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2023

  • 2023-01-31 · I'm Going Back to College? — John asks why he grew up thinking TB was a disease of 19th-century poets, and why the world is not on fire with the injustice of tuberculosis. — 00:01:27
  • 2023-01-31 · I'm Going Back to College? — John explores these questions in his free time for fun, which would have been hard to explain to his 19-year-old self. — 00:01:27
  • 2023-01-31 · I'm Going Back to College? — John admits he romanticizes college: he imagines only courses fitting his interests, like a social history of tuberculosis, not required ones like math. — 00:01:56
  • 2023-02-07 · Mid-Morning Existential Crisis: The Format Returns — John recently came across an 1833 book, The Infirmities of Genius, which says authors have a personality that makes them unusually susceptible to tuberculosis. — 00:00:00
  • 2023-02-07 · Mid-Morning Existential Crisis: The Format Returns — John says, as if it were news, that he has been reading a lot about tuberculosis recently. (playful) — 00:02:20
  • 2023-02-28 · Empathy and its Limits — John says 19th-century invalids' memoirs often express feeling ignored and left behind, as if their community's empathy could not reach them because they had become invisible. — 00:01:27
  • 2023-02-28 · Empathy and its Limits — John says he has just read a bunch of 19th-century invalids' memoirs. — 00:02:47
  • 2023-03-28 · My Tuberculosis Reading List — John says he has been reading a lot about tuberculosis lately: many journal articles and over 20 books. — 00:00:00
  • 2023-03-28 · My Tuberculosis Reading List — recommendation: John recommends Phantom Plague by Vidya Krishnan, probably his favorite TB history: approachable and readable yet rigorously researched. (hedged) — 00:00:58
  • 2023-03-28 · My Tuberculosis Reading List — John says he learned from Phantom Plague that Arthur Conan Doyle took part in TB research and that TB shaped ideas of vampires. — 00:00:58
  • 2023-06-13 · touched by a king — John's deep-dive topic is tuberculosis, which he calls the oldest, deadliest and, in his opinion, least understood infectious disease in human history. — 00:00:00
  • 2023-07-14 · The Good News Video — Hank admits that during the last year he sometimes thought John was over-investing in tuberculosis, a feeling he no longer has: going deeper shows people working on real solutions. (playful) — 00:00:29
  • 2023-07-18 · Tuberculosis Fighters Have a Posse — John says five years ago, at 40, he thought himself fairly well informed but did not know tuberculosis was the world's deadliest infectious disease, which is part of why he is now obsessed with it. — 00:00:00
  • 2023-07-18 · Tuberculosis Fighters Have a Posse — John says his tuberculosis obsession goes so far that even on vacation he is reading a book about Arthur Conan Doyle and his contributions to tuberculosis research. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2023-08-15 · Henry — John says people often ask him why he is obsessed with tuberculosis, and this video is why. — 00:00:00
  • 2023-08-15 · Henry — John came home from that trip obsessed with tuberculosis and spent the next few years learning about it, often thinking of and praying for Henry but never daring to ask what happened to him. — 00:03:14
  • 2023-08-22 · The Panera Phenomenon — John's current favorite tuberculosis fact comes from rereading the book Living in the Shadow of Death; he admits it can seem he only thinks about tuberculosis. — 00:00:58
  • 2023-08-22 · The Panera Phenomenon — John: Citing the book, John says that in 1852, when Franklin Pierce was elected US president, his wife was sick with tuberculosis. — 00:00:58
  • 2023-09-05 · I Ain't Even Here, Sergeant. I'm in Cheyenne, Wyoming. — John says his Cheyenne, Wyoming has been figuring out how tuberculosis's change happened and how to tell its story. — 00:01:40
  • 2023-09-14 · Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES — John recalls a memoir by a woman who had TB as a child in mid-20th-century US sanatoriums until streptomycin saved her; going home, she had forgotten being touched with love. — 00:48:37
  • 2023-09-15 · The Worst Disease in Human History — Hank says he would love to read a John Green book about tuberculosis; John is definitely the expert on it. — 00:00:35
  • 2023-10-17 · My Next Book — John: Over the last couple of years John has mostly been writing, somewhat obsessively, about tuberculosis, which is exactly what he wants to write about. — 00:02:47
  • 2023-10-17 · My Next Book — John knows there is no massive audience waiting for a new book about tuberculosis but doesn't care much: he writes about what he wants and is passionate about. — 00:03:16
