readers in the US or Canada to pre-order a signed copy of The Anthropocene Reviewed book. — video description
• 2021-04-20 · Breaking Ground!!! — announcement: John: Every pre-order of the US and Canadian hardcover will be signed, and some signed copies will be available at UK bookstores. — 00:02:15
• 2021-08-13 · How We Fix the Climate — Hank: The approaches can be combined, and exist widely: China, Canada and the EU have cap and trade; Japan, Turkey, Thailand, Indonesia and much of Europe have carbon taxes; nearly everywhere has some regulation. — 00:14:19
• 2021-11-12 · Everything a Normal Person Needs to Know About Helium — Hank says helium drilling found a reserve in Tanzania big enough to fill 1.5 million MRI machines, with more resources found in Canada and Australia. — 00:02:55

2022

• 2022-04-05 · Celebrities I've Met and Whether I'd Vote for Them??? — John would vote for Ryan Reynolds and, though Reynolds was born in Canada, would amend the Constitution for him. (playful) — 00:02:55

2023

• 2023-01-13 · Why is There an Egg Shortage (And More) — Hank explains that in the US, Canada and elsewhere flags fly halfway up in mourning, for national tragedies or deaths of officials and public servants, varying by state. — 00:02:00
• 2023-01-24 · Behind the Scenes of my TUMBLR MEME LORD ERA — John says the Awesome Coffee Club supplies coffee, now including decaf, to over 10,000 subscribers in the US and Canada and donates 100% of its profits to charity. — 00:02:58

2024

• 2024-11-13 · Some New Things… — announcement: Hank says Good Store's tea and coffee only ship to the US, Canada and Europe; they might start shipping tea overseas, since tea keeps its quality far longer than coffee. (hedged) — 00:14:21
• …and 1 statement more in 2024 — all statements of 2024

2025

• 2025-04-11 (said on 2025-04-10, implied) · How Actually Crazy is This Mess? — Hank says Trump tore up the USMCA, which replaced NAFTA and was signed in his own first term, to put new tariffs on Canada and Mexico. — 00:07:02
• 2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — John says advocacy has shown it can make a difference, in initial drafts of the US aid budget for 2026 and in Canada's pledge to the Global Fund. — 00:55:08

2026

• 2026-02-10 · I Was a Teenage Dirtbag — John says the 2026 World Cup, co-hosted by Canada, the US and Mexico, was supposed to celebrate North American cooperation but now appears it will be something else. (hedged) — 00:03:20
• 2026-03-31 · I've Been Keeping a Secret… — ask: John asks viewers to pre-order the signed edition at hollywoodendingbook.com soon; signed copies are available in the US and Canada. — 00:03:24
• 2026-06-09 · Your 1-Sentence Guide to EVERY TEAM in the 2026 World Cup — John: Canada's team is annoyingly good: they already have universal health care, so also being better than the US at soccer feels punitive. (playful) — 00:03:24
• 2026-07-14 · On the Road Again — John hasn't visited Canada in almost 15 years, at least professionally, and is very excited to. — 00:02:09
  • John apologizes for not touring more places, especially outside the US and Canada: balancing family and work, he tries to err on the side of family. — 00:03:37
• 2026-10-07 · The 5 Meanest Things We've Named a Species — Hank says Canada seems to translate Latin names into English for its database of common names, which makes that the spider's official common name. (hedged) — 00:01:27