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All statements about Craig Benzine

117 statements about Craig Benzine in 64 videos, by upload date.

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2009

  • 2009-03-10 · How to Get Girls to Like You — recommendation: John names Ransriggs and Wheezy Waiter as recent favourite new YouTubers, linked in the sidebar. — 00:02:51
  • 2009-09-28 · Paper Towns Winners and Ningmasters — ask: John urges Nerdfighters in or around the Bay Area to attend an October 10 gathering raising money for Shawn Ahmed's Uncultured Project, where Wheezy Waiter's Driftless Pony Club will play. — 00:01:11
  • 2009-12-09 (said on 2009-12-10, implied) · ANNOUNCING! VidCon: Online Video IRL — announcement: Hank lists who will attend: Nerdfighteria creators from CharlieIsSoCoolLike to WheezyWaiter and online video stars including Michael Buckley, Dave Days, Shay Carl, Natalie Tran and Shane Dawson. — 00:01:29
  • 2009-12-20 · Awesome Project Is Awesome — John credits WheezyWaiter with inventing the "dooblydoo", like so much else that is good and beautiful. (playful) — video description

2010

Also named in: Lust and Folly in London and Edinburgh

2011

  • 2011-02-07 · Cancer Sniffing Dog — announcement: Hank announces that he, John, WheezyWaiter, Alex Day and Elmify are creating a linked VYou space, which he calls like Question Tuesdays except forever and always. — 00:03:09
  • 2011-02-07 · Cancer Sniffing Dog — ask: Hank invites viewers to ask questions on VYou, which the five will answer in video, and says signing up instead of asking anonymously makes him much more likely to answer. — 00:03:22