  • 2023-11-07 · NaFaDoYBIMSCoM — John says that when he started writing about tuberculosis a few years ago he expected a small, straightforward project with no risk of a movie adaptation; it has not been small, because tuberculosis is not a simple concept. (playful) — 00:00:29
  • 2023-11-07 · NaFaDoYBIMSCoM — John: Three years later John has still not finished the tuberculosis writing. — 00:00:58
  • 2023-11-28 · John's (Mostly Book) Holiday Gift Recommendations — John admits that yes, he has a favorite tuberculosis book of the year. (playful) — 00:00:29

2024

  • 2024-02-06 · The Truth of How Books Become Movies — John: With Hollywood not chasing The Anthropocene Reviewed or his forthcoming tuberculosis book, John says this may be his last time seeing hundreds of people make something wonderful together. (hedged) — 00:04:52
  • 2024-02-16 · How Much Does it Cost to be a Nerdfighter — announcement: Hank: The digital download bundle has Hank's first stand-up set, exclusive podcasts, John and Hank's TikTok drafts and the first chapters of John's new book. — 00:05:34
  • 2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John: Replying to a viewer about a key driver of the US chest x-ray screening campaign, John says that person is in his book. — creator comment
  • 2024-04-16 · I Already Got Paid — announcement: In a channel comment, John says his next work is a nonfiction book about 19th-century human responses to tuberculosis, unlikely Hollywood material. — creator comment
  • 2024-05-28 · A Midlife Crisis — announcement: John says he is writing a book about the history and presence of tuberculosis, which will come out next year (2025). — 00:02:26
  • 2024-06-25 · taking a break — John must finish his book so it can come out next year (2025), and that alone feels like too much work for his depressed brain. — 00:00:58
  • 2024-08-07 · Dear Hank and John Livestream! — John: Answering a patron, John says he still reads mostly about tuberculosis because he is in the last edit of his book. — 00:28:39
  • 2024-08-07 · Dear Hank and John Livestream! — recommendation: John recommends John le Carré's The Constant Gardener, a spy novel about tuberculosis: very good. — 00:28:39
  • 2024-08-07 · Dear Hank and John Livestream! — Hank is beta-reading John's tuberculosis book: it goes deeper into TB and into John's relationship with it and people in Sierra Leone; being an early reader feels special. — 00:30:10
  • 2024-08-20 · Thoughts from Places: BROMLEY! — John woke up over the Irish Sea, started reading a great book about tuberculosis called Breathless, and landed in London, taking a cab when his train was cancelled. — 00:00:00
  • 2024-09-03 · Which is Correct? — or – ? — John has just completed what is hopefully the last big edit of his book about tuberculosis, which reminded him how much a dash contains. (hedged) — 00:00:00
  • 2024-09-03 · Which is Correct? — or – ? — John: In an example sentence from his tuberculosis book, John says tuberculosis, curable for nearly a century, still kills over 1.3 million people per year. — 00:00:29
  • 2024-09-27 · Is It 2010? IT'S A PARTS VIDEO — announcement: John says that within the next week to 10 days he will make a large-ish tuberculosis announcement of his own, which will explain why he is signing 100,000 sheets of paper. — 00:01:24
  • 2024-10-01 · On Fame and Chappell Roan — John says he can use fame to write a book about tuberculosis, though no Saturday Night Live sketch will result, because it can help people and his deepest self wants to. — 00:04:15
  • 2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — announcement: The description calls the book John's seventh, an exploration of the history and presence of our deadliest infectious disease. — video description
  • 2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — announcement: John announces his new book, Everything Is Tuberculosis, comes out March 18, is available for pre-order now, and he will show its cover. — 00:00:03
  • 2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — announcement: John says the book is not a young adult novel like The Fault in Our Stars or Turtles All the Way Down; it is not the opposite of his previous work, but it is different. — 00:00:10
  • 2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — John says five years ago he didn't know tuberculosis was still a thing; he thought of it as a disease of 19th-century Romantic poets, not a present-tense phenomenon. — 00:00:22
  • 2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — announcement: John says the book is a science story of how TB came to be understood and cured, and a human story of why the cure has been so badly distributed, centred on one boy surviving drug-resistant TB. — 00:01:21