2012

2013

  • 2013-02-15 · Baby, Harlem, Obama, Dance Crazes, Big Week — Hank: Wheezy Waiter and Shay Carl got to make a video with Matt Damon, whom Hank playfully calls his idol. (playful) — 00:02:22
  • 2013-02-19 · Doing Things, On the Importance of — John: DFTBA Records has taken over an abandoned nursery school in Missoula and is bigger than ever; it aims to sell cool stuff that supports people you like, from CGP Grey and Wheezy Waiter merch to a poster partly designed by a 16-year-old Norwegian girl. — 00:01:39
  • 2013-03-20 · Ads Work...but for Whom? — John wants a way to thank creators such as Ze Frank, Wheezy Waiter and Hannah Hart for making him "lean forward", and does not think advertising alone can do that. (hedged) — 00:03:38
  • 2013-04-02 · TFiOS Movie Casting, New Books, and Groundhog Wars: An Old School Vlogbrothers Video — announcement: John says he will take a four- or possibly five-week paternity leave from Vlogbrothers and everything else, except probably Tumblr. (hedged) — 00:02:26
  • 2013-04-02 · TFiOS Movie Casting, New Books, and Groundhog Wars: An Old School Vlogbrothers Video — announcement: John says guest Johns will fill in during his absence, including Hannah Hart, Grace Helbig and a Nerdfighter now watching. — 00:02:26
  • 2013-05-07 · The Clif Bars Go in the Jar Because Mice: An Office Tour — announcement: John says he will soon be on paternity leave, but the things made in the office will continue to be made while he is away. — 00:02:51
  • 2013-05-28 · NERD FACTOR! (...And Why I Fear for Tumblr) — ask: John asks Hank to fix this problem during his paternity leave. (playful) — 00:01:09
  • 2013-05-28 · NERD FACTOR! (...And Why I Fear for Tumblr) — announcement: John names Nerd Factor winners MagicTurtle643 and Nerdy and Quirky, who will stand in for him on Tuesdays during his paternity leave. — 00:01:27
  • 2013-05-31 · Optimism is Not Insane — Hank pre-congratulates John on his baby, due any day, and jokes that John will be relaxing on paternity leave while Hank fixes all the world's problems. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2013-06-04 · A New Nerdfighter Baby — John says that when Henry was born he took only a couple of weeks off and made his first work trip when Henry was nine days old; this time he will take much more time away. — 00:00:33
  • 2013-06-04 · A New Nerdfighter Baby — John will step away not only from vlogbrothers but also from writing and travelling, and (jokingly) from his careers as amateur historian, trivia buff and semi-professional FIFA player. (playful) — 00:00:41
  • 2013-06-04 · A New Nerdfighter Baby — announcement: John: During the leave there will be a Crash Course US History video every Thursday, a mental floss video every Wednesday, and Swindon Town Swoodilypoopers FIFA games every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. — 00:00:55
  • 2013-06-04 · A New Nerdfighter Baby — announcement: John: Every Tuesday there will still be a 'John video' on vlogbrothers, with John played by others: Hannah Hart, Grace Helbig, Craig (WheezyWaiter), Maureen Johnson and two Nerd Factor winners. — 00:01:25
  • 2013-06-04 · A New Nerdfighter Baby — John thanks Nerdfighters for making the community exist, for making it a wonderful part of his life, and for letting him briefly step away to be a full-time dad. — 00:01:58
  • 2013-06-07 · How To Be a Baby Properly — Hank writes that it is really weird to lose John not just from YouTube but largely from Tumblr and Twitter too, and asks viewers not to forget about him while he is gone. — video description
  • 2013-06-07 · How To Be a Baby Properly — Hank wishes he could see and hold Alice, and see John, but won't for a while; he signs off to Craig instead of John: 'Craig, I will see you on Tuesday'. — 00:03:18
  • 2013-06-11 · How To Be John Green — Craig Benzine: Craig opens by imitating John Green: talking fast, not blinking, dropping pitch before jump cuts and raising his hair's 'puff level'; with glasses he would look exactly like Vsauce. (playful) — 00:00:01
  • 2013-06-11 · How To Be John Green — Craig Benzine: Craig picks up John's joke that WheezyWaiter is his 'real last name', replaying John's line from the previous video. (playful) — 00:00:23
  • 2013-06-11 · How To Be John Green — Craig Benzine: Craig explains he is there because John had a baby - Sarah had the baby, John helped - and they brought Alice Green into the world. (playful) — 00:00:48
  • 2013-06-11 · How To Be John Green — Craig Benzine: Craig recites Hank's list from 'How to Be a Baby Properly' (stuck in the world, cry, sleep 2.5 hours at a time, put stuff in your mouth, cry again, be cute) and says it is what he did in college. (playful) — 00:01:09
  • 2013-06-11 · How To Be John Green — Craig Benzine: Craig tells Hank and John it is an honour to be on their channel, so he had to step up his usual game (he shows a clip of himself shirtless). — 00:01:26
  • 2013-06-11 · How To Be John Green — Craig Benzine: Craig makes a 'Nerdfighter clone' to practise talking to Nerdfighters; the clone says DFTBA and is sent to decrease worldsuck in the bathroom with a mop. (joke) — 00:01:43