  • 2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — John says he began writing about TB because writing is how he thinks and he wanted to remember what survivors and experts taught him; eventually he set aside the novel he'd been working on. — 00:01:40
  • 2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — John says the book is a significant departure in his writing but like his other books: a story of hope and grit in an unjust world, of why we go on and how we carry each other through, or don't. — 00:02:26
  • 2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — John shows the cover and says he loves it; he has been lucky with covers but maybe never this lucky. — 00:02:40
  • 2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — announcement: John says the boxes behind him are because he is signing 100,000 copies of Everything Is Tuberculosis. — 00:02:50
  • 2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — ask: John says viewers can pre-order a signed copy via the link below or at everythingistb.com. — 00:02:55
  • 2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — announcement: John says an audiobook narrated by him is available for pre-order; it is unsigned only because he hasn't figured out how to sign digitally. (playful) — 00:03:10
  • 2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — John says the book comes out just after the 20th anniversary of Looking for Alaska; told then he'd write nonfiction about TB, he'd first have been glad to still be writing, then surprised. (hypothetical, hedged) — 00:03:37
  • 2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — John says he never imagined himself a nonfiction writer, but this was one of the most joyful and heartbreaking writing experiences of his life because it is a true story. — 00:03:59
  • 2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — John says it is a short book but hopes it can matter in readers' lives and accelerate the movement to make tuberculosis history. (hedged) — 00:04:06
  • 2024-10-25 · I Don't Want them to Get Away With It… — recommendation: The description links to where viewers can get John's book. — video description
  • 2024-10-25 · I Don't Want them to Get Away With It… — recommendation: Hank says he was lucky to read John's book Everything Is Tuberculosis early; it changed how he sees all illness, with fascinating histories and stories of present-day tragedies. — 00:04:05
  • 2024-10-29 · If Hank and John Were God for 15 Minutes — John jokes that ending serious infectious diseases would be catastrophic for his new book, Everything Is Tuberculosis, which he would have to update fast. (playful) — 00:00:44
  • 2024-11-01 · Working Through a Crisis with My Brother — John: Surrounded by signed sheets, John says about 19,000 are out there and 81,000 more remain; he is actually past 20,000. — 00:08:16
  • 2024-11-01 · Working Through a Crisis with My Brother — ask: John: Hank points to the description for P4A art, the Vlogbrothers grant and the New York Times article; John adds a link to pre-order his new book. — 00:09:20
  • 2024-11-13 · Some New Things… — John: Asked for his signature count, John says he is at 31,400 of 100,000 signatures, which will take 200 hours. — 00:37:33
  • 2024-12-02 · John, You're Doing Great — Hank says John will not make a video tomorrow because he is finalizing the final draft of his book Everything Is Tuberculosis, and Hank is happy he is getting it done. — 00:00:00
  • 2024-12-02 · John, You're Doing Great — Hank tells John he knows he is stressed with a lot to do, but he is doing a good job, Hank is proud of him, and the book is very good and worth the work. — 00:02:33
  • 2024-12-02 · John, You're Doing Great — ask: Hank says viewers can pre-order Everything Is Tuberculosis now and that he will link it in the description. — 00:02:33
  • 2024-12-10 · On Writing — John explains the publishing term first pass: the first time he sees his new book, Everything Is Tuberculosis, laid out as a book. — 00:00:00
  • 2024-12-10 · On Writing — John feels some grief because first pass is also last pass: he cannot change the book after it and must stop reading so others can start. — 00:00:09
  • 2024-12-10 · On Writing — John: Having turned in first pass last night, John says the book no longer really belongs to him but to its readers, who will make whatever use they can of it. — 00:00:21
  • 2024-12-10 · On Writing — John says the book is very different from Looking for Alaska or The Fault in Our Stars: nobody falls in love, and it is nonfiction rather than fiction. — 00:00:31
  • 2024-12-10 · On Writing — John says Everything Is Tuberculosis is written for right now, not forever; he hopes the title will someday be irrelevant, with people saying everything was tuberculosis. — 00:02:14
  • 2024-12-10 · On Writing — John: Rereading, John sees the book continues 20 years of his work, extending his fascination with illness: cancer in The Fault in Our Stars, OCD in Turtles All the Way Down, plagues in The Anthropocene Reviewed. — 00:02:39
  • 2024-12-10 · On Writing — John says whether he succeeds is not for him to decide: from now on the book belongs to its readers, who determine whether it is successful or useful. — 00:03:52
  • 2024-12-17 · About THAT Scene in Looking for Alaska — In a channel comment John says his new book Everything Is Tuberculosis describes a world far more obscene than Looking for Alaska but won't be banned because it has no sex. — creator comment
  • 2024-12-31 · I Just Can't Do It Anymore — John is signing 100,000 copies of Everything Is Tuberculosis: he signs tip-in sheets (about 45,000 are behind him) that a printer in Virginia binds into the books. — 00:00:03
  • 2024-12-31 · I Just Can't Do It Anymore — John: About 50,000 sheets into the signing, John developed pain in his wrist and especially his shoulder that kept getting worse. — 00:00:38
  • 2024-12-31 · I Just Can't Do It Anymore — John: On Amazon the signed edition of Everything Is Tuberculosis currently costs $7 less than the unsigned one, so, John jokes, his signature is technically worth negative $7. (playful) — 00:03:05
  • 2024-12-31 · I Just Can't Do It Anymore — John calls Everything Is Tuberculosis the culmination of three years of his obsession with tuberculosis, its ongoing prevalence, and what that says about the world. — 00:03:53
  • 2024-12-31 · I Just Can't Do It Anymore — announcement: John: Everything Is Tuberculosis comes out March 18, and signed copies are available for pre-order now. — 00:04:51

2025

  • 2025-01-03 · My 2025 Bingo Card — Hank tells John he is pretty much his best friend and so on that list, hopes his wrist is doing okay, and is excited for his book to come out. — 00:06:13
  • 2025-01-07 · The Format but it hurts to stand up — ask: The description asks viewers to preorder Everything Is Tuberculosis. — video description
  • 2025-01-07 · The Format but it hurts to stand up — John has signed 110,000 tip-in sheets for Everything Is Tuberculosis, jogged and boxed them, and sent them off to the printer in Virginia. — 00:00:01
  • 2025-01-07 · The Format but it hurts to stand up — announcement: John says Everything Is Tuberculosis comes out in just over two months and its tour will be announced tomorrow. — 00:02:07
  • 2025-01-07 · The Format but it hurts to stand up — John says he signed all those books so readers can have an autographed copy wherever they live. — 00:02:22
  • 2025-01-07 · The Format but it hurts to stand up — announcement: John says he is excited about the advance reader's copies and will give a couple away to random commenters. — 00:02:30
  • 2025-01-07 · The Format but it hurts to stand up — John's first professional intention for the year is to support Everything Is Tuberculosis and his TB work without losing it; he has over 100 days of travel ahead. — 00:03:08
  • 2025-01-10 · SECRET PROJECT ANNOUNCEMENT! — announcement: Hank tells viewers that John's book Everything Is Tuberculosis got a starred review in Kirkus. — 00:03:58
  • 2025-01-10 · SECRET PROJECT ANNOUNCEMENT! — Hank: Kirkus, read by Hank, says that after John met a sick boy, Henry, in Sierra Leone in 2019, he set out to learn everything about TB and concluded it persists through racism, greed and public-health economics. — 00:03:58
  • 2025-01-10 · SECRET PROJECT ANNOUNCEMENT! — Hank: Kirkus, read by Hank, says the book tells Henry's story bit by bit alongside chapters on TB's history, and explores treatment costs and pharmaceutical industry practices. — 00:04:28
  • 2025-01-10 · SECRET PROJECT ANNOUNCEMENT! — recommendation: Hank: Kirkus, read by Hank, praises the book as a highly readable, timely call to action that puts John's 'curious megaphone' to good use. — 00:04:28
  • 2025-01-10 · SECRET PROJECT ANNOUNCEMENT! — ask: Hank asks viewers to buy the book at the book's website and check which tour stops still have tickets, as many have sold out. — 00:04:57
  • 2025-01-21 · Do Audiobooks Count As Reading? — John's voice is thin because he spent all of yesterday recording the Everything Is Tuberculosis audiobook, which he is excited to narrate. — 00:00:00
  • 2025-01-21 · Do Audiobooks Count As Reading? — announcement: The description says the Everything Is Tuberculosis audiobook, narrated by John, comes out with the print book on March 18. — video description
  • 2025-02-11 · What's at Stake — John says he knows almost nothing about most things, like helicopters or star distances, but knows a lot about TB and its medication from four years writing a book about it. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2025-02-18 · Gastrointestinal Hypermotility in Tuatara — John says he is never far from despair and lately has been consumed by fear, making it hard to get out of bed and promote his new book Everything Is Tuberculosis, out a month from today. — 00:01:57