  • 2013-06-11 · How To Be John Green — Craig Benzine: Craig parodies more things John does: Question Tuesday with fake questions, a 'Who the eff is Hank?' answer, Sharpie face (a cracker smashed on his forehead), a Thoughts from Places about his office, an Oscar Wilde reading, and a 'not-airport'. (joke) — 00:02:07
  • 2013-06-11 · How To Be John Green — announcement: Craig Benzine: Asked (in his own made-up question) when John is coming back, Craig is not sure, but says it will be a bunch of weeks with different people hosting each week. (hedged) — 00:02:19
  • 2013-06-11 · How To Be John Green — Craig Benzine: Craig says he is called WheezyWaiter because he has asthma and used to be a waiter. — 00:02:24
  • 2013-06-11 · How To Be John Green — Craig Benzine: Craig says he does not hate Vsauce for looking like him; they really are friends. (playful) — 00:02:27
  • 2013-06-14 · What is the Strongest Force on Earth? — Hank says he supposes he should still be making these videos for John, even though John is not making them for him. (hedged) — 00:00:00
  • 2013-06-18 · 50 Ways to Pretend to Be Smarter — Grace Helbig (DailyGrace, daily videos five days a week) fills in for John Green while he is away with his new baby. (playful) — 00:00:36
  • 2013-06-21 · New Channels, New Songs, and Just Plain News — Hank: a couple of weeks into John's paternity leave things are going excellently; he jokes he'd be fine with John making more babies while he collabs with the best YouTubers, but misses him. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2013-06-21 · New Channels, New Songs, and Just Plain News — Hank says he won't see John and signs off to Hannah Hart, next Tuesday's (25 June 2013) guest host. (playful) — 00:03:22
  • 2013-06-28 · Plane Butts, Fish Farts, LeakyCon, and Marriage Equality — announcement: Hank corrects the crowd's 'see you on Tuesday': he won't see John on Tuesday, he will see Rosie. — 00:03:06
  • 2013-07-09 · The World Needs More Magic — MagicTurtle643 introduces himself as one of the two Nerd Factor winners chosen to fill in for John during his paternity leave. — 00:00:00
  • 2013-07-12 · Oh, JK Rowling - A Harry Potter Song — Hank: After the song Hank says he is getting on a plane to see John, who calls it glorious paternity leave. — 00:02:31
  • 2013-07-16 · The Ghost of Teenaged Future — Sabrina Cruz: Sabrina introduces herself as the other Nerd Factor winner, known as NerdyandQuirky, and says that, following the pattern of previous videos, she is not John. — 00:00:03
  • 2013-07-19 · TFiOS Movie, Bees, Babies, and More! — announcement: John says he won't be back next Tuesday (23 July 2013), when viewers will see his secret sister Maureen, but the following Tuesday, which he thinks is July 30th. (hedged) — 00:03:30
  • 2013-07-23 · Watermelon Internet Trolls — Maureen Johnson says she is filling in for John Green because once again he has contributed to the birth of a human child. — 00:00:01
  • 2013-07-26 · Introducing Subbable — Hank says sharing the channel with many people during John's paternity leave over the last few weeks has been wonderful, but he is relieved John returns on Tuesday. — 00:02:48
  • 2013-07-30 · Paternity Leave Ends! And I Find Myself… — John announces he is back from paternity leave, says he missed viewers and had a wonderful time at home with his family. — 00:00:00
  • 2013-07-30 · Paternity Leave Ends! And I Find Myself… — The description thanks the guest hosts by name: Hannah Hart, Grace Helbig, WheezyWaiter, Rosianna, MagicTurtle643 and NerdyAndQuirky. — video description
  • 2013-07-30 · Paternity Leave Ends! And I Find Myself… — John: Before this John spent the last month with his family on Lake Michigan, 'the United States' third coast': beautiful water, sunsets, and people who 'pretend to have a war' for Independence Day. — 00:00:25
  • 2013-07-30 · Paternity Leave Ends! And I Find Myself… — John thanks Nerdfighteria for being understanding during his paternity leave and the guest hosts who made it more fun than 'regular me'; links in the doobly-doo. — 00:02:42
  • 2013-08-09 · What I Learned at VidCon — Hank learned that internet creators who seem really weird are pretty normal in real life, except WheezyWaiter, who is 'legit weird'. (playful) — 00:00:55
  • 2013-10-11 · TFiOS Movie, Emma Approved, Subbable Update, etc — Hank says Subbable is doing amazingly, with Wheezy Waiter, Mystery Guitar Man, CGP Grey, MinutePhysics, Beer & Board Games and Woodworking for Mere Mortals now on it. — 00:00:18
  • 2013-10-11 · TFiOS Movie, Emma Approved, Subbable Update, etc — Hank says he has been in several recent episodes of Wheezy Waiter's The Good Stuff. — 00:00:33
  • 2013-12-20 · Best Moments of the Project for Awesome — Hank: The Men of YouTube charity calendar featured Kian Lawley, Conner Franta, Rickey Dillion, Sam Portoff, JC Caylen, Trevor Moran, Rhett and Link, Craig Benzine, Tyler Oakley, Troye Sivan, Kingsley, Elliott Morgan, Joe Beretta, Steve Zaragoza, Ross Everett, Dan and Phil, Shay Carl, Caspar Lee and Charles Trippy. — video description