  • 2025-02-18 · Gastrointestinal Hypermotility in Tuatara — announcement: John jokes that viewers have already pre-ordered his book, and says signed copies are available wherever good books are sold. (playful) — 00:01:57
  • 2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — announcement: The description says the book can be pre-ordered at everythingistb.com or wherever books are sold, and that John narrates the audiobook. — video description
  • 2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — The description thanks everyone who supported John and this work over the last four years; he is excited to finally share the book. — video description
  • 2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — John says the book is about the cure, why it was not found until the 1950s, and why since then we have let over 150 million people die of TB. — 00:06:20
  • 2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — John says he started writing about TB to understand how an illness could quietly shape so much of human history. — 00:06:20
  • 2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — John says his wife Sarah jokes that in his mind everything is about tuberculosis and tuberculosis is about everything, and she is right. (playful) — 00:09:05
  • 2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — announcement: John says this was the first chapter of his new book Everything Is Tuberculosis, out March 18, with signed copies available for pre-order now. — 00:09:27
  • 2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — John admits he is pretty nervous about the book coming out in three weeks, but says early reviews have been really good. — 00:09:27
  • 2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — announcement: John says the book got starred reviews from Booklist, SLJ and Kirkus. — 00:09:56
  • 2025-03-04 · The ANXIETY IS PALPABLE — announcement: John says his new book Everything Is Tuberculosis comes out two weeks from today, and that the current catastrophe makes promoting it feel weird. — 00:00:50
  • 2025-03-04 · The ANXIETY IS PALPABLE — ask: John asks viewers to pre-order a signed copy of the book today, with the link in the description. — 00:00:58
  • 2025-03-04 · The ANXIETY IS PALPABLE — John says the book tries to tell a hopeful story about human health because he believes all true stories must be hopeful, and that there are reasons for hope, or at least reasons not to not feel hope. — 00:01:15
  • 2025-03-04 · The ANXIETY IS PALPABLE — John says the book argues that tuberculosis has thrived through history along paths of injustice humans blazed, and traces how those forces made one particular boy sick in one place. — 00:01:37
  • 2025-03-04 · The ANXIETY IS PALPABLE — John says having a book come out is always stressful because it is the culmination of several years of his life and he wants people to like it and respond generously. — 00:02:05
  • 2025-03-07 · How Social Security Fraud Actually Works — announcement: Hank congratulates John on his book Everything Is Tuberculosis, out next week (week of 10 March 2025), and on its good reviews. — 00:11:09
  • 2025-03-11 · Hank Green's Brother — announcement: John says his book Everything Is Tuberculosis comes out next week (week of 17 March 2025) and is available for pre-order now, with signed copies wherever books are sold. — 00:00:04
  • 2025-03-11 · Hank Green's Brother — John says he has a job even more important than being the book's author: being Hank Green's brother. (playful) — 00:00:12
  • 2025-03-11 · Hank Green's Brother — announcement: John says the next few weeks will be weird, stressful and overwhelming, and he might not make a video every Tuesday, though he will do his best. (hedged) — 00:03:37
  • 2025-03-11 · Hank Green's Brother — John says he loves an airport, which is good because he will be in 18 of them over the next 19 days. — 00:03:43
  • 2025-03-11 · Hank Green's Brother — announcement: John thanks everyone who pre-ordered the book: only seven days until it is out, and he is excited and appropriately nervous. — 00:03:51
  • 2025-03-14 · Probably the Luckiest Thing in my Life — Hank says John dedicating a video to the launch the week before his long-worked-on book comes out is lovely and makes him feel very lucky. — 00:00:00
  • 2025-03-14 · Probably the Luckiest Thing in my Life — Hank says John has focused for years on tuberculosis, a massive problem few others think about, which objectively makes sense even if not to Hank's interest-seeking brain. — 00:02:39
  • 2025-03-14 · Probably the Luckiest Thing in my Life — announcement: Hank says John's book about tuberculosis is selling extremely well, with people pre-ordering it heavily. — 00:03:38
  • 2025-03-14 · Probably the Luckiest Thing in my Life — ask: Hank tells viewers they can pre-order John's book now to ship next week (week of 17 March 2025), or buy it in a store on Tuesday; link in the description. — 00:04:27
  • 2025-03-14 · Probably the Luckiest Thing in my Life — Hank says having John as his brother is a tremendous benefit, and everyone can have a bit of it through the vlogbrothers channel and the book. (playful) — 00:04:27
  • 2025-03-18 · ITS ALL HAPPENING — announcement: John says his book Everything Is Tuberculosis comes out today and that he is backstage at CBS Mornings, appropriately nervous. — 00:00:00
  • 2025-03-18 · ITS ALL HAPPENING — John: After his CBS Mornings appearance John thinks he did all right, but says only Elyse really knows, and that she always says he nailed it. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2025-03-18 · ITS ALL HAPPENING — Elyse Marshall: Elise tells John he nailed it and denies that she always says that. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2025-03-18 · ITS ALL HAPPENING — John next goes on Morning Joe, a different television program, and gets to be anxious again. — 00:00:24
  • 2025-03-18 · ITS ALL HAPPENING — announcement: John says the book tour has been going for a couple of days and is very fun; it is sold out except near Philadelphia, where tickets remain. — 00:00:24
  • 2025-03-18 · ITS ALL HAPPENING — John calls his release-day media tour an incredibly privileged way to publish, especially for a nonfiction book about tuberculosis. — 00:01:23
  • 2025-03-18 · ITS ALL HAPPENING — John says the book is close to his heart, he has worked hard on it for four years, and he is excited to share it with the world. — 00:01:23
  • 2025-03-18 · ITS ALL HAPPENING — ask: John: Correcting himself from pre-order, John says viewers can now order a signed copy, or one of the rare unsigned copies where signed ones are gone. (playful) — 00:01:52
  • 2025-03-18 · ITS ALL HAPPENING — announcement: John says the reviews have been good, with Kirkus calling the book a highly readable call to action that could not be more timely. — 00:01:52
  • 2025-03-18 · ITS ALL HAPPENING — John wishes the book were less timely: he never imagined publishing it while we suddenly and chaotically do so much to worsen the global TB crisis. — 00:01:52
  • 2025-03-18 · ITS ALL HAPPENING — John hopes someday to publish a version called Everything Was Tuberculosis, but confesses that day seems rather distant. (playful) — 00:02:21
  • 2025-03-18 · ITS ALL HAPPENING — John says every book is a collaboration with one name on the cover, and nonfiction like this one is deeply collaborative, impossible without many partners. — 00:02:21
  • 2025-03-18 · ITS ALL HAPPENING — John is grateful to publish a book that follows his passion: it is rare and fortunate when an audience follows an author from young adult fiction to nonfiction about TB. — 00:04:18
  • 2025-03-21 · The Second Most Important Book in Dublin — The description says John's tour and press seem to be going amazingly. (hedged) — video description
  • 2025-03-21 · The Second Most Important Book in Dublin — recommendation: The description recommends a linked video about John's book as really good. — video description
  • 2025-03-21 · The Second Most Important Book in Dublin — Hank jokes that the most important book in Dublin is John's new Everything Is Tuberculosis, which he also recently went to see. (playful) — 00:00:29
  • 2025-03-21 · The Second Most Important Book in Dublin — Hank congratulates John and thanks him for taking him and everyone on this journey to understand humanity: what we can be and do, and what we should not accept. — 00:00:55
  • 2025-03-21 · The Second Most Important Book in Dublin — announcement: Hank says the book is available now wherever books are sold. — 00:00:55
  • 2025-03-21 · The Second Most Important Book in Dublin — Hank got his copy in Dublin and it was unsigned; he guesses John did not sign the Irish ones. (playful) — 00:00:55
  • 2025-03-25 · Taylor, Dr Pepper, and My Anxiety Strats: It's Question Tuesday — ask: The description asks viewers to order a signed copy of Everything Is Tuberculosis at everythingistb.com or wherever books are sold. — video description
  • 2025-03-25 · Taylor, Dr Pepper, and My Anxiety Strats: It's Question Tuesday — John says tour gifts include lovely letters and bracelets about TB or his book, one reading Bembo, the font the book is laid out in. — 00:02:26