2014

  • 2014-04-25 (said on 2014-04-26, implied) · I Love Science (Clean Version) (Uncensored link in the Description) — announcement: Hank says the tour also features Rob Scallon, Andrew Huang, Wheezy Waiter's band Driftless Pony Club and Harry and the Potters; all shows are all ages and tickets are under $20. — 00:03:11
  • 2014-07-18 · EVERY VLOGBROTHERS PUNISHMENT! — Hank: In 2013 Grace Helbig became the first non-brother punished, for a video over four minutes during John's paternity leave; though it was unclear the rules applied to her, she slapped herself. — 00:02:46
  • 2014-11-07 · New Crash Course and Pizzamas! — announcement: Hank announces a significantly larger relationship with PBS Digital Studios that will basically double Crash Course content; PBS is likewise viewer-funded and partnered with them on Frankenstein MD and The Art Assignment. — 00:02:18
  • 2014-11-07 · New Crash Course and Pizzamas! — announcement: Hank says that in 2015 they hope to make four Crash Courses: Government with Craig Benzine (WheezyWaiter), Astronomy with Phil Plait, Physiology with Hank, and hopefully Economics. (hedged) — 00:02:37

Also named in: My Day Before VidCon, Touring with a Rock Band in 1,8X&,00B Simple Steps, It's Question Tuesday! Cheesy Jokes, Paper Towns Movie, and Dinosaur Butt Brains, BUTFARTMAN Is Coming To Town!

2016

2017

2021

2022

  • 2022-07-01 · 7 Movie Reviews in Four Minutes — recommendation: Hank: Palm Springs, recommended by Craig Benzine, is not just Groundhog Day again but very different, funny, touching and extremely clever; Hank liked it a lot and cried once. — 00:02:55

2023

2024

  • 2024-04-16 · I Already Got Paid — In a channel comment, John says Wheezywaiter invented the term doobly-doo. — creator comment
  • 2024-08-03 · I Love Hank. (Also I'm back.) — announcement: John: Esther's friends and family will celebrate her and Esther Day tonight, Eastern Time; John, Wheezy Waiter and Flula will be there, with a link in the doobly-doo. — 00:02:26

2025

2026

  • 2026-09-11 · Our Last YouTube View… — Hank says it has been a long time since the Vlogbrothers channel had a guest. — 00:00:00
  • 2026-09-11 · Our Last YouTube View… — Craig Benzine: Craig says he and Hank have been YouTubers together for a very long time, but he has not been on this channel in a while. — 00:00:00
  • 2026-09-11 · Our Last YouTube View… — Hank introduces Craig Benzine, WheezyWaiter, a YouTuber from Wisconsin, and recalls watching him years ago and thinking he had it. — 00:00:30
  • 2026-09-11 · Our Last YouTube View… — Hank says there will be a moment when someone watches a Hank Green or Craig Benzine video for the last time, and that is when they truly die. (playful) — 00:00:30
  • 2026-09-11 · Our Last YouTube View… — Craig Benzine: Craig suggests that not people but somebody, like a historian, might look at the old videos. (hedged) — 00:01:29
  • 2026-09-11 · Our Last YouTube View… — Hank: Craig is visiting to film A Day in the Life of Hank Green for his own channel, which Craig thinks will be out by the time this video is. — 00:01:29
  • 2026-09-11 · Our Last YouTube View… — Hank says Craig has stage experience as a front man in bands, Driftless Pony Club and Violet Palms; Craig says he fronts only one of them. — 00:01:58
  • 2026-09-11 · Our Last YouTube View… — Hank recalls Craig spending each VidCon making his stage piece, a one-off only attendees saw, one-upping himself every year until he had to stop. — 00:01:58
  • 2026-09-11 · Our Last YouTube View… — announcement: Hank says they decided to hold Something Worth Knowing, a Complexly fundraiser in Los Angeles; Craig came up as an invitee, and Hank asked him to do something weird. — 00:02:30
  • 2026-09-11 · Our Last YouTube View… — Craig Benzine: Asked when his last YouTube view will be, Craig says 2500, and plans to make videos with titles and tags a historian would look up. (playful) — 00:03:28