  • 2025-03-25 · Taylor, Dr Pepper, and My Anxiety Strats: It's Question Tuesday — John: On his ambitious tour schedule, John says he is tired, a different city every day, exhausting and exhilarating, but less tired than expected because he is also extremely energized. — 00:04:23
  • 2025-03-25 · Taylor, Dr Pepper, and My Anxiety Strats: It's Question Tuesday — John says talking and strategizing about it in community is more encouraging than sitting at home, and he is glad to meet TB fighters and Partners In Health staff in every city. — 00:04:52
  • 2025-03-25 · Taylor, Dr Pepper, and My Anxiety Strats: It's Question Tuesday — John thanks everyone who has read Everything Is Tuberculosis: the response has been overwhelming and he is grateful it has been received so generously. — 00:04:52
  • 2025-04-04 · Morality — Hank says he has been thinking a lot about morality, maybe because of John's book or society at large, and his understanding of the word has been changing. (hedged) — 00:00:00
  • 2025-04-04 · Morality — Hank thanks John for helping him over the years to examine and grow his morality, including with his new book Everything Is Tuberculosis. — 00:07:49
  • 2025-04-04 · Morality — announcement: Hank says John's book has just had its second week as number one on the New York Times bestseller list. — 00:07:49
  • 2025-04-04 · Morality — ask: Hank tells viewers they can get the book everywhere, including as an audiobook read by John. — 00:07:49
  • 2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — John says he has traveled nonstop since Everything Is Tuberculosis came out: Maine today, London tomorrow, then Peru, which he calls the classic reverse Paddington. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — John jokes that the only thing their viewers agree on is hating tuberculosis and other diseases of injustice; Schiff plugs John's book Everything Is Tuberculosis. (playful) — 00:13:09
  • 2025-04-22 · The Unimportant Things — John: Calling himself the tiredest boy in tired town, John says he has traveled 28 of the last 30 days and will travel 32 of the next 40; he got in from London last night and flies to Peru this morning. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2025-04-22 · The Unimportant Things — John says it is a privilege to spread the news that the world's deadliest infectious disease is preventable and curable. — 00:00:00
  • 2025-04-22 · The Unimportant Things — announcement: John says his book Everything Is Tuberculosis has spent four consecutive weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, a happy surprise. — 00:00:29
  • 2025-04-22 · The Unimportant Things — John says he has talked with over 15,000 people about the needless suffering caused by tuberculosis. — 00:00:58
  • 2025-04-22 · The Unimportant Things — John: Though very tired, John says he is excited and motivated by his work and grateful to everyone who has read and shared Everything Is Tuberculosis. — 00:03:51
  • 2025-05-20 · The Double — John tells Hank he has been in 43 airports in the last 60 days for his book Everything Is Tuberculosis. — 00:00:00
  • 2025-05-20 · The Double — John is extra excited this year (2025) because the race marks the end of his travel marathon. — 00:00:58
  • 2025-05-20 · The Double — John says he barely kept himself from mentioning the Indy 500 in Everything Is Tuberculosis, since it, like everything, connects to tuberculosis. (playful) — 00:00:58
  • 2025-05-20 · The Double — announcement: John says Everything Is Tuberculosis has now been on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list for eight consecutive weeks. — 00:03:53
  • 2025-05-20 · The Double — John thanks the book's supporters; meeting so many viewers in two months, he has preached that the world's deadliest infection is curable and eradicable. — 00:03:53
  • 2025-06-03 · My Lies — John says his two latest books, The Anthropocene Reviewed and Everything Is Tuberculosis, are nonfiction for adults and differ from his novels, not really being about romance, love or friendship. — 00:01:21
  • 2025-06-03 · My Lies — John: Since finishing Everything Is Tuberculosis John has been writing fiction; it may never come to anything and he will not promise it becomes a book, but the process has been thrilling. — 00:02:49
  • 2025-07-01 · What #1 New York Times Bestseller Actually Means — 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. — 00:00:00
  • 2025-07-01 · What #1 New York Times Bestseller Actually Means — John says Everything Is Tuberculosis is a #1 bestseller because for its first couple of weeks it was the best-selling nonfiction book in the US by the Times' count. — 00:00:29
  • 2025-07-01 · What #1 New York Times Bestseller Actually Means — John says his book was almost guaranteed a #1 because he signed over 100,000 copies of the first printing and about 50,000 people pre-ordered it. — 00:00:29
  • 2025-07-01 · What #1 New York Times Bestseller Actually Means — John says the new Hunger Games book came out the same day as his but did not compete, being fiction for kids while his is nonfiction for adults. — 00:00:58
  • 2025-07-01 · What #1 New York Times Bestseller Actually Means — John says the USA Today list, combining all books, better shows overall sales: Everything Is Tuberculosis is number 80 there but number 6 on the NYT nonfiction list. — 00:03:24
  • 2025-07-01 · What #1 New York Times Bestseller Actually Means — John: To be fair to the Times, John says only 5 of the 79 books ahead of his on USA Today would qualify for the nonfiction list, so here it is fairly accurate. — 00:03:24
  • 2025-07-01 · What #1 New York Times Bestseller Actually Means — John says Everything Is Tuberculosis is number two on the Independent Booksellers bestseller list, and thanks independent bookstores. — 00:03:53
  • 2025-07-29 · Dad and Daughter Play Dress to Impress — Alice Green: Alice already knew the TB facts: she hasn't read John's book but has heard it from him talking over the years. (playful) — 00:10:10
  • 2025-11-04 · The Real Question — Replying to Hank, John says his tuberculosis obsession is a path into a larger obsession he has had since being a hospital chaplain: why suffering is so unjustly distributed and what human-built systems can do about it. — 00:00:00
  • 2025-11-24 · Good Store Holiday Gift Guide LIVE with Hank and John — John tells Hank he has been traveling to Denmark and England; in Denmark he attended the Union Conference on Lung Health with Henry Reider, whom viewers know from Everything Is Tuberculosis. — 00:00:00
  • 2025-11-25 · Poverty Is Expensive — John recalls that Henry Reider inspired his interest in TB and that Henry's effort to survive multidrug-resistant tuberculosis is a through line in Everything Is Tuberculosis. — 00:00:00

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2026

  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John says P4A donations support structural change and individual lives like his friend Henry Reider, in the chat, whom he wrote Everything Is Tuberculosis about and who would not be alive without Partners In Health. — 01:42:50
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John says it is a barometer of the ill health of our social orders that tuberculosis still thrives though curable for 70 years; it is a glaring injustice and a lens on other injustice, which is why he wrote about it. — 01:44:52
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John launches a signed mystery book perk: a signed copy of one of his books, such as Turtles All the Way Down, Looking for Alaska, The Fault in Our Stars, The Anthropocene Reviewed or Everything Is Tuberculosis. — 08:08:39
  • 2026-03-24 · How Panda Express Is Tuberculosis — announcement: John: Today is World TB Day and the first anniversary of the publication of Everything Is Tuberculosis; to celebrate, John talks about things that are at least partly tuberculosis. — 00:00:00
  • 2026-03-24 · How Panda Express Is Tuberculosis — John hints that he wrote a whole book chapter on the relationship between leprosy and tuberculosis but later deleted it. (playful) — 00:02:31
  • 2026-03-24 · How Panda Express Is Tuberculosis — John thanks viewers for giving Everything Is Tuberculosis an incredible first year and is grateful for how the book has been received. — 00:05:02
  • 2026-03-31 · I've Been Keeping a Secret… — John last published books in consecutive years in 2005 and 2006; now, 20 years later, Everything Is Tuberculosis came out last year (2025) and Hollywood, Ending comes out this year (2026). — 00:00:29
  • 2026-03-31 · I've Been Keeping a Secret… — John admits he said he would never do this signing again because he has arthritis, and his shoulder, and so on. — 00:03:24
  • 2026-07-28 · 'Are You John Green?' — John says that these days half the time he is recognized as Hank: in Philadelphia on the Everything Is Tuberculosis tour, someone shouted 'Hank Green' and he waved, happy to take credit. (playful) — 00:03:56
  • 2026-08-25 · The Great Thing about Infectious Disease — John: Researching Everything Is Tuberculosis, John read Gail Perkins's memoir The Baby's Cross: infected by raw milk at three, she spent over 13 years in a sanatorium and came home unaccustomed to touch. — 00:03:24
  • 2026-10-20 · Correcting a Mistake in Everything Is Tuberculosis · 50 x 50 Science — announcement: John says that in this video he corrects an important omission from his book Everything Is Tuberculosis. — 00:00:00
  • 2026-10-20 · Correcting a Mistake in Everything Is Tuberculosis · 50 x 50 Science — John says Everything Is Tuberculosis discusses the fatty cell wall but omits efflux pumps. — 00:04:22